Mery Rose's 36th Skydiving Anniversary! 02, 02, 2010

Mery Rose made her first jump in 02, 02, 1974. She has been jumping out of an airplane for 36 years; 5481 jumps, 64 hours of freefall badge and many friends around the world. You can imagine that's no cheap airfare! Well worth every penny for every jump. Her mom's words: "You are definitely a victorious person, Mery Rose! Only a few people in the world have the opportunity to celebrate 36 years of jumping out of an airplane! God Bless You!"

Mery Rose on Target!

(I’m looking for sponsor to buy an air tuffet and target [electronic disc
pad]. The sponsor can have its name prominently displayed on it.)

 
Real Case

During the
2001 World Air
Games, Placed in the city
of Granada, in Spain, I made
a phone call to my mother Mimosa,
who was in Brazil, to tell her about the
news of the championship. She asked me if
the jumps were happening at the Airport or at the
AeroClub. I answered her that neither one, nor another.
I explained her that the championship was at the Air Base of
of Granada. She answered me very scared and said surprised: "Mery
Rose, my daughter, for the love of God, fly outside from there!!! How
 courage you have to jump of parachute inside of an Air Base full of grenades?!"

Please see the translation of the poems from Portuguese into English.

'Crazy Skydiver!' It Doesn't matter what we make Neither what we are We are all crazy For which we love May you be a poet May you be a scientist If we are all crazy Let us be skydivers! The madness gives me life And my life is jumping If life does not give me fear I'll live to fly!... to fly!... If flying is a madness Then I'll die insane Don't think that I am crazy Skydivers know how to live! And if you really want to know I am truly completely insane But I LOVE skydiving It is what I live to do! Mery Rose

Little Witcht Mery Rose

                       Let’s go flying!...

                                             .... Life is too short to be boried!

Alcatraz I live in top of the hill Where the sight is great I live in San Francisco Just in front Alcatraz! I climb up the slopes I climb down the slopes I really live on the hill On the other side of Castro! From here I see the Bay-Bridge And I almost see the Haight See all North Beach And the pretty Golden-Gate! I see Ships Islands and a Pyramid Flower's Street and Cable-Car All full of tourists Who comes here to take a walk! The sight is very pretty Where I see all the Bay Bay of great mixtures Of men women and gays! As you can see I have light and a lot of peace Since I live in Nob Hill Where life is great! And in case you'd like to Come and visit me I live at Filbert Street Where you will be at home! Mery Rose

 

The art of flying!....

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Cutaway - Experience of Flown Lives! In the beginning of the year I had a malfunction, which, despite the fright, contributed a lot to enrich the experience of someone who practices a radical sport like skydiving - This was my fourth cutaway. The incident happened when I participated in the "2005 Classic Arizona Camp", in Skydive Marana, AZ, which happens every year in March. I had a speed malfunction that is not common to happen with a seven-cell accuracy parachute. The main canopy is a Classic 218, the reserve a PD-140 and Racer container. The malfunction was caused by a badly performed opening that would have taken my life if I had not been an experienced skydiver.

Mery Rose Dol

My team jumped from a Cessna 192 at 4,000 feet. I was the last one to leave the plane and make hop-and-pop. Unfortunately, at that time the parachute did not open. No panic, although I know that malfunctions are usually accompanied by speed spins that negatively affect consciousness and reflexes. Tranquility is a duty to those who risk their lives jumping from a plane, even although I confess that the adventure of flying outweighs the price of the risk. The main canopy seemed to have only three cells semi-opened and sped a lot, forming a series of twists on the lines. I was not sure if it was the canopy that sped around me or if it was me who sped around it. The other part of the canopy was stuck in the lines, which found themselves in a total twist. I did not know how long I was in that agony and tried not to lose total consciousness. Probably I was spinning for a long time and already was very low. Desperate, in an attempt to survive, even without looking to the cutaway handle, and with a lot of difficulty, I took both my hands together and cutaway. The feeling was that I was thrown out of the container. My body gained more speed in the spins and I fought a lot to get out a state of almost lethargy. I remembered that my accuracy rigger did not have AAD (automatic system) and if I hadn't taken another radical initiative definitely I would have died. One more time, without any visual contact, I brought my both hands to deploy the reserve canopy but, to my surprise, the reserve handle was not in its place. Desperate, I immediately looked to the place and saw that it was spinning around the lodging. I glued both my hands on the ripcord handle reserve and pushed stretching my arms forward.

