Well in the lovely month of May we had an awesome contest to see who could do the most flippin flips, who could hold on the longest for the Indian Rope trick and who was the most stylee of them all ….

It was great fun and we had a lot of entrants, the prizes being awesome swing clothing packs and the piste de la resistance top prize was an awesome I-Pod Touch.  And …..

DDDDDRRRRRRRUUUUUMMMMM RRROOOOLLLLL PPPLEASE …..

Flip Champion:  Jonathan Law a 25 year old from Northport UK.  Amazed us with his massive eight full flips …. wow!  He now basks in the knowledge that he has gained the title of I-Swing Flip Champion, he has also made it to our Swing Fall of Fame and on top of that is walking around in some really, really, really styley swing clothing … he looks hot!

Indian Rope Champion:  James Faire 19 years old from Halstead, England.  A massive 38 seconds on the swing rope, is now the proud owner of I-Swing Indian Rope Trick Champion title, logged into the Swing Fall of Fame and is sitting pretty with an awesome swing clothing prize pack.

And the most Styleee Swing Champion of Champions goes to ……

Serge Stamm, aged 20 years from Germany for his wonderfully impressive Stylee Double Gainer, winning the tittle of I-Swing Most Stylee Swing Champion, reaching the dizzing heights of the Fall of Fame and more importantly has won the awesome I-Pod Touch.

Thanks to everyone who entered, swung and gave it their utmost flipping, indian rope tricking stylest, bestest effort.

Can you believe that we have been operating in our shop on Shotover Street for 2 whole years now!!! It's crazy how quickly time flies! Well, we decided it's about time we had a wee freshen up so we are giving our shop a pretty facelift over the next couple of weeks. Don't worry, we are still fully operational during this time, and the onky change is that:

From Saturday 30th May until Tuesday 9th June, we will be checking in our trips at the Info & Track Centre, 37 Shotover Street. (Yes, it's just next door, so you shouldn't get lost!)

From 11th – 31st May 2009, we are running a brilliant competition for our customers! We have challenged our customers to set a new record for holding on to the ‘Indian Rope Trick’ and for the number of ‘Flips’ during freefall. The competitors go in to win an i-Pod Touch and there’s also a couple of Swing merchandise packs up for grabs as well!

Our current Flip record (but don’t worry, he’s not in the competition) is held by Mad Flippin’ Filip “Flippad” Ljungberg who came out a couple of years ago. Check out his amazingness:

(The Canyon Swing part is about 1min 39secs into the clip, but it’s worth watching the whole thing, this guy is AMAZING!!!!)

And the record for the ‘Indian Rope Trick’is held by a staff member (also not part of the competition), The Man of Pinkness,  who held on to the rope for 1min 05secs!!!! Craziness!!!!!

Good luck to everyone entering the competition! We will be posting up the results as soon as they’re in!

Our very clever computer gurus have developed a new photo product for customers – the Multishot! These are available on request (as they are handcrafted by the video gurus themselves!) for $25 each, or for $5 as an add-on to one of our existing Packs.

Here are some samples of their genius-ness!  (Click to see full piccies)

Chair Of Death

Forwards Leap

Backwards Fall

Hi!

We've been busy creating our very own Queenstown map and these awesomely useful pieces of highly quality info hit the streets recently. We've teamed up with the guys at ITAG visitor guides and designed a doubl-sided A3 size that covers downtown Queenstown, Queenstown and Frankton suburbs and a larger regional map that includes the ski fields, the region's best walks and detailed inserts of Sunshine Bay and Arrowtown. The maps come in rip off pads and also a very handy pocket-sized prefolded version! These maps are available at our shop and various information centres all around town!

We are also always on the look out to help Swing customers make the most of Queenstown and not burn a hole in their wallets, so we are now proudly displaying information on the Queenstown Frisbee Golf Course in our shop! When we designed our Queenstown Map, we thought it would be great to give the old favourite pastime of plastic disc throwing some support! Information on the course is now available in our shop as well a fantastic range of frisbees to rent. Woohooo!!!!!

We’ve had quite a few changes happen in the past couple of months out here at the Swing! We have had a few beloved staff members leave – Franko is off back to Aussie, Taelor has gone onto adventures in South America, and Jack has gone to work in a vineyard in Nelson. Best of luck to you guys, we miss you!

When staff members leave, we obviously get new people to come out and play with us, so welcome to trainee Jumpmasters Pete and Pirate Steve, and new Domette (customer service staff) Sally!!!! Come on out on one of our trips to meet these guys!

Pirate Steve in disguise as a baby! Very clever!

Pete, who we have decided is our Operations Manager Harry's long lost son, looks like this....but younger!

Sally a.k.a. Danger Mouse

We at the Swing hope everyone had a phenomenal holiday season - with too much eating, drinking and way too much merriness! We would like this opportunity to welcome everyone to the amazingness of 2009, may it be a brilliant year for all of you!

Just a wee note to try and book your Swing at the earliest opportunity as we are coming into a busy time and we would not want any of you to miss out on the magic of Swing Love! So give us a ring, drop us an email or use our secure online booking system (accessible via our website) and come out to say hidy-ho!

We did it!!!! We won TNT Magazine's 2008 Golden Backpacks Award for 'Best Activity in New Zealand' – that's two years in a row so far! We're so stoked with this as the votes are made by the customers that jump off a cliff with us, not by number-crunching people in suits! You ch-ch-choooose us! It's a huge pat on the back for doing what we love doing the best – spreading the Swing Love! Thank you so much to all of those customers who voted for us, we love you!!!!!

When we first heard that our beloved Jumpmaster, Crispy (aka C-Dog), was returning to the Swing after his extensive adventures overseas we all leapt for joy and high-fived! Alas, tragedy has struck, as we have been sent an imposter instead! Who is this dwarfish Hagrid lookalike? We suspect this man may be Blind Phil’s long lost son – see the amazing likeness below!

For now we are just going to have to make do with this imposter and his inappropriate beard rubbings. If anyone has any information on the whereabouts of sweet, sweet Crispy, please let us know immediately! We promise you will be handsomely rewarded!