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Oliver Furrer
Oliver Furrer has specialised in aerial stunts and photography since 1995.
During his career he has won several skydiving world champion titles and succeeded in breaking miscellaneous world records. He played a major role in different commercials and today successfully produces his own films.
Oliver is based in Switzerland and shares with you the passion for flying adventures and professional photography.
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professional records
Skydiving is one of Oliver's great passions. There is nothing that beats the experience of floating freely through the sky like a bird! Even with more than fifteen years of experience, Oliver is still addicted to the thrills of skydiving with its many disciplines.
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tv & commercials
TV & commercial films are available to see on this page from Oliver and all his records summarised. Check it out all the YouTube videos about skydiving and there different disciplines.
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magazine & newspaper
This page section shows all newspaper and magazines that Oliver Furrer has been published in. Many large magazines printed different interesting articles about him as World Champion and Record holder.
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sponsorship concept
Oliver Furrer is constantly looking for sponsors for all his different projects and events for the year 2010 and beyond. He and his world-class team of skydivers are pleased to introduce you to a wide range of services.
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contact
If you like to contact Oliver Furrer, by sending him an email it would be the best way! Get in contact with Oliver Furrer and he will open the door to the skydiving world for you!
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projects
As you will discover when browsing through Oliver Furrer’s different projects, skydivers are constantly exploring new and spectacular ways to make their sport even more exciting. Over decades skydiving has developed from simple ‘parachute jumping’ to a number of highly sophisticated disciplines, performed by top athletes all over the world.
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skysurf
Skysurfing dates back to the 1980’s, when skydivers started to jump out of airplanes with boards on their feet. Over the years it attracted more and more people and in 1993 the first competition was held. During the world meet 1995 in Germany, Rob Harris set new standards by presenting techniques such as flying upside down, fast spins and complicated transitions at the highest level of perfection.
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history
Skysurfing originally dates back to the 1980’s, when skydivers started to jump out of airplanes with boards on their feet. In 1993 the first competition was held. In 1997 Oliver Furrer and his PULSEteam became world champion in Turkey, won the world natures Games in Brazil and was the winner of the SSI Cup Pro Tour.
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competition
Skysurfing at competition level is a team discipline. Each team consists of two athletes: a Skysurfer and a camera flyer. The surfer performs a number of demanding figures such as sliding, spinning, and twisting. The camera flyer records the performance with a helmet-mounted camcorder.
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big way
Skysurfing has become more and more popular and is also performed as a competition discipline. However it takes a lot of practice until a Skysurfer has reached the perfection to do ‘figure-skating’ in front of unforgiving judges!
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news
In 2006 the Swiss PULSEteam, with Oliver Furrer (surfer) and Lukas Koller (cameraflyer) has again won the gold medal at the skydive world championship!
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silver surfer
Skysurf world champion Oliver Furrer and a team of 20 skydivers executed an aerial stunt as part of the promotion for the movie ‘The Fantastic Four – Rise Of The Silver Surfer, which was released on June 15th, 2007. The event was witnessed live by 180'000 fans together with the stars of the Fantastic Four: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis.
The video feeds from the cameramen Tom Sanders and David Clem Major, were broadcasted live, along with interviews, to 80 Mio viewers.
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wilhelm tell
This wonderful event retraced the footsteps of William Tell, including the famous ‘apple shot’ – Oliver Furrer and his team (including Ueli Gegenschatz and Marcus Heggli) were able to turn this legend into a modern skydiving performance.
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coaching
Over the last 15 years Oliver Furrer successfully coached more than 100 students and introduced them to the world of skysurfing.
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skyglider
Flying with the SkyGlider allows you to reduce the vertical speed and to provide sufficient horizontal velocity to accurately reach a target at some distance away from the exit point. The sink rate of the SkyGlider is so slow that Oliver was able to stay in the air for up to two minutes.
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the board
At the beginning stood the idea of gliding through the skies with little wings attached to the feet.
This project has led to the first SkyGlider prototype and was carried out with the collaboration of the Institute of Lightweight Structures and Ropeways (ILS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), Switzerland.
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across the alps
Oliver Furrer wanted to break the record for the longest freefall distance tracking ever made on a board. On December 2nd, 1998, he started his glide overhead the Aletsch glacier and pulled the main canopy 114 seconds later in the valley between Stechelberg and Lauterbrunnen. Oliver had tracked 2.55 miles (4.1km) overhead the Alps.
