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"Italian Style" in Fano, Italy

It's the second time that PD has a Demo Tour Stop in Fano, Italy. First time was in 2007, and this year was as good as before.
Fano is the home DZ of It's like a big family entertaining themselves with many different activities. Have a look to their website.

Italians are very friendly, and always happy to have the opportunity to try new canopies. Sometimes they are a little bit too "hungry" and you have to slow down their enthusiasm because they are not affraid afraid (thanks Kolla for the right spelling!) of trying a demo they might not be ready yet to handle the safiest way. It makes your day a bit more "spicy" than usual !

Livio, our dealer from Sinapsi, was help a lot, translating and explaining why you should or shouldn't jump this or that canopy; and sometimes, he just let his arms down, looked at me with a "don't be that much suprised" look, and say: "Italian Style !".
But we all had a very good time. And the weather was with us. Shining sun, caressing wind, quenching beer.

Beside his canopy course, Livio was also coaching a RW 4way, Team NEXT.
Even if he was very busy on the ground, Livio managed to put himself on a few lift to do some hop'n'pop, and practiced his downwind landings for the next I.S.T. competition.

The pictures can be found HERE

As always, I had all my demos ready to fly.
Here is a list of which canopies I have for you.

Dedric
European Rep.

The HEAT in Germany

The UK High Extreme Aerobatic Team, HEAT, have been chasing the bad weather and have just returned from a training camp in Germany consolidating their last camp held in DeLand with coach Jay Moledzki. The camp was held at Bad Lippspringe which is also the site of the UK Nationals later this year. Despite the poor weather jumps were still made on the IPC standard pond. The dropzone recently extended the Classic Accuracy pit out to the end of the pond to help provide a gentle landing for the more aggressive zone accuracy approaches.

CHEERS!

Today, Saturday January 12th, is the British Parachute Association Annual General Meeting. While that sounds like a bit of a bore it’s actually the largest skydiving party in UK for the year.  Skydivers travel from all over to be there.  Of course there’s an opening address from the current Chairman of our Association, setting the subscriptions for next year and other political issues, but that’s all first thing in the morning.  The rest of the day has trade fares from skydiving vendors, an afternoon of seminars from key people in the sport covering a whole range of topical information and of course a big party.  Drinking starts in the morning and there are many merry skydivers putting the world to rights.  The dinner in the evening is also well attended and many are still found at the bar as breakfast starts the next day.  So if you’re ever in UK in January then look us up…..