PARACHUTIST
MAGAZINE
JULY 2008
PROFILE
Mery Rose was an 11-time Brazilian Style and Accuracy Champion with a big dream of coming to America to join the U.S. Parachute Team. However, on the eve of Rose's departure for the United States, the Brazilian government confiscated all of the population's assets, including all of her life savings. Determined to pursue her dream, she moved to the US despite everything. In 2005, she realized her goal of becoming a member of the US Parachute Team at the FAI World Cup, helping the team win the bronze medal at the event.
Of all your skydivers, is there one jump you would like to do over again?
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What do you consider your most significant life achievement?
MERY ROSE
Age: 53
Marital Status: Single
Children: Eduardo Castelo Branco Jr. 37
Occupation: Interior design and executive moving
Education: High School and Art School
Hobbies: My website, skydiving, art, poetry, sewing, cooking, hiking, bicycling, reading, camping, skiing, music and dance
Team Name: 2008 U.S. Parachute Team
Containers: Jump Shack Racer
Main Canopies: Classic 218 and Stilleto 135
ADD: Airtec Cypress
Home Drop Zone: Wherever the U.S.Team trains
Year of First Jump: 1974
License: D 24596
Championship, Medals and Records:
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Total Jumps? 5,097
Accuracy: 3,500
Style: 550
Total Cutaways? Four.
Life Philosophy?
How did you become interested in skydiving?
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Out of all your skydivers, is there one that stands out the most?
What you like most about the sport?
What do you like least about the sport?
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What are your future skydiving goals?
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What safety item do you think is the most important and/or oftem neglected?
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If you could make everyone on the planet do something to make earth a better place to live, what would it be?
What has been your most embarrassing skydive moment?
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Some day I am going to own...
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What's the toughest thing to do in the sport?
What has been your strangest thought while skydiving?
What has been your favorite period in your skydiving career?
What has been your greatest competition moment?
What quirks do you possess?
What makes you tick?
How did you get to your current level of style & accuracy talents?
Most people don't know this about me:
I made all my jumpsuits.
What's the best thing about style & accuracy?
How did you motivate yourself to work toward your goal of moving to the U.S. after the Brazilian government seized your life savings?
by Brian Giboney
​How long do you plan on jump?
Sum up Mery Rose in justt a few woords.
I'm always learning, so it's never boring. Accuracy is an amazing skydiving discipline that gives great gratification to its followers: its practitioners are people eternally passionate about what they do.
Lost of hard work and good coaching. I try to always jump with the best to elevate my performance.
Eleven-time Brazilian classic parachute champion, Guinness World Record - 197 skydivers for the largest group of people jumping at once, 2005 World Cup USA S&A Team bronze nedal
Good health, good friends and good times. Live my skydiving dreams.
When I was eight, I saw a TV program about skydiving. From that moment, I knew it was my destiny. I made my first jump at 19 years old, and ever since, I have lived in the clouds!
Make the U.S. Team at the 2004 USPA Nationals.
Skydiving friends are the best friends in the world!
Sometimes I border on being a fanatic, and it bores my non-skydiving friends.
To earn an FAI medal at the world meet and to help preserve the accuracy discipline for future skydiving generation.
Gear checks and mind checks. Don't get into the airplane unless you and your equipment are completely prepared to make a safe jump.
Without a doubt, preserve the Amazon.
I mad an accuracy jump for a national TV program in Brazil on live television... and missed the target.
Twenty-five years ago, I made a demo in San Luis, Brazil. I jumped into Castelão soccer stadium on opening day, wearing my favorite team's uniform, carrying the game ball, and with 100,000 spectators watching.
Become a. U.S. citizen.
One time, when I almost lost my right accuracy shoe in freefall, it was accurate to me that I should practice with my left foot more often, just in case.
Last February marked my 34th year as a skydiving competitor, and I also celebrated my jump number of 5.000. I still have a lot to learn, but day by day my accuracy jumps get better, which makes me really happy.
I only jump wearing a pink top, pink jumpsuit, pink shoes and pink canopy.
Scoring a beautiful dead center on a two-centimeter electronic disc in any competition. (In the last U.S. Nationals, I made five.)
No matter what happened, I continued to believe in my dreams. I
went where I wanted and became what I wanted to be.
After 34 years of skydiving, even if I wanted to leave this sport, it wouldn't leave me.
Artistic, 100-percent skydiver, pink, generous, accepting.
At the 2005 World Cup in Stupino, Russia, I had my personal best: a score of 10 centimeters total for 10 jumps. Among accuracy competitors, a one-centimeter-per-jump average is considered a world-class performance... and it helped the U.S. Team get the third place
FAI - Federation Aeronautique Internationale medals.
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USPA.org July 2008
Just fly-by to say Blue Skies!
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