ROOKIE RUMBLE

A fun, friendly, inclusive and inspirational 3way FS competition for newly qualified skydivers from any dropzone.

• Three flyers per team
• Two 'rookies' per team
• One coach per team
• Forty 'rookie' competitors in total
• Twenty teams
• Six rounds
• Two days
• Epic prizes
• One winner

Each round competitors jump with a different rookie teammate and a different coach. Everyone carries their individual score through the event. The person with the most points is champion. There can be only one.

Who will be the champion? Will the trophy stay with Langar? At Cark where 2022's winner camer from? Or will bragging rights head back to Hinton that provided the winner in 2020? Or to another DZ? Or back to Langar who supplied the winner in 2019?

RookieFest has been a firm favourite at Skydive Chicago ('SDC') for the past decade. 2018 saw approximately 85-90 Rookies competing. Run under the wing of SDC Rhythm XP 4way team it is hugely popular. SDC were very happy for us to start a UK version but asked us to avoid the same name. Hence... Rookie Rumble. :-)

And in 2019, the very first Rookie Rumble took place at Langar. We capped the event at 20 competitors for the first year and we did so again in 2020 given world events. In 2021 we moved to 40competitors. Boom.

2019
1st: Jasmine Manders. She was the LEAST experienced skydiver taking part.

2nd: Bejay Cutmore, just one point behind Jasmine, he was the most experienced skydiver taking part with 300+ jumps.

3rd: Phil Taylor place was achieved by Phil Taylor.

2020

1st: Claire Holland. She was the most experienced skydiver taking part with 135 jumps.

2nd: Tom Dent. Second by just two points, Tom was the second LEAST experienced skydiver with 84 jumps.

3rd: Amy Perry. She was the ninth most experienced skydiver.

2021

1st: Harry Handley. 80 points. He was ranked 16th most experienced with 163 jumps and 2hrs tunnel.

2nd: Michal Dacko. 75 points. He was the 36th ranked competitor of 40 with 56 jumps.

3rd: Jono Simister. 75 points. He was in 3rd place on countback. He had 148 jumps and was ranked 9th.

2022

coming soon

2023

1st: Amadea Strassnig. Ranked 38/40 with 58 jumps and 20mins tunnel.

2nd: Jake McDonnell. Ranked 34/40 with 37 jumps and 40mins tunnel.

3rd: Velichko Georgiev. Ranked 5/40 with 118 jumps and 7.5hrs tunnel.

2024

coming sooooon

2025

Literally, anyone can win.

Fri 25 & Sat 26 September 2026

Rookie competitors can qualify in two ways.

Rookies must have held their A licence for less than two years
OR
have 200 or fewer jumps..

All competitors MUST have FS1.

To clarify, if you have 600 jumps and you have been qualified less than two years. Good for you! You can compete.

If you have been qualified for 10 years but only have 100 jumps. What have you been doing? But you can compete.

If you are neither, great news, you can can still compete in the OPEN Class. Where anything goes.

Rookie Rumble 2026 is 6 rounds.

Rookie class competitors benefit from free coaching.

Coach wears internal video for judging purposes.

No external video to keep the cost down.

Competitors are expected to cover coaches slot and pack jobs. No extra costs.

Total cost per participant: £35 registration fee + 9 jump tickets.

This is worked out from:

9 jump tickets covers your 6 jumps plus half of your coaches slots.

6 coach pack jobs is £42 -> £21 each.

The registration fee includes the cost of hiring in a judge, a modest admin fee and a small contingency buffer. This event is not planned to make a profit.

Please have 9 jump tickets on your account at the start of the competition.

2026 tbc.

1st Prize

xx% off any Javelin container, courtesy of Sun Path Products CONFIRMED

xx% off G4, courtesy of Cookie Helmets

xx% off a Cypres AAD, courtesy of Airtec

xx% off a Symbi jumpsuit, courtesy of Symbi Suits.

xx% off Atlas digital alti (audible and/or visual), courtesy of Alti-2 Europe

xx% off x, courtesy of Performance Designs

2nd Prize

xx% off a Galaxy Altimeter, courtesy of Alti-2 Europe

3rd Prize

Pair of skydiving gloves, courtesy of AirSupply

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#NoRookieLeftBehind

38th, 39th & 40th

30mins tunnel (shared 3on1), or 10mins 1on1 each. Time/date TBC. Cost of tunnel time covered by Buzz at Skydive Tilstock,

Free coaching from Brian Cumming. Times and dates will need to work, obviously.

Excellent news. Just click one of the buttons to register interest.

Your slot is confirmed upon

1) completion of the registration form. Opens Thursday 5th June.

AND

2) the registration fee being paid.

Note: you'll need the date you qualified for your A licence handy. Approximately. If you don't know it, you can always guess it and update it later.