Team Outbreak Vertical

Outbreak Freefly originated as an artistic freefly team in 2005, taking the silver medal at the UK nationals that year under the name Space Euphoria. Following this success the team went on to win two UK national titles, take 6^th place at the 2006 World Parachuting Championships in Gera, Germany, and a silver medal at the 2007 World Cup in Stupino, Russia.

Since original team members Andy Newell and Mike Carpenter have moved on in search of new challenges, Jim has teamed up with some more of the UKs top freeflyers to create Outbreak Vertical. The new team is competing in the challenging new discipline of 4-way VFS and has already found some success as winners of the 1st European competition held in Chalon sur Saone, France, in September 2007 (as UKVertical) and coming 3rd in the Arizona Arsenal VFS meet at Skydive Arizona in April 2008.

The new line up includes Dan Parker, Andy Ford, Mark Joyner and Andy Lovemore on video, see below to meet the guys....

Jim Harris

Age: 29
Jumps: 5500+
Years in sport: 10

jim@outbreak-freefly.com

Jim is an experienced competitive freeflyer and coach, he has 5 senior national freefly medals becoming UK champion in 2006 and 2007. He represented the UK at the 2004 and 2006 World Parachuting Championships and the 2007 World Cup in Stupino Russia, taking the silver medal on that occasion. Other skydiving achievements include Gold at the 1st European VRW competition 2007, European freefly formation record holder (40-way) and British freefly formation record holder (11-way).

Jim is the resident freefly coach at Skydive Spain, Seville, where he runs the Outbreak Freefly School from September through to June. He is also a Safe Flight School Empuria Brava canopy coach and holds canopy flying courses throughout the year.

Mark Joyner

Age: 26
Jumps 1200
Years in sport: 4

Mark is the newest member of the team and is an extremely dedicated and enthusiastic skydiver. He is always pushing himself to improve his skills and experience. Mark has also recently become an avid tunnel flyer and has about 15+ hours of flying time.

Mark was one of the members of the UK10 sequential freefly group, is a British headdown record holder, and recieved a bronze medal for speed skydiving at the 2007 British Nationals.

Andy Ford

Age: 37
Jumps: 6800+
Years in sport: 20+

Info@infiniteskydiving.com

Skydiving Achievements:
GB Skysurf team camera flyer (playstation) 1996-1999
Gold 1997/98 UK Nationals
Silver 1999 UK Nationals
1st World Air Games, Effes, Turkey. 5th
1998 ESPN X games. 5th
V-max 4 way F.S team (camera flyer)
2003 UK nationals Silver
2003 World Championships, Gap, France. Gold
UK 4 way VRW team
First European VRW Championships, Gold
2007 European Freefly formation record holder (40 way)

Dan Parker

Age: 32
Jumps: 3000+
Years in sport: 32

Achievements in skydving:

Andy Lovemore

Age: 30 something
Jumps: 3500+
Years in sport: 8

Andrew has around 3500 jumps and in 2007 was part of the UK VRW team winning the first european VRW title adding to various medals including Open Gold in Senior Freestyle at the UK Nationals in 2006.

"The many facets of this sport continue to captivate me and none more than capturing on film the excitment and skills of others in human flight. I discovered a natural partnership with the camera and have been fortunate to film some of the worlds best flyers."

Outbreak Freefly Associates

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