Skydive New England Staff

Date of first jump: April 23, 1988
Total jumps: 10,000+
Ratings: AFF Instructor, Tandem Instructor, S/L Instructor, Pro Rating, instrument rated private pilot
Records: Pond swooping, Base jumping, 2nd place extreme sports expo Norway 2004
Favorite thing about skydiving:  A parachute that works
Hobbies: Base jumping, hiking, and flying

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Hometown:
Date of First jump: 1976
Total jumps: 6500+
Ratings: AFF Inst, Static Line Inst, Sr Parachute Rigger, Pilot
Records: Former World Record Holder 246 way, Gold Wings # 2803, Diamond Wings # 981, Double Diamond # 559, Triple Diamond # 372, QuadraDiamond# 290, PentaDiamond#210, 12HrFF#1577, 24hourFF#706, 36hourFF# 417,48hourFF#320, 60hourFF#270, 72HourFF#220, 84hourFF#176, Falcon# 227, DoubleFalcon#159, Eagle#100, DoubleEagle#127, 4Stack#2981, Night 4stack#765, 8stack#1721, SCR#9475, NSCR#2030, SCS#6679, MuffBros#1941, FreakBros# 2651

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Hometown: Sanford, Maine
Date of first jump: October 1995
Total Jumps: 6500+
Ratings: AFF Instructor, Tandem Instructor
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Favorite thing about skydiving: Seeing the excitment of 1st time jumpers, and a well planned and executed skydive!
Hobbies: Going to gym

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Hometown: A very, very small one.
Date of first jump: Sept 8, 2001
Total Jumps: 8000+
Ratings: Tandem, AFF, Video
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Favorite thing about skydiving: Surviving!
Hobbies: Skiing, hiking, mountain biking, reading, traveling, swooping.

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Hometown: Keene, NH
Date of first jump: August 23, 1997
Total jumps: 7000+
Ratings: Coach, Tandem I, AFF I, Videographer, Senior Rigger
Records: Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits, Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass
Favorite thing about skydiving: Everything
Hobbies: Skydiving, flying & building R/C planes, music, traveling, anything fun
Anything else you want people to know about you: Zaggi Pilot #1, I like to skydive!!!

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Hometown: USA                                                                                                      See Full Profile
Date of first jump: 1979
Total Jumps: 5000+
Ratings: Pro Demo Rating Holder, Expert “D” Lic, Coach, AFF I, FAA Cert. Parachute Rigger
Records: Wing Suit
Favorite thing about skydiving: The community, the culture and adventurous global life that is Skydiving!
Hobbies: BASE Jumping, Snowboarding, Photography, Mt. Biking, Surfing, Travel

Contact: Harry@TheHarryParker.com www.TheHarryParker.com, www.HarryParkerPhotography.com

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Date of first jump: July 1999
Total jumps: 3000+
Ratings: AFF, Video
Records: NH womens state record -12 way
Favorite thing about skydiving:
Hobbies: skydiving, traveling
Anything else you want people to know about you: ...i don't want to scare them. The less they know the better.

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Hometown: New Orleans
Date of first jump: Sept. 1996
Total jumps: 3500+
Ratings: Tandem I, Coach
Favorite thing about skydiving: getting to jump with all my friends
Hobbies: Swooping/skydiving, free diving, hiking, biking, canoeing, and playing ball with the bulldog

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Hometown: Essex Junction, Vermont
Date of first jump: September 1995
Total Jumps:4000+
Ratings: Static Line, AFF, Strong & Vector Tandem, Video, Senior rigger
Records: Pond Brother #6; Vermont State Record (3 cessna 12 way formation); 4 stack award; Star Crest recipient
Favorite thing about skydiving: Being a part of the skydiving community and introducing new people to it.
Hobbies: Ice hockey, snowboarding, BASE jumping, golf, croquet, RC aviation, quantum mechanics, construction/home improvement, BEER.
Anything else you want people to know: Flirt with the reaper all you want... just don't take her to bed!

