Welcome to the December news section at the Freefall University just south of Madrid.
1st December 2005
Congratulations to Andy Star who has graduated our Birdman course and is now cleared as being competent to fly a wingsuit.
Well done to Gareth Couldrey who graduated our aff course . Gareth completed the course in two and a half days , did a cracking level eight and has also completed five solos.
Well done to Mark Rees who also completed his aff course, did his BPA level 8 and five solos.
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5th December 2005
Welcome to Jester who is here to take our beginners course. Jamie is from London is a web designer and completed all the ground lessons today and will start jumping tommorrow.
New BASE gear! Ulli is seen here modelling one of the new BASE rigs. Our next BASE jumping course is starting on the 15th of December. So if your at a loose end , have 200 or more recent skydives and fancy scaring the crap out of yourself give us a call to book your place.
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6th December 2005
Jester did his first Aff jumps today and is having a ball. Doctor Ulli was his primary and ” our very own ” Paula was his secondary. Even the admin team at the FFU are skydivers!
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8th Dec 2005
Graduation day. Well done to Jester who finished his AFF course today. Jamie is from Scotland and celebrated by doing a few laps of the school playing his bag pipes and wearing his Clans Kilt. Scary photos to come tomorrow…Everybody hit Aranjuez after jumping and this wekeend in Spain is one long bank holiday. Jamie decided to have his quote in Spanish.
Welcome to Chris Nelson who his here to complete his BPA FS1 course. Chris will jump with Andy Gregory. Chris is from the Midlands.
Welcome also to Louis Morell who joins us to complete an accelerated freefall course. Louis is from Southern England
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10th December 2006
Soo.. who let the joose loose aroond this hoose ? Jester treats the dropzone to an early morning wake up call.
Welcome back to Aimee who makes her second trip in as many months to Ocaña having trained here some weeks ago. Aimee is completing some formation skydiving coached dives and is contemplating moving here full time from early next year and teleworking. We now have a number of graduates contemplating the move and if you wish to be considered for a space in a shared rental aparmtment in Aranjuez to join them then please contact us.
Chris Nelson is doing well on his FS course. He has now completed the three ways and is up for four way next. Andy is one of our BPA formation skydiving coaches and has spent signifigant time with the Swiss Team before becoming an active coach. He is also a cameraman for the 8 way team.
Louis Morell is doing fab on his beginners course , he has breezed through all the levels and is now on level six.
Well check out mr Gardner! He is jumping his ass of now with his new Gear. Matthew is one of our full time residents having joined us originally as a complete beginner.
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11th December 2005
Congratulations to Loius Morell who has finished his aff course , done his level 8 and begun to skydive solo.
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13th September
Welcome back to Adam Conduct who joins us for some further freefly training with Louis.
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14tth September
Welcome back to Simon Lemon who joined us for some fun jumping.
Here Simon does a jump with Ulli, Simon is on his belly and Ulli is in some sort of stand.
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14th December
Tunnell Camp number one finished. Everybody was happy with their tunnell camp and all made loads of progress, from those who had never tried it before , never jumped before , to those coming for some more advanced coaching.
Andy Guler who is our formation skydiving director lead this camp with Dean Smith ( more about that later ) . He is pictured here taking one of our AFF students for next Jan through their paces in the tunnell.
Here is another tunnel only flyer..Vivienne wanted to try it indoors first and wil do her AFF course with us next year.
Andy takes Rachel Wenham through her paces on a more Advanced programme . Rachel did her AFF course with us last month.
Andy Guler points to a picture of Andy Gregory ..how did a picture of Andy G end up on the wall of the Bedford Tunnell!
To finish up the tunnel news everybody in the FFU is delighted to have Dean Smith join our staff part time. Dean trained with us this August and will be working closely with Andy Guler on the cordination of future camps in the UK. When you enquire with us for tunnell camp training it will be Dean taking your call!
Group coaching in the Tunell ? No bother to Andy , he has 300 hours plus of tunnell time alone and then of course several thousand skydives and a serious amount of World Competition … your in good hands !
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Welcome back to Dan Atkins a skydiver from Ireland who joined us to get some more jumping in. Dan was trained by the Freefall University nearly two years ago and has been here a few times to get in some more jumping.
Also joining us is Billy Gibbons from the UK ( he jumps at one of our partner dropzones South Cerney ) in the UK. Billy did some coached jumps with Louis and has learned the basics of Freefly.. Billy will be on holiday with us again in Feb. 
Welcome back to Ian Newlands , Ian has been back with us three times now and has also bee on one of our tunnell camps just before Christmas.
Paul Wainright also made the trip to Aranjuez and will join us again for his second holiday this year in Feb. He completed the first six levels of AFF and loved it. 
Well done to Lee Saunders who was successful in his application to take one of our BASE courses.
Continuation Courses news:
Are you a Firebird ? Or maybe your a classic , or then again perhaps your a GTI or an S3 ?
Building on the success of our 2005 sponsorship programme where profits from our school are invested in the sport for the benefit of regular jumpers we will be sponsoring a junior four four way team.
Static line progression weekend. 
Welcome also to a new member of the team, Aimee Herrick who joins us in client care. Aimee trained as an AFF student here last November and will be based in our Aranjuez office. If you select the private transfers option it is likely Aimee who will pick you up from your hotel in the morning and drop you home in the evening. 
We are also joined by Martin Ogden , Richard McConnell and John Slaney who are here for a variety of our continuation courses from freefly to birdman for beginners. 
Joining us recently for a weeks holiday is Brian Skally from the Irelands unofficial capital , Cork. Brian has been working on his A license having trained with the Freefall University under the instruction of doctor Ulli, one of our full time staff. 
Tim is back from Brazil after his honeymoon and is taking Joe through his course. Joe is doing great and will be finished tommorrow and skydiving solo. 
Martin has completed his first flight in a Firebird and has broken and now holds the school record for longest first flight. 90 seconds in freefal. Well done Martin!
Maria is jumping with one jump master now and will finish her course tommorrow. Maria took a day out to visit Madrid , catching the train from Aranjuez. 30 minutes later she was in the heart of the city and ready to choose from a wide range of activities.
Bucket loads happening today. More birdman jumps and more freefly jumps.
Here you can see them just a moment after leaving the plane. Clear blue skies are the playground and they still hold the eye contact. On this dive Paula exited in sit and Peter has already started his rotation into head down. 
Moments later Martin videos Richard as he sets of for one of the practive dives in his Birdman program. Tommorrow he too will have his ” first flight”. 
You can see him looking back at the plane as he rolls out in an unstable position , interestingly this is one of the dives students look on back on the most commenting on the thrill and enjoyment. Having spent the course learning about stability the last thing we do is have you go unstable .. well not the last. Five seconds ( 600ft ) later Damien was solid as a rock and doing 360 degree turns to beat the band.
You have done well my son ! Ullis AFF teacher , who thaught Ulli AFF has just arrived from Germany to spend some time jumping with us whilst on holiday. He is rather excited having been out to the Maldives recently. He would like to organise an event with us , skydiving in the Maldives next Winter, sounds like a lot of fun so we will publish details as soon as we have them.
Here is Damien on one of his skydives. 
Well done Joe , You are the best ! Our most recent graduate Joe Aldridge finished in style this morning. He was working with Tim and will spend the next few days jumping solo.
El Dude ! 
Welcome to Daniel Hold from London who joins us to learn to skydive and will be with us for the next ten days. Daniel is pictured here having completed his ground school getting ready for his AFF level one. 
Daniel Went on to do four skydives today and did just fantastic both with the freefall and canopy control. 
Are you an outgoing skydiver ? Are you a fit charismatic individual with time to travel ? We have been contacted by the BBC looking for such persons and whilst we have recommended some of our former graduates for a new show they are currently developing, we need more people. You must be over 18 to take part and be in a position to take some time off from your work. 
A nice day at the Uni, Danny Hold is finished his aff course and is now skydiving solo. 
We have three full time pilots , here is Edward on one load flying the plane.
And here he is at the rear getting ready to do a freefly jump with Nasco a regular jumper at the club. Edward has over 1000 skydives and 500 hours flying the porter and is a fully qualified commercial pilot.
Maria has now finished her consol jumps and is experiement with all manner of exits. Here you see here practing her sit fly exit. Very nice balance indeed.
Here she is back on her belly later on the skydive. Maria is a qualified pilot and now a qualified skydiver also. 
Welcome to David Wallis who is from the UK but works overseas quite a bit. David is well taken with skydiving and has already looked at a number of houses in the region as he is considering moving here. David joined us with no previous experience and is doing great. 
Its been another action packed day at the Uni and the Porter was up and down all day with loads of happy skydivers. We are well settled into the new year now and for all those of you who are booked over the next few weeks ( there are a lot of you 🙂 were looking forward to making sure you have the holiday of a lifetime. We will have six of our main instructors in action leaving uniquely positioned to cater for larger groups .. so keep marking the days of your calender.. 
