The Perris FS Organizers
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Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
Jumps: Lots
Jumping since: Before time Began
Ratings: Yes
DZ where you learned to jump: Taught the world to jump
Nationality: American
Favorite Saying : “Mark, you are right.”
Grace Katz
Jumps: 6,000+
Jumping since: July 2008
Ratings: Coach, AFF-I
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: Argentinean ...even though I get told I'm too ‘americanized’ to be one!
Favorite Quote: “In a world where routine is common, skydiving give us (skydivers) an opportunity to constantly learn and improve, but never master.”
Most memorable jump: The first one!
Contact: 858.229.9500
grace@perrisorganizers.com
Main: Pilot 104 - Aerodyne, Crossfire 3 109
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 120LPV - Aerodyne
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Competition/TonySuits
Helmet: Phantom X & Kiss - Square One
David Schrager
Jumps: 5,500+
Jumping since: 1996
Ratings: AFF, Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Parachutes over Palm Springs -
Bermuda Dunes, CA
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: “I did not brain lock, I just forgot the point”
Most Memorable Skydive: The last one, of course.
Contact: 760.333.7756, david@perrisorganizers.com
Main: JFX 2 89
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 120LPV- Aerodyne
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Tony Competition Suit FS
Helmet: Cookie G3
Altimeter: Visual Altitrack - L&B
Audible: ProTrack - L&B
Camera: GoPro
Favorite Pull up cord : Perris Organizers
Erik Prime
Jumps: 8,000+
Jumping since: 1994
Ratings: Slacker
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Wissota - Chippewa Falls, WI
Nationality: Yankee
Favorite Quotes: “There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there aren't many old, bold pilots.”
Most Memorable Skydive: Organizing a 36-way from a Hercules C-130. We tried launching an 18-way chunk, which proceeded to funnel for the next 5000 feet.
Main: PD Valkyrie 79
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 110 - Aerodyne
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Tony Suit and Liquid Sky
Helmet: Cookie Composites
Altimeter: Viso II - L&B
Eric Anderson
Jumps:
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DZ where you learned to jump:
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Rob Roberts
Jumps: 1,200+
Jumping since: 2018
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: "It’s more than jumping out of an airplane; it’s falling with style.” and “To those that jump, no explanation is necessary. To those that don’t jump, no explanation is possible.”
Most Memorable Skydive: My first. Some of my teammates at work had come into my office and closed my door that week. Was told that I needed an intervention as they were receiving too many weekend emails. They told me to get a life outside of work – get a hobby. Went thru my bucket list and re-visited how much I loved a tandem jump many years ago. Tried another tandem at Perris and signed up for an AFF course after I landed. My weekend emails to my teammates have dropped significantly ever since.
Main: 190 Sabre 2
Reserve: 170 Optimum
Container: Javelin
AAD: Vigil
Suit: Liquidsky
Jeff Hill
Jumps: 1,700+
Jumping since: 2017
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: Pulu-Cee Bagumba-Weee
Most Memorable Skydive: all of the ones with more than one person!
Main Sabre 3-120
Icon by Aerodyne
Smart 120
AAD Vigil
Tony suit
Kiss
Danielle Barlow
Jumps: 1,820
Jumping Since: 2009
Ratings: Coach
Dz Where I Learned to Jump: Skydive Perris with Jim Wallace Skydiving School
Nationality: USA [and German (I'm dual!)]
Favorite Quote: "Alive or just breathing?" or "Measure twice, cut once"
Most Memorable Jump: There are so many....hmmm....Jumping into the Playa at Burning Man 2011 was super epic. And jumping into Sorrell Ranch in Moab, Utah was breathtaking. I will never forget my first night jump or my first balloon jump. I wish balloon jumps were easier to get to (it's hard to get up at 3 am for a jump) and cheaper because I would do those every day if I could. Oh and the cross country high pull at Lost Prairie Boogie was amazing. Oh and the glacier jump in Alaska wasn't too shabby. Oh! and the Lake Havasu Boogie jumps were beautiful but unfortunately no longer allowed. OH! and the solo jump in Interlaken, Switzerland was beyond belief!