Totally drunk from the fright, I felt my body being suspended by the reserve parachute. It was an indescribable satisfaction!... I wanted to check the altimeter but my movements were still very slow. It was difficult to believe that the reserve parachute was really open! Everything seemed like a terrible nightmare. I tried harder to find the target to know which side of the DZ (Drop Zone) I was flying, but I could not identify the area that I saw down there. Everything was very confused and seemed to be an unknown landscape. I felt an internal silence and the fear started to take control me. It was not time to cry! I had to react because there was still another very important thing to do - that was to land safely. One more time I wanted to check the altitude but the altimeter was upside-down. The breast and the leg harnesses were loose. I was also not wearing my goggles and I had lost my contact lenses. In an attempt to maintain myself well awake I started to perform breathing exercises, as well as opening my eyes wide and lifting my head and arms. At that moment I noticed that I had not undone the brakes on the reserve parachute.

The reserve parachute started to fly and I felt a cold breeze on my face. The breathing exercises seemed to make me feel better. In happiness, I started to react and with my right hand I lifted the altimeter to check the altitude. 1,500 feet?!... I was a little perplexed. That was not possible and I did not believe what I saw. I even thought the altimeter was not working very well as was my head. The ground was just there! I wanted to know the wind direction but I did not find the Wind Blades in the DZ. Also, now, none of this would have much importance because I was already at a very low altitude. It was time to land so I said to myself: " Be very careful with the landing, Mery Rose! You have to get out of this well!" The ground got closer and closer and very quickly too. I threw myself on it doing the landing rolling as I learned to do when I was a skydive student. Carakas!... How hard is the American desert ground! As a good accuracy jumper that I am, how didn't I miss that cactus?! Later, when I was at home safely, I tried many times to write what happened to me and I couldn't. In my frustrated attempts I only cried. I started to relate the fact to many friends and told them that I hadn't died just because I had much experience in the sport. One of them, a little afraid asked: "... In that case, my wife and I who are new to the sport will have to count on luck, as we have no experience?". There are many cases of people who did not manage to cutaway in similar situations. I would say that the experience acquired in the long trajectory of my 31 years of skydiving counts a lot in many factors. For many years I have been doing mental exercises of the emergency procedures and those were what led me, even on the brink of unconsciousness, to do the correct procedures; to cutaway even before opening the emergency parachute. Without the correct sequence of these procedures the incident would have been fatal. It is very important that you have experience and know how to act. However, the most important really is that you remember to do it right at the time you need to do it. Nobody learns these things in Universities, libraries, in books or even listening to advice from parents and friends. None of these can give us the required experience for these kinds of situations. The law of life teaches us that we will have to live with our own mistakes and failures to learn not to repeat them again. I felt thisdeeply.

Today, despite the fright I had, the recently lived experience has made me learn several things. One of them is that I will never jump without an AAD, neither in my freefall nor in my accuracy rigger. Another lesson: in another situation like this one, I will be much more adept at going through the motions of the emergency procedures; cutaway and immediately deploy the reserve parachute, even before the main parachute opens in such brusque manner and with radical spins, like the way it happened. Life Lesson This way, life teaches us also that it is through our own mistakes that we reflect and change our own actions, making us do wise and secure decisions on the necessary occasion. This is called e x p e r i e n c e, and with life experience is how we avoid greater unfounded errors. It is learning with our own mistakes that we reach the highest level in our lives, which is the accomplishment of the dreams each one of us has. LIFE EXPERIENCE IN THIS LIFE, WITH EXPERIENCE WE GO WHERE WE WANT TO GO AND WE ARE WHAT WE WANT TO BE. Blue Skies! Mery Rose