We are joined by Jean, an Air Hostess with British Airways who trained with us mid last year and who now has over 35 skydives ..welcome aboard our flights with a different destination!
Congratulations to David Wallis who has completed his AFF course with us. He has now started to skydive solo. 
As David had been doing really well he planned a small FS dive with his insrtuctor for his level seven. He completed a number of points with has AFF Instructor before deploying at 4,500ft. 
A day of more solos for David , here you see him exiting in an unstable position. 
Superman Knee flyer ? No here David is just about to start a loop. 
Luci Boella is back with the team! Luci was the second AFF instructor in the school and many of you who trained with us will know her as she has 200 graduations over her time for the Freefall University. More recently she took some time out to pursue her advanced ratings. She is now an AFF instructor Evaluator and a coach course director. From early this month onwards Luci will manage our AFF instructors training programme part time, but will spending must of her time teaching AFF. Luci will be with us full time. Welcome back Luci. 
Thinking of buying kit? Make sure you talk to us about our gear programme. If you are happy to have the School Crest on your rig you will recieve a substantial discount on the cost. Call or email us and one of our riggers will be happy to have a chat with you further about the programme. 
We are now also working on our expansion programme for the dropzone. We have installed four new modules to house our growing departments to make sure you are trained in comfort and have more recreation space. We have also finalized the contract with a building company to build the second bar/ cafe for the DZ which will overlook the landing area. 
Ok the first of our guests for the next week have arrived. Welcome to Billy Gibbons who was with us only last month and who comes back for a weeks freefly coaching with Louis. 
Wasting no time , we got straight into it and Billy was soon up in the air for his first coached dive. Billy is quite close to achieving his BPA FF1 qualification. We are the only dropzone in Madrid who can issue this qualification and the only school in Spain to have recieved the new BPA coaches rating certification.
Louis and Billy are up and down like yo yos today completing seven skydives together. Billy is just about to get his FF1 rating and each video we see in the debriefing room Billy is just getting better and better.. 
Welcome to Chris from London and Katie who is here to complete the AFF beginners course.
Welcome also to the first group of fun jumpers and static line students coming from London also. They will spend the next week doing varied jumps , some fun jumping, some taking coaching and some who will progress on the RAPS system. We have a BPA RAPS instructor onsite to help them along 🙂
Aimee has joined us now and we wish her every success in her position and also with her events company ” skydiving in the Sun “. 
Meanwhile another AFF student just arrived James from North London is picture here on his way to the aircarft for AFF level one. James went on to complete two levels having done his ground school this morning. 
Welcome to the “Lost boys” ! Ben Woods, Matt Powell ,Stephen Jefferson and Richard Houghton are a group of friends from the North of England who here to learn to skydive with us. They had a good night in Madrid last night and made it to the dropzone today, we will get into ground school tommorrow :¨) Our holidays are ideal for groups.
Welcome back to Paul Wainright who trained with us last month up to level six. Paul is here for the rest of the week and his sister ( who I guess caught the ” bug ” from Paul ) will be joining us later in the week to do the AFF course also.
Meanwhile Kate and Ulli are doing just great. Kate arrived yesterday and did her ground school and her first two levels and is doing fab! 
Kate is almost there, after her second day here she has only her level seven to go and will do that in the morning with Tim. Shes pictured here tellling Billy how she started a loop in freefall. 
Also finishing in style today is Paul Wainright who over a few days completed AFF level one to six with us earlier in the year. Paul commented that his first solo was unforgettable , in particular respect of the time he had in freefall. Were edging up to14K now ( but dont generally go past that ). Did you know ??? : That it takes 12 seconds to fall the first thousand feet as you accelerate to ” terminal velocity” and then 4 – 5 seconds for each thousand feet fter that. 
Paul went on to do five solos today and will now do his BPA CH1 canopy handling course.
Well done to John Walters on achieving his 15″ delay on the BPA raps programme.
Torin, a madrid jumper and graduate of our sister school for Spanish students ( Aero Libre which means roughly ” Freedom Air ” ) dropped in to take advantage of the weather and mid week jumping. He trained last year with Christian and now has over 100 jumps.
“Boarding call ..boarding call pilatus thirteen” … meet Sonia . Its quite difficult to describe the cutest spanish English , but Sonia will have you scurrying to the boarding area to catch the ” Freefall Express ” .
Meet Chris Buse . John popped down from the UK for a few days jumping ( relative worker ) and is lapping up the Spanish weather. 
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As for the rest of the gang , they all did level one today also and with an instructor each they will be finished in no time at all. Well keep you posted. 
Have to admit the buzz was electric as the porter fired up to take the three guys on their level ones to altitude. There was a mixture of anxiety in the air aswell as excitement ,,mix that with turbines starting , the smell of Jet – A1 ..fantastic .. brings back memories of my own first jump in the IPC.
Well done Katie ! Level seven finished and the first few solos already! 
Ben Woods is now on level four having started yesterday morning. he is training with Andy from Bristol. 
Matthew Powell is now on level four also and is getting right through it with Tim Boyd from London who is his main instructor. 
..And they are gone. Tim is slightly above Matthew for the best video angle. Tim like all our instructors wears an ” instructor cam ” ..this footage forms part of your DVD of your course.
A growing freefly scene in Ocaña.. Nasco and Peter exit the Porter for another freefly jump. The Freefall University is a training dropzone..even midweek you will have no bother finding a jump partner to practice your skills with between jumps. Thier is a broad range of talents on the DZ and many of our ( non instructional )staff will be happy to jump with you if you ask. 
Another exit shot! Here is Doctor Ulli exiting with Richard for his level six. 
Mr. Carpenter what an unexpected pleasure .. feel free to drop in any time! Mike is from the ” famous british freefly team “… Freefly Euphoria..
Well done to James Mundy who graduated his AFF courses and is now skydiving solo. Also graduating last night was Mathew Powell ,Richard Houghton and Ben Woods.
Our cameramen are lovin it! And they are getting some great shots too. Paul Wainright took one up to get some piccies of a solo jump ( hes done all his consolidation jumps now in a day and a half ). Here are three shots from the skydive. 
Terminal Velocity …you can barely hear yourself scream …yet its not loud…its more that your voice is carried away by the wind passing. 
Time for a backloop … the more you go on , the more you will try .. in comfort. 
Welcome to Rachel Wenham who joins us for another holiday in Ocaña. Rachel has thirty five jumps and will be here for the next ten days. She originally trained with us last November. 
Ben is pretty chuffed with himself , he has just done his first consolidation jump. He is pictured here with Anfy Gregory who was his AFF instructor. 
Welcome Ian Fletcher from the UK who is here to complete an AFF course. Ian is from the UK and his instructor is Luci Boella. 
Well done to Stephan Jefferson who finished his AFF course in style!
Here Stephan and Ulli exchange thumbs up on the level seven . Smashing course Stephan well done ! 
Welcome to Penelope Strickland from New Zealand who joins us for a weeks holiday to learn to skydive. Penelope arrived in last night , but not jet lagged at all she was in ground school this morning and has already completed her first level of AFF. 
The lost boys ( Northern Contingent ) spent their last days jumping here today doing five jumps each. They did an average of 25 jumps each during their week with us. A nice ambience , but twinged with sadness as they go back to work on Monday. They are taking a Saturday night out in Madrid and given Madrid nights out wont be in shape for jumping tomorrow. Here Richard gets ready for one last jump. 
Jet Lag got the better of Penelope who did two jumps and is on level four next tommorrow morning. 
Scotty and Louis were taking it handy today. Louis is booked for the next few weeks with a few groups coming for freefly coaching and fun jumping in general. If your looking for your FF1 or FF2 then Louis is your man.
The Staff like to jump together now and again ..a nice tracking dive on the sunset load. 
Welcome to James Rowland who joins us to learn to skydive. He is pictured here with his instructor Luci Boella. James is from the UK but lives with his family in Malaga.
Also a very young man has joined us with the hopes of learning to skydive.. Callum sorry little dude , but you have to be sixteen.. but well organise some time in the wind tunnel for you on our March Camp!
Trevor Armitage also joins us to learn to skydive. 
Meanwhile heres a photo from Richards last skydive with us. Gorgeous blue skies!.jpg)
Congratulations to Louise Wainright who graduated our AFF course for beginners. She started at 9am yesterday morning with ground school and finished today on the sunset load ! Well done!
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Here James exits the porter on his level six skydive. 
Here is James heading off for his first solo skydive. Congratulations James and welcome to the sport of skydiving. In the background you can see Luci heading towards the boarding area with Trevor who is now on level seven.
Claire about to exit for her level six .. looking prety chilled out giving her instructor the thumbs up.. 
Meanwhile taking it handy on the course is Claire Hermitage and Trevor Hermitage. Here is Claire on level six. 
Welcome to Sally Oberton who lives in Dublin, Ireland who has joined us for a skydivign holiday. She is pictured here with Luci Boella her instructor for the course.
