Over the last few weeks there have been quite a buzz in the skydiving community of Australia with the 50th Anniversary of the Australian Parachute Federation(APF) and Newcastle Sport Parachute Club(NSPC).

The latest APF National Conference is underway and a few weeks back NSPC had a huge week end of celebrations for their 50th.

Podcast Episode with Claude Gillard

Last night I was looking at a lot of images on the Facebook fan page for the APF and was reminded of the podcast episode I did with Claude Gillard two years ago. Claude was one of the early pioneers in parachuting in the late 50′s and president of the APF for 30 odd years.

If 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 to say.

I’ve always had a huge respect for the early pioneers in all fields and as skydiving was once one of my great passions in life I have read a great deal of those early days. Today many people entering the sport or doing recreational tandems jumps don’t realise the grand adventure that was parachuting in the late 50′s and 60′s.

I encourage you to go and listen to one of the great story tellers of Australian Skydiving talk of those days.

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Welcome To Episode 17 of Your Story.

Today we talk with Craig Longhurst who I met recently in a short discussion one night with friends over a beer.

Craig showed intense passion for racing Sidecars of which I know nothing about but I found out that he is also into building Cafe Racers along with his work as a fitter repairing large turbines used in power generation throughout Australia.

Craig giving us a small insight into the world of heavy engineering and the passion that some have for building things that they can use to move them in some of the most exciting ways. These are the mechanical trades.

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Welcome To Episode Sixteen of Your Story.

In 1979 I was training to become a Parachuting and Skydiving Instructor under the guidance of Claude Gillard. At the time Claude was president of the Australian Parachute Federation with already 20 years experence in the sport going back to it’s very beginning in Australia in 1959. Claude has seen the sport develop from an intentional form of aircraft bale out, to the development of the extreme activities with tandems, wing suits and high speed canopies that we have today.

Being involved in both the training, commercialisation, and administration of individual clubs and the development of the Australian Parachute Federation, Claude has seen parachuting from the very beginning as President of the APF for over 30 years.

Within all human activities there is are few rare people who see this activity from inception to maturity. Claude within parachuting and skydiving is one of these fortunate and rare individuals and within his experiences are the timeline of the development of Skydiving.

There are some specific people I know that I look forward to bringing to you on Your Story, Claude is up there as one of the most important to reflect on his life that I know.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed bringing it to you.

His website is labertoucheskydivers.net

email is claude.gillard@bigpond.com

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Welcome To Episode Three of Your Story.Today I catch up with Meg Carrigan who owns a boutique bakery specialising in sour dough breads. I’ve known Meg for a few years and we discuss the best bread made in Australia at her Sol Breads bakery.We chat about her being into competitive mountain biking where she has the skill and determination to be the winner in her age group and amongst the best of the women overall.I also discovered that she has learnt from losing affluence and having to deal with that and the recovery not only for herself but also for her family and that it’s not just all about the money.To automatically receive this podcast freely to you, click on one of the links to the left or search in iTunes for “Your Story.”Subscribe freely in iTunes by Clicking here.If you use another Podcast software Get the feed here.Odeo Link is My Odeo Channel (odeo/ec31ca48707dbcd0)Music is from PodsafeAudioOpening track is “All That You Said” by Everyday Jones