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news
About one year after his record flight Oliver announced a second generation of gliders: The SkyGlider G2. This new board was designed and built in Switzerland during 1999 by Holtec GmbH, TS Skyboards and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
The latest aeronautical technologies were applied for computing the structural requirements, to make aerodynamic calculations and to choose the best construction materials. The G2 was designed in a similar way as a regular aircraft and special attention was given to improve the flight performance, reliability and safety compared to the first generation of SkyGliders. Initial test jumps with the new version were done by Oliver during a weekend in April 2000. During those days at the Lapalisse airport (France), the engineering crew, ground personnel, friends and other interested people were closely watching the spectacular drops.
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wingsuit
WingSuits consist of small ‘wings’ that run between the arms and hips of the flyers. Another ‘wing’ attaches both feet together. The ‘wings’ inflate during freefall and diver and suit melt together into one aerodynamic package similar to the wing of an airplane.
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across the volcano
Oliver's next challenge was to fly across an active volcano in his WingSuit, and the ‘Kilauea Caldera’ on the Big Island of Hawaii proved to be the right choice. He jumped from an altitude of 10'000 feet, glided over the lava area, flew right through the steam and landed next to Highway 130.
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high altitude
In June 2000 Oliver Furrer attempted to break Joe Kittinger's record of 4 minutes and 36 seconds in freefall, dating back to 1960. He was wearing a newly designed WingSuit from ‘BirdMan’. On 3rd June 2000 Oliver managed to be in freefall for 3 minutes 47 seconds.
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over the alps
During 2005 Oliver and his team did some hardcore WingSuit flying. After exiting the aircraft, they did a flyby across the beautiful Jungfraujoch and then attacked the peak of the Eiger at 13.000 ft (3970m) above sea level.
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competition
WingSuit jumping is a highly challenging competition sport, and only the best athletes are able to face the challenges of high speed figure-skating between heaven and earth.
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flocking
Flockdiving is a discipline whereby big groups of jumers are trailing the sky in formation.
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coaching
After you have seen the above video and you think you are not a “Stupid Twit” because you have already more then 150 skydive jumps, then you are welcome to contacting me. More details about my coaching method, wingsuit rental, costs, etc. you will find in the shop.
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news
Oliver won the "Wings over Gransee" competition and proved that the new Apache Tonysuits has the best performance overall. In the three disciplines (distance, time & speed) the 18 participators flow there wingsuits as good as possible. Everybody used the FlySight GPS and thanks to the Paralog software all measurement could be exactly evaluated. On the final round, Oliver managed after the steep dive to climb within his wingsuit for 4 second – congratulation!
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skateboard
Why not use a classic skateboard and use it to surf through the air? It is quite difficult to stay together as a group of skydivers on such small boards and with a speed of over 160 mph.
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street landing
For several months Oliver Furrer was jumping with SkateBoards as part of the production for the PULSE 04 video. He used the Pilatus Porter at his local DropZone and was trying to land the skateboard on his feet on the street.
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news
After a long and intense preparation period Oliver and same friends traveled to Oahu, Hawaii, for a three week skydiving holiday. They jumped with
with toys like skateboards, bodyboards, surfboards, flippers/masks and snorkels, swim-dolphins and air-streamers, which proved to be a great experience.
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snowboard
Oliver Furrer is performing different skydiving techniques, including the use of a snowboard. During the snowboard stunts, Oliver Furrer and Tim Glass were coordinating their jumps in a way to be able to surf around each other during freefall. After opening their canopies they sailed towards a glacier and cut away their parachutes just before touchdown.
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ski
Oliver Furrer jumped out of a plane while wearing regular skis as part of a Commercial for Swissair. It was challenging to implement the Director’s ideas into reality, as regular skis are usually not worn between heaven and earth.
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freefly
FreeFlying is the fastest growing and most innovative discipline of skydiving. It evolved from a desire to have fun through exploring the almost limitless ways to fly your body in freefall and is fast-paced and dynamic.
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event
During several festivals, events, boogies and records, Oliver Furrer had a chance to perform as jumper in the world class freefly discipline.
