Wow, How wonderful to see this film after all this time. I started jumping in early 1978 when I was 17 and watched this many times. Oh the memories :)))
WOW. I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS FOR AGES! This video used to show at the UMASS parachute club table in the Campus Center to promote the club. I stared at it over and over whenever they were there. FInally did a jump....2000 jumps later I sold my gear to become a father. Memories!
@cbgreely Thank an Australian for tracking down and putting up this timeless US classic from the late, great Carl Boenish. His movies were the staple diet of South Australian skydivers in the 70s and into the early 80s. I've still got all the old 16 mm film copies tuccked away.
@cbgreely - I sat at that same table listening to this video over and over again, signing people up for the class on the weekend. Logged over 2000 jumps, led to flying, the Corps. Still flying but I also gave up jumping almost 10 years ago. Great memories and friends, always wondered what happend to the group from the mid to late 80's.
I started jumping in Australia in 1978 and was an instructor from the early '80's. We would always end our night time theory sessions with this movie - memories ! We ended up doing a lot of CRW 8-way competition jumps in the late '80's and the opening CRW sequence always reminds me of those times - "Trim up John !". We would watch the DC3 formation load 50 way - and try to emulate the diver "Mr Cool" with his hands together behind his pack ! We lived to skydive ! Great times ! Maybe one day ?
(Continued again...) By the early 80s those huge jumpsuits were all but forgotten by the way, almost as if they'd followed the fashion with flares and huge lapels.
(Continued...) This amazing film was shown, on a clunky old 16mm projecteor, at my DZ every time we were blown out or rained off. After you watched it you indeed wanted to skydive!
The photography is brilliant but even in the late 70s the bearded wierdo styles looked amazingly dated, and as Brits we thought the lyrics to the skydive song were sickly and corny. But the action is superb and I still wince when the guy hits the tailplane of the Lockheed 37.
Superb. I took up skydiving in the UK in '79 and you bet, we had squares then, but you had to be quite advanced to use one. Look out for the old 5-cell Strato Stars in the movie, that let you down like a tone of bricks. Also in evidence is the famous Strato Cloud, a much more forgiving 7-cell.
Has anybody out there got the Movie made by "Mirror Images" They made it in 1977 , Pope valley I think. It was not really themed more a collection of dives as part of a training camp.
We had it all in the 70s. And we appreciated squares because we came off roundies - not just high performance PCs but off the old war surplus canopies.
Looks amazing :) But what about the opening shock there ? Hard or soft ? compared to Round canopies ?
MasterofCod007 1 month ago
Wow, How wonderful to see this film after all this time. I started jumping in early 1978 when I was 17 and watched this many times. Oh the memories :)))
Narbethong 1 month ago
Wow, guy at 2:40 is shaking like crazy, looks like he's really scared... :p
SkyRuck 1 month ago
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing
to pay the price to see them come true."
That's my style, live to skydive!
Blue skies brothers!
TheNEMKE 1 month ago
WOW. I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS FOR AGES! This video used to show at the UMASS parachute club table in the Campus Center to promote the club. I stared at it over and over whenever they were there. FInally did a jump....2000 jumps later I sold my gear to become a father. Memories!
cbgreely 4 months ago
@cbgreely Thank an Australian for tracking down and putting up this timeless US classic from the late, great Carl Boenish. His movies were the staple diet of South Australian skydivers in the 70s and into the early 80s. I've still got all the old 16 mm film copies tuccked away.
td12308 4 months ago
@cbgreely - I sat at that same table listening to this video over and over again, signing people up for the class on the weekend. Logged over 2000 jumps, led to flying, the Corps. Still flying but I also gave up jumping almost 10 years ago. Great memories and friends, always wondered what happend to the group from the mid to late 80's.
jctaylor2001 4 days ago
5:18 for why you should have an AAD (or more accurately, why they needed one!) - INSANE! :)
xphilip 4 months ago
What's the first music please ?
IRhimI 5 months ago in playlist Vidéos que vous avez aimées
LOVE IT!
Barone1163 5 months ago
wow thanks for sharing!
blue skies to ppl who made our sport what it is today! thanks guys!!
BigBUG30 5 months ago
I still think that slo-mo sequence where they exit the DC3's is the best free-fall footage ever. Astounding visuals. Thanks for posting.
jrrm3 6 months ago
Would be cool to get a proper transfer from the 16mm material. Pricey though, and places offering the service are becoming less...
an0nytube 7 months ago
08:25 was that the first base jump off of El Capitan?
katyu16 8 months ago
I started jumping in Australia in 1978 and was an instructor from the early '80's. We would always end our night time theory sessions with this movie - memories ! We ended up doing a lot of CRW 8-way competition jumps in the late '80's and the opening CRW sequence always reminds me of those times - "Trim up John !". We would watch the DC3 formation load 50 way - and try to emulate the diver "Mr Cool" with his hands together behind his pack ! We lived to skydive ! Great times ! Maybe one day ?
ThePikela 8 months ago
@ThePikela Where did you start jumping? We're having our 50th anniversary of the birth of skydiving in South Australia this year.
Contact me
td12308 8 months ago
@td12308 Caloundra and then Toogoolawah in QLD - never jumped in SA - met some from there - was that Lower Light ?
ThePikela 8 months ago
Thanks for posting this. Great memories
sa1838 10 months ago
(Continued again...) By the early 80s those huge jumpsuits were all but forgotten by the way, almost as if they'd followed the fashion with flares and huge lapels.
Carl Boenish, RIP!!
AlistairTheRunner 10 months ago
(Continued...) This amazing film was shown, on a clunky old 16mm projecteor, at my DZ every time we were blown out or rained off. After you watched it you indeed wanted to skydive!
The photography is brilliant but even in the late 70s the bearded wierdo styles looked amazingly dated, and as Brits we thought the lyrics to the skydive song were sickly and corny. But the action is superb and I still wince when the guy hits the tailplane of the Lockheed 37.
AlistairTheRunner 10 months ago
Haven't seen this movie for best on 25 years!
Superb. I took up skydiving in the UK in '79 and you bet, we had squares then, but you had to be quite advanced to use one. Look out for the old 5-cell Strato Stars in the movie, that let you down like a tone of bricks. Also in evidence is the famous Strato Cloud, a much more forgiving 7-cell.
AlistairTheRunner 10 months ago
My life...my reason to Skydive
This was the greatest Movie ever
From TU's to PC's to Squares
Lived in Perris Valley for a Year
Best year of Me Life
mrkemac 10 months ago
@mrkemac When were you there? I was there for the summer of 1981.
Bob76075 1 month ago
Has anybody out there got the Movie made by "Mirror Images" They made it in 1977 , Pope valley I think. It was not really themed more a collection of dives as part of a training camp.
Oldsoho 11 months ago
they had squares in the 70's?
86Tejay 1 year ago
We had it all in the 70s. And we appreciated squares because we came off roundies - not just high performance PCs but off the old war surplus canopies.
td12308 1 year ago
Who sings this song?
DragonboaterV 1 year ago
Watching this blows my mind in the same way when I first saw it back in 1979
Oldsoho 1 year ago
LOVE IT! Thanks for posting.
Fishmonger1966 1 year ago