The "Jump for the Cause" 120-way Texas State Record Event and Boogie 2000 will be held at Skydive Dallas in Texas. There will be two Casas and two Super Otters for your jumping pleasure! Skydives are $18 to 13,500 feet. Brett Bradley will be organizing raft dives and other interesting tailgate/inflatables skydives. There will be drawings, a silent auction, adult beverages Friday and Saturday evening and a Cajun feast on Saturday evening. There will also be several food vendors offering a variety of fare throughout the weekend. Free load organizing, including raft dives, will be available for all levels. The Boogie fee is $30 for all three days or $15 per day. This includes free adult beverages on Friday and Saturday evening. Dinner tickets for Saturday evening's Cajun Feast will be $10 per person.
 
On Friday, July 21, Skydive Dallas will have two teams competing against one another in the national Speed 60-Way competition. For more information check out Speed 60-Way Competition's web site at www.speed100.com.
 
The 2000 Jump For The Cause events are raising funds for Spinal Cord Injury Research. Roger Ponce de Leon has signed on to the record event and boogie! As with all JFTC events, this one gives you the opportunity to skydive for free. For those participating in the record, every $150 in donations you bring in will get you one of your skydives free! This event will be one for the record books for sure! By collecting $2400 in donations your entire event is covered! -- That's right!-- Free! But you need not be a participant in the record event to benefit! Every $100 in donations brought in will earn one regular jump ticket at Skydive Dallas. There is no limit to the number of jumps you can earn!
 
Frito Lay has agreed to donate snacks on all three days for all participants! That means boogie and record participants alike will get free goodies. Hooters is donating adult beverages on Friday and Saturday evenings, of course, served up by some of those world famous Hooters girls!
 
Check out their web site for more information. If you have any questions feel free to email Jennifer Powers at skydivedallas@texoma.net and she will be happy to assist you in any way she can.

The first Monkey Claw Freefly Jam of the new Millennium took place over Memorial Day weekend, May 26-29 at Skydive Cross Keys in New Jersey. Here are some of the finer points from the weekend's freefly extravaganza as:
 
* Speedcurve Productions was onboard to shoot their upcoming freefly video.
 
* We had 51 participants from as far away as Texas, Canada, California, Virginia and Massachusetts.
 
* Special Monkey Claw jumps included 21-way tracking dives from 15,000 feet, 6-way linked round jumps with three tubes, 16-ways with a base of five tubes!
 
* Jumper Mikey Palischak won the "fastest man competition" with a recorded speed of 255 mph. A higher speed of 277 mph was logged but the jumper broke the regulation hard deck and was disqualified.
 
* The Swoop-n-Slide event was dominated by Dr. Adam Rosen who nearly had to treat himself and an "Airblade" on the scene. (In actuality, Bobby P. from Orange kicked everybody's ass!).
 
* There was free pizza and beer on Friday evening, and Saturday featured 3 deejays spinning all night! Jumpers were treated to a real southern BBQ with a 50 lb. pig and BBQ chicken with all the trimmings. The party raged right 'til the end.
 
* The ladies of Orange made the "bungee run" particularly exciting by offering up true incentive to the male participants. A bungee run is a 100-foot inflated two-lane race track. Two competitors are hooked to an inflatable wall by 40-foot shock cords, and the object (usually) is to grab a bean bag at the end before falling victim to the bungee. Stakes were higher due to the free spirited ladies from Orange (I'll let you do the honors on that one). What a time! Don't miss the next Monkey Claw Jam scheduled for Labor Day. It's gonna rip!
 
Check out Monkey Claw's web site for some great photos!