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Jumps:  Lots
Jumping since: Before time Began
Ratings: Yes
DZ where you learned to jump: Taught the world to jump
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

Jumps: 17,000+
Jumping since: 2001
Ratings: Coach, AFF, Pro
DZ where you learned to jump: The Ranch
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 :)

Jumps: 7,000+
Jumping since: 1996
Ratings: AFF, Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Parachutes over Palm Springs – Bermuda Dunes, CA
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

Jumps:  7,000+
Jumping since: July 2008
Ratings: Coach, AFF-I
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
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

Jumps: 1,700+
Jumping since: 2017
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Favorite Quotes: Pulu-Cee Bagumba-Weee
Most Memorable Skydive: all of the ones with more than one person!

Jumps: 9,000+
Jumping since: 1994
Ratings: Slacker
DZ where you learned to jump:  Skydive Wissota – Chippewa Falls, WI
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.

Jumps: 2,000+ (but more than my husband)
Jumping since: 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
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.

Jumps: 2,000+
Jumping since: June 2019
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Oahu Parachute Center
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

Jumps: 4,000+
Jumping Since: 2012
DZ Where I Learned to Jump: Skydive Perris
Favorite Quote: I have many but unfortunately they are ripped off from my mentor and founder of the Perris Organizers.
Most Memorable Jump: Performed a full plane true sunset jump. The lighting and clouds made the sky from deep red to straight purple at elevation. Just a visually stunning sky.

Jumps: 2,000+
Jumping Since: 2009
Ratings: Coach
DZ Where I Learned to Jump: Skydive Perris with Jim Wallace Skydiving School
Favorite Quote: “Alive or just breathing?” or “Measure twice, cut once”
Most Memorable Jump: There are so many : jumping into the Playa at Burning Man 2011, jumping into Sorrell Ranch in Moab, Utah, my first night jump, and my first balloon jump. Oh and the cross country high pull at Lost Prairie Boogie, and the glacier jump in Alaska. Oh! and the Lake Havasu Boogie jumps. OH! and the solo jump in Interlaken, Switzerland was beyond belief!

Jumps: 2500+
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
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.

Jumps: 4,000+
Jumping since: 7 rounds in 1969, Squares since 1989
Home DZ: Skydive Perris
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

Jumps: 9,500+
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!

Jumps: 11,912+
Jumping since: 1971
Where I learned to jump: Ft. Benning, GA and Skydive Elsinore
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.

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Where I learned to jump: Skydive Perris

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Jumps: 1,600+

Jumping since: 2011

Ratings: Senior Rigger

Where I learned to jump: Skydive Amazonas (Brazil)

Favorite quote: ‘Don’t be a victim” – Mark Brown

Most memorable jump: When I was a beginner, I won a raffle prize at an event in Perris: a jump with Dan BC and Christy Frikken. I knew they were world-class skydivers, but I didn’t yet understand just how big that was. My 100th jump ended up being a 4-way with both of them and my husband—absolutely mind-blowing.

Jumps: 1,500+

Jumping since: 2011

Where I learned to jump: Skydive Amazonas (Brazil)

Favorite quote: “Take hold of your own life. See that the whole existence is celebrating… Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.” – OSHO

Most memorable jump: South American Big Way record 104 way in Raeford-NC. After several attempts we did in the second to last jump on the last day of the event. It was epic!!

Jumps: 1,000+
Jumping since: 2018
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Favorite Quotes: “For God’s sake, improvise!” -Mark Brown
Most Memorable Skydive: Filming my wife on her tandem jump

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Jumps: 900+

Jumping since: 2020

Where I learned to jump: I did my AFF at Skydive Utah but most my learning has been at Perris

Favorite quote: “Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will” -Dale Carnegie

Most memorable jump: Climbing out of the trail plane on a 4 airplane 80way formation. Looking up, waiting for divers to start spilling out of the other planes and realizing I am one of these divers. I said to myself “This is what’s it’s about”

Jumps: 2400

Jumping since: 2018

Ratings: coach, AFF-I

Where I learned to jump: Perris!

Favorite quote: All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players- Shakespeare

Most memorable jump: I was lucky enough to film a commercial over The Palm in Dubai.