Team/Bios

Team


	Kirk Campbell: kirk@spaceland-directe.com Started Skydiving: 1995 Total Jumps: 3900+
	Kirk has been competing in 4-way and 8-way since 1998. His performance in 2003 with Warp Factor earned him the bronze medal in 4-way advanced at the US Nationals. Last year, his 15.3 average with Arizona Directe earned him 6th place in 4-way open. Kirk has been coached extensively by Gary Beyer. Kirk is a Therapist and spends his weekdays helping teens recover from drug and alcohol abuse. Enthusiastic recovery is one technique he uses. Kirk’s love of skydiving and desire to pass on RW knowledge has him coaching and organizing 2 weekends per month.

	Samer Haija: samer@spaceland-directe.com Started Skydiving: 1995 Total Jumps: 4,000+
	Samer has been skydiving since 1995 and competing in the sport since 2000. In addition to competing at the US Nationals in the past eight years, Samer's training history allowed him to compete and coach in Georgia, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Colorado and now North Carolina. Samer recently moved to Raeford, NC and works as an instructor at ParacleteXP SkyVenture www.paracletexp.com

	Gary Beyer: gary@spaceland-directe.com Started Skydiving: 1983 Total Jumps: 15,000+
	Jumping since 1983, Gary is one of the world's most experienced skydiving coaches. He has been a Static Line, AFF and Tandem Instructor and has over 900 hours of tunnel coaching time, being involved with the Airspeed camps since their inception in 1999 and running his own camps since 2004. A World Champion skydiver in 8-way with 5 World and 30 National medals, Gary still competes with Player Coach teams, and also recently took Gold in 10 and 16-way with the Airspeed at 2007 US Nationals. He dedicates the majority of his time to 4- and 8-way team coaching, and individual skydiver training. He has taken many supposedly 'failed' AFF students through to becoming successful skydivers. He now coaches in both the USA and Europe and is a South African by birth.

	John Eagle: john@spaceland-directe.com Started Skydiving: 1990 Total Jumps: 13,000+
	Competing in 4-way since 1992 and teammates with Gary Beyer for many years. John was on Arizona Airspeed from 1995 – 2003. John has two World Championships, 8-way and 4-way, three World Cup Championships and one World Games Championship. Also two World Meet silver, two World Cup bronze and a World Cup silver, plus over a dozon National titles. With 29 National medels John was part of a clean sweep at Nationals two years in a row.

	Gordon Lindsay: gordo@spaceland-directe.com Started Skydiving: 1996 Total Jumps: 5,800+
	Gordon "Gordo" Lindsay is Arizona Directe's video cameraman and has been videoing teams since 1996. In his spare time you may find him riding his dirt bike in the Arizona desert.