24th - 25th Sept 2013
Organized by: Wira Adventure Consultant
The objective is to promote the only "Gua Damai Extreme
Park" in Malaysia as the world renown's BASE jumping
spot for cliff jump and to involve sponsors
to engage directly in the growing extreme sports
series.
Today, the year 2013, marks the sixth time that we have organized this event. This is also our proudest moment as we have received
participants from 13 countries and there were 40 registered jumpers, earnestly
joining us in the two day event.
Our big sponsor Redbull provided a giant tent, folding umbrellas with tables and Allsport Equipments sponsored "Petzl headlamp"
for jumpers and
secretariat.
Apart from the Redbull big tent as a parachute packing area, the jumpers had a big park area to fold their chute. A-Board were arranged around the landing area to mark the border, flood lights were also mounted towards the landing area for night jumps. The Cave was light-up, to facilitate
scrambling in the cave. The trail which led up to the BASE platform were marked by "light stick" as a guideline. Static rope "via-ferrata" was bolted to the walls of
caves until the exit. BASE platform is a new metal ramp which also has a new coat of pain for visual pleasure.
24th Sept 2013, (Tues - Morning) x 65 Jumps
Secretariat provides a pass to recognize
jumpers. In the pass it
contained the complete health
details of the individual jumper besides their photograph. This helps in case of emergency admission into a local hospital.
Each participant was give a “Redbull” drink coupon upon registration. Drinks were redeemed at
the counter next to the
registration counter.
Malaysian
jumper, Mr. Azwan Taharuddin, one of the participants from the "Damai
BASE Team" did the
"Roll Over"stunt successfully. Then Mr Shaun
Cumar and partner,
Ms Kat Donahue of
the United States has been
breaking records with
the action "Tandem Jump" landed with a round of applause from nearby spectators. Ms Kat happens to be the only woman jumper this year.
Two Russian jumpers
performed their "Waterfall"
stunt, but lost control and
knocked themselves on the cliff. Fortunately, both were safe without incurring any injuries. The branches of the trees provided a cushioned landing.
24th Sept 2013. (Tuesday - Night) x 25 Jumps per session
To get to the platform, participants had to climb up from the cave. The atmosphere in the cave became more
interesting and challenging as trails took them through the forest. Something which they had not experienced before.
Fluorescent lights lit the platform area, affording them a final inspection before jumping off the cliff. The night
jumps went on smoothly without hitches.
25th. Sept 2013 (Wed - Morning) x 62 Jumps
Newly arrived jumpers began add on to the registration list.
Jumpers from Norway,
Germany and New Zealand were present. The Redbull team arrived to
distribute canned drinks to participants and visitors.
As the organiser, we are glad and felt satistied as the event went smoothly for once without any life threatening accidents. BASE jumpers spontaneously interviewed also expressed their satisfaction at how well the trail and platfrom was prepared fro their comfort. To some, BASE jumping from Gua Damai Extreme Park was their first experience and indeed, it would continue to bid hem here.
A million THANKS to those involved to make the event a success
this year.
- JPAM Kuala Kubu Bahru
- Gerakan Belia 4B Wira Damai
- Volunteers
- Medias
- Pejabat Kesihatan Selayang
- Polis IPD Selayang
We have much to
thank our big sponsors, namely of REDBULL INTERNATIONAL and ALLSPORT EQUIPMENT/PETZL for contributing tremendously to the
success of this event.
The morning began with a good aerobic exercise which helped the participants to warm up properly. The session was then handed over to En Mustapha for a short information sharing session. Each of them were then given the proper equipment for caving and off they went into the Big Tree Cave.