2005 USA World Parachute Team

News & Frills! Iwill take advantage of the opportunity and write the hottest news of what has been going on in the backstage of the worldwide skydiving, here in the 2005 FAI World Cup, Skydive Stupino, Russia. The competitions have been scheduled for July 04 - 10. The DZ is 100 km. South of Moscow. Moscow is a beautiful metropolis and has 14 million of inhabitants.                                                                                                    China                 Russia            USA The FAI Anton Malevsky Cup and he European Open championship with all of the modalities combined is also happening at this time. Anton Malevsky Cup is an event that happens every year always in the first week of the month of July and is now at its 3rd. Edition. The event has been quoted as one of the largest encounters of the worldwide skydiving community because it is the only one that has a $100,000(a hundred thousand dollars) prize. The event counts with total coverage of the Russian press, with articles printed on the front pages of the most popular newspapers of the country and TV programs. Even a porn magazine that has been circulating here in the DZ has published on the central page of this month's edition photos of the folks jumping. (with jumpsuit! :-) ).                                                 Mery Rose on Target Anton Malevsky was one of those big Russians, and they said that he didn't jump a lot; he had only 200 jumps in many years of sport. The young man died in the year 2001 during a badly succeeded Hook Turn when he participated in a Boogie in South Africa, and today, his company is the sponsor of the event. The fame of the then millionaire-skydiver was great and glamorous here in Russia, and apart of the great political influence that he had, he made a lot of success in the business world, everything that he did generated a lot of money and therefore, he had several different businesses, among them; iron, aluminum and others along similar lines. Mr. Malevsky was a generous and popular man. He was always surrounded by a group of people that himself called great friends. Some of them even inherited a little of his fortune together with his family; wife, and two child - a boy and girl - Everything here in the Stupino DZ seems like it was sponsored by him, including the 8-Way national team that was champion of the world in the last ¡°2001 WAG-world Air Games¡± edition, held in the city of Granada¡± Spain. They also had their privileges and were sponsored by the illustrious godfather. I was in Granada and I witnessed myself the beautiful Russian victory!                                 Helicopter Ml-8m - Skydive Stupino - Russia Well, in 31 years of skydiving, after having jumped out there, sky in sky out, without any exaggeration, I consider the city Stupino has the most beautiful DZ of the world!..... Jesus Christ!... Everything here is exaggeratingly beautiful! To start, the immensity of ¡°Blue Skies¡± with the local temperature of 20 degrees, make a great combination and shine for all modalities of the sport. The lawn for landing is wide and has the same length of the takeoff track; twenty five hundred meters... The restaurant is large and is well decorated with many pictures of the folks, the people who serve us are very nice and the food is delicious! Inside an enormous Hangar is the manifesto, TV room, parachute packing area, camera-men rooms, classroom, Tandem business, medical assistance, bathrooms and a ping-pong table that, in spite of being very sought after, I am always in the queue waiting my turn... and still a great screen where the public will have the opportunity to watch everything live. Everything is very clean, organized and inside it is always very busy. In front of the Hangar, on the left side there is a very big tent for parachute packing. in front of a prefabricated house are the judges' rooms, bars with Coke, Kahhckoe (a brand of Russian beer) and the teams' rooms spread on all sides. On right side, the accuracy target is in the middle of a beautiful green lawn, surrounded by small field flowers of many colors. Beside the target there is an outdoor bar that is always full with a very lively crowd. The whole area has rose plantations: red roses, yellow roses, rose colored roses¡¦ literally I am in the right DZ! In the Bunkhouse, the rooms have two single beds and you just pay $5.00 for the daily rate. Beside Bunkhouse there are a row of private houses, all the same, also prefabricated, and any skydiver of the world can have one, you pay $1,000 and can still choose the place and the neighbor that you want to have. The DZ store, the ¡°Skydiving Stuff¡±, is a two-floored chalet in the European fashion and is very cute! Toly, the owner of the store is the IPC-Police-Chief, representing of Russia, and Inna, his wife, is another partner in the accuracy training camp. At their invitation, I went to the store¡¯s office to do a ¡°check out¡± of my emails and we had a pleasant cup of chocolate with almond liqueur, everything in a climate of very positive energy and colleagueship!                           