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Media Day @ Skydive Opelika

Saturday , June 10th 2006

Clem and Donna get in on the action. Walt is being interviewed by CNN in the background.	Walt explains modern parachute systems for the camera.	Videographer, Mike Mills, videos Walt's landing.
CNN continue to interview Walt after a great landing.	CNN crew member Kim gets ready for a Tandem	A beautiful landing by TM Barry McClain.
Kim lands and the CNN cameraman (left) gets ready for his jump.	Don Day (Venture Outdoors) lands with Tandem Master Barry McClain. Buddy Blue Assist with the harness.	Rick Redmon (right) talks to Don before he boards the Aircraft.
Jay Bird Phillips gets Rick Redmon ready to go.	Jay and Rick land and the cameras come on.	Well I told Josh I was going to post this so.. After a long spot and a slow exit Josh had to be picked up and brought back to the DZ.

Well it was definitely a busy day. With more pictures than I can post. I would like to say again how proud we are of Walt and all of his accomplishments. Several other first time jumpers showed up for tandems and I will post their pictures soon.

Thanks everyone who made this weekend possible with a special thanks to Buddy because if it wasn't for him we would not have this DZ to call home.

Walt Rosso being interviewed by CNN. (Check out his interview with skydiveradio.com here Show # 39)	Venture Outdoors, a local outdoor show, comes by to do a piece on our Drop Zone.
It is hard to put into words about what a great day Saturday was. Though the temperature hovered close to 100 degrees it didn't stop alot of good folks from coming out to represent our DZ. CNN: Walt was calm, cool and collected for the CNN cameras and made all of us very proud. CNN crew members even hung out  and made 2 tandem jumps. Venture Outdoors: Don Day and Rick Redmon show up ready to jump. Normally they "Venture Outdoors" to hunt or fish but not today! While waiting for the plane they interviewed several of the members including DZO Buddy Blue and Walt Rosso. Check out more pictures here.
	Don Day... Well he lost a shoe in freefall. So, as per custom, we hang the remaining shoe from the overhead.

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