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"You don't quit skydiving because you get old,
you get old because you quit skydiving!" - Bill Wood
2010 World Meet at Reggio Emilia, Italy
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Verona Parachuting Center, as candidate site for the 10th World POPS Meet,
has just informed me that is unable to host this event due to the last minute
planned works on the airport in the course of the 2010, consequently I am forced
to change the event location. and date. This change is the only way to guarantee the
organization of the 10th World POPS Meet.
After an immediate and accurate investigation I found the BFU (Body Flight University)
Parachuting School as the best alternative place. The BFU is located in Reggio Emilia, 115
Kilometres (72 miles) south of Verona. www.bfu.it.
You can see the airport and the city on Google earth at the address: Via dell?Aeronautica,
15 Reggio Emilia.
Here are some location features: 1400 metres (4.600 feet) tarmac runway, very large DZ,
covered packing area, camping on DZ, swimming pool, many hotels nearby.
The new date of the event will be from 4th to 12th of June 2010.
Great news for S.O.S. The first SOS 4 way RW National
competition will be held in 2010 POPS Meet.
Lamberto Serenelli, WTP #7
For latest details of the meet visit the
World Meet website.
The Parachutists Over Phorty Society or POPS is a club for
skydivers over the age of forty. The first POPS was founded in
1966 in the USA and has spread to many countries around the world.
POPS clubs hold regular meets in their own countries, and every
two years hold a World meet. World meets have taken place in Australia,
USA, Spain, Jordan, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and the USA again. The next World Meet
will take place in early 2008 at Toogoolawah, Australia. Competitions at meets include
accuracy, formation skydiving and the special POPS competition the
Hit and Rock.
Membership requirements are that a person has made a
parachute jump, or a tandem skydive, and is over forty years
of age. An smaller group within POPS is the SOS - Skydivers over
Sixty - and there even some JOES - Jumpers Over Eighty
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