Also joining us is Sylvan Butt from the UK woh is here for his AFF course . Sylvan started our AFF programme last year but decided half way through to spend some time in the wind tunell on one our our monthly camps before continuing. 
Welcome to Christine Knowles . Christine did part of her AFF course at an associated dropzone in the UK and took the option of continuing here. Welcome. 
Welcome to Thomas Urbanski from the UK who joins us to learn to skydive. Thomas had completed one skydive on a tandem before decididing to come down. 
Welcome to Lee Armstrong who joins us to learn to skydive on the AFF programme. Michael had completed a tandem skydive before arriving with to our dz. 
Welcome to Kieron White who joins us to learn to skydive. Kieron had never skydived before coming on our course.
Welcome with Michael Woodward who joins us to learn to skydive. His tutor for the course will be Andy Gregory. 
Friday 24th Feb 2006 
Sylvan its been emotional ! Well done. Here is Sylvan bringing over the mandatory case of beer.. lets introduce you to ” beer rules”..when you graduate you have to buy your fellow skydivers and insrtuctors beer. A case of 24 should just about go around and at Spanish prices aint to bad on the pocket either! 
Welcome also to Joanna Midleton and Dean Thorpe who are here to begin the road to 
Also here for her third visit in as many months is Amelia Walters who gained her BPA FF1 qualification with the help of full time/ permanent coach , Louis Harwood ( Ola Tronko puedo que tien es suerte en otro sitio..puedo…) 
Smiles all round , Joanna had a mal but , look , locate , peel punch pull.. no bother chica! Here Edu reminds her of the beer rules and reckons he should be the second to take a bottle from the case as the main landed right on the X.. A short time later Jo´s gear was repacked and ready for action. 
Welcome to the guys who join us for a skydiving holiday. They will spend their time Freefly Team training and whilst not taking coaching will work under the watchful and helpful eye of Louis H. They do most of their jumping in the UK and occassionally Empuria but decided to try another dz in Spain for a change. We hope you like how we look after you and come back soon. 
Congratulations to Thomas Urbanksi who finished his AFF course with us in spectacular fashion. A text book course under the instruction of Andy Gregory. Well done..CH1 next. 
First Solo! 
Here is a pictures from his level seven skydive. The instructor remains close on the jump but generally out of view untill the ” routine is complete ” . Once the looping, turns and track are complete your instructor will fly close to you so you can celebrate with him or her in freefall.
Here Pete the camera man for the dive flys into the instructor to take a close up before both head of to their own corner of the sky to open their parachutes. You can see the DZ below. This photo was taken from 4000ft and the landing area still looks huge!
Congratulations to Christine who completed her course. She said to us when half way through the course ” I like how this makes me feel ” . She is seen here showing her video to the others in one of our video rooms. ( We have three video cabins now all decked with DVD recorders and are about to add another in the rec room being installed beside the school ) 
Back to the Freefly heres a photo from one of Louis´Dives .. here is Dean Thorpe on a dive with Louis.. looks nice in sit ..no ? .jpg)
Welcome to John Callaghan who joins us to learn to skydive. He will train with Luci Boella. He is pictured here on the climb with her and Carlos who will be his secondary instructor. .jpg)
And of they go.. Carlos put that away ! 
Here Carlos gives John the Thumbs up in the ” circle of awareness ” Smashing body position John. 
John did a perfect level one skydive having never been in freefall before. He did the circle of awareness , practice pulls ..then..
Welcome also to Justin Reid who joins us to learn to skydive. Justin will spend hte next ten days with us and hopes to accomplish 30-40 jumps in his time with us. He is pictured here just after his level one.. loooking pretty happy ..ah adrenalin..aint it wonderful..
Gorgeous blue skies , perfect for skydiving ! We did 18 loads odd today at the Uni and had a blast. Here is Christine and Thomas who just landed of another solo skydive. Thomas is almost finished his CH1 and Christine has already decided to come back in a few weeks time for some more jumping. 
Here is a pciture of Christine about to exit at 13,5k. Christine did four solo jumps today. 
Smashing course Justin! Well done. Justin did the course in two days and is now skydiivng solo. Justin was a great student and such a pleasure for us to teach. Even though the dropzone is busy , its easy enough for us to get you through the course in no time at all due to wealth of talent we have waiting to teach you. 
Meanwhile the freefliers are racking up the jumps and did 6 four ways today to include some local jumpers who popped down from Madrid to share da fun…
Thomas did about six jumps today and had a cameraman along on one of them. Hes lovin it! .jpg)
Sylvan is all but finished his consolidation jumps and CH1 and will the do the 
Well done also to Michael Woodward who finished his AFF course today with Andy Gregory.. enjoy your solo skydiving ! 
Meanwhile john Callaghan has reached level six with Luci and should finish his course tommorrow. 
Welcome onboard to Juan Ventura . Juan joins us to manage our Spanish AFF school and may be your secondary instructor ( the guy who helps out your tutor on your first three levels ). Juan is formerly of Empuria Brava , has in excess of 18,000 skydives broken down as follows: 5000 AFF , 5000 Tandems , 2000 Skysurf and 2000 4way jumps. .jpg)
A sweet day at the “Freefall University” Ocana. We have said goodbye to some people, but not for long , most have already booked for a second skydiving holiday with us in March. Some of the Freeflier from the UK are still here. Here is Amelia getting ready to jump with Edward the pilot ( his day off flying ) and Roberto , a local jumper from Madrid. 
Welcome back to David Wallis who joins us for a few days skydiving. David trained with us and completed his CAT10 ( AFF courses + 10 solos + ch1 ) earlier in the year.
Today the staff play. All our students are graduated and jumping solo so its fun time untill our new students come tommorrow. 
Gus Reid did his AFF course with us in two days and has finished his consolidation jumps and level eight on day three. Here you can see him heading off on his 5 second delay. Nice body position just before going for the pull. 
Clear Blue Skies – Duncan Aspinall comes in for a tippy toe landing under his Katana. 
And here is Luci doing really well flying a “firebird”. The guys are now taking the plane two or three miles away from the dropzone and flying back. Flight by flight they are going further away.. 
Congratulations to Dean Thorpe who achieved his 
Welcome to Malcolm O Neill who joins us to learn to skydive. Here he is seated in one of our training rooms with Luci during a multimedia presentation.
Birds of a feather flock together..
Nasco a jumper from the local area also popped in for some head down coaching. 
Well done to Gus Reid. He started learning to skydive last Sunday , Qualified to go Solo on Monday morning and has by the end of Today ( Wednesday ) has made 17 skydives.. Theres no stopping him , and no hanging around due to low cloud, fog or because your instructor is training somebody else.
Richard has been extending his ” time of flight ” load by load today. Trying to get more and more time out of the wingsuit. He has been learning more and more advanced tecniques to achieve longer skydives. 
Welcome also to Damien Walsh from Glasgow who is here to do some fun jumping and take advantage of the Spanish sunshine.
Meanwhile Neil Malcolm is doing great with Luci and has completed already today four skydives with Level five next. Not bad since he only arrived yesterday morning. 
When it comes to choosing the type of training you want , you will feel like a kid in a sweetshop, Richard decided to switch to some freefly with Louis. Here they head of on a coached dive.
David Wallis has done 15 skydives since arriving with us and is pictured here exiting the porter. 
Here is a nice photo of Roberto Sanchez heading off ” head down ” on a solo skydive. backloops to the max 018.jpg)
Gus Just aint stopping , here he is getting ready for another one. backloops to the max 057.jpg)
How about a backloop… Justin is finished his consolidation jumps now.
Clear skies meant that Richard kept at it also and he decided to do five coached jumps with Louis this afternoon and as you can ses sit is no problem for him now .
Joining us also is Anton Conlon a barrister from the UK who will learn to skydive with us . He is picutured here in training room number 3 with his personal instructor Ulli. 
Welcome back to Danny Hold. Danny completed his A license with us in November and is back with us to some more jumping and perhaps the FS1 course. .jpg)
Welcome to Kerry Sykes who joined us yesterday to do an AFF course. Kerry did his ground school with Andy Gregory and has already completed three levels of the AFF course. 
Here is Anton with Ulli getting ready for level three. 
Richard missed his plane home so will be with us untill Thursday before heading to Perris Valley. He has already booked in with is for some more jumping next month. 
Pete Clarke also joined us for his second coaching session this year and already has his third booked at the end of the month. Pete has 88 jumps now and is working on his 
Whats Luci up to ? 
Danny you dude! Danny couldnt remember how many jumps he packed in today and had to check with the manifest when filling in his log book. 
Last one down is a rotten egg..
So How will you exit for your graduation jump ? Here Kerry decided on a dive exit… 
Neil decided on a double tuck front loop somethingy .. under the watchful eye of his instructor Luci B . Did you know that Luci is an AFF instructor evaluator and works part time for us to decide who can teach AFF for the USPA in Europe ? . Shes also a coaching rating director and gold medal holder from the 2005 nationals in Target Skysports UK. she was originally working in Netheravon before moving to the Freefall Uni nearly three years ago. 