Opening Ceremony Party - Skydive Stupino Russia The Stupino DZ is lucky, because what I see here are presents of destiny that seem to have blessed the Russian skydiving: the price of the jumps you will not believe; $13.00 at 12 thousand feet. And the teams only pay $10.00. The DZ works everyday (except Mondays) and is usually crowded between Thursday and Sunday. The fleet of airplanes is heavy weight and doesn't exist in any other DZ in the world: there are two gigantic twin Helicopters: Mi - 8 and other Mi - 8m. (Russian) that goes up at a speed of 1400 ft per minute. Each one takes off with 30 skydivers on board and they reach 12 thousand feet so fast that you have to be fast also not to lose the passage. The other gigantic airplanes are nothing more nothing less than two L - 410 ( Check Republic) better known by TurboLet. All of them have a door that leaves any one dribbling! Three days before I arrived here, one of the Helicopters, Mi - 8m., tried to take off with 30 sky-divers on board, it hung on one side, the propeller bounced off the takeoff track and the body of Helicopter was whirling round disoriented. The people who were in the takeoff track had a lot of luck because they suffered no injuries. In less than one month, the Helicopter was brand new and started making new releases again. Nobody here even dares to comment the reason for the incident or the value of the damage. For what, right?!.... Here in the Stupino DZ only good things are spoken! For instance: In case of "cutaway", one of the helicopters flies over accompanying the athlete's landing, the other, proceeds in search of the disconnected parachute and if the parachute falls on top of a tree, a specialized technician goes down a cable and rescues it. In case of an accident, one of the helicopters offers help and lands at a private heliport in a hospital beside the DZ. There you usually will find a group of doctors and nurses on duty exclusively to assist skydivers during an emergency.                          L 410 - Turbulet ( Check Republic) Skydive Stupino - Russia The Stupino DZ is lucky, because what I see here are presents of destiny that seem to have blessed the Russian skydiving: the price of the jumps you will not believe; $13.00 at 12 thousand feet. And the teams only pay $10.00. The DZ works everyday (except Mondays) and is usually crowded between Thursday and Sunday. The fleet of airplanes is heavy weight and doesn't exist in any other DZ in the world: there are two gigantic twin Helicopters: Mi - 8 and other Mi - 8m. (Russian) that goes up at a speed of 1400 ft per minute. Each one takes off with 30 skydivers on board and they reach 12 thousand feet so fast that you have to be fast also not to lose the passage. The other gigantic airplanes are nothing more nothing less than two L - 410 ( Check Republic) better known by TurboLet. All of them have a door that leaves any one dribbling! Three days before I arrived here, one of the Helicopters, Mi - 8m., tried to take off with 30 sky-divers on board, it hung on one side, the propeller bounced off the takeoff track and the body of Helicopter was whirling round disoriented. The people who were in the takeoff track had a lot of luck because they suffered no injuries. In less than one month, the Helicopter was brand new and started making new releases again. Nobody here even dares to comment the reason for the incident or the value of the damage. For what, right?!.... Here in the Stupino DZ only good things are spoken! For instance: In case of "cutaway", one of the helicopters flies over accompanying the athlete's landing, the other, proceeds in search of the disconnected parachute and if the parachute falls on top of a tree, a specialized technician goes down a cable and rescues it. In case of an accident, one of the helicopters offers help and lands at a private heliport in a hospital beside the DZ. There you usually will find a group of doctors and nurses on duty exclusively to assist skydivers during an emergency.                              L 410 - Turbulet ( Check Republic) Skydive Stupino - Russia  Here, I met again old friends and I have already made new friends with skydivers of every part of the world. One of the groups with whom I always drink one beers after the jumps are Freefly and Skysurf teams, which represented Russia in the world championship held in Boituva-Brazil. (recalling, the team of Skysurf was world champion in Brazil!...) The comic part is due to the games that they do in Portuguese; when I am in the door of the helicopter making the corrections of my passage at 3 thousand feet; together, all at once, they say very loud: ¡°Carakas, Mery Rose, what lovely buttocks!¡± The other teams soon wanted to know the translation and the reason of the game. Now, for all cool things that happen in the DZ the folks say: ¡°Carakas!...