Chris "Douggs" McDougall
Personal information
Full nameChristopher John McDougall
NicknameDouggs
NationalityAustralian
Born (1976-04-17) 17 April 1976
Melbourne
Occupation(s)Keynote speaker, professional skydiver, BASE jumper, wingsuit pilot
Years active25
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Websitewww.douggs.com / www.learntobasejump.com
Sport
CountrySwitzerland
SportSkydiving
Wingsuit flying
BASE jumping

Chris "Douggs" McDougall (born 17 April 1976) is an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper and wingsuit pilot. He is also founder of a BASE jump school "Learn to BASE jump".

Career

McDougall is a professional BASE jumper with more than 4,300 BASE jumps in 42 countries.[1]

BASE jumping accomplishments

  • 2013 World record for most BASE jumpers jumping indoors
  • 2013 1st place in World Extreme BASE Championships, Spain
  • 2013 1st place in Accuracy Competitions in both Turkey and China
  • 2013 First ever BASE jumps in Kuwait from Al Hamra Tower
  • 2012 World first Night Human Slingshot, Dubai
  • 2011 2nd place in World BASE Championships
  • 2008 UK ProBase 'Who's The Daddy': Overall Champion
  • 2003/04 BASE jumping World Champion: 1st place Aerobatics, 1st place Team, 1st place Overall

McDougall has completed more than 7,200 skydives around the world. He is a 6 times national champion and former world record holder. He is advanced in all aspects of skydiving including free flying, relative work, canopy relative work, wingsuit flying, skydiving coaching & instructing, tandem skydiving and aerial camera flying.[2]

Skydiving accomplishments

  • 1998-2003 6 time National Skydiving Champion in 4 way and 8 way RW
  • 2001-2003 Australian team member for World Championships
  • 2002 World Record 300 way Skydive
  • 12 Gold medals in various state events

References

[1] [2]

  1. "Chris 'Douggs' McDougall - Home". www.douggs.com. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015.
  2. "Home". learntobasejump.com.
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