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

4-way with 7 Hands

“When people act together, the unthinkable becomes possible and only the sky is the limit.” Claudia Breidbach from Koblenz, Germany was born with a dysmelia at her left hand which basically means that her left hand was missing since birth. She learned right from the start of her life to master everything only with her

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Hitler’s swoop comp

Video by Andy Malchiodi expressing his frustration at the loss of Skydive Elsinore’s Swoop pond after 14 years, using Adolf Hitler as a medium Video by Andy Malchiodi expressing his frustration at the loss of Skydive Elsinore’s Swoop pond after 14 years, using Adolf Hitler as a medium

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The HAWK

S-Fly Equipment have announced their latest acrobatic wingsuit release, the Hawk. Their aerodynamic engineers aimed to design a suit that maximizes manoeuvrability and agility in skydiving and BASE environments. By maximising the pilot’s abilities to perform rolls, flips and precision carving from both back and belly with smooth transitions, the Hawk ‘allows the pilot to

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Women’s World Record Raffle

The Women’s World Record raffle is a super cool idea, a win-win-win situation. World Records are expensive due to the high cost of positioning multiple aircraft, which will spend more time on the ground than flying. So the raffle will help participants towards their costs. This especially benefits those with talent but not so much

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X-Wing Phase 2

We completed phase two of flight testing our new Xwing. The jumps were completed at [Skydive Perris](http://www.skydiveperris.com), CA, and the jump platform was a Skyvan. The wing is a composite delta wing that straps to my back during the skydive. The end goal is to fly aerobatics and true formation with my wife, Melissa Pemberton,

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