¡± Sunset here at more or less 11:15 PM and yesterday, soon after the pane finished his last takeoff, Sasha, who is also part of the Russian Freefly Team, organized a one hour party on the DZ¢¥s lawn right in front of the Hangar. On the lawn there were many pieces of cloth extended for us to sit on and, in the middle, on top of a low table there were several types of drinks. Apart from playing and talking away, we also played a Russian card game, where about ten people participate each time. Sasha didn't play, because it was she who led the game. Of course I also made friends with the girls of the manifesto, Natasha and Julia, therefore, you already know (and they also) that I have only been jumping from the helicopter because I am no fool!... And believe it or not, many of the passages at 3 thousand feet and the target are exclusively mine because the accuracy folks only arrive this week!                            Medals Party - Skydive Stupino - Russia    (Show with the best Russian singers. More than 20 thousand people) My newest Russian skydiving friend is only 16 years old and he is called Anton Kaiznetsou. His first jump was two weeks ago. He already has 30 jumps and his last one was a cutaway. He is one more in the Freeflyers world!... Anton speaks English fluently and he is always with me... whenever I need help for translation, I appeal to him and/or to Ilya Puchov, one of the official translators of the event. He is also DZ Tandem Pilot and is always in a good mood. Here in DZ I have a friend who is not a skydiver, Jenya Netchaeva, 20 years old. She is a Business Administration student in Canada. She is on holiday in her motherland, and works as an interpreter in the DZ events. Since the day that we met each other we never separated again. Seeing my need to write this article, she lent me her laptop. Well then! Concluding, now I want to speak to a friend who is only 8 years of age. He has fixed residence in DZ and he is also called Anton. As every DZ of the world, the one of Stupino could not be different and here there is also a brat. He is the son of the DZ camera-girl, Irina. The child has a lot of energy, is noisy and upsets us a lot! In the good sense, of course! Anton is my friend, therefore, he enters my room without knocking on the door, sits on my bed, eats my chocolates, drinks my Coke, adores seeing the pictures in my jump logbook, loves my sun glasses and is amused taking pictures with my digital camera. The child knows everybody in the DZ and talks a LOT, best of all, while he speaks he laughs a lot, I believe that he mocking me because he knows that I don't understand absolutely anything that he says!... Anton is spoiled by all as much as the three beautiful kittens that are in the Stupino DZ.                              Medals Party - Skydive Stupino - Russia In general, the Russians are friendly, educated, communicative, generous, helpful, and cheerful. I would even say they are quiet. Contrary to what is known, because they take fame in the whole world that they are very noisy and drink a lot. However, that doesn't seem to be true, and, although knowing about the fame that they defend so well, kindly accusing, that everything is no more than stupid rumors published by a sensationalist press that tries to defame cultures of neighboring countries and continents. However, the truth, maybe the cruelest of all, is that almost the whole adult population in Russia smokes a lot of cigarettes, an exaggerated habit and visibly found in all European countries. The Russian women are very feminine and sexy, I would say that, even more extravagant than the Brazilians. Between one jump and other, it is very to see here, skydivers parading in overalls and high-heeled sandals in the DZ. One of them wears a pair of pink sandals! I was envious and I will also buy one for me! The cleaning girl, washes the bathrooms, cleans the garbage cans and sweeps the whole DZ also wearing high-heeled shoes. By the way, this here seems like an European fashion festival. The women¡¯s skydiving lot are the ones who most take advantage of the situation, they wear mini shorts and tops with provocative necklines exhibiting sculptural bodies. The men?! hum-hum!... these, are really stunning!... They parade in the DZ wearing overalls, naked from the waist up, exhibiting muscular bodies! The PQDetes, sunbathe on the lawn, wear miniscule bikinis, and idolize the radical landings of their men who seem to want to be Super-Man! By the way, participating in the Anton International Malevsky Cup is pure adrenaline, because apart from all this, the festival of leveling at the time of landing, just scraping by the hangar and the tents, are videos that Hollywood has been looking for in their radical serial scenes!                                                      