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Hometown:  Franconia, NH
Date of first jump: May 2003
Total jumps: 4500+
Ratings: Tandem,Coach,Skyventure wind tunnel coach
Records: International underwater basket weaving champion
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Making people smile!
Hobbies: Taking people on there first skydives!!! Free Flying, Swooping/Canopy flight, Flying/Coaching in the wind tunnel, Dogs,Travel, Organic farming, Hiking/Camping, Hunting/Fishing, Scuba Diving, Airplanes, Cooking, and of course Video Games!

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Hometown:
Date of first jump: Fathers day 1996
Total Jumps: 2600+
Ratings: USPA Coach, Tandem I., Skydive University FS1, Professional Exhibition Rating
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Favorite thing about skydiving: Making people happy while having a great time doing what I love
Hobbies: Swooping, Demos, Wingsuit, Mt. Biking, fencing, hiking, and golf
Anything else you want people to know about you: You can find me on Facebook under Chad Person.

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Hometown:  Richmond, Virgina
Date of first jump: 
Total Jumps:  Not enough
Ratings: 
Records:  Honor roll
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The friends and lifestyle I have found in the sport!
Hobbies:   Snowboarding, kickin' it at the beach, camping, and putting smiles on faces one scoop of ice cream at a time!
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Hometown:  Orlando, Florida
Date of first jump:  Oct 1, 2006
Total Jumps:  2000+
Ratings:  Coach, AFF Instructor
Records:  1997 NBL National Champion, Whiskey drinking champ
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Getting paid to do what I love.
Hobbies:  Music and the outdoors

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Hometown: Acton, Maine
Date of first jump: Sept 2, 2001
Total jumps: 900+
Ratings: Coach, AFF Instructor
Records: 36 beers through a funnel in 2 hours
Favorite thing about skydiving: The culture
Hobbies: Skydiving, Traveling, Hiking and playing with baby
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Hometown: Hamilton, Montana
Date of first jump: May 2000
Total Jumps: 900+
Ratings: AFF, Tunnel Coach, USPA Coach, S&TA
Records: Maine State Record - longest pack job and World record - longest debriefing
Favorite thing about skydiving: The big hearts I see in the sport during my work with Raise the Sky.
Hobbies: CRW, scuba, travel, hiking
Anything else you want people to know about you:; Quiet moments and wild rides

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Hometown: Warwick, RI
Date of first jump: July 15, 2001
Total Jumps: 750+
Ratings: A, B, C, & D Licensey morning
Records: No skydiving records but I've recorded alot of records!
Favorite thing about skydiving: Taking photos of first time jumpers. The look on their face when they jump out of the door is priceless.
Hobbies: Playing music, photography, recording music, yoga, running, and of course skydiving
Anything else you want people to know about you: I'll be teaching guitar lessons when we're not jumping. You can find me in the hanger stretching every morning I'm here! seanprogan.com

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Hometown: USA
Date of first jump: May 2001
Total Jumps: 750+
Ratings:  Coach, AFF Instructor, tunnel coach
Records:  NH State Women’s Record
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The amazing people you meet along the way…
Hobbies:  Gardening, Chooks, Organizing Chaos…
Anything else you want people to know about you:  Negative Batman

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Hometown: Stratham, NH
Date of first jump: Sept 9, 2002
Total Jumps: 1000+
Ratings:  AFF Instructor, Coach
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Teaching
Hobbies:  Laughing and smiling

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Hometown: Portsmouth, NH
Date of first jump: August 20, 2005
Total Jumps: 1100+
Ratings: Coach
Favorite thing about skydiving: The people at Skydive New England, always learning
Hobbies:  Rock and ice climbing, Fencing, archery, photography, I occasionally like to topple a regime
Anything else you want people to know about you:  All these hobbies were just hobbies killing time until i found skydiving.  I engage people in conversations about skydiving who couldn't care less.  Ask me a question, your doing me a favor!