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student coaching
During the last 12 years, Oliver Furrer was giving professional coaching in different disciplines. Many skydivers took the opportunity to learn from the best. They all manage to improved their flying skills and to fine-tune their jumping-techniques.
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canopy piloting
Parachute technology has advanced greatly in recent years. With the development of smaller, faster and more radical canopies basic individual piloting and landing skills were no longer enough. As a result, the sport has a change of focus towards flying along mountain ridges and landing parachutes safely in every condition.
New and exciting disciplines have now evolved and the feeling under canopy is still special – fly like a bird. So canopy piloting a hugely exiting event for spectators has evolved as a result.
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mountain swooping
It is a great challenge to do canopy flying in groups. Speeding down over high altitude snowfields, steering your parachute above or below treetops and swoop safely through a valley-lake at the bottom of the Swiss Alps - a unique experience!
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accuracy demo jumps
The PULSEteam opened the RedBull AirRace at Interlaken, Switzerland, with a spectacular performance, including smoke and flags and a perfectly accurate landing in front of over 60’000 spectators.
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speed flying
Speedflying, is a new sport which includes flying down mountain ridges, riding over snow fields and swooping cliffs. It got established in the skydive- and paraglider-world with their own rules.
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BASE jumping
Jumping from a fixed object is very demanding and requires a high degree of experience and discipline.
There are many different reasons why people do BASE jumping (Building, Antenna, Span, Earth). However, all jumpers share their passion for outdoor activities and the thrill of adventure.
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story
BASE-jumps are often preceded by long hikes in the mountains, where one can enjoy beautiful forests, lakes, meadows and rocks. Oliver is constantly on the lookout for new jumping-locations. This year’s highlight was a 200 meter dive from a tree located high on top of a rock at Meiringen (Switzerland), where he directly jumped from a tree branch into the void (see below).
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wingsuit
The growth of the BASE-jumper community over the last few years triggered many new technological innovations. Many jumpers are using high performance WingSuits to increase the duration of their flights in view of time and distance. WingSuits have opened the possibility to jump from new exit points and to soar along cliffs, mountain ridges and valleys.
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race
During the last three international ProBase Wingsuit Races Oliver attempted the competitions and did many good final results.
The jumps were made from the ‚Mürrenfluh’ (1600 meters above sea level), the landing spot was located at the village of Stechelberg (922 meters ASL).
The goal was to cover the flying distance between the departure and landing point in the shortest time possible. This can only be done by wearing an aerodynamically perfect wingsuit which allows for an optimized ratio between sink and glide rate. The event was very successful and has the potential to become a recognized Worldcup race.
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news
During one week Oliver and some fiends travelled through Switzerland from East to West and BASE jumped many high cliffs. Every day the PULSEteam members discovered different hikes up to the mountains summits and they flow down the valleys within their wingsuits. They experienced many fantastic flights along walls, over ridges and did nice “proximity” paths.
The highlight of the “Tour-de-Suisse” was the new jump in the Melchtal region. Oliver made in advance all investigations to the cliff slope, the trail up, cables at the landing area, calculated of the height/distance ratio, etc. before he opened this new exit called “Faultier”!
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skytheater
SkyTheater is a coordinated air show where the public can watch skydivers gliding in different formations through the sky with smoke rackets on their feet and holding flags and streamers.
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special events
During his fascinating skydiving-career, Oliver has been able to participate in many adventures covering all disciplines of this fascinating sport.
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speeches & presentations
A special way to promote the skydiving sport and the PULSEteam is by making presentations in speeches. Several companies, clubs and schools have asked Oliver Furrer to talk about his fascinating experiences.
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tandem skydive
In 1998 Oliver Furrer’s PULSEteam had the chance to participate in a documentary produced by the ESPN sports channel. The three disciplines of SkySurfing, tandem jumping and regular freefall were combined to give viewers a breath-taking overview about the fascinating possibilities of skydiving.
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photo shooting
A small Swiss-Peruvian company with the name BERGSPITZ produces trendy sports- and street wear with a special focus on fair trade. (MOUNTAIN PEAK).
The PULSE team helped with the supported photo shooting for their new brochure.
