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  • Albuquerque Balloon Museum Airshow

    Today some of the members of the Ozone team performed an air show for one of the largest balloon museums in the world. Featuring Mattt Gerdes, Mike Steen, Carson Klein, Cade Palmer and Loren Cox. The hour long air show was to help open the new “Sky Sailing” exhibit which features paragliders hang gliders and sailplanes. Wingsuit formation flights, paragliding acro, speed wing syncro flights and flybys were all on the menu today. A big thanks to Loren for not letting our d-bags slip out of his hands and Will Smith of Mountain Flyers based in Albuquerque for hosting us.

    Who can guess how this pictures was taken?

    Philippines!

    The Ozone Team had a super fun trip to the Philippines. BASE jumping in downtown Manila, paragliding, speed flying and some formation wingsuit flights. Mike Steen, Mattt Gerdes, Carson Klein, Cade Palmer and Mathieu Rouanet rounded out the group. A big thanks goes out to Buko, Beng, Rose, Jun, Jason, Raffy, JJ, Edsel and everyone else who helped make the event possible. Enjoy the pictures.

    Trip Video

    Some of the action that took place earlier this month in the Philippines. Hope you enjoy it!

    Ozone Team in Manila

    Here is a short edit from our practice jumps yesterday before the main event later in the afternoon. Today we are headed to the Clark Freeport zone to put on an airshow at a balloon festival. More video and pictures soon!

    ParaBoarding

    We had a light wind day on the lagoon in Uruau Brazil. So we busted out the small Rush 2, hooked up some kite lines and had a epic session. The kiteboarder is my little brother Kevin Steen, many thanks to Gregg Mayer for all the rad shots.

    Birthday in Brazil

    Hey everyone, it is another wonderful day down here in Brazil and it happens to be my 27th birthday. We have been kiting every single day since we arrived here here. The spot we are at is in Uruau about an hour South of Fortaleza. Riki and Gigi have been excellent hosts, they are the owners of ProKiteBrasil.com I have been traveling with my little brother Kevin, Steve (aka grey bush) and Steve’s little brother Gregg. The lagoon that we ride in has been full with some of the best kiters in the world including Arron Hadlow, Jesse Richman, Alberto Rondina and Cam Dietrich just to name a few. These guys are super fun to ride with and also good at taking all my money playing poker at night. Mayer got his paraglider out last night during the sunset session and had some cool kiting and flying on the dunes behind the lagoon. Not 100% sure what the plans are for our remaining 5 days, but I do know tonight is going to be a good time, putting another year under my belt and looking forward to the next one.

    Gobble Gobble

    Well another year in Turkey is over, this year at the 10th Annual Oludeniz Airgames, Carson Klein and Kevin Hintze backed me up for some awesome jumping and acro flying. Most days were filled with wingsuit flights over the blue lagoon and loading as many bodies as possible on our Magnum Tandem and seeing how far above the glider we could flick ourselves, then taking it deep with our BASE rigs for the crowd. A big thanks to Kevin Hintze for the expert tandem launches with as many as 4 passengers. The Cloud 9 Bar as well for getting us wasted every night, then providing the best cappuccino in Turkey the next morning to help wake us up before we had to go jump out of something. Here are a few pictures, the video will done in the next few weeks. Brazil is the next trip for some kite surfing and paragliding.

    Good Times in MOAB

    Had a blast this past weekend down in Moab, Utah. BASE jumping, skydiving, speed flying and there was a boogie going on at skydive Moab, which meant free beer! Kevin Hintze ran his speed flying wing off of every BASE exit point that we went to, even in a tailwind. We are off to Turkey in about a week for the Oludeniz Air Games.

    Norway Wingsuit Video

    Just flying home from Norway seated on the upper deck of a 747, gotta love skymiles! Hope you enjoy the video.

    Norway

    It is August in Norway and the weather is beautiful! Mattt Gerdes and myself are over here on a Big Wall Wingsuit BASE Jumping mission. After burning through some sky miles and a few cocktails to get to Oslo, it was a short flight to Stavanger and a ferry ride to Lysebotyn. Which is the home of some of the most famous BASE jumping cliffs in the world, Kjerag. The weather was awesome for the first day we were there and we did 2 jumps. Liv Mattt’s girl friend had her first terminal cliff in Kjerag, she did great! With a lousy forecast for the area, we ferried our way back to Stavanger and rented a car. The 12 hour drive North to the Romsdal region was not much fun, but with a little Red Bull and some bacon wrapped hot dogs we made it. Things are pretty low key in this region since the world base race crew has cleared out, which leaves us with some of the biggest cliffs in the world all to ourselves. The Troll Wall which averages around 5000 feet tall was the place where the father of BASE jumping Carl Boenish did some of the first big wall jumps outside of the US in the late 1980’s. After a long approach up the backside of the wall, we arrived at the summit around 7pm. The sheer size of the wall is so impressive, just being up there is a real treat, not to mention that we get to fly our wingsuits from it for well over a minute! It was a truly spectacular jump and we didn’t even get arrested or our gear confiscated, bonus! Stay tuned for the trip video which should be done sometime early in September, as for now we have 5 more days to play in this beautiful country.