Anton too decided on the front roll double tuck… Ulli looks likes hes trying to catch him ..no ? 
Danny tracks at Mach 4.5 towards Ocaña.
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last few days I have been in the UK and Germany meeting with various associated dropzones. Welcome to Gareth Couldrey who joins us to complete his formaion skydiving course, he spent today solo jumping in order to get ” his knees in the breeze ” or fluid again in freefall before starting his course. 
He is pictured here sleeping ( which he always seems to manage between jumps ) in one of our training rooms. 
Welcome to Martin May who joins us on for his AFF course. Martin is a ” business man ” from the UK and will spend the next two weeks with us. Obviously pretty keen Martin completed his ground school yesterday and first two jumps so far today. He has also block booked 25 solos to take advantage of our special rates for block booking. His coach is ulli. 
We are pleased to announce we have finalized arrangments for credit card facilities for all course payments. Your rights to a refund are not effected in any way. Should you not jump for any reason , or not compete your course credit card payments also can be reversed onsite. 
Richard McConnell has cancelled his onward trip to Perris Valley and decided to spend the next month jumping with us instead:) He is enjoying his time with us and is taking full advantage of the coaching we offer. He has block booked 100 skydives again taking advantage of the special rates and in addition has purchased 50 coaching jumps with our Freefly coach. He will be working towards the BPA FF2 qualification aswell as perfecting his technique in Birdman. 
Welcome back Priscila who trained with us last year. Priscila is an Air Hostess and drops in when she has stop overs in Madrid Airport to squeeze in a few jumps. She works with BA and today flew on the London Gatwick to Madrid route. Currently there are offers to Madrid Airport for as litte as forty pounds return for bookings made with BA and easyjet before the end of the month. 
We are also pleased to announce that we will be running an AFF Instructors course in Mid June. We will soon post dates of our pre courses. Two of our staff Andy G and Luci B are AFF evelautors and for those interested in pre training or attending the coach course in advance we are happy to cater for your needs. Already we have local people subscribed to the course , so you can be sure it will go ahead. Dates will be posted in the next 24 hours once confirmed. 
Welcome also to Nicholas Selmes who is here to do his AFF course. His instructor is Timothy Boyd. Ground school is already finished and Nicholas got on an evening flight to complete his level one . 
Welcome also to Mike from Euphoria who visits from Seville. 
Thats me second from the right. To my left is Paul McMahon or ” Da Grasshopper” who arrived in unexpectedly. Paul is a the Safey officer for the Parachute Assocation of Ireland and keen jumper, skydiving instructor and Flight Instructor. He also operates ” Grasshopper 1 ” which is the Irish Parachutes club own SAR or Search and rescue flight for any mains which might drift into the ” bog ” beside the IPC. 
Here is Paul taking Javier for a Tandem .. Paul .. might i suggest closing your mouth when you have a cameraman with you 🙂 
This is most of us but not all who have been carving the Skies of Ocana in the last few days. This was taken Today Tuesday ( Ill try to keep the photos in order for you ) 
This is Mark Zagorski a part time police constable from the UK who joined us for our introduction to skydiving course. So far he has done three skydives and we are encouraging him onwards to finish the AFF course 🙂
Ready to Rock! I snapped this one just before they took of for the level one jump.
Martin May did great on his course with his personal trainer Ulli Bulli . He went on over the past two days to finish his AFF course and is now skydiving solo. 
Yup Martin Aces High indeed ! Its been a pleasure looking after you ..heres to some more rocking solos!
Here is Mikey ” Its all good Carpenter ” getting ready to do another jump with Nils Wuerdinger who is visiting from Frankfurt. Nils and Mikey have been very happy with our dropzone and did five or so coached jumps today. Mike is based in Seville but like most schools from within Spain and the UK is welcome to take people to our dropzone for training. There are some external schools coming over the next few weeks so if you would like to train your students at our facility its no problem , please call to have us assist you.
Just another brick in the wall? Hardly this is our graduates wall from 2006 . This is in one of our three training rooms on the DZ. Each person who comes on our courses is asked to autograph their picture and add a comment. some of the comments make for interesting reading..
The Chilli peppers were playing on the PA as i took this photo. A nice moment for the people you see. Paul had just done a jump as had Javier ( foreground – Tandem ) Louis and Richard were soaking up the rays between loads as each individual group ( usually one student and one instructor ) worked away on their next jump. The porter was also on another climb. We flew back to back pretty much steady for the last few days to make sure everybody got the jumps they wanted. 
Adding to our mid week numbers are more and more jumpers from Madrid who are choosing the FFU Ocaña and finding partners to jump with. Angel Lopez pictured here was never refused in his requests to jump at least once every 40 minutes. He had a long stop for lunch but still easily completed 8 jumps today. 
Time to practice the exit ..” no where do i go again ” . A Sillouhette ( not so sure of the spelling but who cares ) of Luci Boella , Sylvan , Juan Ventura and Tim on the Porter mock door practicing for Sylvans four way. Sylvan was a bit apprehensive before going up wondering if he would manage to rember everything for his first four way ( See the FS section ).. he need not have worried. He racked up 9 points and Luci told me that when he passed six and realised at about 9k that he had done it he broken into the biggest, broadest smile. Sylvan Well done . Sadly for the world of formation skydiving Sylvan has moved straight onto freefly and will work next with Louis 🙂 
The atmosphere in the landing area is always good and especially so on the sunset load , first solos or the completion for some , but for everybody a big or small achievement.. 
Ok ” da papparazi ” out of the way Sylvan is off in to share in some beers with his fellows . It is a tradition to purchase your fellow skydivers beers when you pass a milestone such as graduating an AFF course or in Sylvan case an FS course .
Also back to us for his second holiday in Ocaña is Shane Daniels , who trained with us a year ago. On his last trip he completed the FS1 programme with Andy Guler and this time is taking some extra coaching with Andy once again. It was nice to see him jumping with Gareth Couldrey who graduated his FS1 this morning also. 
This is Gareth who finished his FS1. He jumps in Cark in the North West of the UK having trained with us in November. He told me he was very impressed with his instruction and also commented that he say a big improvment in the dropzone ( we have made a lot of structural changes with layout etc. ) since he trained. We dont see the changes so much as we make them day by day but it was nice to have the feedback.
This is Miguel on the left he is a fireman from Madrid and is doing a few hours of the course every day. He is jumping 1:1 with Hristo his Spanish Instructor.
Here is Ramon , Miguels colleague who is also doing his AFF course. His instructor is Carlos ..or Jill if your watching ” Carloossss ” 🙂 
Here he is on his level three. We use the one high one low system. On the level three the main instructor goes slightly above the student and the secondary goes slightly low. 
This is peter , a parachute packer and cameran who found himself in front of the camera on head down dive. He is ” flying ” on his head descending here at about 200 miles per hour ,, but even the speed doesnt seem to wipe the smile of his face.
This is Nick Selmes , he is loving it i tell you! He finished his AFF course today in style. I shook his hand and asked him he soon he would ” like to go ” . Very enthusiasticly he replied as soon as possible.. No bother he was climbing to 13K twenty minutes later. He did another three solos before I managed to snap a picture of him in the landing area on the sunset load.
This is Christian Bengel who is here from Frankfurt. Willkomen and enjoy your skydives with us.
Here is a photo of Anton who completed his AFF course , all his consols and of course the CH1 course. Once your finished your consols you can jump in shorts if you like ( its warm enough now ) subject to some conditions and a briefing which we will give you. ( Its a bit different and also we want to make sure everything is well tucked and tied in ) 
Anton , good to have you here and look forward to seeing you back soon. This is photos here is from another jump.
Our plane is slowly being covered inside with stickers from visiting jumpers and teams. I found this one and thought it was well funny. For those who havent jumped the change in pressure outside your body leads to a desire to ..ok you get it. Its generally considered bad manners ..to relax too much.. so best to wait till we open the door 🙂
This is Julian who has arrived to do the 
So sorry I have not covered everybody , i was busy doing other things to include manifesting , moving around to make sure all parts of the DZ were ticking over and generally didnt want to disturb people too much poking cameras in their face. There are new faces with us both for freelfying and also to do our AFF courses. I hope to post more photos tommorrow but im going to go back to the DZ ( my design machine is in Madrid some 40 minutes away ). I didnt take the camera to cheers to ” shoot the night life ” , perhaps im a dissapointment to the Paparazzi 🙂 When I left people were settling into ” Crosswinds on the plasma screen and a few well earned beers.
So as they say… red sky at night .. See you soon.