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photo contest
As part of the World Air Games 2001 at Spain, the film festival ‘El Yelmo’ organized a photo-contest about ‘Sports in the Sky’. The picture ‘dive into the blue’ from Oliver Furrer won the 2nd place at this international competition.
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film festival
PULSE 03 and PULSE SPEZIAL EDITION videos got nominated at the “Coupe Icare film festival in St Hilaire”, the “El Yelmo – Festival Internacional de Cine del Aire” and on the “Vancouver International Film Festival“.
videos for examples are showing the spectacular stunts on skyboards, skis, the skyglider or in wingsuits. Modern flying under canopy or freefly with high speed or BASE jumping are some other exclusiveness in the films from Oliver Furrer.
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big way record event
On September 3rd, 2000, 10 Pilatus Porter aircraft dropped 84 skydivers close to Zurich for a freefall formation held for 4.9 Second. It was a great experience to set the new Swiss record for the biggest skydiving formation!
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gallery
On this gallery are the coolest and most wanted pictures within the skydiving sport. All different disciplines are covered from skysurfing, skyglider, wingsuiting, freeflying, speed diving, canopy piloting, swooping, speed flying, wing boarding, etc. Enjoy watching the images.
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news
You will explore the updated version of fun within this website section. All the news are combined and current from Oliver Furrer and his PULSEteam. Here you will see extreme side of life and what is possible to enjoy the time off work.
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Wingsuit Work-Shop
The demand to fly in larger Wingsuits groups and perform individual better is growing! Therefore Oliver Furrer in collaboration with other wingsuit coaches are organizing exclusive two wingsuits Work-Shops at different DropZones.
During two weekends, the coaches are giving instructions how to perform the best glide angel, longest possible flight time and fastest ground speed. Individual every jumper is recording his flight path by GPS and gets debriefed on his record by the Paralog-System. Additional the instructors are putting some Flock-Dives together according to the wingsuits size and skydiver skills.
Included in the entry fee of CHF 39.- are all the load organizing, briefing & debriefing, the small "Tombola" and some video- & photos- to each participant afterwards.
Save these dates and registion is mandetory via Oliver@POSX.com
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news 28.04.12
Oliver held the first Wingsuit Work-Shop together with other load organizers on the Skydive Switzerland DropZone in Reichenbach. After the registration and briefing all participators did one performance distance flight. Thanks to FlySight for the GPS units support and Paralog for the "test event" setup. During the second jump run the wind (Föhn) picked up and it was not save to skydive. So the dozed wingsuit pilots landed within the Caravan aircraft and the event had to be cancelled as the weather forecast was not promising. Still the famous “raffle” with good prices was done and the theory about Flock-Diving was given in the afternoon.
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news 12.04.12
During the Porsche Sport Driving Day everybody had a happy smiley face :-) Because all participants could drive different Porsche models on the famous "L'Anneau du Rhin" race track. It was incredible fun to test out the new 911 Carrera cars and impressive to feel the power of these luxury street vehicles. Afterwards a skill driving route was organized to experience a ride on difficult surfaces. In the end we had the opportunity to do some co-pilot laps with a professional driver. This driver brought up the engine to high RPM, side slipped in turns and the smoked up the tires!
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news 06.04.12
Easter time … fun time, therefore Oliver organized the BASE refresher 2012 with many of his x-students on “Good Friday”! During this day the jumpers shared their experience from previous happenings and they got prepared for the next jumps by Oliver’s instruction of aerial dives, exit technics, flying with different jump suits and new equipment. All participants trained on several BASE exits in the Lauterbrunnen Valley and are well prepared for the coming season.
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news 11.03.12
Oliver taught an exclusive BASE jumper course to a new student during four days. First he was declared the theory part and leaned how to pack correctly his BASE parachute. Afterwards the student went through the intensive ground training before they made some bridge jumps! Finally he graduated his course after many high altitude cliff dives in Lauterbrunnen. Congratulation!
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news 10.03.12
On a freezing March morning Oliver and David climbed the local antenna and made a nice „early bird“ jump. With the full moon in the back ground it was perfect to climb up the 188 Meter object. On top they enjoyed a unique sunrise view and BASE jumped down afterwards.
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news 04.03.12
The PULSEteam visited the new indoor skydive arena centre in Prague and got coached by „Ramsy”. Each participant flow over one hour and could very much benefit from the experience of the coach and the local instructors. Thanks to the size of the wind tunnel, it was easy to fly figures together and everybody had a lot of fun.
