IPBC BASE Games

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Press Release

For Immediate Release

Contact: IPBC Event Coordinator AVERY BADENHOP at 707-773-3950 till the 27th & through the fourth of March at (435) 259-5825 & Cell (707) 484-9935 theipbc@home.com, www.theipbc.com


Over 40 Parachute Jumpers to compete from 390 foot cliff in Moab, Utah.

CALIFORNIA - The International PRO BASE Circuit (IPBC) will host the 5th annual "Tombstone Challenge" in Moab, Utah on March 1st. Over 40 jumpers are expected to compete from the 390 foot cliff called Tombstone as they battle it out for over $1,000 in cash. BASE jumping is the sport of jumping from fixed objects using a parachute and is one of the newest and hottest extreme
sports to hit the X scene in the last eight years. Competitors use skill and guts to outwit and out match each other as they earn points for producing flawless openings of their parachutes and then try to hit a 10cm target. Competitors have gotten so good at this that winning comes down to centimeters. The IPBC started holding competitions in the early 90's and now has three
competitions a year. The "Tombstone Challenge" kicks off the three event national circuit. Jumpers compete against each other as individuals and as teams in a year-long quest for points.
The next competition is in Twin Falls Idaho off the 400 foot Perrine Bridge over the Snake River Canyon. The circuit ends in West Virginia at "The Bridge Day Championships" off the 876-foot by one mile long New River Gorge Bridge. At Bridge Day part of scoring is perfecting aerial maneuvers. Scored like a pool diving contest, jumpers perform spectacular aerobatics as long as five seconds before opening their chutes. Interest for the sport is growing from the public and private sector. The IPBC just finished organizing jumpers in two different events in Asia. An IPBC organizer choreographed 15 jumpers for a simultaneous jump during the New Year's celebration from the Petronas towers, the tallest building in the world. The IPBC also just finished organizing 53 jumpers who made over 470
jumps from the KL tower, both events were in Malaysia. The events went well and plans are already underway for another event at the KL tower. Thailand has also shown interest and the IPBC expects to organize jumpers from one of the many tall buildings in Bangkok by years end. The events are slated for TV and will hit the Asian and European markets. A few sponsorship opportunities remain to those interested. Contact the IPBC at theipbc@home.com & www.theipbc.com. During the event call Avery Badenhop at (707) 484-9935.

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For anyone reading the above document, please be advised:

The IPBC did not organize ANYTHING in Asia.

The Petronas Towers skydiving demonstration jump was organized by SkyVenture Productions, a Malaysian-American company composed of Dann Lee, Jasmina Jacinta Lee, and Robin Heid.

Two IPBC individuals participated AS individuals in the Petronas event. They did not participate in organizing the event; one of them did choreograph the dive according to parameters provided to him by the organizers, and everything he did was ordered and approved and SUPERVISED by them.

The KL Tower event was similarly created and organized more than a year ahead (August 1999) of time by Martin Dumas, Aziz Ahmad and Alicia Boey.

One of the "IPBC organizers" came on the scene in October 2000, and had no appreciable role until mid-November 2000. The other "organizer" got involved in mid-January _2001_.

The IPBC "organizing" of KL Tower consisted principally of extorting $60 USD from each participating jumper, and providing five days notice that all photo and video recording rights to the event were controlled by them.

THe IPBC's fraudulent claims of credit for "organizing" either one of these Aisan events is either a knowing, deliberate lie -- or a vivid collective hallucination by the three individuals who call themselves the IPBC.

Moreover, these individuals spit in the face of the people who did the real work, and reveal themselves for who and what they really are.

The individuals who call themselves the IPBC have contributed some good things to the growth of BASE jumping and those accomplishments cannot be denied.

Unfortunately, the IPBC's degeneration into a now-destructive force cannot be denied any more, either.

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Copies of this document will be forwarded to all appropriate news agencies along with the IPBC "press release" in order to set the Asian record straight.