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Sky Surfing You may of heard of Planking, Owling, and Tebowing. All of which involve doing sedentary things in unusual places such as lying down on a building edge, crouching on top of an ATM, or kneeling and praying in the middle of busy street intersection, all while having your picture taken for posting on the Internet. [...] Full Story... 2011 USPA NATIONAL SKYDIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS The 2011 USPA National Skydiving Championships was held between October 26 and November 5th at Skydive Arizona in Elroy, Arizona. Near perfect weather allowed more than 500 jumpers to take to the sky and complete all of their jumps. Team Arizona Airspeed took first place in the 4-way open to no one’s surprise with the [...] Full Story... 2011 USPA National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting The 2011 USPA National Skydiving Championships of Canopy Piloting was held at Skydive Spaceland from September 14-17. Skydive Spaceland is located in Rosharon,Texas and boasts a sprawling 500 foot by 250 foot pond for the swooping action. Nicholas Batsch took first place in the Open Class while Joe Ablen took first in the Advanced Class. This is Nicholas’s [...] Full Story... 2011 Paragliding Nationals – Hearn The second half of the US Paragliding Nationals was held between August 14 and August 21, 2008. After the first half of the national competition at Red Rock, Dean Stratton had a narrow lead of 44 points over Eric Reed before going to Hearn. By the end of the competition at Hearn, Eric Reed had [...] Full Story... US Hang Gliding Championship 2011 The 2011 U.S. Hang Gliding Championship took place between August 14 – August 20, 2011 in Big Spring, Texas. This year’s championship had 33 pilots that flew, almost double the eighteen that competed in last year’s competition. Zac Majors, the 2008 US National Hang Gliding Champion flew into first place on the last flyable day [...] Full Story... Golden Knights Take World Cup The US Army Parachute Team, The Golden Knights, took first place in the 8-way formation skydiving competition at the 2011 World Cup of Skydiving. The competition was held at Saarlouis-Deuren, Germany between August 1-7, 2011. The venue was staged for a multi-title competition being also the 10th FAI EUROPEAN Formation Skydiving Championships 2011,  the 17th [...] Full Story...

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