Here is one of our offices with Paul and Javier reviewing photos and video on an editing PC. The cameraman is Peter ( in the white suit ), a talent already and I believe sure to figure on the international scene soon. He arrived to us with few jumps two years ago and started work as a packer. He jumped and jumps whenever he can be it funjump or video. He is now DA MAN to have taking your picture or doing video and his rates are excellent. 
This is Noah Goodman , he is here to learn to skydive with us and is just loving the experience. He was nervous to start with ( actually who isnt ? ) but under the guidance of Luci is doing just great. He came down of his last jump and said ” i got it , i know the feeling your talking about ” .. it was his best jump to date. 
Martin is rocking on in style. He is working on his accuracy and perfecting his flare or braking technique when landing . Seeing him come in from the landing area each tome is rewarding as his smiles are getting bigger and bigger ” That was Tippy toe Dave ” . Martin says hi to all the folks back home and says he will be home for a while before coming back in April.
This is Gareth getting ready for a 4 way with Andy Lucy and Tim. He left this afternoon and how nice it was to say goodbye knowing that he will be back soon for some more advanced FS coaching with Andy of the Swiss team. 
I spend a lot of time just walking in circles ..yes really! I like to see where people need help and what or who might need attention. Sometimes I have the camera with me. Here is Tim working with MArtin showing him how to fill in his log book. A detailed log at this stage of your skydiving career is very important , its suggested amongst other things you write down things you liked about your last jump and things you would like to improve. 
Tim gave me some stills from his own camera today of his course with Nick ( who did about five jumps today.. he stopped jumping for a while to kindly give Gareth a lift to the airport ) . The style of videoing your course is very personal and here I guess Tim and Nick are sharing a joke on the way up to altitude. 
Maybe for the world of FS there is hope tha Sylvan will stay in it. He spent his day working with Shane and Andy guler who was coaching them both. I saw some of the videos of the jumps and Shane and Sylvan seem to progress well. I overheard Andy talking about emotion on exit which makes sense. Often its noise in our heads ( ” will i do it right ” ) that gets in the way of a really smooth exit. 
I took some time in the air also differently. Im learning to fly and went up with Edward to watch him pilot the Porter. I could not resist taking the camera with me and took some pictures. Here the flight was a mixture of students and Freefliers .. Christian in the middle is the jumper you see who is progressing really well. He always seem to have a smile on his face whenever I bump into him . He asked where were all the photos going so i told him to check this page out when he got home. He will be with us untill Friday.
This is Nick, he struck a pose just before heading off for another dive. 
Remember that four way with Gareth , well here it is. you can see them all heading off. It did not come out perfectly , but im not a four way Guru so wont comment . The dive went well with ten or more points so all is well that ends well. 
Handshakes ! You will love them and perhaps be daunted a bit as you get used to the different ones. This one I call ” ET phone home ” . It is customary for everybody to shake hands with each other in various manners on the 2 minute call ( the pilots gives you notice before asking you to leave his plane ) . This is Martin. 
Ok its my turn for the news updates today. My name is Louis Harwood, I run the freefly school here at the freefall university, you see me here on the right with my student Richard McConnell. 
Also joining us all the way from New Zealand is James McArthur. He’s an old friend of my team mate David Downham. Just popping in for a few days on his travels he joins the growing scene of freefliers at the freefall university in Ocana. I managed to get a few fun jumps in with James today…great fun.
At last I get to meet the famous Wayne Pascoe! Ive heard so much about you over the past few weeks, its great to finally meet you. Wayne kept in constant contact with the staff here about his course, travel arangements, accomodation as well obtaining some prescription goggles for him to use during the course. 
Meanwhile in the FS world Shane and Sylvan are busy honing their skills on 2 way skydives no that they are both FS1 skydivers.
Cracking on through the AFF levels is Noah, now on level 6 he’s loving it and cant wait to finish the course tomorrow so he can jump solo. 
Julian has finished the ground school with his BASE instructor Ulli and have now gone to complete the first few BASE jumps from a bridge.
Me and Richard have just landed after a great Head Down coached jump. Your coming along nicely my young padawan learner! Richard has also been doing some fun jumps with some of my team mates today…I get the feeeling he’s enjoying it here :).
Wayne managed to complete his ground school as well as AFF level 1 and 2. Waynes wife Cheryl has been avidly videoing his landings and ground school…maybe she wants to join the fun also?
We were joined yesterday also by Leigh Browne who completed his ground school with Tim Boyd and did five levels of his AFF. Leigh is a manager with Sainsburys and i found him sitting queitly watching the sunset load embark reflecting. Its hard for people watching to get an impression on high skydiving truely touches you so it was no surprise to see Leigh contemplating all that he had done. He told me ” how can something be so scary and so amazing at the same time ” .. thats skydiving. I snapped this picture of Leigh with Tim. 
Noah only has one more jump to go and Wayne is doing great. He and Cheryl took of to Madrid for the day. 
I had a good chat with Nils today and am glad that he has had a good time with us . He has applied for a job as a packer with us as he reckons it would be a good experience to work here during the summer. Nils we hope that you do indeed come to work with us.
Welcome to the second page of the news bulletin page for Freefall University Madrid.
Hi, Im Luci Boella . I am in charge of the UK FS school for people who would like to learn to skydive with others ( BPA FS1 ). This is me with two of our students Jim and Stephen O Brien from Chatteris in the UK. Jim trained with us at the Freefall Uni two years ago and has finally got around to doing the formation skydiving course. Both are doing great , learning loads and managing to squeeze a few ” pints ” in at night in Aranjuez also. 
This is Samuel he started his AFF a few days ago and is working with Ulli Bulli . He is from Bath . He is no stranger to adventure having been one of the youngest people ( and the only person I know ) to climb Mount Everest. 
Pete is a regular at the dz and generally comes out from the UK for a long weekend of jumping. Easyjet have some great prices to Madrid from five main UK airports and were a stones throw from Madrid. 
Paula snapped this picture of me and Jim in the training room during a debrief. You can see our bays which have TV , DVD and video recorders. Also in the photo is Gary Walker who is here for ten days of jumping . Ill be doing the formation skydiving course with him when he has settled in a bit . Gary hasnt jumped in a while but trained with us on the AFF course last year here in Ocaña.
From the office window I snapped this one of Danillo swooping who is the resident canopy coach. Only highly experienced jumpers are allowed to land in the middle of the campus. Given Danny has held several national titles im sure hell not get in trouble. .jpg)
Danillo is an AFF Instructor also with five thousand jumps . He is training Ellis who is in the British Army. Ellis started his AFF course with us yesterday and is now on level four. .jpg)
This is Paula one of oiur our BASE and birdman instructors. ( Shes sporting her new braids which look real funky in freefal ) Claire is an experienced skydiver from the UK on holidays with us ( left ) and on the right is Christine Knowles from the silver stars DZ . Christine trained with us about six weeks ago and has come back for another holiday.
Hi im Ulli, sometimes called the ” doctor ” .. i have no iea why 🙂 This is Lee one of my BASE students . After jumping finished we took off to do some night base. Lee did great and i loved the jump. We have some good sites and i have just found another one.. 
Skydiving is good for you ! You know you want to ! Here we are getting ready for level four. Mr Everest had no problems at all. 
Here is Shane getting ready for level seven.
Thumbs up Shane you just did your level seven enjoy your solo skydiving 🙂 
Meet Jelly ! But be careful when you enter the school she will probably lick you to death! 
Hi , Im Andy and Im an AFF Instructor and Tandem Master at the Freefall Uni . We looked after a group of lads down from Bristol for a stag weekend who wanted to see what skydiving was all about ..they all did a tandem despite nursing some wicked hangovers.
Richard who joins us to learn to skydive. Richard had never jumped before but is looking forward to getting stuck in to the course having arrived this morning and completed his ground school this afternoon. 
Simon Palacio has been learning some fancy tricks under the tuition of Louis ..carving ,docking, chase dives. With four sets of gear between them they have been jumping to the max often landing of one load and getting straight onto the other. Talk to us about your BPA FF2 today. 
Monkey man exit.. for Simon on his 
Luci is now doing some coaching with Ellis who has graduated his AFF. 
Here you see Mr ” Go Hard ” Gary Walker who has been working on the mantis position as you can see here and flying with one of our new Aerodyne rigs. 
Heres Kevin with Andy getting ready for the level seven (rock and ) roll..jpg)
Kevin Ilsley…sweet. Well done in graduating your AFF course . Here is Kevin with Andy Gregory just out of the debfrief..jpg)
AFF in 24 hours ! Joni the Freefall Addict has finished in no time at all and is seen here doing the roll out for her unstable exit. 
I think at this stage Joni is just showing off to the camera …. Perfect body position , perfect level seven ! 
Happy Sunny Days ! Well done Joni , now you have the next week to skydive with us , do your CH1 and packing 🙂 
Jim has been taking advantage of his BPA FS1 rating to jump with others. He did some jumps with Claire a fun jumper from the UK. Claire did eight jumps between this morning and this afternoon when she had to go back to the UK. Claire jumps in Langar ( Nottingham ) when at home. 
