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

The Havok Carve

The new Havok Carve further refines the design of our hugely popular Havok and marks the start of a range of high performance suits set to be released by Phoenix Fly this season. Over the last 2 years, the Havok has rightly earned its place in the sky as a wingsuit for camera work, big […]

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Giving it ALL

I have often been asked what it was about our team, the Deland Norgies, that made us succeed the way we did. Rightfully so, we never became world champions. We did, however, win three consecutive bronze medals in the 4-way open event at the World Championships in 1999, 2001 and 2003. In those days we

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222 Sequential Day 7

We have some very sad news from this morning: On April 3, 2014 at approximately 7:30 a.m an experienced skydiver had a main parachute malfunction. The malfunctioning parachute was released too low to allow the reserve parachute to fully open. The skydiver was declared dead at the scene. The incident was not related to the

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222 Sequential Final Day

World Team didn’t complete a FAI sanctioned world record today. The final jump was almost completed, but it fell short by two skydivers that were unable to link up. History We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of World Team with this final event Fly It Forward, the way we started it in 1994, in Bratislava,

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222 Sequential Day 5

The team has just come down from its third attempt of the day, practicing the first point of the 222-way skydive formation. It was a good jump but not nearly a completion. They are focused at this point on building a solid 222-way. Once the first point is achieved, the team will make the move to

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FLY4LIFE: Episode 2 – ANGLES AND SWOOPS.

FLY4LIFE: Episode 2 – ANGLES AND SWOOPS. Edit and video by: Richard Scheurich with Manuel Guevara from FLY4LIFE and Claudio Cassagnio, over Skydive Sebastian Next Video: [Fly4Life Episode 3](/video/fly4life-episode-3-march-madness-flight) Previous Video: [Fly4Life Episode 1](/video/fly4life-ep-1-random-weekend) FLY4LIFE: Episode 2 – ANGLES AND SWOOPS. Edit and video by: Richard Scheurich with Manuel Guevara from FLY4LIFE and

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FLY4LIFE: Episode 3 – March Madness Flight Camp 2014

Fly4Life: Episode 3 – March Madness Flight Camp 2014. Angle flying, tracing, tracking, sunsets, smiles, good tunes… a real feel-good 5-minuter, enjoy! Previous Video: [Fly4Life: Episode 2](/video/fly4life-episode-2-angles-and-swoops) First Video: [Fly4Life: Episode 1](/video/fly4life-ep-1-random-weekend) Fly4Life: Episode 3 – March Madness Flight Camp 2014. Angle flying, tracing, tracking, sunsets, smiles, good tunes… a real feel-good 5-minuter,

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222 Sequential Day 6

The team was only able to make two jumps today. It was a very early show, at 0630, 222 skydivers, 10 pilots, and a slew of support staff were on hand and the jumpers were geared up ready to dirt dive once or twice before a 0700 launch of the 10 aircraft… and then a

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222 Sequential Day 3

The third day began with some reorganizing of the sectors. The sectors that had been doing 132-ways on the full base downsized to 90-ways off a mini base and yesterday’s 90-ways were able to practice on the full base as a 132-way. Yesterday the 90-ways completed a first point and today, the 90-ways also completed the

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