Chicagoland Skydiving Center (CSC) is located in Hinckley, IL. Training at CSC is really a blast! Doug and his team have done a fantastic job bringing the DZ to an all new level of professionalism while still maintaining a friendly, family atmosphere. From manifest to the pilots to the packers to the instructors, the entire staff is unparalleled in how friendly, helpful and accommodating they are.

Teams at CSC are treated extremely well, and we definitely could not have met our goals without the DZ's support. Manifest watches out for us, allowing teams to pre-manifest, and works with us when we have bumps in our training day. They always have a friendly attitude. The pilots and DZO allow us to jump at 10.5 when we ask. Packers work hard to keep us making the loads. The DZ flexes hours during the week for team training. The regular jumpers are like a family to us, and they are very supportive. As a growing team, there is no place we would rather train than at CSC.

Performance Designs, Inc. is a world-class parachute manufacturer designing wings of excellence, providing the highest quality product through pride and integrity, to ensure product reliability with unsurpassed dedication to our customer's needs. Since its inception in 1982 Performance Designs has introduced cutting edge concepts and materials to the parachute industry and helped revolutionize parachute design. Continually setting new standards in performance, quality, and customer support, PD has produced some of the most successful ram air canopies built to date.

CSC Rhythm XP is proud to fly Performance Designs canopies. With thousands of jumps on PD mains, and a handful on PD reserves, CSC Rhythm XP team members have grown to love the reliability, durability, and cutting edge design of PD canopies.

"The Infinity™ harness/container system was designed with two basic concepts in mind: safety and performance. An emphasis has been placed on increased security of the pin cover flaps and riser covers, an additional main riser cover is incorporated into the reserve container side flap, a redesigned reserve pilot chute for better launch and higher drag, and the standard Reserve Static Line (RSL) is Velcro-free and concealed for maximum snag resistance. So, whether you're into relative work, freestyle, freeflying, or skysurfing, Infinity™ offers the only logical choice when choosing a first class, quality built, and affordable harness/container system."

The team will proudly wear Infinity containers and enjoy the Infinity's comfort, safety and reliability - qualities the team has grown to love through first-hand experience for a while now. For more information about the Infinity, feel free to contact a Rhythm team member.

Paraclete XP SkyVenture is currently the biggest vertical wind tunnel on the planet in terms of power and size. We aren't kidding when we say "big". Our tunnel has 4 fans at 541 horsepower each to give a great range of air speed for all requirements including free flying and military operations.

The diameter of our tunnel is also something to be quite proud of. At 16'4" in diameter (and 51' tall) - this tunnel opens up all new possibilities like doing any 4-way formation and most 8-way formations with ease and first-time flyers can not only practice flying in place but learn movement over a considerable distance.

The Paraclete XP Skyventure wind tunnel is recirculating, which means contrary to "open air" tunnels, temperature is regulated and turbulence, dead spots and "choking out" of fans are virtually eliminated. All of our team tunnel camps will be at Paraclete XP Skyventure. Please see our 2008 schedule, and contact us if you are interested in joining any of our camps, or if you have questions about the tunnel. Also, due to great interest, we are looking at adding a camp before the season starts. Contact us for details.

Tony has been making jumpsuits for over 20 years and is now the largest jumpsuit manufacturer in the world. The team has put Tony Suits through its own test through thousands of jumps and about 200 tunnel hours.

The jumpsuit is the piece of gear that gets the most wear, getting abused in the tunnel and in the air, during jump camps from sun-up to sun-down. They have to be comfortable, fit perfectly, and take hours of tugging, yanking, grabbing, scraping and pulling. Tony Suits Jumpsuits stand up to the worst we can do, and we're proud to be a part of that quality team.