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

Cypres 2 New Option

Opening altitudes for main canopies have been rising in the last several years for safety reasons. There has been a general upward trend for more than a decade, due to canopy opening characteristics changing as designs develop. C and D licence parachutists are now required to open higher if they jump at USPA or BPA […]

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Little & LARGE!

Too Porky? Hello Roy We have just started training again (in the wind tunnel) with our 4-way team, after a bit of a break over winter. My piece partner, who is Tail, seems to have put on a lot of weight since we last flew. She says she’s put on 6 kg but it looks

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VFS2014

The Lemay Family are somewhat like the Olympic Torch. Generations of skydiving World Champions, their Canadian National team could not possibly be more aptly named: Evolution. Beginning with father and 3 sons, all who did tandems as children, Evolution have been 4-way FS Canadian Champions for a decade, recruiting more talent when Dad

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Cathy – Rafael

“It’s easy to make things look hard but hard to make things look easy” Watch Cathy Bouette and Raphael Coudray in this dynamic 2-way at Windoor, Empuriabrava. Video and edit by Vania Da Rui, Vania Videography. “It’s easy to make things look hard but hard to make things look easy” Watch Cathy Bouette

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The island next door

Paul Webster’s visit to New Zealand, to fly around some slopes he’d checked out when snowboarding there previously. Nice! Quality music, thoughtful edit and badass flying! Paul Webster’s visit to New Zealand, to fly around some slopes he’d checked out when snowboarding there previously. Nice! Quality music, thoughtful edit and badass flying!

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Throwback Thursday BASE

Skies Call Men Fall That’s All ! This old BASE jump shows how much has changed – no GoPro, no base rig, no wingsuit, no tracking – a proximity plummet! Skies Call Men Fall That’s All ! This old BASE jump shows how much has changed – no GoPro, no base rig, no wingsuit,

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Pete Allum joins Flight-1

Flight-1 are excited to announce another outstanding addition to their team in Europe: Pete Allum! Pete will be running courses throughout Europe focussing on Spain and Italy. Pete started jumping in ’79, has over 30,000 jumps, and has been in the sport all his life, competing for 35 years. He has a strong competition history

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Desert Bliss

Pablo Hernandez from the PD factory team organizing a few flocking jumps with Skydive Dubai staff while Noah Banson plays around with his wingsuit. Pablo Hernandez from the PD factory team organizing a few flocking jumps with Skydive Dubai staff while Noah Banson plays around with his wingsuit.

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Dancing with a plane!

Danse avec le pil ! – Dancing with a plane! The French have incomparable style… what other nation could dream of dancing to classical music with a Pilatus Porter Danse avec le pil ! – Dancing with a plane! The French have incomparable style… what other nation could dream of dancing to classical music with

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