Alethia Austin, Author at Skydivemag

Author name: Alethia Austin

Alethia is a passionate full time international angle and freefly coach. As the creator of LSD Bigway Camps and LSD Angle Camps, she's been running skills camps in skydiving for over 8 years around the world. Some of her coaching and LSD camps have taken her to Botswana, Egypt, Central America, North America, Europe and more. Alethia brings her years of yoga teaching, love of good health and healthy living into the way she coaches angle flying and vertical flying. Alethia was a regional captain for the Women's Vertical World Record and has two world records. Her sponsors include UPT, Tonfly, PD, Cypres and LB Altimeters. You can find her on Instagram at Instagram.com/alethiaja

DZ Safety Enhancements

Experienced Skydiver, Staying Alive / By Alethia Austin

7 simple tools that make every dropzone safer…

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Aircraft Emergencies: Tips From The Pilot

Experienced Skydiver, New Skydiver, Staying Alive / By Alethia Austin

How to best handle aircraft emergencies as skydivers…

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Catching up with… Flavien Mazzon

Experienced Base Jumper, Experienced Skydiver, New Base Jumper, New Skydiver / By Alethia Austin

Flavien talks about the present and future of WS coaching…

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Who Goes First?

Experienced Skydiver, New Skydiver, Staying Alive / By Alethia Austin

Should angle jumpers or belly flyers exit first? For most experienced angle coaches, a discussion about whether to send the belly groups out first or the angle groups out first is something that’s a common occurrence at the boarding area. It used to be that belly groups were always out first. Then it became fairly

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