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TEAM NZ CANOPY PILOTING 2016 official crowd funding page

  • MEET THE TEAM | Chris Stewart

      11 July 2016
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    Full time Skydiver. Cameraflyer and Tandem instructor.

    6500+ jumps, started April 2008 and first representing NZ in a swoop comp in 2013.

    Competitions as follows:

    -14th overall, DIPC 2013

    -1st speed, distance and overall. Swedish open cup 2014

    -3rd overall, DISL open meet(set a New Zealand distance record of 164m) 2014

    -14th overall, 7th distance FAI 5th World Meet Florida 2014

    -7th overall, DISL Pro meet 2014 (set a New Zealand speed record of 2.225s)

    -9th overall, 5th DIPC 2014

    -7th overall, DISL PRO meet 2015

    -19th overall, 9th distance, World Air Games 2015

    I currently live and work in Norway for the European summer where I am a full time Cameraflyer, Tandem instructor and I am also apart of the Onecall Demo team. I have been coming to Norway since 2010 which has now become my second home and a great play ground to progress and push with my swooping.

    I am proud to represent NZ all around the world striving to improve on past results and set new goals along the way. As with all my past competitions the upcoming are no different, I look to do my best representing myself and NZ proudly on the world stage.

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  • MEET THE TEAM | Jason Kum a.k.a. Chiwi

      7 July 2016
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    Jason works as a Tandem instructor / Camera man at Skydive the Beach Wanaka! With around 4700 jumps, he has competed at 3 comps.

    "I started swooping competitively in 2014 at the Aussie nationals. I dove straight in the deep end and chose to see how the big boys rolled. I went into open and ended up 17 out of 19 - Didn't care about the results as I was there to experience comp swooping... Learnt so much and flew with a lot of legends! I got hooked and keen to get better throughout my skydiving career.

    In 2015 I traveled to Europe and competed at 2 events: the Austrian Nationals and The Pink Open in Klatovy. I went into the Austrian Nats with no high expectations and ended up finishing 15th out of 15. I was bummed at the results but we had very tough conditions and I hadn't jumped in over 3 months so I was pretty un-current... Yea didn't train much at all. Next stop was Klatvoy. I was going there to better my results and ended up 59th out of 70. Was stoked and just hungry to keep pushing myself and get better and better and eventually end up on the podium."

    It has been a dream of Jason to represent NZ since he started jumping back in 2009. "To finally be asked this year to fly for the Kiwis, I couldn't say no!"

    He is aiming to score 9 rounds at the World Championships in Canada and 'see how it goes'.

    "I cant wait. I've just been training hard and counting down the days!"

    Jason is the newest addition to NZ's selection of swoopers. Follow his updates on his athlete's page - https://www.facebook.com/JasonCuzzyKum/?fref=ts

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  • Our Team fundraising page in now LIVE!!!

      1 July 2016
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    Welcome to our freshly launched TEAM NZ CANOPY PILOTING 2016 crowdfunding page!

    The link to this page is now on social media and we want to say a massive thank-you to all our mates and their mates and their mates' mates; who have encouraged us to pull our resources together, who have said they are going to help us raise some money for the team and who are backing us on this epic journey.

    Raising money as a team is a new thing for us, but we're all mates and want to back one another up so all the funds gathered through this campaign will go into a communal account to help the four of us train more, travel further and run harder.

    We are asking everyone to share the link to this page and of course donate to our team fund too!

    CHUR | TEAMNZ CANOPY PILOTING 2016

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