Load Organizers
Freefly / Angle Flying / Tracking
A Different Way To Play
If you’re keen to explore head up or head down flying, or want to travel across the big blue California sky, these are the LOs for you!
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Bryan Bodine
Jumps: 700+
Jumping since: 2018
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: A typical conversation from two newbies learning to free fly. “Hey! I saw you!” “Yea, I saw you too!”
Most memorable jump: My first AFF jump. Somehow I landed in a small mud patch while the remaining drop zone was completely dry.
Jeanine Bonvin (J9)
Jumps: 4,000+
Jumping since: 2003, A-licensed 2004
Ratings: AFF Instructor, Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Pepperell in MA
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: “Life is not a spectator sport”
Most Memorable Jump: Jump for the Cause, Women’s World Record 2009
Austin Cook
Jumps: ~900
Jumping Since: 2021
DZ Where I Learned to Jump: Skydive Elsinore and Spaceland San Marcos
Nationality: Hawaiian
Favorite Quote: Just send it!
Most Memorable Jump: My first helicopter jump over the coast of Oahu at sunset.
René Diaz
Jumps: 1,500+
Jumping since: 2017
Ratings: D, coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: “I wanna do a cartwheel. But real casual-like. Not enough to make a big deal out of it, but I know everyone saw it. One stunning, gorgeous cartwheel.” – Creed Bratton
Most memorable jump: my first solo looking around thinking what an odd place for a human to be.
Nico Girlado
Jumps: 1700
Jumping since: 2011
Ratings: AFF Instructor, Coach, Tandem Instructor
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Taft
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: “Yea well, what are you, a f’n world traveler?” ~ Mona Lisa Vito
Jeffrey Guerra
Jumps: 1,000+
Jumping since: 2021
Ratings: AFFi
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Elsinore
Nationality: “Jewish Mutt lol” (sic)
Favorite Quote: “Sick”
Dave Hebert
Contact:
speedflyschool@gmail.com
(720) 363-3907
speedflyschool.com
Ratings: USPA AFFI, Tandem Instructor, canopy coach, Advanced Paragliding instructor, Miniwing Instructor, and freefly organizer
Cody Hillyer
Jumps: 2500+ (and more than 1000 as an organizer)
Jumping Since: 2006
Ratings: D-License, and AFF-i
Attended leading course with Luis Prinetto, 9 Angle Camps, Fly4Life, and Fly Warriors, more than 1000 hours in the tunnel
DZ where you learned to jump: Perris
Nationality: US
Favorite quote: Send it!
Joel St. John
Jumps: ~900
Jumping Since: 2014
DZ Where I Learned to Jump: Skydive Pepperell
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: Man’s greatest burden is unfilled potential.
Most Memorable Jump: Sunset Shenanigans 12 way with a bunch of friends in oceanside. We had a bunch of friends and a few wingsuiters do a speedstar to sit round. It was gorgeous and absolutely hilarious.
Jazmyne Kahler
Jumps: 2,800+
Jumping since: 2012
Ratings: Coach, AFF-i
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Midwest WI
Accolades: 19 State Records , 6 World Records, CA Women’s Vertical & Sequential Records Organizer (2021 & 2022)
Roberta Mancino
(not here between June and October)
Jumps: 9500+
Jumping since: 2000
Ratings: Freefly freestyle and wingsuit coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Nettuno, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Favorite Quote: too many to choose!
Courtney Moore
Jumps: 1,800
Jumping Since: 2013
Ratings: Coach
DZ Where I Learned to Jump: I did AFF over three drop-zones because I was in between graduating high school and starting college in another city, Skydive Atlanta, Skydive Louisiana, and Gold Coast Skydivers. Gold Coast was where I finished my A license.
Nationality: American
Favorite Quote: “Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It is you who can change the world.” -Malala Yousafzai
Most Memorable Jump: The 2021 2pt 77-way Vertical Sequential World Record. My mom had passed away just a week before the record. Choosing to stay and honor her that week, the day of her memorial, we got the world record.
Agustin Occhiuzzo
Jumps: 600+
Jumping Since: 2017
Ratings: D-42069
DZ Where I Learned to Jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: Argentinian
Favorite Quote: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky” – Michael Scott.
Most Memorable Jump: Jump #600, sunset load. Told my friends to do something fun; on exit they did a fake count so I jumped by myself. They did catch up later so it was a blast.
Max Rodriguez
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Nathan Smith
Jumps: 6900+
Jumping Since: 2010
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Perris at Jim Wallace Skydive School
Nationality: American
Competition: 2011 USPA Bronze 4w VFS; 2012 USAP bronze 4w VFS; 2013 Open class Freefly National Champions (world meet qualifier); 2014 2w USAP bronze; 2014 Artistic USPA bronze
Records: 2011 CA State Record 58way; 2012 IL State Record 142way; 2012 FAI World Record 138way; 2013 CA State Record 64way; Texas State Record 33way 3pt sequential; 2014 FAI Head Up World Record 52way; 2015 FAI World Record 164way; 2017 CA State Record 80way.
Favorite quote: “Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your values, your values become your destiny.” ~Mahatma Gandi
Tristian Solomon
Contact: (951) 282-4283
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Spencer Stephen
Jumps: 500+
Jumping Since: 2015
Ratings: C License
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: American
Favorite quote: “Be like the sky and let the weather pass by.” -unknown
Most memorable jump: During AFF my Mom came to Skydive Perris with me to try the wind tunnel, after we flew in the tunnel I decided to do my next level and my Mom surprised me by signing up to do a tandem, Such a surprise and awesome way to support me getting into the sport.
Adam Villarreal
Jumps: 1,000+
Jumping since: 2015
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Nationality: Hispanic
Favorite Quote: “Whether you say you can or can’t, you’re right.”
Ryan Whipkey
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