The Gimp Ted Family is a growin’!

We’re very proud to announce that from the murky depths of the Gimp Ted Laboratory, 2 new gimp teds have emerged to join the world of Swing!

Gimpy Beatrix Kiddo, reporting for duty!

Kill Bill’s Beatrix Kiddo, complete with little swishy Samurai swords, has been spotted eagerly watching people jumping from the platform, biding her time until she spies someone suitable to swing with for her first!

Sussing it out - or is she just perving at Crispy?!

The Riddler comes complete with his own book of riddles, designed to test even the sharpest of wits on the platform, whilst you await your go!  Take him on and see how you fare…

The Riddler is ready for action!

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Happy Birthday The Mac Daddy!

Happy Birthday Jodie 1 Kenobi, Jedi Master!To celebrate our IT Jedi Mater Jodie’s birthday, I rustled him up a mac hard drive birthday cake! Happy 32nd Jods, rock on!

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The World’s highest cliff jump dressed as an egg!!

Go Juliet, GO!

Take some handsome, adventurous jumpmasters, give them a few bins, add some summer sun and hilarious customers… and hey presto, you can expect an exciting new jumpstyle, not for the faint-hearted…

The World's Highest Cliff Jump dressed as an egg!

The beautiful Juliet was our first customer to sample the delights of the Kinder Surprise and loved it! Come try it if you dare!
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Gigantor vs Jumpmaster…

Gigantor 1, Jumpmaster 0.

We’re all super excited that enormous Aussie Steve was able to fit into a harness and swing with us!  And he enjoyed it so much he went a second time too.  Pictured here with Crispy (who is, admittedly, not the tallest fella in town), Steve demonstrates perfectly that it’s not maximum height or weight that governs whether you can swing or not, it’s how the harness fits you!  Good on ya mate!

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Seeing Double

Imagine our amazement to see our jumpmaster Steve arrive out at site last week with a swing customer who could easily pass for his long-lost brother!  Watching from the editing room screen, I certainly took a double take before I was sure!
Double trouble!

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Swinging in the snow!

How exciting, just when we thought winter might be over, we’re out at site chasing snowflakes on the way down and catching them on the way back up – great tandem Gimp Boy Goes to Hollywood ladies!!

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So that’s how superheroes practice flying…

Take 1 Scott, 1 South African, add superhero outfits, harnesses, freefall and adrenalin. That’s the recipe for a couple of perfectly mad swingers!

Superheroes Ross and Dwayne

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Finger Mo Monday!

Just for fun, we’ve all gone finger-mo mad today – with some swing-tastic unique prizes for the most original finger-mo inspired chuckles, facial expressions and dance moves!

Our mini mo-ers were keen for a swing, but since they are still a few years off our minimum swinger age, they happily entertained themselves with our gimped dolls!

For a free, fancy, fun finger-mo come into our shop and ask our swingette to mo your digits!

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Win Virgin flights for you and a mate!

Yup, just by typing in the name of your favourite New Zealand activity (or as we like to call it, the Shotover Canyon Swing!), you will be put in the draw to win 2 free return flights with Virgin Pacific Blue.  Yes, it really is this simple!  Just follow this link, scroll down to the New Zealand section and just tap ‘Shotover Canyon Swing’ in the Best Activity section.  While you’re at it, why not add in your best kiwi accommodation and your best night out too?!

Don’t worry if you haven’t visited everywhere in New Zealand or Oz, just vote for your favourites in the places you have been and you’ll still be automatically entered into the prize draw – how easy it that?!

Voting closes on September 24th 2010 and the winners of the Golden Backpacks will be announced in November. Don’t forget to tell your mates to vote too, and be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize.

The Golden Backpack Awards reward those companies who work hardest to make backpacking around Australia and New Zealand that extra bit special. Maybe you stayed in a fantastic hostel you’ll never forget, or went on a trip with the best tour guide Down Under. What’s the best way to book a tour, find a job or get around? The answers to these questions and more are in your hands.


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The Return of Marc and Christina – swinger-tastic!

Remember them?  Of course you do, the amazing American couple who not only cancelled other plans in Queenstown to swing, not only changed flights to swing, but also came back from Australia instead of flying home to LA – again, for more swinging!  They racked up 17 jumps last year…  Well… THEY’RE BAAACK!

Having heard that we’re now offering the infamous ‘Gimp Boy Goes to Hollywood’ jumpstyle as a tandem, they just had to come back for more.  So they ventured back all the way from the US of A for more swinging and even got thrown off by their all-time favourite jumpmaster ‘The Crispy Duck’ (Trademarked, tagged and owned by the Shotover Canyon Swing, really!).  Gimp Boy has always been pretty intense, but with the tandem gimp you and your buddy can dangle together upside down 109m above the Shotover Canyon and plunge eyeballs-first into the canyon at the pull of the pin!

Since Marc and Christina’s last visit we’ve added ‘paw cams’ – a camera attached to your ropes, so you’re filmed throughout the whole swing, up close and personal.  So this time, Marc and Christina will take their entire experience back home with them this time.  Woop woop – watch this space for their next swing mission…

Marc and Christina’s video has been uploaded onto our facebook page – click here!

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