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Team Yahoo! |
interviews begin before the chute hits the ground! |
Brian Rogers - dropping in |
Stefan, with ESPN Brazil |
backstage at the X-Games |
post jump interviews from the landing zone |
1999 was a great year for Team Yahoo! skysurfers Stefan Klaus and Brian Rogers. They opened the season with a victory at the '99 SSi Open in Titusville, Florida and became the #1 ranked team in the world! - that led to a spot in Sports Illustrated for Stefan recognizing him as a "master of the plank". A few months later at the 1999 X-Games, in one of the closest skysurfing competitions in history, they captured the silver medal (last year these guys were only an "alternate team" at the X-Games). They went on to a second place finish at the Swiss National Championships (Stefan is Swiss). They ended the season with a fourth place finish at the World Championships - though the consensus among their competitors was that the judges simply weren't ready for some never-before-seen moves the team unveiled. The team is now based at the Perris Valley Skydive Center in California. |
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Stefan Klaus Skysurfer total jumps: 3200 skysurf jumps: 2400 Home: Zuckenreit, Switzerland
email: StefanKlaus@yahoo.com |
Brian Rogers* Cameraflyer total jumps: 8400 camera jumps: 7600 Home: here, there, mostly the air
email: skysurfteam@yahoo.com |
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2000 ESPN X-Games - Gold Medal
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Click above to read about Stefan in SI |
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