Pat Works's Page

Home Town

Houston, Texas

Home DZ

Perris, California

Favorite discipline in Skydiving?

Freefly, RW

Date of birth:

March 17, 1943

Number of skydives:

7,776

Number of BASE Jumps:

0

Tunnel time:

15 hours

About Me:

BA in English, MS in Computer Information Systems, Executive Management MBA, Post Graduate Studies, Ph.D.

First Jump 1961 Houston; B-1513 1962; C-1798 1963; D-1813 1965; SCS-1 1971, …
TEACHING/TRAINING STUFF
• Relative Training, Belgian Ministry of Sports, Maubeuge, France, Summer 1976.
• RW Training Camps, Schriudde Fallschirmsport, Meissendorf, Germany, Summers 1977-1978-1979.
• Pat Works' Progressive Relative Work Training Camps, California, 1978-1979 (first RW camps in the USA, Training camp for USN Special Warfare Group 1 (Navy Seal Team One).
• Freefall Training Camp, British Parachute Association, Plymouth, England, 1979.
• Pat Works' RW Training Course, Party in Paradise II, Hawaii, 1981
• Pat Works' Free RW Seminars, Perris 1977-1980; -to present
• Free vRW Seminars, Perris, 1994-present
• Elsinore Freefly Seminars, 96, 97, 98 – to present
• Apple Valley Freefly Seminars, 95, 96
• Kansas City 4-way Freefly Skills Camp, 1997
• Skydive Oregon Freefly Camp, Mowalla Oregon, , 1997, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04
Skydiving History Stuff
USPA # 189, 47 year member of USPA --- 7,700 + jumps, 24-hour clock-118, GW-845, DW-358, 3DW 351, 60 Hr. FF# 187, Jumpmaster ('72), competitor since 1962 in relative work, accuracy, style and freeflying.
• 1998 USPA Freefly US Nationals Trial Competition, 1st Place, Intermediate Division
• 1997 X-Games Judge, ESPN, Oceanside Ca
• 1997 Pro Tour Freeflying, Monterey Ca.
• 1996 Pro Tour Free Flying, X-Trials event, Solitary Birds, 1st Place, Perris Ca.
• 1996 Perris Free Fly Championships, Solitary Birds, 3rd place, Perris
• 1995-1997 Competed in the SSI Pro-Tour, Freefly X-Trials in 95, 96, 97
• 1995 1st American Championships of Free Flight, Skydive Dallas, ESPN X-Games test event. (entered on 2-teams: Perris vRW & World Skydance)
• 1994 1st Exhibition Event of Sit Flying, Team World Skydance, Eloy AZ, 5th
• 1976 North American Sequential Sweepstakes, Original 8-way meet. Ft. Lewis Ws, …Team member of zillions of RW teams.
• 1975-77 My 10-way teams won the California Rumbleseat Meet three times.
• 1972-78 Three time Conference Champion in 4-way RW; Two time Conference Champion in 8-way Formation RW
• 1972, 73, 76, 78 Competed in 4-way, 10-way and 8-way RW at the USPA Nationals, and ‘98 (Freefly)
• 1972 Introduced 10-way RW at the Nationals
• 1972 Founded the CG God Frog Good Vibes Award
• 1966 National Champion, Team Event, National Collegiate Parachuting League, 1966 (Univ. of Houston Team)
EMPLOYMENT
• Owner-Operator, RWunderground Parachuting Publications (RWu), 1972 - present. (writing and consulting); Works & Associates (Information Technology Consulting).
• Chief Technologist, Northrop Grumman Aerospace. (normal job)

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• HR Information Systems, HRD-319 HRIS, 2nd Ed. Computer-based textbook, CBT-CD-ROM, 988 pp. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, ISBN 0930-4380-7-8, 2002.
• The Art of vRW: The Way of Freefly, 162 pp. book + Video (set), 162 pp., ISBN 0-930438-04-3 1999, RWU Publishing/ CA
• Collected writings, : www.cs.fiu.edu/~esj/uwf/works.html, 1996, HTML Ed. E. Johnson
• Parachuting: United We Fall, RW anthology, LC-7784030, by Pat Works ed,
• United We Fall: Online, HTML Formatting by Kent Walker, 377 pp. electronic-book, http://www.crocuta.com/uwf/uwf.html, 1993.
• Parachuting: The Art of Freefall RW, fourth printing, second edition, revised, ISBN 0-930438-01-9. 1978, 220 pp. 1976-1978, Aerographics Pub., Fl.
• Paracaidismo, El Arte De Volar, Pat Works, Editado y traducido pro Miguel Angel Garcia Christobal, Club de Paracaidismo, Madrid, 1985, 134 pp.
• Parachutisme, L’Art du Vol Relatif, Pat Works, traduction et de la publication Christophe Lachoviez, Scripto Press, 13, rue Valette Paris 5e, 1982, 182 pp.
• Fallschirmsport: Die Kunst des Formationfliegens, Pat Works, Deutsche Ubersetzung: Uwe Beckman, 160 pp., 1978, D-3300 Braunschweig.

Relationship Status:

Single

Favorite Music:

Love music!

Favorite TV Shows & Movies:

I don't watch TV

Your favorite one liner:

Flight for the joy of flying.