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news 12.02.12
On a bitterly cold Sunday morning, a few "BASE jumpers' colleagues made their way into the snow-capped Switzerland mountains. Thanks to the temporary crafted ramp at the "High Ultimate" it was easily to exit, but the jumps where icy cold.
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news 01.01.12
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you! The "Furrer's" celebrated their New Year’s Eve at the Burj Khalifa tower watching the high fireworks. Afterwards they exercised different new wind tunnel moves together with Aish Yadav. He coached to the couple the advanced body flying technics and thanks to all the iFly Dubai Staff members for the professional support during the flight sessions.
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news 30.12.11
It was difficult to find the desert DropZone, but once we arrived, the Skydive Dubai 2 Staff gave us a warm and friendly welcome. Only a small limited jumps where possible during one day, due to priority of the local team training and weather conditions. Also exiting the plane at 12'000 feet altitude was a strange feeling, knowing there are only sand dunes below.
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news 29.12.11
It was difficult to find the desert DropZone, but once we arrived, the Skydive Dubai 2 Staff gave us a warm and friendly welcome. Only a small limited jumps where possible during one day, due to priority of the local team training and weather conditions. Also exiting the plane at 12'000 feet altitude was a strange feeling, knowing there are only sand dunes below.
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news 26.11.11
On the way to the honeymoon week Corinne was giving Oliver a pilot chute assist at the Salginatobel bridge. The 90 meter tall object is perfect to jump, but the landing is very difficult in between the big rocks, trees and the river! Nevertheless it was fun and a good experience as married couple!
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news 11.11.11
Just married !!! Corrine Batt and Oliver Furrer had an exclusive wedding at the Bümplitz, Bern castle. After the official ceremony they got picked up by a silver Rolls-Royce car and Mr. & Ms. Furrer drove to the lunch party. It was a perfect day (and date) to get married!
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news 29.10.11
Two weeks before the wedding from Corinne and Oliver, they celebrated independent their „Polterday’s“. Oliver was faced with many different sports activities like “Barefoot Water Skiing, Motocross Race, Orientation Run”, etc. Beside the “Striptease Dance” the high light was Paintball shooting at night time! On the other side Corinne was having a Hawaiian style party with her friends and she had to do some sales games. The luxury limousine car transported the girls between all different locations!
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news 15.10.11
Happy Birthday Corinne! To celebrate this day, we enjoyed the great scenery over the Swiss Alps and rushing with 250km/h through the sky. Afterwards we relaxed at the outdoor pool at Grindelwand and tasty a romantic dinner.
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news 25.09.11
At the airport Thun the charity event "Bewegung bewegt" happened for disabled people. Thanks to the great organization over 500 people could fly within the Antanov 2 Bi-Plane during several specific weekends. A troop of parachutes closed the inducement with a spectacular demonstration jump.
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news 17.09.11
The ProBASE wingsuit race 2011 was hold at Stechelberg in the Lauterbrunnen valley, Switzerland. It was the final event of the BASE jumping World tour with 25 athletes from different countries. Oliver ranked 5th after 3 qualifying rounds but he dropped out of the competition due to personal reasons.
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news 28.08.11
Oliver won the "Wings over Gransee" competition and proved that the new Apache Tonysuits has the best performance overall. In the three disciplines (distance, time & speed) the 18 participators flow there wingsuits as good as possible. Everybody used the FlySight GPS and thanks to the Paralog software all measurement could be exactly evaluated. On the final round, Oliver managed after the steep dive to climb within his wingsuit for 4 second – congratulation!
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news 01.08.11
On the Swiss National day a small group of BASE jumpers did the “High-Eiger” jump under the supervision of Martin Schürrmann. The overall weather conditions where perfect to do this special project, but the summit was still covered by snow and ice. It was a difficult venture to reach the exit point, but the mountain guide prepared a good way and made it happen. Oliver had a 2:35 minutes proximity flight to Grindelwald and he capture more film footage for the next PULSE movie.
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news 16.07.11
Romina, the niece from Oliver (photos) could do a spectacular tandem skydive with Mäc (jump master) over the Sitterdorf DropZone. With a back flip they exited the plane together and Romina was overjoyed of the speed in freefall and the fantastic ride under canopy. Luckily the good weather hold up during this afternoon.
