What an amazing start to the 2012 season!!! 44 competitors(24 amateur and 20 Pro) showed up to Z-Hills for the first meet of the season. We put the proposed FAI rules to the test and had some interesting results. I’ll write up some thoughts on those for a post later this week. We managed to finish all 308 rounds on Saturday(1practice and 6 comp). The weather conditions were 2-5m/s and varied from a straight cross wind, to a straight head wind. We started the day with the zone accuracy event to get the competitors into the proper mindset of dragging water since all the events would now require this skill for the Pro’s.
There were a few water impacts on Friday which was the practice day. Danny Feltner from Deland earned himself a yellow card as well as Rob Wallace who was pretty sore Saturday morning. Water Hurts! Blue Skies Magazine awarded Kritter with a Year’s subscription for being the competitor who used the least amount of his talents as a canopy pilot(Kritter didn’t post up the best meet of his life).
The Saturday evening festivities started off with an advanced viewing of the newest PD office video. That was followed up by the US Army Golden Knights presenting Albert Berchtold with Honorary Golden Knight.
It was certainly a fierce battle to start off the season. The top nine competitors all managed to score all six rounds. The Awards continued with the presentation of the top 10 spots at the meet. The top five split a cash purse of $1,200. The top three spots were taken by Tommy Dellibac in third, Curt Bartholomew in silver, and Nick Batsch with the win.
Big thanks to Skydive City for hosting an awesome meet, Performance Designs and Mirage for their support of the league, our judges for their hard work, our meet coach Jay Moledzki and all the competitors who pitched in helping set up and break down courses.
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