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

Charting Continuity

If you’re looking for some help learning or coaching the 4-way dive pool, then take a look at this… Tools of the trade SDC Rhythm is one of the top US 4-way teams, working their way up the leader board since 2007. A team that started out with a 14.5 average and progressed to a 20+average

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I’m Bored!

I’m Bored! Dear Roy the most important thing is that we are enjoying ourselves when we are jumping I’ve been doing 4-way for more than 10 years now. When I first started jumping I loved 4-way from the beginning and just threw everything at it. I’ve been on a few different teams, the last one

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Life After BASE

Life After BASE. Jim Jennings’ story through early wingsuit BASE jumping, why he decided to retire, and what he’s up to now. Shows the highs and lows of Base; euphoria and tragedy. Camera by Jim Jennings Corinne Jennings Mark (Tree) Kisner Darcy Zoitsas Gypsy White Scott Plautz Anne Helliwell Sabia Clint Clawson Hubert

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N3 Neptune

The N3 Neptune by Alti-2 is an Audio visual altimeter with a logbook function; very customisable and very feature-rich. I own two of these devices. I have 500-600 jumps on one, which I use as a primary visual altimeter (on a wrist mount) and 300 jumps on the other as an audible device (in my

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Tunnel Readies

Time Tunnels are very busy places. Try and book as early as possible. Weekends and evenings are obviously the most popular so you may find some time if you can make midweek daytime slots. If you haven’t flown in a tunnel before, or are fairly low experience, do not book a lot of flying in

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Special Forces at Paraclete

The Special Force 8-way is a very well organised tunnel camp, aimed at all levels of 8-way, from complete beginner to seasoned competitor. French World Champions Martial Ferré and Damien Sorlin of Veloce arrange the event, grouping skydivers into compatible teams, allocating slots and sending out 8-way coaching notes beforehand. Ros Ayling describes her experience

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