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La Isla de Encanto

PD Factory Team members JC Colclasure and Jonathan Tagle recently held a Canopy control course at the XtremeDivers dropzone during the Puerto Rico Freefall Festival. Those who participated in the course all had good things to say about the experience and felt they had improved their canopy skills. Event organizers Jason Gonzalez and Viviana De Jesus put on a first class event that drew 247 registered skydivers over the week. With the beautiful scenery and great weather the boogie is a natural draw for skydivers, especially wingsuiters. With over 25 wingsuiters in attendance many large and small flocks were flown and  reps from Birdman, Fly Your Body and Tony suits made sure demo suits were available for everyone. Just because the jumping day was over didn't mean the fun was. Jason and Viviana made sure the night time activities were well taken care of by hosting a dinner as well as having a weekend DZ party that provided a live DJ and some of Puerto Rico's fine  adult beverages all night for free. If you didn't make it this year put it on next years list of boogies to attend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know how some days are just destined to be good days?   Well we had one of those days here at PD recently, when we arrived at work to find the e-mail below waiting in our inboxes:

Kolla,

 

I recently purchased a used Katana 150. I finally got a chance to jump it this past weekend and all I can say is Thank You. I have been skydiving for close to 9 years now and have always favored PD canopies. In fact I have jumped many others but I have only owned PD. It always seemed that every canopy out there had some sort of trade off. High performance meant twitchy or otherwise undesirable opening characteristics. To get light front riser pressure you had to put up with heavy rears.........etc etc etc. PD has finally designed the PERFECT canopy. Stable, slow openings. Awesome performance. Unmatched flying in the swoop. It's just perfect. The canopy I have been waiting for. A big thank you to the entire PD team. I'll be flying this canopy for a long, long time!

Clayton W Fowler

It doesn't get much better than that.   Clayton, thanks for taking the time to tell us that you are happy with our products, it really means a lot to everyone at PD to see letters like that every now and then :)
I hope your Katana will continue to take care of you for a long time to come, and if you are ever in Florida, by all means stop by and say hi!