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peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Twenty years ago my phone rang. I picked it up and a male voice said: “Guys, you have to arrange an international skydiving event.”

“You must be mistaken, sir,” I said. “Skydive Estonia has barely finished its second month of operations. We have no experience, no money, and no connections. It can’t be done.”

“Don’t worry,” the man on the phone continued. “You have access to a wonderful big airfield and a perfectly good airplane. All you have to do is make sure that we get to use them for a week, and maybe find us a place to sleep. I know people, and they will come. In numbers.”

Whadever

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

August 12, 2008. Tuuker and I take the Linda Line boat to Helsinki in order to participate in the first ever all hands meeting of the brand new four-way formation skydiving team, of which I had been persuaded to become the cameraman. The meeting results in a number of decisions: the team will (at least initially) be set up for the term of one year, everybody will commit to a certain minimum expenditure of time and money, we’re going to participate in one Bartic (Baltic/Nordic) national championship, and we’ll aim to achieve the average of 12 points in the competition. As a cameraman, I set out for not losing more than two points per competition. A few beers later, we decide that the team will be called “Whatever”.

Skydiving on @ppmotskula

Parasummer 20

Whadever