Pepe’s Island Boogie Vibes
One of skydiving’s most cherished beach events, and for good reasons…
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Author name: Derek Lewis
Derek Lewis learned to land on narrow beaches as the only AFF student at Skydive Cancun, a tandem DZ in Playa Del Carmen Mexico, in 1998, during the second year of a two-decade stint playing guitar and singing on cruise ships. In his two months off every year he would jump anywhere he could from Florida to California, showing off his “Pizza Boy” head down skills to anyone he could jump with. It wasn’t until he retired from ships in 2016 and started performing on the San Antonio Riverwalk several nights a week that he acquired home DZ’s at Lonestar and Spaceland San Marcos Texas, where he finally stopped delivering those pies and learned a few modern freeflying techniques. Angle flying and freeflying continue to be his passion, along with learning standup surfing on the Flow Rider in 2024 at age 65.
