Author name: Lesley Gale

Lesley has been in love with skydiving for 35 years. She is a multiple world and national record holder and a coach on 20 successful record events worldwide. She has over 100 competition medals spanning more than 25 years and has been on the British 8-way National team at World events. She started Skydive Mag to spread knowledge, information and passion about our amazing sport. Lesley is delighted to be sponsored by Performance Designs, Sun Path, Cypres, Cookie, Symbiosis suits and Larsen & Brusgaard

HATCHing a GREAT Idea

The designers of the Hatch talk about its construction, with lots of aerial video showing how manoeuvrable this suit is, and how much fun The Hatch is a versatile suit that is ideal for absolute beginners, yet provides endless fun for even the most expert acro pilots and freeflyers. #Fun The Hatch exemplifies the philosophy

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Tunnel Rigs

How useful are Rigs in the Tunnel? Hi Roy We have a nice 4-way team; we all like each other, which is a good start! It’s our third year together, we’re in AAA category and in 2013 we scored 16 average outdoors and 18 in tunnel competition. We have made our training plan, and we

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The Human Slingshot – High Altitude Paragliding

CLICK CC for English!!! Two Spanish adventurers make a balloon jump with a base-style exit, do some paragliding acrobatics, slingshot into freefall and land with a flourish! ‘So crazy, it just might actually work.’ Horacio Llorens and Hernan Pitocco dreamed up this paraglider-powered high-altitude human slingshot. After a rather creative exit from a

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