Fred
Goebel
Residence:
Bacliff, TX
Occupations:
Home drop zone:
Skydive
Spaceland and Skydive
Houston
First jump:
October, 1985 at Skydive Spaceland, Houston, TX (S/L)
Total jumps to date:
2000+
Licenses, awards,
ratings
& other numbers:
USPA-******,
AFF JM ****
Skydiving
specialties:
RW, Big
way RW formations, CRW
Accomplishments: (note: both deaf/hearing in Italic)
- Silent Free Fall 4
Way
team
member at Nationals in 1987 and 1994
- Successfully completed 20-Way
(a straight line of 5 diamonds) on Fred's 200th jump, Muskegoo, OK in Aug,
1987
- Became 1st and
only
DEAF AFF
Jumpmaster in U.S. (and World)
- First Deaf ever to make a BASE
jump in U.S. in middle of 1980
- Texas
Super Scrambles 4-Way Scrambles, 1st place, 1990
- Texas Super
Scrambles
4-Way
Scrambles, 1st place, 1991
- Tx State 72-Way
Attempt
- World Record
All-Deaf
12-Way,
Sept 1, 2001
- World
Record All-Deaf 14-Way, Sept 2, 2001
- MS
State Record All-Deaf 7-Point 4-Way, Feb 2002
- MS
State Record All-Deaf 8-Point 5-Way, Feb 2002
-
World
Record all-Deaf Big-Way RW 15-Way, Sept 13, 2003
-
World
Record all-Deaf Night RW 7-Way, Sept 13, 2003
- World
Record all-Deaf 4 Way RW 18 points, Sept 13, 2003
- POPS Texas Record 2-point
42-way, Rosharon, TX, July 16, 2005
- World Record all-Deaf
RW Sequential 3 point 10 Way, October 14, 2005
- World Record all-Deaf
Big-Way RW
16-Way, October 15, 2005
- World Record all-Deaf
Night RW Sequential 3 point 8 Way, October 15, 2005
-
Demo at alma mater, Austin, TX, June 10,
2006
Last updated: June 10, 2006