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Inspiring a national community of skydivers to achieve safe and successful bigway formations through best practice events. 

Aussie Bigways Newsletter No 2 May 2016

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Captains Call – Greg Jack

Greg Jack

Hello again everyone and welcome our second monthly Newsletter.  
Lots happening around this great country, our small and dedicated Leadership Team and State Mentors are steadily bringing events together so keep your eyes on the Calendar and don’t miss out on what is being organised and prepared for you.

Our NEWLY designed website: Aussiebigways website is up and running -many thanks again to Peter Franklin and Ben Eckersley for their fantastic work. If you haven’t already, you can easily subscribe to this monthly Newsletter by following the prompts on the Home Page. Tons of information will be loaded and linked to the Website so please stay tuned.

Dan BC’s Big Way Camp for early December this year in Nagambie is taking shape, I won’t steal Tracey’s thunder but get in early once Registration opens – it will be an Awesome event and definitely the highlight of this year in our build up to May 2019 !

Our journey continues – exactly 3 years this month from now we will be in Perris, come join us, get involved, get motivated and get in the air!
Blue Ones,
Greg

National Perspective – Tracey Basman

Tracey Basman

 

Dan BC is coming to town; to Skydive Nagambie this coming December! You won’t want to miss this event brought to you by our Aussie Bigways Leadership Team, the APF and our many sponsors.

Who is Dan BC you ask and what is this Bigway Camp and Aussie Sequential Record attempts everyone in talking about? read more…

All the best and see you in the skies soon,
Tracey Basman
Aussie Bigways National Events Co-ordinator and Mentor

Melissa Harvie
Top tips for Bigway Skills

Melissa Harvie

Be someone who can fly your body in one direction whilst looking in another.

Practice this skill so that you can approach on your radial in a dive or in your stadium and have eyes to see the bigger picture evolving including any traffic you need to plan for.

Try this out as you walk across the road, as you drive and as you turn your head in response to someone calling your name.  Make it how you live day to day and it will come more naturally in your skydiving.

Melissa Harvie
Coach and Mentor

State Mentors Update

Shirley Cowcher

Not much has been happening in WA for flat flyers, although there was the Big T 4 way Scrambles held at Skydive York organised by Big T to raise funds to support the team going to the Nationals to complete in Intermediate 4 way.  The planned introduction to 8 way weekend (4/5 June) to be coached by Simone Bambach has more registrants than available slots and there is now a standby list. These events have been successful in Queensland, NSW and Victoria and we are looking forward to gaining skills over the two days of jumping.   Slots were filled on a first come first served basis and registrants  have been notified to have their fees in to Shirley Cowcher by the 10th May otherwise their slot will be assigned to people on the standby list.

Upon my return from Europe and after the 8 way weekend I will finalise the schedule for Star Crest weekends and post them up on the Aussie Bigway Calendar.  I’ll also send out notices through the events newsletters so keep an eye out and encourage others interested to subscribe to the Aussie Bigway newsletters so they can keep in the loop of what is happening locally and nationally.

Calder Chernoff
For the latest events in NSW, the Bigways Event Calendar will have all the details – click here to view events
Ben Nordkamp

For the latest events in QLD, the Bigways Event Calendar will have all the details – click here to view events

Sandy Nieuwenhoven
SA held a successful 4 way training at Lower Light on 23-24 April with 12 participants and 3 player/coaches, the focus was on flying relative. The discipline from all players was fantastic with people taking soft docks and flying their slots. We have received some funding from the South Australian parachute Council to help with skill development for relative workers.

Janine Hayes
There have been a number of events since the successful Nationals last month at Nagambie. Bridgewater DZ hosted a 10 way speed scrambles, Nagambie has been running successful star crest loads and Tooradin hosted an Aussie Bigways weekend while a number of players got together over Barwon to do FS 10 ways.

 

While we were hamstrung by the windy weather at Tooradin we had a great discussion about the Aussie Bigway journey touching on the methodology of P3 and sharing experiences from 2015.  We discussed what that road might look like for everyone to get to 2019.
From our chat I’d like to share some sage advice from some of the players at Tooradin yesterday.
  • “Small skills build into big skills”
  • “Focus on becoming competent in one area – if you are wanting to become a proficient flat flyer then hone your skills rather than having a 1000 jumps and being mediocre at a number of disciplines.”
  • “ Build on the basics at every level be honest with yourself regardless of your number of jumps and go out and improve”
  •  My parting words the journey will be different for everyone depending on family, work, finances and current skill set but it’s worth the effort to get on the road and put yourself into the ‘Aussie Bigway Record picture”

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