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Bio Chris “Douggs” McDougall ~Professional BASE jumper ~Wingsuit Pilot ~Multi Sport Adventurer ~Public Speaker Date of birth: 17.04.1976 Nationality: Australian Resident: Wengen, Switzerland Telephone: +41799022675 Email: [email protected] 16 years skydiving with 7000+ jumps in all Disciplines 15 years BASE jumping with over 2880+ in 40 countries. 1000+ wingsuit jumps Web page: www.basedreams.com Fan page: http://www.facebook.com/ChrisDouggsMcDougall ~Australian Champion ~World Champion ~World Record Holder

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   Chris  “Douggs”  McDougall    ~Professional  BASE  jumper  ~Wingsuit  Pilot    ~Multi  Sport  Adventurer      ~Public  Speaker  

Date of birth: 17.04.1976

Nationality: Australian

Resident: Wengen, Switzerland

Telephone: +41799022675

Email: [email protected]

   

16 years skydiving with 7000+ jumps in all Disciplines

15 years BASE jumping with over 2880+ in 40 countries.

1000+ wingsuit jumps

Web page: www.basedreams.com

Fan page: http://www.facebook.com/ChrisDouggsMcDougall

~Australian  Champion  

~World  Champion    

~World  Record  Holder    

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS    

• Base Jumper (all disciplines) • Skydiver • Wingsuit Flyer • Motivational Speaker • TV Presenter • Commentator • Author • Base Jumping Instructor • Base Jumping Videographer/Photographer • Skydiving Instructor • Tandem master Skydiving / Base jumping • Skydiving Videographer / Photographer • Drop Zone Safety Officer • Film Maker • Model • Event co-ordinator • Stunt Man • Rope Access Onshore / Offshore • Carpenter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Base  Jumping  • Professional BASE jumper with 2880+ BASE jumps in 40 countries • Advanced and specialized in ALL Disciplines of BASE jumping (accuracy,

sub terminal & terminal tracking, aerobatics, wingsuit flying, proximity flying both wingsuit & tracking, aerial camera, low object jumping, canopy flying)

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

Team, 1st place overall • Attended Countless events and competitions around the world, always

placing highly including: 2002/2005/2006/2012 Malaysian BASE jumping tour, 2007 Bridge day BASE jumping event, 2002 Norway heli BASE jumping boogie 2004/2005/2006/2011/2012, Mexico BASE jumping event 2006, Shanghai BASE jumping event 2004, Beijing BASE event 2005.

• Highly regarded and respected throughout the world of Base jumping • Many expeditions throughout remote parts of the world including, Baffin

Island, China, Norway, New Zealand & 33 other countries.

Skydiving    

• Professional Skydiver with over 7000+ skydives around the world • 1998-2003, 6 time National Skydiving Champion in 4 way & 8 way RW • 2001 – 2003 Australian team member for World Championships Placing

4th & 6th in the world. • 2002 World Record 300 way skydive Guinness Book of World Records • 12 Gold medals in various state events • Advanced in all Disciplines of Skydiving including Free flying, Relative

work, Canopy relative work, Wingsuit flying, Skydiving coaching & instructing, Tandem Skydiving & aerial camera.

 

 

Base  Jumping  /  Skydiving  Media

• 2013 featured in Citizen advert • 2013 featured in Nextel advert • 2013 Featured on TV shows in Switzerland

& Germany • 2013 featured in Ewian music video • 2013 Featured in the 5 part documentary series for the Pro Base World

Cup • 2013 Featured in the 4 part documentary “Heli Base 74” France • 2013 Featured in the award winning documentary “Heaven Gate” China

(Banff) • 2013 Star of successful 12 part web series “Planet Douggs” • 2013 Star of successful 11 part web series “Base Dreams” • 2013 1st ever base jumps in Kuwait live telecast • 2012 1st ever human slingshot at night (Dubai) for the ‘Sunday Night’

program (Australia) • 2012 Australia’s 1st tandem base jumper • 2012 1st World Wingsuit League event in China (500 million viewers) • 2012 Cameraman, Technical advisor for the “Fly the Eiger” Project • 2011 National Geographic’s “Taboo” Program • 2010 ABC’s Australian Story episode “Mad World” • 2009 Music film clip for Blue Juice “The Reductionist” • 2008 Berghaus Cinema Commercial • 2007 / 2001 High 5 TV episodes • 2005 Award winning Documentary “Journey to the Center” China.

(Banff) • 1998 TV commercial for Singapore Telecom • 6 cult base jumping / skydiving full length videos

 

Over 5,350,000 views on YouTube with over 34,600 Subscribers

5000 friends & 5100 Subscribers on Facebook https://www.youtube.com/user/douggsloosedude?feature=mhee

     

Base  Jumping  /  Skydiving  Print    • 2013 Entered into the Guinness Book of Records for the largest indoor

group jump (60 jumpers) • 2013 Front cover of Zoo Magazine “Australia’s most extreme athletes” • 2013 Four articles in Blue Sky Magazine including the hugely successful

article “Dealing with Death in the sport of life” • 2013 Articles in ‘What Tradies Want’ & ‘Bazzar’ magazines, along with

front page of all Kuwait newspapers • 2012 photos in many magazines & Newspapers including ‘Marie Claire’ • 2012 Four articles in Blue Skies Magazine (and many photos) • 2011 Winner best extreme sports blog “Trip Travel Blog Awards” • 2011 “Post cards from the Edge” article for Digital Camera Magazine

(UK) • 2010 Six page article in “What do Tradies want” (Australia) • 2010 winner of the “Cold Steel” award (Sweden) • Author of 6 books including widely acclaimed “Confessions of an Idiot”

(Australia) • 2010 Article & Photos in Outside Magazine (Australia) • Radio interview & Article for the Cynthia Lynn chronicles (USA) • Entered into the Guinness Book of Records (2002) for largest freefall

formation (300 people) • A 4 issue article “A scumbags guide to adventure living” for Blue Skies

Magazine (USA) • ‘What’s the Rush’ article for Blue Skies Magazine (USA) • 3 Issue article “Big girls don’t cry” for Blue Skies magazine (USA) • Front Cover and 6 page article for “ParaMag” (France) • Cover Photo for Pro Skier/ Base jumper Karina Hollekim Biography

(Norway) • Photo spread in Cosmopolitan Magazine • Dominos Pizza Advert • 4 Separate articles in Australian Skydiving

Magazine (Australia) • Several articles for Skydiver Magazine (USA) • Several Photos, Articles & Billboards in USA,

China, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, France, Norway, Malaysia, Borneo,

 

Speaking  Roles  • Motivational speaker in Spain, Malaysia, USA

& Australia • Commentator for the World Pro Base Race • Featured in numerous interviews for TV &

Web series throughout the world. • Featured in numerous documentary

interviews around the world  

Other  Interests    

• Rock Climbing • Paragliding • Speed Flying • Surfing • Skateboarding • Snowboarding • Wakeboarding • Travelling • Scuba Diving • Mountain biking • Hiking • Photography • Writing • Guitar