Meeting was held at 7:00pm in Gambrell Hall room 151.

Attendance: 26

Adam Gardner put together an awesome video to introduce skydiving to people. See the home page to view it!

Organization Fair- Wed. 21 Jan

It was held from 11am-2pm on Greene Street. It was cold, but we have 1.5 pages of interested students, and passed out a TON of fliers! Thanks everyone:

Adam Pope

Wesley Mullen

James Hale

Kristin Hambright

Samantha Jones

Laura Ware

Adam Coffin

Justin Davis

Adam Gardner

Bekah Smith

Wind Tunnel: Inexpensive FreeFall Experience

We'll soon be planning a trip up to the wind tunnel in Raeford, NC. It's a great op to meet with other schools' skydive clubs and gain some pracitice in freefall without the price of a full skydive. For more information, visit http://www.papacletexp.com/

Important Dates for Spring 2009 (explainations below!)

Feb 11: LAST DAY to sign up for the Mardi Gras Skydive Weekend

Feb 18: *FJC, after the meeting (What's FJC?? See below!)

Feb 20-22: Mardi Gras Skydive Weekend Club Event (our first big trip to Chester!)

March 18: FJC, after the meeting

March 20-22: Skydive Weekend Club Event

March 25: **BANFF Film Festival World Tour (this will take place of our meeting) What's BANFF? See below!

April 15: FJC, after the meeting

April 17-19: Skydive Weekend Club Event

*FJC.. what's that?

Want to learn to solo skydive? You can begin the process by taking the Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) First Jump Course (FJC)! One of our volunteer instructors for this class will teach you everything you need to know before you make your first solo skydive. For more information on the AFF program, see our "Skydive Info" tab.

**BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to USC

The BANFF Film Fesitval represents extreme experiences.. and guess what? Skydiving qualifies! This event will be held in the Russel House on March 25. It will take place of our meeting for that night so we encourage all of our members to attend! We will have our own table and will be able to show our own skydive videos. YOU WILL SEE SOME SWEET FILMS. Don't miss it!

Other Announcements:

Collegiate Nationals- Congrats John Scott!

John earned the silver medal in sport accuracy at this year's Collegiate Nationals in Texas. Thanks to all who represented the Flying Gamecocks- this is a great start for our club. We aim to have more students complete AFF so they can attend the Nationals in Dec 2009. Adam Pope is working on building a team, so if you're interested, please contact us.

Spring Break- Sweet Roadtrip, Sweet Skydives!

Adam Pope is planning a spring break trip to likely one of the drop zones in Florida (great weather!) It'll be a lot of fun and a great time to bond with fellow skydivers. If you're interested, contact us!