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Spring Training Camp – Skydive Marana Center

Hello Accuracy Jumpers all over the world!

As most of you know one of the best places to train for accuracy jumping closed this winter. Tony Frost and Greg Behrens of Marana Skydiving Center both retired from the Drop zone business. However, Tony is interested in opening the Dropzone for an informal training camp for Accuracy Jumpers only. The dates are going to be from January 15^th. March 30^th. There are several details listed below that are very important for you to know if we are going to have a successful training camp.

1. We will only have one airplane flying jumpers. This means will never have more than 12-16 people at any time at the camp (preferably 12). Please get with Mery Rose or Stu Hayes before buying airplane tickets so we can work out the best available training dates. Teams and individuals must organize with each other to keep the airplane and training camp full for the 2 and 1/2 months. All bookings are first come first served.

2. The dropzone will be open 5 days a week Tuesday - Saturday from 8am until sunset.

3. The only equipment supplied by Marana Skydiving Center will be the airplane and tuffet. So you and your groups must bring a scorepad or have permission to use someone else's. You should also consider bringing your sensitive windsocks, tarps, weights, chairs, etc...

4. Because the MSC is shutdown dropzone and rigging services will be at a minimum. Please come with your reserves in date and make sure to bring all your equipment (altimeters, hats, goggles etc...) If you do need a repack due to an emergency at the camp please allow 24-48 hours for a repack. Greg will be flying and Stu will be running manifest. We are the only staff. Tony is busy running his new oil company and won’t be available for dropzone issues.

5. We will not open during any given week if there aren't at least 9 people jumping. So you must organize your training camp dates with others in your tight knit community to keep the planes flying.

6. The price of accuracy jumps is $10/person with a 3 person minimum/lift.

7. There will be no other types of jumping going on such as style, students, tandems, or RW. This camp is for accuracy jumpers only.

8. As usual Stu's Bunkhouse will be available at first come first serve at $14/night/person/bed. Team discounts available. Anyone on a couch will pay $8/night. There have been some nice improvements since last year!

We would like for us to be open all 2 and 1/2 months. However there may be weeks that we shut down if there aren't enough folks to keep the planes running. Talk to everyone you know and lets fill these dates and get everyone trained for the up and coming season. If this training camp is successful we will do it again next year. Our goal is to have a quiet low key Spring Training Camp for accuracy jumpers for many years to come. Looking forward to seeing everyone again at MSC! To get more info please click Contact.

Stu Hayes

Marana Bunk House was created especially for the Accuracy skydiving community where the Arizonaweather is perfect for making 10-15 jumps per day. After a rigorous day of training, quiet, comfort and good rest is what all athletes need to restore their energy. Enjoy a shared living environment where all benefit by saving money in a comfortable, spacious, and hospitable skydiving home. Bring your laptops with you because we have wireless access. Buy good food and cook at home, and get ready for the next competition. Teams and individuals are welcome! Please book beds in advance for the months of January – March. To contact or reserve rooms click Contact.

Blue Skies!

Stu Hayes

Accuracy Jump

Accuracy is an amazing skydiving modality which gives great gratification to its followers.

At a first glance, Accuracy may seem to operate only on the physical body; however, it plays a very important role on the athlete’s mental and emotional development. In this way, it allows its practitioners to achieve spiritual improvement and greater lucidity, speed of thought, logical reasoning, self-confidence and better reflexes due to the complex movements present in this modality’s jumps.

Also, Accuracy develops sensibility, memory and improvisation skills necessary to give the athlete the ability to maintain balance between extremes so that in situations which require calm moves or, on the other hand, radical moves, the athlete reacts in an equal manner, with decisive and coordinated movements indispensable to Accuracy Jumps.

Like a golf game; Accuracy jumps requires more mental than physical abilities. There is a single objective: hitting the target.

In order to reach a high technical level in this modality and the perfect equilibrium between mind and body, the athlete goes through a series of continuous trainings in jumping and physical, mental and respiratory exercises, like; meditation, Yoga, dancing, workouts, stretching, localized exercises and principally, medical accompaniment. All these activities are necessary to help the Accuracy Jumper stand the mental and physical wear from training up to ten jumps within a seven hour period. It is he who also packs his own parachute. The jump requires constant, fast decisive and minute attitudes from the athlete, and for this, he needs much concentration, security, determination, coordination and physical fitness.

Being physically and mentally prepared, the athlete increases his self-confidence necessary for a good performance at the time of the competition.

The personal and inter-personal improvement of the Accuracy Jumper is always increasing due to the degree of balance between mind and body that he has developed, which allows the practice of this sport in a competitive but harmonious way, especially in relation of the all teammates and the members of the other teams, whose individuality is respected.

The practitioners of this modality are people eternal passionately with what they do. For this reason, they are considered heroes by the skydiving community when they do the most beautiful dead-center hitting of the day.

Jumping from airplane by parachute from 3,000 feet and precisely land on the center of 5 metros of diameters target and hitting electronic dead-center of 3 centimeters, isn’t a piece of cake for any Accuracy Jumper, but the game is very interesting, intelligent and has lots of fun!

Being an awarded-medals athlete in national and international competitions is an achievement that only enthusiasts and those who dream high can reach.

Don’t be afraid of flying high to be happy! Life is quickly flying by!

I LOVE Accuracy jumps!

Blue Skies!

Mery Rose

There has never been a day when
I have not been proud to have been a skydiver!

Mery Rose