SWEETLIVING: June 2010

Friday, June 25, 2010

Wingwalking day!

Tuesday was a great day!

I(Hella)am wingwalker for Scandinavian Airshow since 2007, and its one of the best thing ever happent to me, when I was asked to join the team!

Now I supervised three new girls on the wing. I did 8 flights, 6 of them was with the new girls who did 2 each. They did a very good job! First flight was mostly crusing and trying all positions, the second round we did the hole show with loops and barrel rolls. Its such a cool feeling to be upside down on the wing of an airplane! Our airplane called ´Catwalk´ has 450 hp! The Catwalk is a Grumman G 164A Ag-cat from 1973, and now specially modified for wingwalking. Follow this link to read more about Scandinavian Airshow!

http://www.airshow.se/

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The man, The myth, The Chippe

Our friend, mentor & skydive god is leaving us and Sweden to go all around the world to Australia to his girlfiend and new life over there. We wish you the best of luck and happiness. It´s gonna be great for you.

You will be missed but we will see you again soon!

Tickle the foot, a classic from Lodi 1987

Tandemjump with Rasmus

Gap Tallard, World Cup 1990

Manana division, SF - B Team

World Meet 1991, Swedish Team

SST in Action 1992

Big Way

Soft landing

The yellow bike - always as famous as Chippe

Take care Chippe, we love you

C ya ;-)

(all pictures are fetched from Chippes profilepage on facebook)

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Freefly Camp Advanced at Skydive Stockholm

Photo of coach Petter Jönsson, Yvonne Kossek & Hella Stening.

Thank you Martin Eidensten/www.meibe.se for the photo!

Back from FKCG and Nordic 8 FF Camp I (Hella) continued with next ff camp at my home dropzone at Gryttjom. I had a bit of luck to join for a couple of days, Thank you Tilda for giving me a couple of days and thanks to Andreas who let me join even I didnt had as high skills as the rest of the participants ;)

It felt a bit weird to sit there next to world campions in freestyle: Hekla for Finland! Of course we practised on different stuff, buuuuut... ;) Nice to meet you both, great to hear your story and see the videos of your jump! Epic! :)

Most of monday and tuesday rained away but the jumps we did was AWESOME! Thank you Petter for great coaching! I improved my steep track and back tracking a lot!

Instead of doing one-to-one coaching we jumped in groups and did only shorter briefing between the jumps to jump as much as possible. Good thinking, Well organized!

Now I'm back in Uppsala for a meeting with one of our first trip/adventure writer about Tanzania and Kilimajaro we´re we will go in september. And very soon it will be up on our new designed website! Keep your eyes open, 'cause soon we´ll really be rocking on the web as we do on ground... or in the sky! ;) I also want to give a hint 'bout the midsummer boogie at EDZ next week, you want to read about that! Promise!

Blue skies! Love, Hella

Friday, June 11, 2010

Sweetliving goes Nordic 8 FreeFly Camp

We packed our bags and our rigs and went down to Vårgårda DZ, near Gothenburg to participate at Nordic 8 FreeFly Camp for a week. Both me and Hella want to be better freeflyers. I want o increase my skills as a cameraman and Hella will compete in the Swedish Championship in August so she and Kalle needs to practise a bit.

The PAC and the hangar of Vårgårda DZ

First load ;-)

Supporting coach Malin Sjödin from Infinity FreeFly and me

When the wheather was bad we had to come up with other things to do. Here´s Håvard from Skywalkers, Norway, holding a seminar about FreeFlying, awsome!

Photo: Aron Kron

The weather in Vårgårda failed us so we loaded up the plane and went to FKCG:s other dropzone, Näsinge, where the sun always shines, almost anyway ;-) Just a couple of miles from the Norwegian border. A very beautiful place!

Inflight to Näsinge DZ - The movie

Näsinge DZ

Näsinge from da sky

Sunset packing

Coach Tommy from Nordic 8

Coach Petter from Nordic 8

Almost green light

Go, go , go FREEFLYYYYYYYYYYY

Yvonne & Hella

Me backtracking in sunset, life is sweet sometimes, sweet indeed!!

Hella & Petter in the back

Is the camera on?

Kalle checking his gear

Me, Yvonne & Kalle in a headdown exit

Funny, funny

Yvonne sitflying

Hey, it opened, again ;-)

Me & Hella

Hella happy

No words, just the moment.....

K. Jensen

Thank you Petter, Tommy, Håvard, Martin, Malin for a great camp!

Photos by David Olsson Garshasebi

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Sweetlivings first organized tandem jumps !!

Hi ya´ll.

We just want to say that we´re sorry for not publishing so much in the blog right now. We´re working like crazy to get Sweetliving more up and running, planning alot of activities, events and travels but mostly alot of administration takes up most of our time. But shortly we´re back on track, so we can continue delivering the best reports from all around the world to all of you here on the blog. We have a webdesigner working on our website right now. As soon as it´s ready we´ll let you know, it´s going to be awsome!

Plus many many plans and ideas that will come true during 2010, stay with us!

But in the meanwhile..........Sweetliving goes tandem ;-)

This whole year we´re going to organize alot of tandem jumps with Stockholm Skydive.

The idea is to reach out to alot of poeple and companies using advertising and alot of our connections.

Get everyone we know to come out to our DZ and do a jump. We want to show everybody what it feels like to jump out of an airplane and fall freely through the sky. The feeling is indescribable, you really need to see it and experience it for yourself.

Here´s is our very first tandems. Thank you Mahshid, Marina, Greta & Marcus for jumping with us!