 JONATHAN TAGLE |
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Birth Date: March 10, 1969
Nationality: USA
First Jump: November 2000
Total Jumps: 5500
Home DZ: Skydive Eslinore (CA)
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Performance Designs Factory Pilot, High Performance Canopy Coach, AFF and Tandem Instructor, and Aerial Photographer and Videographer
Education: AS in Multimedia Communications, Master's Institute
Transportation: Green Chrysler Cirrus
Hobbies: Movies, Travel, Flying, Ground Launching, RC Planes, Long Boarding, Swimming, Photography, SCUBA Diving, Wake Boarding, Snowboarding, Poker Tournaments
Licenses/Ratings: D-24341, Tandem, AFF, PRO Rating, BASE #1159, Private Pilot, Instrument Rating
Sponsors: Performance Designs, Sun Path, Airtec, Gatorz Eyewear, Liquid Sky Suits, Skydive Elsinore, Bird-Man, Alti-2, Asylum Designs, Consolidated Rigging, Terminal Imagery and Rigging, Rare Dynamic
Total Skydives: 5500
Freefly: 1200
RW/FS: 600
Hop-n-Pops: 1300
Camera: 2000
Other: 400 (Wingsuit, Demos, CReW, AFF, Tandems, Skysurf)
Cutaways: 6 Intentional, 9 Emergency
Main Canopy: PD Velocity 90/84/79/71
Container: Javelin Odyssey
Reserve Canopy: PD 113 / Optimum 126
AAD: Speed Cypres
Wingsuit: BirdMan Skyflyer 6 and Skyflyer 3
Helmet: -
Jumpsuit: Liquid Sky Suits
Altimeter: Neptune Audible and Visual
Eyewear: Gatorz Wraptor and Magnum
BASE Jumps: 80
Building: 5
Antenna: 12
Span: 7
Earth: 48
Other: 8 (Dams, Cranes, etc.)
BASE Rig: Perigee Pro
BASE Canopy: Black Jack 240
Competition Results:
| Date |
Competition |
Location |
Event |
Result |
| October 2006 |
U.S. National Championships |
Eloy, AZ |
4-way Open |
1st |
| August 2006 |
World Championships of Canopy Piloting |
Austria |
Distance |
1st |
| August 2006 |
World Skydiving Championships |
Germany |
4-way Open |
1st |
| July 2006 |
King of Swoop |
Spain |
Overall |
1st |
| June 2006 |
European Swoop Tour - Extreme Week |
Norway |
Overall |
1st |
| April 2006 |
Pro Swoop Tour |
Lake Wales, FL |
Overall |
1st |
| September 2005 |
U.S. National Championships |
Perris, CA |
Overall |
1st |
| August 2005 |
World Cup of Canopy Piloting |
Austria |
Distance |
1st |
| August 2005 |
European Swoop Tour |
France |
Overall |
1st |
| July 2005 |
World Games |
Germany |
4-way Open |
1st |
| April 2005 |
Pro Swooping Tour - Grand Prix |
Perris, CA |
Overall |
1st |
Other Skydiving Accomplishments:
World Records: 2005 Distance (CP): 502ft, 2005 Distance (CP): 494ft, 2005 Distance (CP): 479ft
TV Appearances:
- Discovery Channel's “Stunt Junkies” (May 2007)
- NBC's Today Show (May 2005)
- Brazil: Queda Livre (April 2005)
HP Canopy Expeditions:
- 2005, 2006 Norway - Fjords
- 2006 France - Mt. Blanc
- 2006 Italy - Dolomites
- 2007 Arizona - Grand Canyon
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