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"You don't quit skydiving because you get old,
you get old because you quit skydiving!" - Bill Wood
2010 World Meet at Verona
I'm glad to inform you that the 10th POPS World Meet
will be held in Verona,
Boscomantico airport, Italy at the
Parachuting Center of Verona (website in Italian Language), from
Friday 18 to Saturday 26 June 2010.
Great news for S.O.S. The first SOS 4 way RW National
competition will be held in 2010 POPS Meet.
Lamberto Serenelli, WTP #7
For details of the meet visit the
World Meet website.
The Parachutists Over Phorty Society or POPS is a club for
skydivers over the age of forty. The first POPS was founded in
1966 in the USA and has spread to many countries around the world.
POPS clubs hold regular meets in their own countries, and every
two years hold a World meet. World meets have taken place in Australia,
USA, Spain, Jordan, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and the USA again. The next World Meet
will take place in early 2008 at Toogoolawah, Australia. Competitions at meets include
accuracy, formation skydiving and the special POPS competition the
Hit and Rock.
Membership requirements are that a person has made a
parachute jump, or a tandem skydive, and is over forty years
of age. An smaller group within POPS is the SOS - Skydivers over
Sixty - and there even some JOES - Jumpers Over Eighty
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This page is about skydiving and sport parachuting. Freefall and jumping out
of planes and balloons is included. You might consider that peripheral interests are skydiving
equipment such as parachute canopies, rigs and harnesses, jump suits and alimeters, goggles
and helmets. People looking at this page may also be interested in skydiving videos and
freefall camera work. Free flying and canopy formation events and records are
part of the sport too, as is classical and sports accuracy.
The interest is not regional and has a world wide appeal, so it is of as
much interest to skydivers in Australia and New Zealand as to parachutists
in Europe and the USA. Age is no barrier, except that to join the Parachutists
Over Phorty societs you have to be older than forty and similarly with the
sykdivers over sixty, jumpers over seventy and jumpers over eights societies
This page is not about music or pop groups, bands. It is not about pop-tarts or picnics,
lollipops, popsicles or other confectionery, cookies, candy or sweets. Ignore POPS .
It has nothing to do with CDs DVDs or records. Tandems are not particularly relevant either.
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