I have been teaching students to skydive since 1990 with BPA & USPA Instructor qualifications
I
did my first skydive at langar parachute centre back in 1979. After
2 years of round parachutes on static line, I had a 5 year lay off
while I served in the Parachute Regiment. I then joined the Red Devils
Parachute Display Team and left after a further 5 years, I then joined
GQ parachutes designing and testing parachute systems as a project
engineer.
Having
served 3 years with GQ Parachutes the company relocated to wales. I
decided not to move and left to set up my own own business selling
and servicing parachute equipment. I then moved onto skydiving stunts
for Film and TV companies.
I
worked on 3 James Bond Films, 2 Tomb Raider Film, CBBC TV, You Bet,
Seconds to Impact, Saving Private Ryan, The Borrowers, The New Avengers,
Notting Hill, Mr Lonely & True Hero's, taking part in and arranging skydiving stunts while also designing
and building stunt safety harnesses.
In
between film work I moved to Spain and opened Skydive Spain in Seville,
I ran this for a period of 6 years before selling up, I am current
with all my qualifications and will continue to stay current for a
long time to come.
As
a BPA Examiner I spent 5 years as Chairman of the BPA Riggers Committee
and member of the BPA Safety And Training Committee before having to
stand down due to work commitments. During this time I completed a
lot of projects on behalf of the BPA but felt very restricted working
with committee based projects while having limited time and funds available.
Now
I am in the position of being able to continue with all my rigging
projects albeit on a commercial basis, hopefully this site will generate
the funds so I can also make time. my goals have not changed and I
hope from this web site you can see that my main aim is to help train
more riggers and try and bring together as many as possible to educate
and disseminate the worlds rigging knowledge to all.
Having
spent most of my life in the industry I have worked on drop zones as
an Instructor, ran my own full time rigging workshop, worked with most
manufactures selling and servicing parachute equipment, taken part
in parachute displays and skydiving competitions and events such as
the Brit 100 etc, I have traveled to drop zones all over the world
and taken part in many parachute symposiums and finally ended up spending
6 years setting up and running a drop zone.
My
experience is now the backbone behind this web site but working with
the movers and shakers in the industry will push this web site far
beyond what I alone can do and I look forward to this new challenge.
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