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Date of first jump: July 31, 2000
Total Jumps: 400+
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Records: 3 min. 48 sec., Total pack jobs - 40,000+
Favorite thing about skydiving: Without a doubt its the people and the lifestyle. I love being a part of a small subculture where everybody knows everybody. I have friends from all over the world. Here on the dropzone, it matters little weather you are a brain sergoen, a hobo, or an astronaught. I have known all three and more...
Hobbies: photography, flying sailplanes, riding bicycles, driving, thinking
Anything else you want people to know about you: I'm always looking for abandoned buildings to photograph

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Hometown: Billerica, MA
Date of first jump: July 2006
Total Jumps: 280+
Ratings: Master brain launcher
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Favorite thing about skydiving: Being part of a machine which helps people remember how great it is to be alive.
Hobbies: Tinkering, jumping, packing, and comedy
Anything else you want people to know about you: I can almost do an atomic sit-up.

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Hometown: Dublin, Ireland
Date of first jump: October 2007
Total jumps: 170+
Records: Being the first actual Irish Person in Lebanon Maine
Favorite thing about skydiving: Jumping with my friends
Hobbies: Surfing, Windsurfing, running, anything to do with water, Being Outside and living the absolute dream
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Hometown:  Toledo, WA
Date of first jump: April 2005
Total Jumps: 
Ratings: Tandem, Coach
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Favorite thing about skydiving: Sunrise jumps and the people
Hobbies: Fishing, hiking, cooking, skiing

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Hometown: Acton, Maine
Date of first jump: May 2008
Total jumps: Not enough!
Ratings: Queen of the mat!
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Favorite thing about skydiving: Anyone can do it
Hobbies: Reading, skiing, snowshoeing, drinking wineAnything else you want people to know about you:

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Hometown: Dover, New Hampshire
Date Of first jump: 10/03/2007
Total Jumps: 24
Ratings: Not Yet!
Records: Mostly Maiden
Favorite thing about skydiving: The feeling never gets old!
Hobbies: Traveling, skateboarding, ultimate frisbee, skydiving, mountain biking, bonfires, working out, roadtrips and kickin back and having a grand ol' time.

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Hometown: Newton, Iowa
Date of first jump: Feb 1992
Total Jumps: 3
Ratings: 
Records: Anything that makes the soul dance
Favorite thing about skydiving: The People
Hobbies: Working, creating
Anything else you want people to know about you: I like it down here on Earth

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Date of first jump: June 6, 1986
Total Jumps: 666
Ratings: Hillbilly beer burpin'
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Hobbies: Drinkin'
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Hometown: Orlando, FL
Date of first jump: April 20, 2008
Total Jumps: 50+
Ratings:
Records: My level 7! Haha!
Favorite thing about skydiving: Being able to forget about the world for a brief moment, focusing on me and my skydive!
Hobbies: Love tunnel flying, rock climbing, running in circles and GO FAST
Anything else you want people to know about you:

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Hometown:
Date of first jump: June 28, 2004
Total Jumps: 1,000,000 ( Off of my Porch)
Ratings:
Records: Mostly Frank Zappa
Favorite thing about skydiving:
Hobbies: Playing Music, Horror Movies, Fred Cotreau Fan Club President, Writing and Entertaining!
Anything else you want people to know: There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap!

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Hometown: Wollongong, New South Wales. Australia 
Date of first jump: June 2007
Total Jumps: 14
Ratings:
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Favorite thing about skydiving:The more times I do it the more I see and the more I can do with friends!
Hobbies:Snow Skiiing, Surfing, Hiking, Reading, Gym, Swimming, Socializing with friends & Cooking. I'm a Hairdresser/Makeup Artist by Trade, So if you need a hair cut or colour come see me at the top of the Hill....

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Hometown:  Clifden, it's a sleepy coastal town on the west coast of Ireland
Date of first jump:  
Total Jumps:  Not enough at the moment but give me a while
Ratings:  4/5 Stars!
Records:  Give me a beer and Ill tell ya a few
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The feeling just as you jump
Hobbies:  Surf, travelling someplace new, dancing with your sister, music, cooking at the beach, drunken adventures, and stories around the campfire at sunset 

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Hometown:  Elliot, Maine
Date of First Jump: 
Total Jumps:  300+
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Hometown: Dover, NH
Date of first jump: April 22, 2010
Total Jumps: 30Ratings:
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Favorite thing about skydiving: Feeling completely peacefull under canopy.
Hobbies: Yoga and skydiving

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Hometown: Winthrop, MA
Date of first jump: June 2009
Total jumps: 3 and working on it!
Ratings: Super FREAKIN Awesome!
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Favorite thing about skydiving: The escape from the real world.
Hobbies: Working hard and hardly working
Anything else you want people to know about you: I can't feel the tips of my toes!