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news 02.07.11
A perfect BASE jumping "Tour-de-Suisse" was hold thanks to the great ground crew support and the good weather condition. Oliver and some BASE jumper fiends traveled from East to West and jumped several cliffs named: Sputnik, Trubadu, Geisenpeter, Gelbwand, Sprungbrett, Ultimate, etc. The hikes (up to 4 h) to each exit point where interesting through the Alps and with a spectacular scenic view on top. In the Melchtal, Stöckalp Oliver opened the new exit (Faultier) for an 800 Meter altitude jump!
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news 05.06.11
It was another great weekend with many coaching- and fun- freefly jumps over the Leutkirch, Germany DropZone. Thursday was a bad weather day, because of low clouds and gusty wind. The rest of the Church holiday weekend was perfect - having a good time with friends in the sky.
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news 29.05.11
One of the highest BASE jump in the Lauterbrunnen valley is the "Salamander" next to the Büffelhorn. Together in a larger group of jumpers it took over 5 hours hiking/climbing to get up to the exit altitude. Afterwards everybody got paid off with a great jump, where Oliver was proximity flying in his wingsuit to Stechelberg.
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news 08.05.11
Oliver was hired by the German DropZone Illertissen for a freefly coaching weekend. Five new jumpers took the advantage and participated at the “one-by-one” freefly training. During these two days, everybody increased their personal skydive skills and could experience flying in the third dimension free.
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news 25.04.11
The weather forecast was not promising, but in the end the Easter weekend was great. So the PULSEteam staid for three days at the German (Leutkirch) DropZone and could do many freefly and wingsuit jumps together. Thanks to the good facility, the fast aircraft and the friendly people it was a pleasure to all the fun jumps.
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news 17.04.11
Two more BASE jumper students graduated successful the first time jumper course. After a pilot chute assist- and static line- jump from different bridges, they afterwards managed a hand hold jump and all the high cliff jumps very well. It was great to see that both of them improved there skills immensely – congratulation again.
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news 09.04.11
Over the Empuria Brava (Spain) Skydive centre, Oliver taught a new student the way to fly with wings. The first training jumps the inexperienced jumper flew within the beginner suit. Afterwards he made many flights within the T-Bird from Tonysuits and improved his flying skills quick. Three days of perfect weather and photo/video “one-to-one” coaching helped that another skydiver graduated as “wingsuit pilot”!
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news 03.04.11
During the first nice Spring weather weekend Oliver organized a BASE jumper “refresher” course for his ex-students at Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Besides supervising there packing techniques again, all jumpers could do many nice cliff dives and started save into this new season.
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news 06.03.11
It was a great BASE jumper weekend with perfect weather condition to explore new objects. Saturday they flow from “Quille du Diable” on Galcier 3000 with the wingsuits to Godey. Afterward a jump at Chamoson and two bridge jumps on Sunday. It was interesting to dive from the bungee jumper platform into the 190 Meter deep canyon and land next to the river. Fun, fun, fun….
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news 13.02.11
During one rainy weekend in Manchester, UK the PULSEteam experienced a freefly Indoor Skydive camp with Fred Fugen from the Babilon-Freefly. He taught new moves and different transitions in all 3D body positions from “belly to back to sit to head down flying”. Thanks to Fred’s knowhow all together enjoyed every minute in the AIRKIX wind-tunnel. Soon the trained will apply in the “real” freefall again.
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news 30.01.11
news: 30.01.11: Since a few weeks there's a perfect BASE ramp at Mürren, Switzerland. This "high ultimate" exit spot is one of the tallest jump in the valley and within a few minutes to reach from the cable train. Even with heavy snow and in cold temperatures it's possible to do save jumps. Also to practice "proximity" flights along the cliffs or test new equipment (APEXBASE/FLIK, TLs/Ultralight) it's a perfect place.
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news 21.01.11
In rush hour the traffic on Los Angeles roads are very packed, so it would be much faster to go by plane to work. As fare there aren't many airports in the city area, a parachute would be needed to get direct to the office. So Oliver practiced a dive jump over Skydive Elsinore, California with a business suit. Maybe in the future more people will dive through the sky or share the car pool better for saving time on the way to work!
