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Techspan Director Wins National Skydive title

Techspan Group company director, Tim Fastnedge, who has spent the last 10 years in the sport, this year won the title of National Skydive Champion, for his efforts with the NZL 4 way Formation Skydiving team “Auckland Method”.  During January 2005, the New Zealand National Skydiving championships were held at the Bay ofIslands. Competitors from all around the country converged at the Keri Keri airfield for the New Zealand Parachute Federation National Championhips, which ran over a 4 day period 13th—16th January 2005. Tim is the fifth member of the team, and is responsible for one of the most critical parts of the jump - Video. These events today are all judged by the use of handy cam style digital video cameras, which are fitted to the cameramans helmet during the jump. “Without the video, the team will not score points, so there is a lot of pressure on the video man”, says Tim. “You must keep them in frame during the whole descent”. Tim also explained that the sport today is one of the safest in the world. Statistics show that you are more likely to be injured or killed fishing ! “There is a saying said Tim - “ do you remember when sex was safe and skydiving was dangerous ?” Tim will represent New Zealand at the 2006 World Championships in Germany. The NZL team selected in 2005 - Richard Munro, Laszlo Csizmadia, Paul Martyn, Attila Csizmadia & Tim Fastnedge (videographer).