Thai Sky Festival 2008 - Organizing Team

ORGANIZING TEAM

Once again, a fantastic line-up of experienced, professional, and very happy load organizers, camera-flyers, and staff are as excited to go to Thailand as you are!

Load Organizers

The Load Organizers, almost all World Team Leaders, are eager to share their skills — and see your stuff! All are experts dedicated to . . . skydiving! small-ways, big-ways, thinking dives or casual jumps, jumpsuits or not. The following contains but a small summary of their work in the skydiving community. These are among the best event and skydiving organizers in the world!

BJ Worth, USA Event Organizer, Boogie Director, Formation Skydiving Load Organizer
Event Organizer / Dive Designer for World Team, Thai Sky Festival, Kaleidoscope Dives, Boogies in Bali, Bali 100; Load Organizer for major national and international skydiving events; multiple world record holder; national and world skydiving champion.

	Larry Henderson, USA RTAF Liaison, Formation Skydiving Load Organizer
	Organizing Team, Sector Captain, and RTAF Liaison for World Team; Event / Load Organizer for Thai Sky Festival, and major national and international skydiving events and camps, including the TSR, Herc Boogie, Kaleidoscope Dives, ESA boogies and World Freefall Convention; national competitor, multiple national and world record holder.

Alex Allen, USA Freefly Load Organizer
Freefly Load Organizer for high-experience level Thai Sky Festival freeflyers, and Coach for multiple events; world record holder; world traveller

	Tony Domenico, USA Formation Skydiving Load Organizer
	Base Sector Captain for World Team; Load Organizer for Thai Sky Festival; Event Organizer and/or Load Organizer for many major national and international skydiving events and camps, including Perris Big-Way Camps and 100-way events, Kaleidoscope Dives; multiple world record holder

James Evered, Australia Freefly Load Organizer
Freefly Load Organizer for mid- and high-experience level freeflyers, and Coach for multiple events in Australia and around the world, including Thai Sky Festival, the Port Macquarie Boogie, the Swedish Friflaj Festival, the Swedish Hercules Boogie, and the Parasummer boogie of Estonia; national record holder.

	Fernando Gallegos, Peru Formation Skydiving Load Organizer
	Captain / First Officer for World Team, competitor, and world-class Dive Organizer for major national and international events; multiple world record holder.

Victor Kravtsov, Russia Formation Skydiving Load Organizer
World Team Sector First Officer; Event / Load Organizer for many national and international events, including Aerograd drop zone record and Bali-100;; multiple national and world record holder.

	Herman Landsman, Netherlands Formation Skydiving Load Organizer, Herc Spotter
	World Team Sector Captain and Safety Officer; Event Organizer for multiple national and international events, including Exotic Sky Adventures Boogies and Thai Sky Festival; multiple national and world record holder.

Roger Ponce de Leon, USA Formation Skydiving Load Organizer, Herc Spotter
World Team Sector Captain; Event Organizer / Dive Designer / Load Organizer for multiple national and international events, including Cross Keys, Kaleidoscope Dives, and the Color Concept Dives; national and world champion; multiple world record holder.

	Alia Veselova, Russia Formation Skydiving Load Organizer
	Captain for World Team; national and world cup champion; national and international event organizer and Load Organizer, including Thai Sky Festival, ESA boogies, and Bali-100; multiple national and world record holder.

Toly Zhirov, Russia Formation Skydiving Load Organizer
Sector Captain for World Team; Event co-organizer of Russian large formation records and the Anton Malevsky Memorial Meet; Load Organizer of multiple national and international events; instructor, coach, parachute system test jumper; Russian FAI and IPC delegate; multiple national and world record holder.

	David "Clem" Major, USA Tandem Instructor, Load Organizer, Camera Flyer
	Tandem instructor, AFF instructor, rigger, and base jumper; World Team Camera Flyer; videographer and still photographer of major national and international events, national and world records. Thai Sky Festival is fortunate to have such a multi-talented skydiver with us in 2008!

Camera Flyers

Thai Sky Festival Camera Flyers are some of the world's best skydiving videographers and still photographers, and we are extremely fortunate to have . . . count 'em . . . 7 World Team Camera Flyers for Thai Sky Festival 2008 (including Clem Major, above!) These are true professionals and, as with Thai Sky Festival Load Organizers, their resumes are too extensive to list here. Please visit their web-sites to see truly superb work. Get ready show your smile and your stuff, because they plan to record as much fun over Prachuap as you are willing to have.

Willy Boeykens
Belgium

Willy's Web-site

Bruno Brokken
Belgium/Spain

Bruno's We b-site

Gustavo Cabana
Argentina/Spain

Gustavo's Web-site

Gaby Meis
Germany/Spain

Gaby's Web-site

Wendy Smith
New Zealand

Wendy's Web-site

Andrey Veselov
Russia

Andrey's Web-site

Administration and Support

The Administrative Staff shares responsibility for everything on the ground— from registration, hotels, transport, and manifest, to goodies, parties, culture, and entertainment! In addition, they each have a specialty (though once again, there is not enough space to list everything they do ;-). Together and/or separately, they have staffed every World Team, Thai Sky Festival, and Bali skydiving event, and are eager make sure you have everything you need to make the most of your visit to the Land of Smiles.