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DAVE BARLIA RESUME
818/207-9696

BASE JUMPING / SKYDIVING
•  Expert BASE jumper & Skydiver with over 18 years experience jumping with no accidents or injuries. Jumps include: bridges, buildings, cliffs, antenna's, aerial tramways, dams, cranes, balloons, helicopters, & various fixed-wing aircraft.
• One of the most experienced 'big wall' BASE jumpers in the world with numerous jumps from Yosemite's El Capitan and Half Dome + many cliffs in Norway, Switzerland, France, Italy, Venezuela, & some of the worlds biggest cliffs on Baffin Island.
• Pioneer in "wingsuit" flight - specializing in low altitude & BASE.
• First person in the world to combine snowboarding and BASE jumping with a snowboard jump off of a 1500 ft. cliff. (Have since done many more of these off of other cliffs in Switzerland and Norway).
• First person in the world to perform a "Human Slingshot" - created a device that launched me over 200 ft. into the air - deployed a parachute & landed safely below.
• One of the first people in the world to perform a ski/BASE jump - with a ski jump off of a 3600 ft. cliff in the Canadian Arctic.
• One of few people in the world to ride a motorcycle into a BASE jump (Rode off of a 1500 ft. cliff at 60 mph)
• Accomplished skysurfer.

BUNGEE JUMPING
• World Record - Longest Bungee Jump - one mile long (from a helicopter).
• 1000 + bungee jumps
• Personally supervised over 10,000 bungee jumps.
• Former Vice President of the North American Bungee Association.
• Former owner of one of the first and most successful bungee operations in North America.
• Jumps include: Golden Gate Bridge jumps, Bungee cut-a-ways (into skydives) from as high as 4000 ft. and as low as 900 ft., bridge jumps as long as 700 ft., etc...

OTHER
• Bachelors degree - Real Estate/finance, Arizona State University
• Former track and field Collegiate All American.
• Ultralight aircraft instructor.
• Private pilot & fixed wing aircraft owner.
• Class 1 rated paraglider pilot.
• Expert snowboarder
• hot air balloon pilot - commercial and instructor ratings.



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