Starhopp Alumni

Erik Prime (Primetime Skydiving)

Erik Prime has been jumping from perfectly good airplanes for more than thirty years, amassing 9'000 skydives and 130 hours of freefall. He makes most of his jumps at Skydive Perris in Southern California, and he flings himself into the ether in other countries on a regular basis. Recent skydiving trips have taken him to Egypt, Madagascar and Kenya. He is very grateful and humbled by the opportunity to skydive into historic Normandy locations such as Omaha Beach, Juno Beach, and the city of Caen.

Eric Prime

A revolutionary Way To Travel

Parachutist Magazine : A Revolutionary Way to Travel

Darryld Light

Darryld Light is a highly respected, legendary skydiver and load organizer primarily based out of Southern California, including Skydive Elsinore and Skydive Perris. Famous for his vast experience, he has completed over 10'300 skydives and regularly coaches both formation skydiving, night-jumping and organizes demo jumps around the U.S.A. During the safety presentation at Starhopp, he claimed to have never done an innhopp before.
Darryld Light

Darryld Light

Darryld Light lands on target flying a blue, white, red streamer during Starhopp 3

Darryld delivers a blue, white, red streamer -- the colors of the french flag -- on target over Bretteville-sur-Odon

JRUSS (SDC Core)

"JRUSS" a.k.a Jason Russell is a world-renowned skydiver, tunnel instructor, and competitor with 20'000 skydives. Alongside his wife, Stephanie Strange, he leads SDC Core (Skydive Chicago), an elite, multi-world-champion 4-way Vertical Formation Skydiving (VFS) team. He was an organizer and plane captain during Icehopp 2 (2022) in Iceland.

"[Icehopp] Some of the best jumps of my career". -- JRuss 
jruss jason russel sdc core skydive chicago

JRuss

SDC Core Exit

SDC Core Exit

Steph Strange (SDC Core)

"Steph Strange" a.k.a Stephanie Strange is a world-renowned skydiver, tunnel instructor, and competitor with 16'000 skydives from Colorado. Alongside her husband, JRuss, she leads SDC Core (Skydive Chicago), an elite, multi-world-champion 4-way Vertical Formation Skydiving (VFS) team. She was an organizer and plane captain during Icehopp 2 (2022) in Iceland.
Steph Strange Icehopp 2022 and JRuss

Steph Strange & JRuss

Icehopp Staff Meeting Reykjavik Iceland

Icehopp Staff Meeting in Reykjavík, Iceland

Ken Ates (8s)

Ken (8s) Ates is a retired US Army Special Forces Officer with more than 10 combat and training overseas deployments all over the world. Ken has spent his current 31 years of service parachuting with the 82nd Airborne Division (with one combat jump into Panama in 1989), the Texas National Guard 143rd Infantry (G Company, Long Range Surveillance), the 3rd Special Forces Group, the US Army Special Operations Command Parachute Team “Black Daggers” and the US Special Operations Command Parachute Team "Para-Commandos." When not performing at demonstrations, Ken serves as a multi-rated parachute instructor. Ken has 3'800 jumps and is a North Carolina State record holder.

Kenneth Ates (8s)

SOCOM Para-Commandos Stadium Demo Jump

Keith Hanley

​Keith is a retired Army officer with multiple special operations assignments and deployments during a 23 year career. He made his first jumps over 30 years ago and since then he has performed as a jumpmaster, instructor, coach, demonstrator, and competitor. He also performed on several military parachute demonstration teams while in the service and he now has over 3'400 jumps. His current skydiving passions are to participate in challenging freefall maneuvers with other jumpers, conduct demonstration jumps as part of the The Chuters, and share his excitement for life and the sport with others.

Keith Hanley

Flag Jump

Patrick Fortune

Patrick retired from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in 2004 after 20 years of service. He has been deployed on 5 of the 7 continents on a wide range of exercises and causes. He started skydiving on May 2nd, 1998 when he found out he was being assigned to an “Airborne” unit, Joint Communication Support Element (JCSE). NOTE: Skydiving and Airborne are totally different. He now works for the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service as a Technical Project Manager. He has logged 3'600 skydives including POPS World Records. He has received the USPA Regional Achievement Award in 2022 for creating Flags in The Air, A Skydivers Tribute to 9/11. He started his own demo and video service in 2016 "Fortune's Flying Flags in the Air, Pro Demo Page".

Patrick Fortune

Patrick Fortune Flag and Streamer Jump

Practice jump at Skydive City, Zephyrhills, FL

Carolyn & Bobby Goldman

Carolyn is a USPA Safety & Training Advisor and the Chief Instructor at Pepperell Skydiving Center in Massachusetts.
She has made 16'000 skydives. Her husband Bobby is an AFF Instructor and organizer with 6'000 jumps. How many happily married couple do you know with 22 thousand skydives combined ? It feels like their honeymoon never ends, travelling the exotic boogie circuit to Costa Rica, the Seychelles, Zimbabwe, Belize, Costa Rica, the Maldives, to name a few!

Free falling together ...

... in exotic getaways around the world. 

William Fisherkeller

William is in his early 30s, but has already 11'000 skydives under his belt! He is a Tandem Examiner, Coach and AFF Designated Evaluator, and Senior Parachute Rigger.
William started jumping in 2010, and he is now a multi-rated Instructor, an avid canopy pilot, and also a private pilot.
He works at Falcon Skydiving Center in Kansas City during the summer, and he works at Skydive Ratings in the winter.

William Fisherkeller

RRW over Skydive Sebastian

Bob Domeier (Dr Bob)

Dr Bob is an Emergency Medicine physician who started skydiving in 1977 after serving with the US Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol as a teen. He has participated in many team competition events and holds several world records for large formation skydiving including the large formation 400-way record set in Thailand in 2006. Dr Bob was an AFF instructor during his early years at Skydive Tecumseh in Michigan, USA. He has accumulated over 7'300 jumps. Dr Bob is honored to be able to participate in this historic event. He is accompanied by his partner Jeanni McAbee who was the daughter of a father who served in the US Army and was stationed for a time in Germany. She has nearly 5'000 jumps.
Dr Bob Domeier and Jeanni McAbee

Dr Bob & Jeanni McAbee

2006 Thailand World Record, 400 Way Formation C-130 Thai Air Force

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