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

AA 4-way

2014 saw my 9th year competing in the World Challenge and wow – what a year! What an amazing competition. Each year sees more and more talented skydivers coming through the sport… and they seem to get younger and younger too! The AA competition was as exciting as the AAA from where I was standing […]

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AAA female

Saturday, 8.30 AM, we crossed our fingers to have a good draw in the AAA category @ the Bodyflight World Challenge, Bedford 2014. It appeared to be a slow draw: 4 jumps containing 3 blocks, and a couple of technical, but fun jumps. The first round was quite funny: 17, 18, 19. After the first

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Freefly

Every year this competition is more exciting to watch, as the level of freeflying goes through the roof. Everyone’s always has high anticipation of seeing what new moves have been created since the last World Challenge. Judging With judges Adam Mattacola and Håvard Flaat, previous world challenge champions alongside the other judges, the teams knew

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Rookie 4-way

The Bodyflight World Challenge boasted an amazing 104 teams this year – and there may well have been more if it wasn’t capped at that. My first experience of competing in this epic event was certainly one to remember. How many sports are there in this world where, as a complete novice, not only can

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2014 FLCPA 4 #SELFIE

Wonderful video by Alter Ego, Curt & Jeannie Bartholomew, of the 4th FLCPA meet. Impressive swoops, brilliant humour, enjoy! ‘Selfie’ will never sound the same again Jeannie! Wonderful video by Alter Ego, Curt & Jeannie Bartholomew, of the 4th FLCPA meet. Impressive swoops, brilliant humour, enjoy! ‘Selfie’ will never sound the same again Jeannie!

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Base Dreams – Best Moments – Chris ‘Douggs’ Mcdougall

Base Dreams – Best Moments – Chris ‘Douggs’ Mcdougall A Base Jump series about best moments from Chris ‘Douggs’ Mcdougall, on the warmest locations all around the world: Douggs & friends go proximity flying in the beautiful mountains, cracks & forests of Switzerland, over Navagio Beach, located on one of the Greek Island’s and

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BASE Human Flight: The Future

Happily, we’re seeing exciting new directions in the application of human flight, wingsuits and Base. The added ability a wingsuit gives to truly fly the human body from an object is beginning to be explored. Espen Fadnes, renowned proximity flyer, asks what the future holds… Carving around the Burj Khalifa Skydive Dubai just posted a

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Black Rock Ski-BASE

Ski-Base jump by Ramon Rochas, who said, “The Ski-BASE was what inspired and motivated me to start BASE jumping… I always remember the first time I saw the video of Shane McConkey making a jump from the Eiger… that is Freedom!” “
After years, I made my first Ski-BASE, in Black Rock-Switzerland, just meters away

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