On the 14th of June 2023 I have executed an enormous challenge for a very good cause. Both my parents died due to colon cancer. My goal was to raise money for a specific colon cancer research by making 60 (I made 61!!) skydives (around my 60th birthday on the 21st of June) in one […]
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Skydives over the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
In February 2019 I felt very lucky to skydive over the great Pyramids of Giza Egypt. I was part of an international group of experienced skydivers. We all made three skydives over the pyramids and in one of the skydives we literally made a pyramid shape formation in the sky! This was done for the […]
Skydive the Blue Hole, Belize
My bucket list event of a lifetime! See a great video here and some pictures of this great event below this blog. Skydiving above a small, private Belizean island, jumping into the Blue Hole and way more!! Extraordinary DZs Early February 2018 I prepared my trip with Tsunami Skydivers to Belize. This time (I feel very privileged […]
I love to be in beautiful skies
Skydive Costa Rica. In February 2017 I had two great experiences in our beautiful skies. Early February, as part of a group of around a hundred experienced International skydivers, we skydived above Tambor in Costa Rica. The view from above was amazing and landing at the beach in front of the resort made it all […]
From unknown to known
October 18th, 2016. I am in a plane flying back from Vienna to Amsterdam. The last days were very intense for me, specifically today. A well known skydiver disappeared. This all started on 13 May 2016. Well-known Dutch skydiver and tandem master John Verduin from my home drop zone Skydive Teuge disappeared suddenly when he did not show up […]
Skydive Tambor Bay, Costa Rica
What a great boogie, location, organizers, skydives, friends, resort, organization, country, manifest, pilots, local boogie staff, nature, plane and much more…… For a smiling video of this event, please click here and you will find some pictures at the bottom of this article. On Saturday morning, after a 30 hours trip from Amsterdam – Panama – […]
Update Dutch National Skydiving Record
In this blog I gave a daily update on our skydives, including photos, video’s and two interviews on Radio538. Please enjoy! For the full explanation of our goals please click here I just uploaded a nice compilation of our 84way. We were all in the formation, but unfortunately also two wrong grips. Please click here to […]
Dutch National Formation Skydiving Record.
Last Sunday (31 august 2014) I have been skydiving with around 75 other skydivers to prepare ourselves for the upcoming event to break the Dutch National Formation Skydiving Record. We created two groups. One group with 54 skydivers jumping from 3 planes and another group of +/- 20 skydivers jumping from one plane. I was […]
Tropical Skydive Palau
This is my diary about my most exotic skydive adventure! Above, on and underwater of Paradise Palau. Please see here a compilation of some of my Formation Skydives above incredible Palau. Please see here a 1,5 minute video of me hanging under a helicopter. From 28 March to 13 April 2014. 28 to 30 March […]
Skydivers flying with hang gliders
An article (in Dutch) in the “Sportparachutist” (national skydive magazine) about me as a skydiver who is also a hang glider pilot. It seems that I am one of the four people in the Netherlands who is next to a skydiver (since 1981) also a hang glider (since 2006). 2013_09_20 Sportparachutist September 2013 Skydivers aan […]
Skydiving
On the 14th of June 1981, when I was 17 years old, I made my first two skydives at a small dropzone in the Netherlands (Paraclub Icarus, Hilversum airport). From that moment in time, skydiving is one of my biggest passions in my live. For me skydiving is total freedom and gives me lots of […]