We said goodbye to Lee today also managed eight skydives before catching his flight home.
Another fab day and were still jumping. We have seen wingsuits , freefly and formation skydiving students in action aswell as our AFF graduates clocking up the solos. Everbody has done at least five jumps with some doing up to ten. 
Brendan has graduated his BPA FS1 course and did some two way with Jim O Brian before moving onto more advanced coaching with Luci. Jim and Brendan went through some 3 way scrambles with Luci. She has also invented a new random called the ” motorbike ” . For details of our FS1 formation skydiving courses 
Louis has been jumping with Simon Palacio amost of the day with back to back loads being the norm and then a stop for debriefs. 
Here is a photo of Luci and Ulli on the sunset load freeflying together. This two way was photographed by Paula Silva our newest and hottest cameraflyer. 
Joni has had five solo jumps today. She was taking it easy having finished her AFF so quickly.
Simon .. would you like to try any of our other courses ? Simon is doing BASE, freefly and decided to take the Birdman course also. He covered 2.5 miles or 4 kilometers on this flight as verified by the planes GPS system which flew as part of the formation. 
Sylvan one of our resident skydivers has also decided to get into the freefly act and has now commenced freefly coaching having purchased a block of jumps with Louis. Mr Sylvan as many will know is an aff graduate of ours who decided to move to the dropzone to jump full time. 
This is from yesterday. Its Jims four way qualification dive having completed Luci´s course. 
Kevin also got a ton of solos done today and is also completing his CH1 course. 
Jim and Brendan two friends who completed our formation skydiving course are pictured here jumping together. At the beginning of the week this was not possible for both of them. Well done guys!
Kevin is seen here on another solo skydive. He is “locked on ” to his altimeter. Thats all of Kevins consol jumps done now also and everything else is just for fun! 
Tracking to the max. John Louis and Edward do some back tracking.
Come Fly with me !!
Meanwhile Scotty another of our graduates who now lives at the dropzone trys out flying on his back. He is jumping one of our Mirage G3 containers which have Spectre Mains. .jpg)
Welcome back to Louis Morell who joined us today to do some skydiving and complete his CH1 canopy course ( free course ) . He did five skydives and is almost finished the course. Louis is our AFF graduate from December who has chosen to come back to us. 
Birdmen over FFU Ocana ! 
Here some of our guys get ready to head of another skydive..jpg)
Well Sylvan . what a face of concentration! Here you see him getting ready to head off on another freefly coaching dive with Louis. Sylvan recently purchased himself a set of gear through our shop a Mirage G3. 
Ok where to Start. Joni is rocking on and finished her consols and CH1. She has chosed her home DZ in the Uk which will be Hinton.
Welcome to Robert Simpson who joins us to the complete the AFF course. Hes already been in the air with his instructor Tim. 
Welcome also to Karen Simpson who will complete the AFF course also. She has requested also to jump with the same instructor as her brother. Tim your a popular guy 🙂 despite this with a fast turn around we are sure they will finish by tommorrow 🙂
Mr Sylvan ! 8 way freefly dive ?? Ok well done to get on the sunset organised freefly load.. 
Simon said goodbye to us today but not before he and Paula covered 5 km of sky together on a winsguit dive. 
Welcome also to Michael Woodward who is here to complete the CH1 canopy course. Michael is a graduate from Febo of this year and is now taking his second holiday with us. Welcome back. 
A new day , a new month and what a start! Congratulations to our first new skydiver in April. The first of April but no April fool well done to Karen from London who had a great course. She is pictured here with her AFF Instructor Tim Boyd. In some ways things never change , 7 years after this page was written there are still large groups coming from London to learn to skydive
Well done also to Robert who completed his AFF course this afternoon. Super job Robert! He too by request trained with Tim.
Welcome also to Mathew O´ Riordan who joins us for a long weekend of parachuting from the UK. He is photographed here with Joni Mallet from London who now has 28 skydives since qualifying with us. Perhaps shes going for the school record for the most number of jumps after finishing her AFF course in less than 24 hours!
Welcome also to Pete Cottrell a former AFF student from early last year. Peter is a deep sea diver but took up parachuting with us a year ago.
Welcome also To Robert Page who is here to learn to skydive . He is pictured here just before boarding practicing the exit on the mock up. His instructors are Luci and Juan for this jump. Robert did his ground school this morning and first AFF level this evening.
The Freeflyboys! Welcome also to Robert Tyler who paired up with Mathew for some freefly fun over Ocaña.
Dan A pleasure as always! Dan Atkins is a former AFF student and a regular return visitor who stopped in for a bit of “Leppin” from perfectly good aeroplanes.. Dan is from Ireland. He did his advanced freefall course last year and now has some 100 skydives.
Meanwhile Michael Woodward has been jumping his socks off , he came from the UK ( on easyjet ) for four days jumping and we will let you know his final tally of skydives on Monday evening.
Welcome to Nicholas Waller who joins us to learn to skydive. He arrived this morning and was straight into his ground school with his instructor. They are pictured here during the multimedia presentation for canopy control.
Well done to Robert Page who has only one jump of his AFF course left to do. He is premanifested and will be on the first load in the morning. Our one student one experienced instructor strikes again..
Sylvans conquest of the skies goes on unabated he has now done the first ten skydives of his block training with Louis.
Well Joni , how many skydives you up to now, its hard to keep count. Congratulations on completing the CH1 canopy course.
Together Again! Welcome back to Katie Hearn who graduated with the FFU last year. She is here to complete her formation skydiving course. Welcome back also to Rachel Wenham who trained with her at the same time.
Meanwhile Nick Golding who only arrived yesterday to do his AFF course is pictured here getting ready for his AFF skydive level six. This was his last jump of the day ( 4pm ) . He decided to have a rest and finish off tommorrow morning. Hes on the “early bird”… the 9am load..assuming everybody survives the crash course in Spanish Nightlife in Aranjuez tonight that is….
Congratulations to Robert Page who has finished his parachuting coursein double quick time and started to skydive solo yesterday. He also did a few solos today. Robert will be with us for the next week jumping his socks off..
Tom who came with Robert for a few days holiday decided to do a tandem. Normally at this point poeple are shouting ” oh my f$%%$ god ” ,,,not tom..he looks well happy as hes about to head off into freefall.. 
Nicholas Waller also finished his AFF course and has completed most of his consolidation jumps. Here you see him on the climb with his instructor Luci on the left. 
Pilots like to fly , but not too much. So now Edward has been given a well earned holiday and Danielle as back to fly us to altitude. Danielle flew with us last year and then worked for our avaition company in the Canaries and Portugal. Welcome back Danielle!
Mitching of work again.. happy days . we were joined by a few guys from the south of england who arrived to take advantage of our midweek jumping.
Meanwhile we have been joined by some new recruits to the sport. Nicholas Friend and Glynn somers join us to learn to skydive. They did their ground school and straight away got into some skydiving..Look at the state of one of that whiteboard..Sylvan your a grafitti artist.. 🙂
Glynnlooks cool calm and collected as he gets ready to do his level two..
Sally Oberton is back from Dublin for her second holiday this year. 
Smiles all round! Welcome to Kate Curtis who completed her ground school with Tim yesterday. By the end of today she was on level five .. Well done Kate .. your hot on Joni Mallets heels for the record..
Welcome also to Matthew Legget who completed his ground school and first two levels of AFF today. Hes pictured here walking in from the landing area..
Welcome also to Jonathan Beresford who joins us to learn to skydive. He is pictured here on the left with Mathew and did his first two level of AFF and should get most if not all his course finished tommorrow.
Heres Nick Friend who is on one of our AFF courses. He is pictured here running over the communication on exit for his AFF level seven with Ulli. We got a good deal done today thanks to some lovely weather.
Nick went onto graduate and do some solo skydives. We accompanied him up for one of his last consolidation jumps. Here he is pictured in a tuck , just after exit.
Sweet ! Regular altitude checks are the order of the day. Getting out at 13-14K you get around 60 seconds in freefall, can you count to sixty ? Best check the clock..
Congratulations also to Kate who finished her AFF course and qualified to skydive solo. She has since been on every load she can manage and has finished her consolidation jumps.
How many jumps now Nick ? Nick has finished his consol jumps and is doing this just for fun having met all the A license requirements.
Glynn is lovin it ! Hes here getting ready for his level six skydive with Luci . He went onwards to graduate his AFF course and is now a qualified solo skydiver! Well done Glynn.
Here is Mat on his level five. Happy Camper !
Another Day at the drozpone and all our students are graudated heres Robert getting ready for another Solo…enjoy!
Edward, one of our pilots meanwhile cant seem to get enough of the dz. Hes on ” holiday ” from flying and in the most unusual of body positions is spending his time jumping from Daniellas porter !
Robert comes in for a tippy toe landing in the student landing area which is grassed. There are areas that are not grassed also , and these are even softer ( we plough them to keep them that way ) so first jump students prefer to land in the non grassed section .
