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Dec 27th, 2008-Jan 2nd, 2009 We are having a blast here in Houston. Skydive Spaceland is a great dropzone. The dropzone is located about 35 minutes south of the greater Houston area. We drove out here from South Carolina which took about 12 and a half hours. Once we arrived we set up camp, and prepared for the week ahead. The competition began on the 28th. The first day was 2-way, 4-way, and VRW. This year, the winning team set a record in four way for the most points turned, which was 119. The second place team also broke the prior record with turning over 100 points, during the 6 rounds. The VRW only went through the first round. The second day Classic Accuracy, Sport Accuracy and VRW were scheduled. VRW started off the day around 7am. They continued through the morning until all rounds were complete. The next competition was Classic Accuracy. Here they put up three of the four rounds jumping from 2800 feet. The idea of this is to hit a small red dot on a 2 meter tuffet(pad). The University of South Carolina had a participant, Adam Gardner, in this competition in the Intermediate category. Adam gradually made his way from the airplane to the tuffet. On the first jump he was about 10 meters from the tuffet, on the second jump he was about 5 meters from the tuffet and by the third jump he hit the tuffet. After the three rounds of classic accuracy they began sport accuracy. This event had two participants from the University of South Carolina. John Scott participated in the Novice category, and Adam Gardner in the Intermediate. These competitors leave from 3200 feet, and then attempt to land in the center of a 15 meter diameter circle. After the last round of sport accuracy they continued with 6-way speed until the end of the day. The third day, 6-way speed was finished and then the last round of Classic Accuracy was finally able to take place after being on a wind hold all day. Once again, Adam hit the tuffet. John's scores in Sport accuracy: 1st round: 45 2nd Round: 9.61 3rd Round: 7.43 4th Round: 5.37 John placed second place in the Novice category in the National Collegiate Skydiving Competition with only around 30 jumps. Great job John! We look forward to sending more students to compete and win medals in the 2009 Collegiate National Skydiving Competition.
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