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news 07.01.11
indoor skydive, tunnel flying, skydive, fun, skydiving
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news 01.01.11
skydive, tube jump, Happy New Year, fish shape, fun dive
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news 19.12.10
news 19.12.2010: Back on the lovely Hawaiian island flying free in the blue sky. After some flights cancellations and weather delay the PULSEteam is ready to take another great photo shooting over the North Shore Oahu. Some freefly- and wingsuit- students are waiting already in between all the toy jumps to get the best coaching on the nicest place.
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news 28.11.10
A new way of 3D-flying is possible with a wind tunnel. Four engines are generating an air stream up to 150 MPH. So Oliver took the opportunity and was flying at the Manchester, Airkix.com for one hour in the tube channel. Thereby he enjoyed the freefly coaching lessons from Yoko Okazaki and improved his tunnel skills up to dogged head down flying.
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news 23.10.10
news 23.10.10: The perfect way to get started…for when the beach is out of reach. So Oliver had the chance to dip his toe into the world of body boarding and flowboarding at the FlowHouse Bedford’s. The qualified instructors kit him up the basics to ride a wave and prepared him for the time on Hawaii in December.
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news 02.10.10
The ProBASE World Cup race took place in the gorgeous Jungfrau region (Stechelberg, Switzerland) on October 1st and 2nd2010. All 39 Wingsuit participators started to the 4 scheduled rounds, but already in the first round some competitors got disqualified, because they stayed below the minimum canopy time of the flat 25 second rule or for lane invasion. After the semi final round, the 8 fastest pilots raced for the title where Ludo Woerth beat Swiss local Oliver Furrer for the third place. The gold final was extremely tense till the finish line where Espen Fadnes took a tiny lead before Mathias Wyss.
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news 19.09.10
Another successful BASE course was hold with two new jumpers in the Lauterbrunnen area last week. Each student made 5 jumps from different exit points and learned the save way to jump from objects. It’s great to see more happy faces in the valley after good tracking dives done by new BASE jumpers.
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news 11.09.10
news 11.09.2010: The “tres amigos” from Skydive-Switzerland competed at the “Bero Fun-Cup” and won the freefly part, so Oliver had to replace them and took pictures / videos from happy tandem passengers during one day. The scenery over the Interlaken area was fantastic without any cloud and perfect conditions to do a skydive jump. Every passenger enjoyed the great time on the DropZone and got a onetime life experience with perfect images!
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news 10.09.10
News 10.09.2010: Flying the next generation of wingsuit – the FUSION combines the wingsuit and parachute container to offer an ultra low profile, light weight, high performance glide system. So Oliver did his first test BASE jump with the incorporated parachute-suit system from the “ultimate-exit” at Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. The flight was smooth, but in a flatter body position as experienced from other Tonysuits. To reach the pilot chute was no problem and the parachute opening was straight.
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news 05.09.10
During one weekend two new jumper students graduated the intensive BASE course with Oliver. After the theory part and packing instructions they made the first jumps together on the local bridge. Later they successfully completed cliff dives in the Lauterbrunnen area according the BASE course program. Just another effective weekend with many save BASE jumps.
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news 22.08.10
Flying within a wingsuit over water is a scarry thing. So the 8 Swiss skydivers took the shortest way to pass over the lake Thun and flow from Sigriswil to Spiez in freefall. Up to 149 seconds the divers tracked the 4.2 km distance out of 14'000ft altitude and all landed save in the protected grass zone.
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news 14.08.10
That was it...DropZone33! Thanks to Rebi and Ray for the great organization from this boogie at Saanen, Gstaad, Switzerland. Many great skydiving jumps where done and big parties took place every evening. So it's a shame, that these event will not happen anymore !!!
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news 10.08.10
On Thursday morning the three BASE jumper, Alex, Markus and Oliver went up from Col du Pillon to the Scex Rouge and walked over the glacier to the Quille du Diable. After the jumpers got ready to jump the high cliff the Pilatus Porter plane with several photografer-men on board flow by and took great images. The jumpers enjoyed a long proximity flight down the valley and showed with smoke cans the flight pass along the mountains to the spectators on the ground.