Nick….what a great freefall Grin you have there ! Nick is loving hte solo skydives !
Welcome to Ralf Taner who joined us after a long lay off from the sport. We put him through a ground and air refresh and now hes jumping solo again and soon to complete our formation skydiving course .
Nick ! Smashing course , well done . Nick is now finished his consolidation jumps also and is pictured here With Ulli who was his AFF instructor. Nick like all our students this week completed his packing course and knows how to pack his own parachute. Not bad for a few days at the Freefall Uni.
Welcome to Georgia from Leeds who joins us for an 
Hamish who is a barrister from London came on our intro package for the weekend and has was instantly hooked , hell be back in a few days to get stuck into the full AFF course also .
Remember we talked about a new plane , well were getting two of them! We will be the proud owners of a -34 porter which will rocket you up to altitude and also a -27 will be leased for tandems at the weekend. Both planes will fly with a mimimum of five and a max of nine. Now getting the jumps you want is going to be even easier..
Welcome to Peter Dolbel who joins us for our 
Welcome to Antony Antonio who joins us to complete his AFF course. Antony is an officer in the British Army.
Welcome to Adeoye Sanni from London who joins us for an AFF course.
Sunset load for Robert, his sixth jump of the day. Peter took this piccy of him.
Welcome to Robin who joins us for some freefly coaching.
Adeoye is doing great , he is on level seven next. Here is he is just before pull time on his level three with Luci and Paula.
Antoni is also doing fab on his course and is on level six next.
Welcome to Louis who also joined us for the base course. The BASE students have completed all their canopy and packing training now and are heading off to the bridge..
Shiny new plane! This is the first of the new porters ..
Welcome to Danny Jenkins who joins us to complete an FS1 course. Danny trained with us last August as an AFF student and this is his second visit back since.
A huge well done to Antonio who now is a fully qualified skydiver. He did his course with Andy and has also completed all his ten consolidation jumps. Sweet 🙂
Congratulations also to Adeoye who graduated his AFF course and whom also has completed his consolidation jumps . 
We also have sone freefly action with Louis H. who is seen here coaching a two way group for a head down jump. 
Well done also to Ramon from Madrid who completed his aff course with us this week. He is now skydiving solo and is seen here wearing one of the new Mirage systems thats recently been added to the flightline. 
Pictured here is Stuart Race from the UK, who joined us to do an AFF course. He started yesterdat and in the morning will do his level seven. Not bad going mate , but alas Joni still has the record completing her AFF in 24 hours! 
Welcome to Nikolas from the UK who joins us for some .jpg)
Welcome to Nikalaus who joins us from Berlin who joins us to take part in one of our 
Welcome to Scotty , a soldier on leave who came to the DZ for 
Welcome to Neil Malcolm a recent gradaute back for some more fun over the skies of the Freefall University Ocana.
Welcome back to Anton Conlon, who is now going for the 
Welcome to Julia from the UK who joins us for an AFF course.
Antonio didnt know which porter to choose from as both were flying back to back. Hes finished his AFF courses, consolidation jumps and most of the CH1. In the words of Paula hes ” jumping like stupid”. Hope your keeping a log book mate , coz we have lost track!
Welcome back to Ian Newland. Who joined in some of the FS fun. Next week he will be doing some freefly coaching. 
Welcome to Sebastion from Berlin who joins us to learn to skydive on the AFF course. .jpg)
Welcome to Philip who joins us to complete an AFF Course.
Welcome to Tony Jones who joins us for some fun jumping. Tony was with us last year also when he took advantage of our training to get current after a long time out of the sport. 
Three new BASE jumpers at the Freefall University BASE school! The graduates jumped this bridge. 
Viva Portugal ! We have our first group this year from Portugal who have come for a mix of load organizing in freefly and freefly coaching. The experience of the guys range from 500 to 5000 jumps. The Portuguese four way team have also stopped in for a few days jumping before heading onto Empuria. This week we have 15 people from portugal mostly experienced , 15 from the UK, mix of AFF courses and formation skydiving , 5 from Germany and about 20 people from Spain to include 5 new skydivers from Madrid! Nice.. .The atmosphere is fantastic and we wonder what it will be next year when we have our own ***** and advertise an easter boogie! 
Welcome back to Nick Selmes who trained with us recently on one of our AFF Courses. Nick will be doing the 
All our AFF students are doing great, ground school is completed now and most have already made their first two skydives. Here Julia practices the turn procedure.
Pedro from the portugal national freefly team comes in for a swoop landing. 
Welcome to Kiat Tan who joins us for an AFF course.
This weekend has been an opportunity for many people to meet up who were on holidays before together. And also to make new friends ( and drinking buddies! ) 
Expereienced jumpers can land right in front of the packing hall now. Once we are satisfied they have the experience and the conditions are correct.
Congratualtions to our five new AFF graduates from Madrid. These guys got their AFF course done in 2 days from start to finish!
Sorry the news has not been updated more. Its been flat out for our AFF Boogie. The atmosphere is incredible , with 13 just qualified , or about to qualify AFF students in one place, throw in nice temps , low winds and a touch of nightlife .. it cant be beaten… why not 
Welcome to Kiat Tan who is here on the left she joined us to complete one of our 
Freefly to the max Louis! Enough said 🙂 .jpg)
Welcome Andrew Also joined us for an AFF course
Federico from Lisbon learning to skydive in portuguese. .jpg)
As did Wendy Foster from London. Wendy is on one of our AFF courses. 
Felipe again from Lisbon and learning in Portugeuse is doing our AFF course. 
Kiats loving it now that hes going Solo. 
Anton Qualified for his FS1 and went on to do some advanced coaching. 
Ian despite sporting his new shiny Formation skydiving suit is doing some freefly coaching.
Gina Tybmel joins us from Frankfurt for an AFF course or kurse Fallshirmspringen …Tina is doing her course in German. But speaks English also and even now a little bit of Spanish ..
John McEvoy joins us for a formation skydiving holiday.
Sorry for the lack of updates in the last days things have been flat out on the dropzone. 
Heres a picture from one of our FS1 graduates Nick Selmes . He did a cracking twelve points on the course and is now spending his time doing formaton skydiving 2 ways with Ian Newlands.
All aboard! Another full Freefall Uni load takes to the skies. Edward is telling us the climb rate on the new -27 engine is unreal with a full cycle to 13,500ft taking fifteen minutes. We wonder what our -34 engined aircraft is going to be like..jpg)
Check out Edward this is about ten seconds after exit. 
All our students have graduates now and are jumping solo . Here is a picture of Federico from Lisbon on his level two. 
Here is Gina after another solo! Gina has done really well on the course. She had some .jpg)
Ok , back in action on the updates!.jpg)
Welcome to Chris Occomore from the UK. Chris is a soldier and joins us for a week. This photo was taken in ground school yesterday and by the end of jumping today he had completed six level of the course… mmmh more beers tommorrow..
The Box position… John is settling in nicely..
Paddy Halliwell who has graduated his AFF course is pictured here exiting for his level eight. He started his course last Saturday and had a day off in Madrid due to weather… top marks! 
” Extreme ” Maria ..welcome back … Maria joined us for some more skydiving fun. Marai trained with us earlier in the year. She has completed some jumps in the IPC with the Talliban boading the porter were told .. 
Marc Watson from London joined us for an introduction to skydiving that almost became the whole course.. here he is on his level two.. 
Here is Paddy again ! 
The centre is seeing a steady increase in the number of AFF students coming from Madrid .. maybe its the vibe , the proximity ..the instruction who knows ….jpg)
Stick out those legs .. if your instructor gives you a two finger ..he aint..err..been rude hes just telling you to push you legs.
Extreme squared ! Sylvan is getting well into the freefly .. havent seen a relative work suit on you in ages man.. he is pictured here doing an exit with Nasco one of hte packers and the doctor ..
Welcome to Joseph forest who joins us to learn to skydive. He is pictured here with Paula and the doctor his Instructor..
Yep , the sun is down and the beer light is on for our portuguese grads.. Theres another party of nine jumpers and AFF students heading from Porto right now to make sure the party is well and tuely kicking tommorrow night … 
Congratulations to Joseph Forest who graduated his AFF course. 
Welcome to Paul who is here to do an AFF course. He is almost finished now. He did his ground school and first six levels of AFF in a day and a half. 
Welcome to Michael Hughes who joins us for an AFF course.
Welcome to Jonathan who joins us for a formation skydiving course.
Welcome to… anwers on a postcard 🙂 
Paddy, one of our AFF students on climb for another AFF skydive.
Looks like a happy man after passing his AFF course! 
Welcome back to Sam Stokes who trained with us some weeks ago and who has already taken his second holiday. 
Welcome to Ben Preece who joins us for an AFF course. 
The smaller restuarants just wont do some nights now as the gang of skydivers seems to growing every day.. this night there was 24 of us in the Chineese. 
