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The Pro Swooping Tour's 2007 Air Festival with 2nd annual Mile Hi Canopy Cup is now complete. The event was very successful with 30 competitors at the competition. The Air Festival was set up as a "go big or go home" competition with cash and awards being issued to the 1st place winners of all events. The event included a total of eight rounds with two rounds per event. The athletes got free hot lunch everyday provided by Abos pizza with fresh soft drinks and lemonade.

The Pro Swooping Tour would like to thank all of our staff, volunteers and sponsors that make these events possible. Thanks to sponsors Mile Hi Skydiving, Daedalus canopies, Mirage Systems, Abos pizza and Liquid Sky Sports. The PST would also like to thank chief judge Karine Leblond, assistant judge Joy Townsend, cameraman Duane Hall, cameraman Steve Huboba, line judge Tiffany Saunders and all the DZ staff at Mile Hi Skydiving.

DISTANCE EVENT-Jay Moledzki from the PD factory team narrowly beat out Team Extreme member Nick Batsch in the Distance event. Jay's years of experience showed in the courses, as his position in the gate was exact. Nick was deep in the entry gate on the last round costing him the event and the new distance world record. Nick was only 12 feet short of taking the event and the new world record with his JVX 79.

Nick's team mate Jessica Edgeington which is only one of two "pro" swoopers and the first female member of Team Extreme had two smoking runs on her new JVX going 474 feet on her second run but barely missing the entry gate on round one. Her run of 474 feet was as long as the winner Jay Moledzki's first run. The PST had FAI judges on hand so Jay's longest distance run of 494 feet will be submitted as the new FAI World record under the new weight restrictions.

ULTIMATE SPEED EVENT-In the ultimate speed event competitors had to drag the surface of the water through a 200ft straight course. Jay Moledzki beat out the field with a 1.83 and 2.2 second run. Once again his experience showed as he swooped his body at an angle to keep from popping up at times. Many competitors popped up after touching the water giving them a zero round. There was a thin line between coming in with too much speed and struggling to stay on the water or coming in too slow and not making the whole course.

CARVING ACCURACY-The PST brought back the carving accuracy course for the Air Festival. The carving accuracy course was created in 2002 and used until 2004. For many competitors it was the first time ever seeing or swooping this course. The course is set up with a narrow "quad" gate over the water with five exit gates on both the left and right side of a center gate. Competitors accumulate points by scoring the quad gate while dragging the water and then scoring the exit gate of choice. The course is very challenging and at first glance many competitors thought it would be easy.

Once again experience was king with this course and those that had competed in it before did well. Unlike most of the other events it became obvious that pilots did not need to approach the course at full speed or they could not carve to the harder outside gates for more points. The slower more docile canopies like the Xaos did much better in this event.

FREESTYLE-The PST started defining freestyle moves in 2003 with their first freestyle competition held in Perris Valley California in 2004. That year Jay Moledzki and Jim Slaton ripped up the field with maneuvers like the "Blindman", "wingover" and "Switchblade". In the 2005 TJ Landgren broke out the "Tick Jockey" and in 2006 Jeffro Provenzano amazed the crowd with the first ever "Miracle Man". This year was set to be an exciting year with pilots practicing a series of new moves including a back flip, double miracle man and blindman wingovers. There were several exciting moves including Isaiah McCauliffe's "double Miracle Man" attempt and Nick Batsch's "Blindman wingover".

Both of these guys came very, very close which was exciting for everyone at the meet. In the end PST new comer Noah Bahnson from ASC skydiving won the event with a near perfect miracle man and some saying it was cleaner then Jeffro's last year. Swoopers can look forward to some exciting new moves at this year's biggest swoop event Labor Day weekend (Aug 30-Sept 2nd) at Mile Hi Skydiving.

TEAM SPEED-The team speed event was back with dueling 200ft straight courses. In this event the time starts when the first member enters the gate and the time stops when the last member exits. There was twelve teams in this competition on Sunday morning with Jay Moledzki and Marat Leiras taking top honors.

OVERALL-The overall winner of the 2007 Mile Hi Canopy Cup was Jay Moledzki. Jay won a total of $3,250 including $625 for winning the speed event, $625 for winning the speed event and a $2,000 check for his canopy cup win! Stuart Shoenfeld placed 2nd place overall with a awesome performance even though he had no first place wins putting him in the money or awards. Noah Bahnson won $625 for his win in Freestyle and Jeffro Provenzano and Brian McNenney shared winnings of the carving accuracy event winning $312.50 each.

THE GRAND EVENT- The biggest swoop event of the 2007 season is scheduled for Labor Day weekend (Aug 30-Sept 2nd) at Mile Hi Skydiving. This will be the PST & CPC Championships with a $10,000 cash purse. The CPC Championships will be before the PST Championships allowing the top 10 winners and advanced pilots to compete in both events!

The 1st ever PST championships and 3rd annual CPC Championships will have a similar feel as the Air Festival but with more vendors, spectators and exhibitions. The competitors and exhibitionist will have their own aircrafts with on going action at the venue. Like the Air Festival we will have Pizza vendors supplying all the food and drinks to the athletes with message therapy, chiropractic services, smoothie booths, beer booth, merchandising booths, CBS, local networks and much more!