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

IPC Action

Skydive Chicago was awarded the 2016 World Parachuting Championships and Mondial (ie, including all events apart from CP). The Canopy Piloting World Championships 2014 goes to Zephyrhills, Florida. Felix Baumgartner was awarded the FAI Gold Parachuting Medal, and Marylou Laughlin the Leonardo da Vinci Parachuting Diploma. Speed Skydiving and Wingsuiting were accepted into the IPC […]

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Charlewars

To everyone out there going for it and flying your hearts out! Charlewars, a D4W and D2W competition will be held at Airspace Indoor Skydiving in May. Charlewars will be the fourth competition organized by D4W, a non-profit organisation, aiming to raise the level of the sport and the way we present it. Hosted by

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Mountain Guide to Gravity 2

This year will see the tenth gathering at Mountain Gravity, a small, friendly boogie held at one of the world’s loveliest places to fly a canopy and play with the hillside. Various extreme speed flying routes down the mountain at Ambri have been charted to pilot a canopy close to the slopes for a whole

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Weekend Team

Many talented amateur skydivers face the same conundrum – how can they approach the averages of the professional teams, when their training time is inevitably limited to holidays and weekends? Hayabusa has not always been a professional, full-time team sponsored by the Belgian Army. In the beginning Hayabusa attained a 20+ average as a weekend

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