Ok Off to Avalon late bar..
Well done to Paul Fallanche who has finished his AFF course. He is now skydiving solo to beat the band..
Well done to Michael Hughes who has finished his AFF course and is now also skydiving solo.. 
Welcome to Philip Potton who is here to learn to skydive on the AFF course. He is now on level five of the course and is pictured here with his instructor Tim.
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Welcome to Michael Cambridge who is here to learn to skydive on the AFF course. He has done his ground school yesterday and at the time of writing was all but finished his course. Many people have commented at the speed of progression , finding it surprising. We are all about training and as this is our focus , in tandem with one student one instructor there is no hanging around. Arrive, fly , enjoy and go solo in no time at all..
Welcome to Michael Mulligan from Dublin who arrives to learn on to skydive on the AFF course. This has been a long time ambition for Michael and we look forward to taking you into freefall over the skies of the FFU Ocaña. .jpg)
Wilkomen! Welcome to Arzu from Germany who is here to learn to skydive. Proving that girls make great skydivers once more Arzu has breezed through the course with Ulli with some spot on text book levels.. With 2 hours of flight to go she is on level 6 having arrived yesterday morning..jpg)
Congratulations to Lee who has passed his formation skydiving course with a topping ten points. Luci back from her team training camp is jumping to the max to get our formation skydiving students through the course in double quick time. Time spent on ouf FS courses is not a rubber stamp affair .. you will learn to fly. 
Welcome back to Lee or Cottie in our forum who has come back to mix it up with some freefly and BASE jumping. Lee was ready for an intermediate object which is located close to the DZ. 
Welcome to Derrick who joins us to learn to skydive. .jpg)
Some fun jumpers went along to the BASE site to join the BASE jumping evening ( which .. an interesting experience watching BASE.. makes you realise just how close the the line 300ft is !.jpg)
Jonathan from the UK is also doing his formation skydiving course with Luci… top drawer skydiving here he is seen preparing for the four way qualification dive. 
And a group shot for Jonathan with a slight difference. 
Meanwhile for our graduates and guests solo jumps to beat the Band. Today was Joseph Forrests last day jumping with us.. See you again soon Joseph.
Sit back relax , nice temps that are not to hot. This area is about to change with the upgrade to a recreation area with a BBQ pit , bar and picnic benches. 
Dan or dangerousdan in our forum was also on the BASE trip and is pictured here stuffing away his canopy for packing back at the DZ. 
Welcome to Michael Potton who joined us to get recurrent , not having jumped in nearly 20 years. Originally with 300 jumps Tim will have him in the air in no time at all.
Congratulations to Michael Cambridge who graduated his AFF course today. Hes already managed to squeeze in a few solo jumps! Not bad Michael youve only been here two days! .jpg)
Congratulations to Arzu from Germany who has finished her AFF course with us here in Sunny Spain. Double quick time , just under three days and already solo skydiving…sweet.. 
Congratulations to Derick Potton who has comleted the AFF course also in three days and has been solo skydiving today also. With another week ahead hes sure to rack up the jump.. .jpg)
Things are changing around again, this is the last few days with our current manifest as were building a new one beside the main packing hall looking straight onto the landing area. Here you can see Arzu and James getting tickets for some more jumps. 
Even with 25 loads a day you manage to get a tan… Edu and Dolly catch some rays between loads. Dolly is a pretty quite moggy except when the Porter taxies in as she knows her own Edward is coming back .
Welcome to Tom De Pelet who joins us to learn to skydive on our AFF course. Tom arrived yesterday and already is well over half way through his course. 
More Formation skydiving action for Lee Clutterbuck seen here with Luci preparing for a 4 way dive. .jpg)
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Students chill in the FFU recreation room.
Congrtulations to Sean Foley who qualified to skydive solo under the guidance of Andy Gregory. 
Well done to Robert Fone who qualified also to skydive solo under the guidance of Luci Boella he is pictured here getting ready to board for his level seven skydive.  (2).jpg)
And here he is in freefall getting the ” thumbs up ” from Luci..well done mate!
Scotty Reid from Scotland is now working on his formation skydiving qualifcation with Luci ans will soon be moving to phase two of the course , three person skydives.
Welcome back to Chris Sargant who arrived for his third skydiving holiday with us. He told me he was having pure withdrawl symptoms in the UK , unable to skydive most weekends due to bad weather. 
Check out Herbie.. from Sylvans bus service. When you select private transfers it will be Sylvan waiting for you in the Infantas cafe each morning ( next door to the hotels we use ). The van takes up to eight people comfortably. This pickup service is available to regular jumpers , from the airport , the train station and we also do excursions to places like Toledo, Xanadu , Chinchon etc. 
Also well done to Ian Gooderham who qualified this week to skydive solo. He is pictured here with his AFF Instructor , Ulli Bulli just before departing for the level seven. Well done Ian! 
Welcome back to James Rowland who qualified to skydive solo with us in March. He is back now for his second holiday with us to do some more solos and perhaps to make a start on the formation skydiving course .
Also welcome back to Derrick Potton who qualified to skydive solo at the beginning of the month. Welcome back and enjoy the skies of the FFU Ocaña ! 
Welcome to Alice from Skydive the Mag , the publication made to all BPA members. Alice aswell as helping with the production of the mag ( where you can see our advertisements ) is a keen skydiver.
Also here is Luci Fenton from the Mag.. welcome to our dropzone , we hope you have a great time. Luci is pictured here getting some coaching with our freefly coach Louis Harwood. Louis is just back from the UK where he represented the BPA as a freefly coach on the coaching roadshow in the UK. 
In addition to our recent addition to the flight line of Mirage containers we will in the next few days recieve more Aerodyne equipment to include Solo Main canopies. This means our students will fly a mix of Performance design Navigators and Aerodyne Solo canopies. Both are excellent choices for AFF student providing the best mix of safety and enjoyment. Both make an excellent platfrom for comfort under canopy from day one. 
Welcome to Richard Houndslow who joins us to learn to skydive. 
Welcome to Sefton Rivett who joins us to learn to skydive.
Welcome to Tom Griffin who joins us to learn to skydive. 
So for three new intrepid adventurers the journey to a solo skydive begins. Our AFF courses can take you from zero experience to a solo skydive from 13,500ft in as little as three days. 
Maybe you will try the sunset load.. its pure magic…
every night the sunset is golden. We now have our customary BBQ and beers on the DZ which is organized for you by local skydivers. All you can eat from 10 euros including a few beers ( note …not all you can drink lol ! ) 
Lorin Finnie heads off for another skydive hes almost finished his course now. 
Welcome back to Brett Shepherd who was an AFF student of ours last year in Ocaña.
Welcome to Claire who popped down from England for an 
Lorin Finnie has arrived ready to watch the World Cup hes on an extended stay with us and between games will be doing the AFF course.
Do you feel lucky punk …well do you ? Theres no messing with ” Tokyo ” the latest pet to arrive at the DZ . This is Sams dog.
Fancy a dip… this aint no paddling pool.. at 25 metres keep fit fanatics aswell as recreational swimmers will apprecaite this professionally maintained pool which overlooks the landing area. 
Welcome back to Tom De Pelet who graduated our AFF course earlier in the month. He is here to do more solos under the watchful eye of our AFF instructors . He is doing his CH1 at the moment. 
Fiesta ! Charo from DZ client care takes some time out to enjoy one of the spanish instructors demonstrating skills of a different kind.. 
Welcome to David who is here to do an AFF course. 
Welcome to Frank Carolan who joins us from the UK to complete an AFF course. 
Welcome to Stephen Smith from Dublin who is here to do the our formation skydiving course. Even though the BPA FS1 rating is not needed in Ireland Stephen choose our training as he will leave it not only with the rating but a tangible skill.
Ian Newlands and Nick Selmes are back with us yet again for more formation skydiving . They will be doing some two ways with Luci on our 2-1 coaching programme which is aimed at people who want to take their 2/3 skills to the next level sharing the coaching costs. On this programme you pay for your own jumps plus 50 euros for the slot of your coach / coaching / video . This includes full brief and debrief. 
Welcome to Pedro Esper who joins us as a senior instructor in the FFU Ocaña. Pedro was the chief instructor in 
So another fun filled week head for us at the Freefall Uni. As per the updates in our 
Here is a photo of Derrick Potton just after exit with the porter in the background. Derrick got over 25 jumps in his second holiday with us this month. 
Welcome to Vidur Kipur who joined us for an AFF course which he completed with Andy Gregory. Vidur is now skydiving solo. 
Congratlations to Frank Carolan who completed his AFF course with us. He is now recovering from a massive hangover to celebrate his graduation..the evenings in Aranjuez are interesting…
Davids jumping solo big time! He is pictured here with Andrew Gregory.
Well done also to Razvan Giuca who arrived a few days ago completed his AFF course ans is now skydiving solo.