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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: 5,500+
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:  6,000+
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: 1,200+
Jumping since: 2018
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
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 came into my office and closed my door. It was an intervention. They were receiving too many weekend emails, and they told me to get a hobby. Went through my bucket list and re-visited how much I loved a tandem jump years prior. Tried another tandem at Perris and signed up for an AFF course after I landed.

Jumps: 8,000+
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: almost 1,000 (but less 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: almost 1,000
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: 3,000+
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: 1,820
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: 1,300+
Jumping since: 2018
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Taft
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.

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
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: 950+
Jumping since: 2016
Ratings: AFF-I
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris (the best DZ in the world)
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.

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!

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.

Jumps:  5,700+
Jumping since: 1988
DZ where you learned to jump: California City
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.

Jumps: 2,900+
Jumping since: 2002
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Hazleton, PA
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

Jumps:  1,000+
Jumping since: May 2017
Ratings: Coach, AFF-i
Where I learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Favorite quote: “I can quit anytime!”
Most memorable jump: My first. Skydiving was never on my bucket list, but I did it anyway. I think they should change the waiver to 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.”

Jumps: 1,200+
Jumping since: January 2018
DZ: Skydive Perris
Favorite 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 – on this jump 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!