Main: Pilot 168 - Aerodyne
Container: CURV
Reserve: 170 PD Optimum
AAD: Vigil
Suit: Tony
Helmet: TonyFly FX!
Greg Gabbard
Jumps: 4,500+
Ratings: AFF-I, Coach, Master Rigger
DZ where you learned to jump: Hazen, AR. Static-line from C-182... Go on out and hang!
First cutaway: FIRST JUMP!!!
Favorite Quotes: "If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough!"
Most Memorable Skydive: First formation jump with my dad and older brother (3-way) on my 12th jump!
Main: PD Sabre 2 170
Reserve: PD Optimum 176
Container: Rigging Innovations Talon FX
Vigil II
Dima Vinichenko
Jumps: 1300+
Jumping since: technically - since I was not even born (my mother made a few jumps while being pregnant)
DZ where you learned to jump: DZ Mayskoe, Skydive Perris
Nationality: Ukrainian
Favorite Quotes: "There is nothing you can really do, good or bad, that most of the people in this room already didn't do multiple times" ©Mark Brown
Most Memorable Skydive: I guess one with my son on his 10th birthday (tandem, I was filming. Yes, it is legal somewhere :) ) I wasn't that nervous even on my own first jumps.
Container: SWS Fire
Main: Magellan 150
Reserve: PD 176
AAD: Mars2
Suit: Skylark energy / Skylark excellence.
Max Heidari
Jumps: 1,000+
Jumping since: May 2017
Ratings: Coach, AFF-i
Where I learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: Persian
Favorite quote: "I can quit anytime!"
Most memorable jump: My first (already gave beer so don’t ask)! Skydiving was never on my bucket list but I did it anyway. I hated it so much that never tried it again! Oh wait a second…
Before your first jump you are asked to sign a waiver. I think they should change it. It should include: “Skydiving is highly addictive, time consuming super fun sport which results in rapid deflation of your bank account/wallet. You understand that we are not liable for any addiction therapy needed in future
as a result of skydiving.”
Although I should mention that I can quit ANYTIME! *SNIFF* this jump ticket smells so good!
Main: Pilot 132 - Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 135 - Aerodyne
ContainerL ICON A - Aerodyne
AAD: Cypres 2
Suit: Tony
Helmet: Kiss
Josh Fisher
Jumps: 950+
Jumping since: 2016
Ratings: AFF-I
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris (the best DZ in the world)
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: "That'll never work. I'm in!!!"
Most Memorable Skydive: I did a 2 way with Dan BC at jump 15 out of the skyvan, Dan used teleportation to fly backwards.
Marlene Moradian
Jumps: 1,200+
Jumping since: January 2018
DZ: Skydive Perris
Nationality: Armenian-American
Favourite quotes: “If it ain’t showin’ you love, cut that sh*t away!” (Dan BC); “…And we’ll do it just like that in the air. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!” (Grace Katz); “Whatever you do, for God’s sake, IMPROVISE!” (Mark Brown)
Most memorable jump: AFF level 3 with Dan BC and Mark Brown - it was this jump that I realized my choice to ride down the plane due to fear was finally over! Also, first formation load during P3… being outside float and looking up at two other planes was the most surreal experience!
Main: Katana 120
Container: Icon V
Reserve: Smart 120 LPV
AAD: Vigil II
Helmet: Kiss
Audible: SonoAlti
Altimeter: Viso II+
Ratings: coach, AFFI
Kelly Saltern
Jumps: 2,900+
Jumping since: 2002
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Hazleton, PA
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: "Only fools and bird shit fall from the sky" -My Dad
Most Memorable Skydive: Sept 2007 a 5-way sunset jump with my brother over Lake Champlain in Vermont and landing on beautiful farmland
Main: Spectre 135
Reserve: PD Optimum 126
Container: Mirage
AAD: Cypres
Suit: Bevsuit
Helmet: Kiss
Keri Kunkle
Jumps: 900+
Jumping since: September 2020
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: Still thinking about it ;)
Most Memorable Skydive: My moms second tandem jump. Getting to highfive and spin her in the sky is something I won't ever forget.
