Swoop Week Aug 19th

The weather today was epic with no clouds and no wind nearly all day. Competitors are here practicing freestyle in the pond. The building for our judges has been moved over to the pond today with some of the bleachers. There will be more practicing tomorrow starting early morning. If you haven't registered online and paid the discounted rate for registration then now is the time. Weather is looking good for tomorrow.

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Swoop Week Training

Our training week started yesterday at the pond here at Mile Hi Skydiving with 15 loads. The pond is full, the sand is soft and the packing tents are up. Competitors will be training at the pond again today (Aug 19th) and will meet at manifest around 9:00am.

We have all the haybails in place outlining the parking and camping area. Over the next few days we will be adding bleachers, the judges building, PD tents and more. If you haven't registered online yet then now is the time why it cost less. Practice jumps are cheaper all this week before Swoop Week.

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Swoop Week jump prices

All practice jumps made between August 18-24th will cost $20 ($16 with $4 fuel surcharge) and all competition jumps will be $22 ($16 with $6 fuel surcharge). The registration fee for the USPA Nationals of Canopy Piloting will cost $175 and all other registration will be $200. For more information please visit http://www.swoopweek.com/register.html

Twitter reports going out

Twitter updates for Swoop Week are already being sent out as scheduled. If our daily blog is not enough info then you can always sign up for a free Twitter account and receive reports from us in real-time as they happen!

We will be sending out "tweets" and making daily blogs for all the days leading up to the main events. Find out who shows up early, who's doing the most jumps, how practice is going, rumors and more.

just sign up for your own Twitter account and follow http://www.twitter.com/swoopweek to receive updates on your mobile device.

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Canopy Cup award

The Pro Swooping Tour along with Mile Hi Skydiving will carry on the tradition of awarding the "Canopy Piloting Cup" to the winner of this years PST championships. This will be the third year in a row the cup has been awarded to the overall best performing competitor.

The canopy cup is a huge trophy that stays on display at Mile Hi Skydiving for all to see. Each winners name is engraved on a plate located on the base of the cup. The cup has already been awarded to pro pilots Jeffro Provenzano and Jay Moledzki.

New detailed schedule available!

Swoop Week has a new detailed schedule online at the following link...

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pcjnERqOJrZBf_h96h7LTNQ

Showers, snacks and wireless internet!

Due to the Denverconvention2008 that is in town during Swoop Week most of the hotels are either booked up or going for $300-500 a night! There are still a rooms available for less if you are willing to drive 20-30 minutes to hotels between towns.

In an effort to make things as easy and cheap as possible for competitors and visiting guests the DZ is providing a large camping area near the swoop pond and allowing you to sleep in the manifest building. The main building (hanger) has carpet along with showers, vending machines and wireless internet access.

For more information about any of this please contact the DZ directly at 303-SKYDIVE (702-9911).

Follow Swoop Week with Twitter

The staff of Swoop Week will be making hourly posts daily about everything going on at the events. People can sign up for a free Twitter account and the follow the "tweets" of user name "SwoopWeek". If you already have an account then follow www.twitter.com/swoopweek". You can use Twitter on your desktop computer, laptop, iphone or other mobile devices!

We are making daily posts now and these will increase as we get closer to the main events!

Good Morning America at Swoop Week

The popular TV show "Good Morning America" will be at Swoop Week on Friday and Saturday during the Pro Swooping Tour championships. With a viewership of over 3,080,000 viewers GMA will cover the action and interview competitors in a attempt to give viewers the feel for swooping including some possible live camera and audio feeds from a one of our competitors in flight.

Do you wanna see and hear what a live feed under canopy sounds like? See this video of the JVX 37 docking with a wing suit on the Today show on the homepage at www.canopypiloting.com

More info on Good Morning America...

Good Morning America (GMA) is a morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network, debuting on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour, available exclusively on ABC News Now, was introduced in 2007. The current one-hour weekend edition debuted in 2004.

The show features news, talk, weather, and special interest stories. It is produced live from Times Square Studios in New York City and fed to all network affiliates. The program is currently hosted by Diane Sawyer and Robin Roberts. Longtime anchor Charles Gibson left the program on June 28, 2006 to become the lead anchor of ABC World News.

GMA has traditionally run second in the ratings to NBC's Today, but overtook its rival for a period from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s under its most popular anchor team of Gibson and Joan Lunden. GMA has won both of the first two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Morning Program, sharing the 2007 award with Today and winning outright in 2008.

Roll call

Do you want to see who's already pre-registered for Swoop Week? Do you want to see who's flying which canopies and what size? Do you wanna be better prepared for the big event?

http://www.swoopweek.com/register.html