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Hometown:  Acton, Maine
Date of first jump:  2008
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Favorite thing about skydiving:  The cute jump suits!
Hobbies:  Making jewelry and walking the doggie (Douglas)

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Hometown:  Lebanon, Maine
Date of first jump:  July 16, 2009
Total Jumps:  16
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The freedom
Hobbies:  I like anything outdoors.  I am also a proud parent of an angel named Jadeleigh

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Hometown:  Waihi Beach, Australia
Date of first jump:  Dec 4, 1993
Total jumps:  6700+  
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The diversity
Hobbies:  Downhill skateboarding, golf, drinking beer

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Hometown:  Somersworth, NH
Total Jumps:  2
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The DZ Life
Hobbies:  Stainglass making, drawing

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Hometown:  Boynton Beach, Florida
Total Jumps:  5000+
Ratings:  Tandem and AFF Instructor
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Seeing the facial expressions of my tandem passengers when we land, and teaching people
Hobbies:  Chasing skyballs and swooping my canopy

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Hometown:  Rochester, NH
Date of first jump:  
Total Jumps:  290+
Ratings:  Coach, pilot license
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Freefall

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Hometown:  Newman, Western Australia
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Total Jumps:  1130+
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Hometown:  Kaposvar, Hungary
Date of first jump:  
Total Jumps:  4300+
Ratings:  Coach, AFF Instructor
Records:  Placed 2nd in 2002 US Freestyle National for the Hungarian Team.  2003 Hungarian Freestyle Team, France
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Freefall
Hobbies:  Surf, snowboard, and traveling

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Hometown:  Kaposvar, Hungary
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Total Jumps:  8000+
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Hometown:  Orlando, Florida
Date of first jump:  
Total Jumps:  900+
Ratings:  Coach
Records:  Happiness Award
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Skydiving fosters daily growth in my life with the never ending supply of beautiful people and opportunities it provides.
Hobbies:  I enjoy hiking, biking, climbing, scuba diving, surfing, photography, painting, shadow puppets, hoola hooping, and splashing in puddles!

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Hometown:  Fitchburg, MA
Date of first jump:  Sept 2
Total Jumps:  800+
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Favorite thing about skydiving:  Spending time with friends
Hobbies:  Snowboarding and skateboarding

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Hometown:  Wollongong, Australia
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Total Jumps:  650+
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Provides freedom
Hobbies:  Photography

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Hometown:  Camden, Maine
Date of first jump:  
Total Jumps:  94+
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Sense of family
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Hometown:  Springfield, Ohio
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Total Jumps:  1000+
Ratings:  Coach and static line coach
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Getting high in the sky!
Hobbies:  Playing piano

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Hometown:  Waycross, GA
Date of first jump:  
Total Jumps:  2300+
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Records:  I was the first to do a tandem landing in the ocean of Aruba
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The people and the free student beer!
Hobbies:  Playing the piano and guitar

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Hometown:  Lebanon, Maine
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Total Jumps:  1
Favorite thing about skydiving:  Watching the landings and video's
Hobbies:  Farm operator and gardening

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Hometown:  Wollongong, Australia
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Total Jumps:  1150+
Ratings:  AFF Instructor
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Hometown:  Bellingham, MA
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Total Jumps:  2
Records:  1st degree blackbelt, Won the NESself Defense Championship at age 12
Favorite thing about skydiving:  adrenaline rush
Hobbies:  film making

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Hometown:  Planet Earth
Date of first jump:  
Total Jumps:  1200+
Ratings:  Coach
Favorite thing about skydiving:  The ladies
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