Main: Sabre 3 150
Reserve: PD Optimum 143
Container: Infinity
AAD: Cypress
Suit: JC Fly
Helmet: Kiss
Christy Frikken
Jumps: 17,000+
Jumping since: 2001
Ratings: Coach, AFF, Pro
DZ where you learned to jump: The Ranch
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: "Boldness has genius and power in it; begin it now"
Most Memorable Skydive: I have been lucky enough to have so many special skydiving memories with so many wonderful friends! It is too hard to name a favorite :)
Paula Thues
Jumps: 5,700+
Jumping since: 1988
DZ where you learned to jump: California City
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: “Skydivers know why birds sing.”
Most memorable jump: Demo jump into our neighborhood park for our annual Easter Beer Hunt. Seeing my home from a bird’s eye view was amazing.
Main: Pink Spector 135
Reserve: Tempo 143
Container: My Aerodyne is on it's way
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Flip Side Suits
Dan Pillasch
Jumps: 11,912+
Jumping since: 1971
Where I learned to jump: Ft. Benning, GA and Skydive Elsinore
Nationality: US
Favorite Quotes: "Good Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment – learn from your mistakes and only make them once"
Most Memorable Skydive: Every jump with my friends.
Main: Katana 107
Container: Curve
Reserve: Smart 120
AAD: Vigil II
Suit: Liquid Sky
Helmet: Kiss full face
Fess Edwards
Jumps: 4,000+
Jumping since: 7 rounds in 1969, Squares since 1989
Home DZ : Skydive Perris
Nationality: 2nd generation American married to a Palestinian immigrant for 44 years
Favorite Quotes: “If you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much room.”
And “The definition of character is doing the right thing when no one is watching.”
Most Memorable Skydive: 328-way World Record attempt in Eloy 2002, solo in Belize so beautiful I almost forgot to pull, Nevada state record with my son 2009, Dan BC’s first jump after the crash, so many ash dives of friends passed
Main: Sabre 3 170 (I’m old and conservative.)
Container: Black and Rainbow Vector 3 for the past 30 years
Fun Fess Fact: If you’re having a gynecologic emergency on the DZ call me, I’m your guy.
Dillon Cole
Jumps: 750+
Jumping since: June 2019
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Oahu Parachute Center
Nationality: 'Merica!!
Favorite Quotes: Teach less, better.
Most Memorable Skydive: The time my wife Amanda hooked up my main parachute wrong, and it led to me having my first cutaway. She really wants that life insurance. Lol
Amanda Cole
Jumps: 500ish
Jumping since: First tandem Feb 16, 2019 (Licensed since Dec 5, 2020)
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Started AFF at Pacific Skydiving Hawaii but finished AFF here at Perris
Nationality: Hoosier! Haha!
Favorite quotes: “The sky isn’t the limit, it’s merely the beginning.” -Me “For god sake, IMPROVISE!” -Mark Brown
Most memorable jump: My first time participating in a multi-plane big-way. Seeing all of the other jumpers racing out of the planes to get to their slot, it was like watching controlled/planned chaos. Yet it all came together perfectly, I made it to my slot, docked, and landed safely. Then went right back up and did it all over again.
Second most memorable: New Year’s Eve I hooked up my husband Dillon’s canopy after cleaning the cables (I left it in the bag while I did this). The next day we did a 2-way belly, I tracked off, then as I’m under canopy I see him cutting away. I land beside him to ask what happened to which he responded “You hooked up my main wrong!” To which I defensively respond “No I didn’t! Wait…”
Jim Dinning
Jumps: 1,300+
Jumping since: 2018
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Taft
Nationality: American
Favorite Quotes: “Everybody dies, but not everybody lives”.
Most Memorable Skydives: My 4th Jump (cut away) and 112 way attempt from 9k. Any jump with my mentors Dan, Christy, Kate, etc.