Viking Boogie & 16-way competition 2023
Limited slots available
DON'T MISS OUT AND RESERVE YOUR SLOT
THURSDAY JULY 27
LOCATION:
SKYDIVE HOOGEVEEN
THE NETHERLANDS
BOOGIE ORGANISING BY:
FS: Herman Landsman
FS: Sian Stokes
FS: Eric Staal & Sara Sabelis
FF: "Bennie" Benard
FF: Connor Figg
FF: Rosie Manning
16-WAY COMPETITION
WITH:
WITH:
Dieter Kirsch
Martial Ferré
Marco Arrigo
Milko Hodgkinson
See 16-way competition details below for how to register
- General boogie details
- 16-way competition details
- About The organisers
- About the dropzone
- Food and Overight stay
- Jump Prices
4 DAYS OF HIGHT ALTITUDE FUN
LIMITED SLOTS AVAILABLE – REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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Great atmosphere
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Jumps from 15.000 ft
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Three C208 caravans
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Great food
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Amazing people
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Aerodyne demo gear available
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Onsite campground
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Campfire
- Hottub
Notice to student Jumpers:
- There will be NO possibility for AFF or Static line jumps during the boogie.
- IF YOU NEED RENTAL GEAR CONTACT US BEFORE YOU REGISTER!
16 WAY COMPETITION
LIMITED SLOTS AVAILABLE – REGISTRATION WITH THE ORGANISERS REQUIRED
You can register as a whole team (15 jumpers) or as an individual.
Individual applications will be assigned to a team by the organisers
- Organisers: Dieter Kirsch, Martial ferré, Marco Arrigo & Milko Hodgkinson
- 12 Jumps (6 training jumps & 6 competition jumps)
- All jumps multiplane, from two Supervans at 14.000 ft
- Price: € 660 including boogie fees
If you have jumped with one of the organisers before you apply for this event by emailing Dieter, Martial or Milko
If you haven’t jumped with them but have the skills to fly competition 16-ways please fill-out this form

Martial Ferré
Martial is an elite FS skydiver with many gold medals in European 4 & 8-way Championships and Gold medalist in the 2002 8-way World Cup. He recently won a silver medal at the first indoor 8-way World Meet in 2019 and posted a new indoor world record with his team with a 44 pointer (47-3). Martial is still competing every year with his different teams at French indoor nationals or US indoor nationals. He is a full time tunnel and skydiving coach working with 8-way teams, organises at outdoor events with P3 as a P3 Captain for big-ways or a Powerplay coach alongside with DanBC, Doug Forth and Craig Girard. He is also running invitational 16-ways events through Europe (Powergames, Klatovy Challenge and Powerflower). Martial organised the French national record - 104-way.

Dieter Kirsch
Dieter Kirsch is a multiple German champion in 4way and and can look back on an extensive experience as a coach in 4way and 8way and as an organizer of all German major formations records.

Marco Arrigo
Marco Arrigo is a professional skydiver and full-time coach. He started skydiving more than 25 years ago and has around 16 000 jumps

Milko Hodgkinson
World class organiser with over 2500 jumps and 30 World, European and British records

Herman Landsman
Jumps +15000
Loves – seeing people enjoy what they are doing, keeping people in this amazing sport by helping set achievable goals and planning training schedules to help them get there.

Eric Staal & Sara Sabelis
Enthousiastic Skydivers experienced in coaching the intermediate groups

'Bennie' Benard
Enthusiastic skydiver (fun and freedom). Won multiple Dutch National Skydiving Championships. A licensed freefly coach and coach-examiner.

Rachel Verweij
Freefly coach, windtunnel coach, participant in the Dutch head down record
The dropzone is located at the airport in the city of Hoogeveen in the Netherlands. If you plan on flying to the Netherlands there is a direct train from Schiphol Airport to the city of Hoogeveen where it is 10 minutes by taxi (call +31 592 615 000) to the dropzone.
There is a small clubhouse and hangar with an additional large hangar available for packing.
The landing area is limited in size (75 by 75 meters). (Minimum 200 jumps experience required) A large student landing area is a short drive away, dropzone busses will bring you back to the airport.
Food
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner available at the Dropzone.
- Breakfast (daily) – € 5
- Lunch (daily) – There will be food trucks on the DZ
- Dinner (Thursday & Friday) – € 15,00
- BBQ (Saturday) – € 20,00
Food tickets are limited and may be sold-out before the event starts.!
Buy your food tickets here
- There is also a restaurant within walking distance on the the airport.
Overnight stay
- You can stay at the airport campground, toilets and showers available. You can buy tickets for the campsite (€7 per person per night) during registration.
- Or try to book a room at one of the following hotels in the vicinity
https://www.hotelhoogeveen.nl
https://www.hotelspier.nl
https://boschzicht.nl/hotel/
https://hotelterlinde.nl/kamers/
Jump prices (including coaching & outside camera from 8-way & up)
(Freefly jumps includes coaching for 4-ways & up)
Jumps from 15.000 ft
€ 35*
Gear rental (limited availability, pre registration required)
€ 15
* A fuel surcharge may apply if there is a sharp increase in fuel prices