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      <title><![CDATA[Skydiving club invites UF students to tandem jumps]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Skydive Network Staff]]></author>
      <attribution source="Gainesville.com"><![CDATA[http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100730/ARTICLES/100739998]]></attribution>
      <createdate unixtime="1305533000" delta="37 weeks ago"><![CDATA[5/16/2011]]></createdate>
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      <lead><![CDATA[Some University of Florida students won't be spending the weekend at the beach or in the library. Instead, they will be jumping out of planes. Students will have the opportunity to skydive this weekend with the Falling Gators skydive club and a Skydive Palatka professional for a discounted price of $153, down from $185.]]></lead>
      <text><![CDATA[The special is open to UF and Santa Fe students and faculty from today through Sunday.Julia Loeb, 21, will be one of those students falling from the sky this weekend. Loeb has been with the Falling Gators club for two years and became president of the group this year.“Summer is a little slower,” Loeb said. “So, we hope more people come out this weekend.”Loeb said the group tries to offer the tandem special once a semester. In February, the Falling Gators offered the special for $144. Skydive Palatka received more than 100 reservations for jumps.Loeb said the reason for the price increase is to help Skydive Palatka.“The Falling Gators jump out here, and they bring business,” said Art Shaffer, the director of Skydive Palatka. “I really try to cater to the students.”Shaffer, 48, has been skydiving for more than 25 years and has logged more than 12,000 jumps. He said he estimates 50 to 60 reservations this weekend.Shaffer said that the tandem specials help grow membership with the Falling Gators, which indirectly helps Skydive Palatka. He said he hopes students come out this weekend to try skydiving for the first time.“You do things in life you'll always remember,” Shaffer said. “This is definitely one of themLoeb agrees. She said she couldn't describe the feeling of skydiving because it is not what anyone expects.“After a week of exams and classes,” Loeb said, “jumping out of a plane is really fun.”Loeb will be jumping by herself this weekend because she is Accelerated Free Fall (AFF) certified. She completed the eight-hour ground course as well as seven jumps with an instructor before she was allowed to skydive by herself. The AFF program is offered to UF students by Skydive Palatka.Also jumping this weekend is Catherine Marshall, 20, a member of the Falling Gators.“We go out and jump together,” she said. “It's like a big family.”Marshall became AFF certified in October through the Skydive Palatka program and has been skydiving almost every weekend since.“I get nervous at the door [of the plane],” Marshall said. “Like any other extreme sport, there are risks.”]]></text>
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