The Perris FS Organizers
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Anderson Briglia
Jumps: 850+
Jumping since: December 2011
DZ Where you learned to jump: Skydive Amazonas - Brazil
Nationality: Brazilian
Favorite Quote: "There is no spoon" - Monk kid, The Matrix
Most memorable jump: First time participating on a big-way with 2 planes. Seeing people jumping from another plane was exhilarating.
Main: Aerodyne Pilot 124
Reserve: Smart by Aerodyne
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
AAD: Cypres 2
Suits: Tony suits and Skyleno.
Mariana Briglia
Jumps: 650+
Jumping since: December 2011
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Amazonas - Brazil
Nationality: Brazilian
Favorite Quote: “Garlic Chicken!!!” (long story)
Most memorable jump: My 100th jump was a 4-way with my husband, Dan BC and Christy Frikken, that was the time I tasted 4-way heaven.
Main: Pilot 124 by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 120 by Aerodyne
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
AAD: Cypres 2
Suits: Tony Suit and Zoomer
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.”
Book: Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success
Mark Brown
Jumps: 14,899 (But who's counting..)
Jumping since: 1991
Ratings: AFF, Rigger
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Favorite Quote: “If you don't want to BE low don't FLY there!”
Second Favorite Quote: “Darryld, you were right.”
New Favorite Quote: “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, NOT so much.”
Favorite Saying : “Whatever you do, for God's sake, improvise!”
Most memorable jump: 285 Way 30 miles from the DZ.
Contact: 951.443.4054
Main: Pilot 96
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 110 - Aerodyne
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Competition Suit by Skyleno
Helmet: Kiss - Square One
Altimeter: ProDitter - L&B
Camera: GoPro Hero 2
Shannon Catalano
Jumps: 1000+
Jumping since: November 3, 2013
Ratings: AFF-I
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: San Diegan
Favorite Quote: “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Most memorable jump: My first! I had no idea what I was getting into and how it would change my life.
Main: Sabre2 120
Reserve: PD Optimum 160
Container: Mirage
AAD: Cypres 2
Suit: Tony Suit
Jon Dewhurst
Jumps: 800ish
DZ: I learned to skydive, Vegas extreme skydiving
Nationality: British
Favourite quotes: “This is gonna work, do you know why? Because we’re gonna fly the sh#t out of it!”
“You have to think about the skydive like any other sport: if you're running the 400 meters, you don’t chill and take your foot off the gas after being the fastest off the line to the first 100 meters!”
Most memorable jump: my first tandem, I hated that it scared me, so I decided to own it!
I still to this day dislike flying in airplanes, I tolerate it to get me where I want to be.
Main: Icarus Crossfire 3 139
Container: Vector
Reserve: PD op160
AAD: Cypres 2
Suit: Symbiosis Slo-Po
Helmet: Cookie G3
Ratings: coach, with AFF and tandem coming very soon.
PHOTO: Jon Dewhurst
Keith Conner
Jumps: 700
Jumping since: 2016
Where I learned to Skydive: Perris
Nationality: Amerrrrrican
Favorite Quote: not off the top of my head
Most memorable jump: 12-way form 5500 feet (and we built it)
Main: Katana 120
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 160 - Aerodyne
AAD: Cypres
Suit: Competition Suit by Tony
Helmet: Kiss - Square One
Altimeter: ProDitter - Alti-2
Camera: GoPro Hero 2
Bob Ferguson
Jumps: 5,000 +
Jumping since: Time Began
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: “Don't Hurt Me”
Most memorable jump: I don't remember, I'm Old.
Kasey Harris
Jumps: 1000+
Jumping since: Tandem – May 26, 2013 ~ FJC – June 27, 2013 ~ Came to Perris December 27, 2013 with 39 jumps ~ 500 Jumps – March 14, 2015 (Impressive, isn’t it?)
Ratings: Coach, AFF-I
DZ where you learned to jump: West Plains Skydiving, a.k.a. “Skydive the Ritz” in Ritzville, Washington ~ IAD (Instructor Assisted Deployment) Training – starts off with hanging off a Cessna 182 strut, doing hop ‘n’ pops from 3,500’
Nationality: American, from the North
Favorite Quote: Prayer before every jump: “Dear God, please don’t let me f**k up first, or worst. Amen!”
Most memorable jump: My 500th, a completed 20-way with some of my best friends at Perris. Afterward I got pied with about 20 pies & tossed in the pool. :)
Main: Sabre2 150 – People often tell me I should downsize. I ask them why.
Reserve: Raven 181
Container: Infinity
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Tony Suit
Cat Isgrigg
Jumps: 1000+
Jumping Since: 2011
Ratings: Coach
Dz Where I Learned to Jump: Skydive Tecumseh, MI
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: “You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.”
Most Memorable Jump: My first tandem. I had no idea what I was getting into and had zero intention of becoming a skydiver, but that was the jump that changed everything. It brought this sport and these people into my life, and nothing has been the same since.
Main: 150 Axon by Innovative Parachute Technologies
Container: Wings
Reserve: 176 PD Optimum
AAD: Cypres 2
Suit: Tony
Helmet: Kiss
MO (Mohammed Al Kalidi)
Jumps: 3,400
Jumping since: First jump 1998.
became a skydiver after coming to perris....
Ratings: Coach, AFF, Tandem,Pro,Staticline
Where I learned to jump: Baghdad
Where I learned to Skydive: Skydive Perris
Nationality: U.S.Citizen Baby!
Grace Katz
Jumps: 3700+
Jumping since: July 2008
Ratings: Coach
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
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 120LPV - Aerodyne
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Competition/TonySuits
Helmet: Phantom X & Kiss - Square One
Erik Prime
Jumps: 6000+
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: Xaos-21 85 - Precision Aerodynamics
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 110 - Aerodyne
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Liquid Sky
Helmet: Factory Diver - SkySystems USA
Altimeter: Viso II - L&B
David Schrager
Jumps: 4000+
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: Zulu 102 - Aerodyne
Container: Icon by Aerodyne
Reserve: Smart 120LPV- Aerodyne
AAD: Vigil by Advanced Aerospace Designs
Suit: Competition Suit by Skyleno
Helmet: Phantom X & Kiss - Square ONE
Altimeter: Visual Altitrack - L&B
Audible: ProTrack - L&B
Camera: GoPro Hero 2
Favorite Pull up cord : Perris Organizers
Paula Thues
Jumps: 4850
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