Comments on: Your Story Ep 16 : Claude Gillard. 50 Years of Parachuting and Skydiving the Early Days. http://yourstorypodcast.com/2008/05/your-story-ep-16-claude-gillard-50-years-of-parachuting-and-skydiving-the-early-days/ Audio Stories of Interesting Lives Thu, 17 May 2012 03:39:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Your Story : Audio Stories of Interesting Lives » 50th Anniversary of the Australian Parachute Federation http://yourstorypodcast.com/2008/05/your-story-ep-16-claude-gillard-50-years-of-parachuting-and-skydiving-the-early-days/comment-page-1/#comment-1368 Your Story : Audio Stories of Interesting Lives » 50th Anniversary of the Australian Parachute Federation Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:13:55 +0000 http://yourstorypodcast.com/?p=71#comment-1368 [...] your interested in some stories of the early days of Australian parachuting when skydiving was a truly dangerous activity please go to the post and listen to what Claude has [...] [...] your interested in some stories of the early days of Australian parachuting when skydiving was a truly dangerous activity please go to the post and listen to what Claude has [...]

]]> By: Adam Daniel Mezei http://yourstorypodcast.com/2008/05/your-story-ep-16-claude-gillard-50-years-of-parachuting-and-skydiving-the-early-days/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Adam Daniel Mezei Sun, 25 May 2008 17:39:04 +0000 http://yourstorypodcast.com/?p=71#comment-119 Thing I dig the most about people like Claude 'n Ian are how they can take a keen maven's interest in something so, well..so *unaccessible* to the average joe. It's not every day a skydiver is born...and what Claude and Ian did here was to make the art and sport of skydiving/parachuting accessible to the masses. Another great advantage -- which, incidentally, I've increasingly noticed over the past several YSPs I've listened to -- is how Ian "exposes the hidden" with these casts. He makes expert information available to the layman, getting me really interested in picking up a book about skydiving, for example, just to find out more about what it feels like for a man like Claude to leap out of a plane at 3,000 feet in the air, or what's it's really like to run a bookshop, despite the commonly-held allure about it. BTW...does a book exist? Has Claude written anything or does he blog, out of curiosity? Warm regards from the heart of Europe, Adam Daniel Mezei Thing I dig the most about people like Claude ‘n Ian are how they can take a keen maven’s interest in something so, well..so *unaccessible* to the average joe. It’s not every day a skydiver is born…and what Claude and Ian did here was to make the art and sport of skydiving/parachuting accessible to the masses.

Another great advantage — which, incidentally, I’ve increasingly noticed over the past several YSPs I’ve listened to — is how Ian “exposes the hidden” with these casts. He makes expert information available to the layman, getting me really interested in picking up a book about skydiving, for example, just to find out more about what it feels like for a man like Claude to leap out of a plane at 3,000 feet in the air, or what’s it’s really like to run a bookshop, despite the commonly-held allure about it.

BTW…does a book exist? Has Claude written anything or does he blog, out of curiosity?

Warm regards from the heart of Europe,
Adam Daniel Mezei

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