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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Chris Gunther
Jumps: 2,800+
Jumping Since: 2011
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Sebastian
Favorite quote: “…let me live my life the way I want to” – Jimi Hendrix
Most Memorable Jump: I will always remember my first world record skydive!
Rebecca Wu
Jumps: 2,536
Jumping Since: 2018
Ratings: No ratings, various medals and records, though ;)
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Perris
Favorite quote: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it’s the courage to continue that counts”
Most Memorable Jump: The breaker jump at VFS Nationals in 2021
Alex DiCecco
Jumps: 2,000+
Jumping Since: 2013
Ratings: D-License
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Santa Barbara
Favorite quote: “The faint of heart never won f*** -all”
Most Memorable Jump: Vertical Sequential World Record (you never forget your first..)
Wade Baird
Jumps: 8,500+
Jumping Since: 2002
Ratings: Coach, Former SLI
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Fargo
Favorite quote: “If one cannot change the situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude.” – Victor Frankl
Most Memorable Jump: So many special skydives! But my most meaningful would be the 2019 Head-Up World Record, where I came back nine months after I had broken my neck and was paralyzed from a motorcycle accident.
Vince Faires
Jumps: 3,000+
Jumping Since: 2007
Ratings: Coach
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Aggieland
Favorite quote: “Sucking at something is the first step toward being sort of good at something”
Most Memorable Jump: The Night Vertical World Record
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.
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)
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.”
Nico Giraldo
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
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
Ryan Whipkey
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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.
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.
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.
Trever Barney
Jumps: 535
Jumping Since: 2012
Ratings: C-License, and Coach Rating
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Mesquite
Favorite quote: “A broken crayon still colors”
Most Memorable Jump: My first solo jump with Brad Jesse in 2012!
Max Rodriguez
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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.
Jeffrey Guerra
Jumps: 1,500+
Jumping since: 2020
Ratings: AFFi
DZ where you learned to jump: Skydive Elsinore
Favorite Quote: “Siiiick”
Most Memorable Skydive: My first AFF jump
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