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news 08.08.10
Flying high in the sky with good friends and there friends. So did Oliver with Elena a tandem skydive over the beautiful maintain area Saanen, Gstaad in the Berner Oberland. The sunset dive was spectacular with all jumpers on the side in freefall and a save landing!
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news 18.07.10
The freefly team PULSE is doing one training jump over the Colombier, Neuchatel Airport. Fun for all the skydivers in the blue sky.
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news 07.07.10
It was a perfect day with no clouds, warm temperature, light wind and nice colleagues to climb the Eiger mountain. The way up was icy and it was difficult to reach the BASE jumping exit point called "HEIGER". Once the team finally arrived, it was rewarded with an extraordinary view from the top! Oliver jumped with his wingsuit and managed to stay in the air for 2 minutes 35 seconds until landing safely at Grindelwald Grund. Evaluation showed that this was Oliver’s longest proximity flight ever.
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news 27.06.10
At the freefly summer training, the PULSEteam did a "early bird" jumped over Bellechasse, Switzerland. It was fantastic to fly over the lake area and enjoy the sunrise in freefall.
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news 24.06.10
After searching for hours the right spot to jump, the 4 BASE-Boys opened an new exit point at the "Selbsanft" mountain in Switzerland. Each jumper could fly with there wingsuit's down the valley for over one minutes.
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news 08.05.10
The first wingsuit training day was hold at Grenchen with Reto and Peter. Both skydiver going to get ready for the Birdman-Challenge competition in July at Evuvillens.
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news 04.05.10
Oliver gave a presentation at Dozwil-Kesswil-Uttwil high school during the “Elternsicht" evening. He spoke about how teenagers can get involved in full-time sports after school; how parents can support their children and their interests, and the criteria it takes for them to turn their interest into a career. Oliver’s power point presentation and short video clips from his life as a skydiver, showed different ways on how to get kids on the right track.
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news 02.05.10
BASE jumping course at the local bridge and with cliff high jumps at Lauterbrunnen (Switzerland)
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news 28.04.10
One week freefly PULSEteam training at Gap-Tallard (France) with great weather, friendly people and perfect jumps.
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news 10.04.10
A great Freefly weekend at the „Talent-Event“ with Paranodon at Illertissen (Germany).
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news 02.04.10
First PULSEteam freefly training this year at Ecuvillens.
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news 13.02.10
The annual tandem refresher for myself, together with my girlfriend (Reichenbach, Switzerland)
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news 13.03.10
Demo jumps at Verbier (Switzerland) on the occasion of the ‚Gravity Festival’.
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PULSE evolution DVD
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complete skydive rig
for sale skydive equipment the ultimate confitabel complete rig (Javelin Odyssey) with a good Performance Design canopy (Specter 135). Incl. CYPRES 2
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wingsuit coaching
Oliver Furrer is a certified wingsuit instructor! On request he offers tailor-made trainings providing you with all necessary practical and theoretical skills required for safe flying.
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freefly coaching
Oliver Furrer is a certified freefly instructor! On request he offers tailor-made trainings providing you with all necessary practical and theoretical skills required for safe flying.
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freefly pants
The ultimate Hawaii-style freefly pants for flying through the sky! Feel good and look cool. Black basic pants with different flower colours. Available in S / M / L / XL
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wingsuit
Fly the high performance wingsuit that is set-up for multiple purposes.
Model: Birdman, BLADE
Colors: Red / Yellow / Black
Jumps on it: 87
Size: 179cm / 5feet 10inch (5'10")
Level: Intermedian / Advanced
Price: USD 590 (EUR 425.00)
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BASE rig
et the ultra low profile design Adrenaline BASE, Hybrid LD2 container with an ultralight Atair, Trango canopy for high performance BASE jumps.
Container Model: Adrenalin Base, Hybrid LD2
Container Colors: Black / Red
Harness Size: 179cm / 5feet 10inch (5'10")
Canopy Model: Atair Canopies, Trango 245
Canopy Colors: Grey / Red
Pilot Chute: 36 inch
year of manifacture: 2009
Jumps on it: 49
Price: CHF 2’950.- (EUR 2’290.00)
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contact
Contact Oliver Furrer and get all the information about flying in the sky! The best choise to get a champion diving for you and flying through the sky. He is the man with all the records on the sky board.
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