About me

About me

Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 November 1999 01:00) Written by Administrator Monday, 01 February 2010 00:23

I started skydiving in the summer of 2001, I wanted to jump myself so I did a static-line course. And was immediately hooked. I knew even before I started jumping that wanted to do 3 things: canopy formation flying, flying a birdman suit and flying camera.

Well in the ~1750 jumps I've done so far, I've managed all 3, although some with more success than others :-)

After first trying then later filming Canopy Formation for a while I got into wingsuiting bigtime. For a time it almost the only thing I did. Usually I have both my Nikon D300 digital reflex camera and my Sony CX105 handycam with me. I got my Phoenix-Fly Instructor rating, so now I can teach newbies how to fly like Batman too :-)

I also sometimes film a 4-way formation flying teams, I started out with a rookie team called Team Grande Vitesse. Filming FS4 is a lot of fun! I filmed my very first competion with them.  I then flew camera for another FS4 team called H4N1 (I guess I was the "1"?!? LOL) for a while. Next team in line was Serge's Angels, with this team I did some competitions, rookie and A. Sometimes I fill in for other cameraflyers, filming AA teams mostly, with some AAA thrown in. Last year I got asked to film a AAA team during Nationals, wow! With my filling in for their regular cameraflyer and 2 other jumpers filling in for their regular outside centre we still managed to come in third! Yay!

Mostly however I film tandems,something that is quite rewarding to do, and after 550+ tandem video jumps is still quite fun :-)

When I'm on the DZ but not jumping, I like to video and photograph people landing. For as long it it has existed, I've been the chief video judge for the Dutch Swooping Tour, and I also did video for some other swooping competitions in Germany and Norway. The results can be found on my video page, and of course on the various Dutch Swooping TourDVD's.

I'm also with our national Dutch skydiving magazine The Sportparachutist, usually I don't write so much but I take care of the photography department.

My other hobbies include tinkering with computers, programming, webpages and editing. Also I love my Norwegian Forest Cat Loki and my Main Coon Napoleon, and I love reading.

People needing footage, photo's, editing, flyers, webpages etc usually know where to find me. Otherwise, you do now :-)