2005 USA Skydive Team   Angela Nichols, Janet Flenner, Mery Rose, Rhonda Reicel, Elisa Feldt I embarked in San Francisco on June 5th, and I only arrived in Moscow two days later, already with a difference of 11 hours (ahead) of my time zone. In the Moscow Airport I was received by Sasha, son of pleasant Vladimir Goorbunov, owner of the DZ. He had in his hands the traditional plate with my name, ¡°Mery Rose¡±. He, me and Irina, his mother, made beautiful four hour tourism in the center of Moscow, ate lunch in McDonald¡¯s and later we traveled more or less one hour, towards the DZ, where I am accommodated since I arrived in a beautiful room in the Bunkhouse. (On July 3rd, one day before the competitions, everyone will go to the hotels) - I have had serious problems with the time zone and the difference of 11 hours between San Francisco and Stupino is terrible. The first two weeks were very difficult and I could hardly workout, however, on Sunday, June 12th, I didn't resist the Russian Association of Skydiving invitation to participate in a demo inside a stadium in the center of Moscow, together with the National Delegation of Freefly and the Classic Parachuting gang. Arriving there, Sergy Pazomazob introduced me to 20 skydiver women, officials of the Russian Army. And he said more: ¡°all of them will your opponents in accuracy.¡± I crossed my fingers (hands and feet), arms and also the eyes! ¡°Maktub¡± I spoke quietly for nobody to hear! The helicopter trip, at an altitude of a thousand feet, from the DZ here to Moscow, was very ¡°annoying¡±! The demo was very ¡°annoying¡± also. After the landing, I was inconvenienced by a TV reporter and journalists of the great metropolis. Uff!... there are times it is difficult to lead a skydiver¡¯s life! I don¡¯t even feel well in interviewee's position! What will I do anyway, right?!                                  Pilots - Skydive Stupino - Russia  A part of the National delegation is already has training camp in the Stupino DZ. And will be the largest of all. Russia is the headquarters of the event; therefore, there is no limit on the number of enrolled teams. The delegation will parade on the opening day of the event bringing, nothing less nothing more than eight 4-Way teams; three women teams and five men teams. Imagine the rest of the delegation!... - Today very early, in the restaurant of DZ, I had my breakfast with the handsome Sergey Yalpaev, member of one of the best Russian teams of 4-Way Extreme.ru. They are training six days of the week and they do 20 jumps a day.                       FAI Jodges - Skydive Stupino - Russia The DZ is already all decorated; on top of a very green lawn and very well treated there are a lot of tents, all decorated with roses and bows in the colors of the Russian flag. The flags of the participant countries are already being hoisted on the masts. The ¡°Red Carpet¡± is already being extended and is where the illustrious guests will parade, owners of the Show, that are gradually arriving from every part of the world: USA, Italy, Germany, Netherland, Ukraine, Finland, France, Belgium, Denmark, Turkey, Australia, Norway, Arabia, Canada, Kazakhistan, China, Portugal, Spain, England, Sweden, Holland¡¦ Now, now! I could not forget to mention in this beautiful chronicle that yesterday I had privilege of meeting the patricians Luis, Carla and Veras, who came from the lands of Portugal!                      USA Air SpeedTeam - World Champion many times My teammates of the USA Delegation only arrive tomorrow, June 28th. In accuray we have three teams: the ¡°USA Blue Team¡± that is the girls' team; Elisa and Angela, (Golden Knights) Rhonda (FAA-American Air Force) and me and Janet, who are civil. In the men¡¯s we have the "USA Red Team" and the "USA White Team¡". Still in the accuracy we have two athletes in the individual who are: Cindy-FAA and the first woman Golden Knight, powerful Cheryl Stearn.                      Russia                      Russia                       USA        Individual Champions: Olga, Liubov Ekshikeeva, Cheryl Stearns Still in the USA Delegation, we have the 4-Way teams: AirSpeed Velocity, Deland Fire and Pastrax. AirSpeed will also compete in the 8-Way. I miss them all and I can't wait to see them arriving.                                USA                       Franca                         USA Here, I leave my most sincere votes of gratitude to all; FAI, USPA, Russian Skydiving Association, Skydive Stupino, Organizers, Sponsors of the event, the media in general and the folks of the STAFF: Pilots and technicians of the airplanes, Manifesto, embankment boss, cameras, packer, medical assistance, the folks from the restaurant, the boys that help me set up and dismantle the targets, drivers of the embarkment, the cleaning folks, gardeners, fun-jumper skydivers, visiting public, competitor companions, teammates of the USA Blue Team, friends of the USA Delegation and also all those that have contributed and helped so that my trip to Stupino became a reality. Without you, none of this would be possible.                                                    Mr. Malevsky                                               (in memory) Concluding, the SPECIAL gratitude is to YOU Anton Malevsky, (in memory) for your generosity and the LOVE dedicated to our sport, wishing that, the Russian skydiving as well as the world skydiving have the opportunity to have more illustrious children like YOU. - Thank you for everything!... and Rest in Peace! Blue Skies! Mery Rose

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