RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA -- A local skydiving team won gold in 4-way canopy formation skydiving at the U.S. Parachute Association National Parachuting Championships that competed last week at the Florida Skydiving Center in Lake Wales.

The team, Elsinore Too Wrapped Up, also earned slots on the prestigious U.S. Parachute Team that will compete at the World Championships this September outside of Chicago.

In canopy formation skydiving, teams of four skydivers deploy their parachutes immediately after jumping from the plane and build formations as quickly as possible while holding onto each other's canopies. A videographer flies alongside to capture the action.



Too Wrapped Up members are Taylor Cole of Rancho Cucamonga, Will Kitto of Irvine, Sean Jones of Corona, Eric Gallan of Fallbrook, Glen Fafard of Riverside and Kevin Ingley of Olympia, Washington. The team trains locally at Skydive Elsinore.



Later this year, nearly 500 of the country's top skydivers will head to the 2016 United States Parachute Association (USPA) National Skydiving Championships, the biggest and most thrilling skydiving competition in the country. The event will take place October 21-30 at Skydive Arizona in Eloy, an expansive skydiving resort an hour south of Phoenix.



For more information on skydiving and to find a USPA Group Member skydiving center near you, visit www.uspa.org.

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--Info submitted from USPA





