• Swoop Park Competition THIS SUNDAY!
• Texas Skydiving League Championships
• CRW Camp a.k.a. Canopy Formations
• USPA National Skydiving Championships UPDATE!
• Jam at the Swoop Park
• Recent Accomplishments
• Summary of Upcoming Events

Swoop Park Competition SUNDAY!

This Sunday Sept. 13th, the Spaceland Swoop Park will be in action hosting its first swoop competition at the new venue. (Swooping=high performance canopy landings) This will be the third meet of the Texas Swoopers Circuit and will be a great warm up for Swoop Week next month (CPC Championships, USPA National Canopy Piloting Championships, Pro Swooping Tour Championships) This competition will consist of 3 events: Speed, Distance and Zone Accuracy. This will be a mixed meet (Pro and Am) with 5ft and 10ft gates. The Swoop Park is set up and ready for practice. Come on out and get some weekday practice in with the others.

The Spaceland Staff have been getting together each day and ripping it up out there. Even a few of the PD Factory Team members will be arriving on Friday and spending the week with us along with several swoopers they are coaching. The competition will start at 8am on Sunday. Aggie Dave is the Meet Director and if you would like to help out in anyway or have questions feel free to contact Dave. C-ya on Sat for practice and at 8am on Sunday for the briefing.

Texas Skydiving League Championships

TSL meet 4 was last month and I wanted to congratulate Spaceland's Funnel Approach. This is our rookie team and they scored a 19 in Round 4 and are in 1st place in the Rookie division followed by Hot Flash. Spaceland Mamba won 1st place in the Intermediate division followed by Venture 4th and BS5.

Next weekend, Sat the 19th, will start the TSL Championships here at Spaceland. This will be a 10 round 4-way meet and we crown the champions of this season. There is lots of interest from teams, even traveling teams, wanting to use this event as a warm-up for the National Championships in October. If you are interested in competiting in this meet and haven't been participating in the league, you are still welcome to come compete and be judged by a USPA certified judge. We are anticipating a large turnout for this last meet of the season. Contact Eric.

More information:

CRW Camp a.k.a. Canopy Formations

Have you ever touched someone else's canopy?  In the air????NO?..... Wanna????  On September 26th and 27th come to Skydive Spaceland for a beginners CRW camp.  The goal of the camp will be to teach everyone the building blocks of CRW and doing it SAFELY!!!!!  Expect to progress thru simple 2 stacks to 4 stacks and potentially 8+ stacks on Sunday.  Houston local "Catfish" will be coming down to Spaceland to host this camp and it is something you will not want to miss.  If you have ever wanted to learn CRW this is the time to do it!!  To participate you will want to show up with the right tools, please have the following things:
• 2 Hook knives, one needs to be a large "Jack the Ripper" style hook knife (in stock in the Pro Shop)
• A CRW compatible canopy.  This means a square or semi-elliptical canopy with a WL of 1.0 to 1.3
• Clothing needs to cover your skin, ie long pants and a long sleeve shirt.

Each day will encompass classroom training in the morning and 5 or 6 jumps each day. There is no registration fee but a small fee ($3) will be added to each jump ticket to help offset cost of the organiser.
More details will follow soon and you may contact Bart for more info.

2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships UPDATE!

Woah, it's almost time for the big show on Oct. 12-25th. The staff at Skydive Spaceland have been working overtime preparing for the Nations largest skydiving event in 2009. Free to the public, Spaceland promises fun, excitement and intense skydiving competition. The Nations best skydivers gather to test their skills in 12 different disciplines and fight for the title "The Best In The US." Huge infrastructure improvements are being finalized and we invite you to come out to meet and support your favorite teams. If you haven't been here in a while, you will be amazed with what we have done so far in preparation for the event.

Check out www.uspanationals.com. Registration is now OPEN. There is also a button on the page to watch the registration how-to video, which is a quick walk through of the process. USPANATIONALS.COM will be the official site of the event, hosting scores, blogs and also broadcasting the event LIVE on the site. Tell your friends and family to track your progress and support the home team! Team rooms and RV slots are limited and now available for rent. The week prior to the event will be a great week to come out to get your team in competition mode. Many teams have already scheduled and will be here October 5th.

ATTENTION: Calling all volunteers. As you can imagine an event of this size takes a large volunteer and staff base to make it run efficiently and effectively. We have assembled most of the staffing but would like to ask YOU to be a participant in this team. We still have positions to fill that will aid in producing one of the best National events of all time. I would like to ask for your help. If you would like to be a part of this wonderful event please contact Tina and let her know your schedule and when you're available. We can staff you in a position of interest varying from judging assistant, registration assistants, grounds and maintenance, spotters, banquet assistant, swoop park assistant and the list goes on. Please take the time and contact tinahyder@gmail.com and be a part of this incredible event. We need you.

Visit our Blog for updated photos of the improvements.

Jam at the Swoop Park.....Open Mic Night

October 2 & 3 after jump hours, festivities will be kicking off with a few pre-nationals events. Kirk and Deb along with friends will be setting up at the pond for a good ol' time. They are bringing out the mics, amps and guitars for a jam session and open mic night. If you play or maybe if you sing, come on out and join in the fun. Don't be shy, practice up, tune up, string up and come on out and jam with your friends.

Recent Accomplishments

Skydiver Training Program Graduates
Kenny Brown	Ali Macdonald
Mike Brown	Derek Pickend
Chris Cavarretta	Willie Rankin
Kurt Collier	Chance Saunders
Steve Cooper	Matthew Schlegel
Charles Decker	Greg Shaskan
Brandon Freeman	Susan Sweda
JR Hudson	Tony Sylvester
Steve Hyder	Ron Towery
Saman JHanati	Ron Whatley
Matt Keil	Stephen Whetstone
Ted Kenny	Joe Wilkinson
Suatin Ketenbrink	Andy Wojtaszczyk
Lindsay Lum	Svenja Zander
CONGRATULATIONS!	AWESOME JOB!
More Accomplishments
Ratings by DJ:
Jacques DeMoss	Coach Rating, Tandem Rating
Corey Soignet	Coach Rating, Tandem Rating
Cody Edgeworth	Coach Rating
Gary Russell	Coach Rating, 500 jumps
Grady Ferguson	Coach Rating
Leo Cardines	Coach
Jason Romero	Coach
Tina Hyder	Coach
Doug Evans	Coach, Tandem
Ali Macdonald	SCR, A-License
Niels Vissches	A-License
Steve Cooper	A-License
Bart Stonestreet	D- License
Pete Ritzou	D- License
Cindy	SCR
Amy	SCR

Upcoming Events

• Sept. 13: Texas Swoopers Swoop Competition at the Swoop Park
• Sept. 19-20: TSL Meet 5 (4-way championships) at Skydive Spaceland
• Sept. 26-27: Canopy Formations Camp a.k.a. CRW at Skydive Spaceland with Catfish
• Oct. 2-3: Open Mic Night at the Swoop Park
• Oct. 12-25: USPA National Skydiving Championships
• Oct. 19-24: Swoop Week

Have fun and play safe! We look forward to seeing you soon at Skydive Spaceland!

Comments? Email Eric: eric@skydivespaceland.com.