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

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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The Sensei

The Sensei is a 7-cell cross-braced design which has 21 chambers, ie, each cell is sub-divided into three. It incorporates a ‘Fat Tail’ design, which Aerodyne claims creates ‘superior stability when manoeuvring with rear risers’. It comes with a choice of 450 or 350 HMA line. Interestingly the brake lines are made of Dacron. I

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Book: Transcending Fear

‘What are we doing here? Overcoming the fear of death of course. Why are we in the air? We are practicing, you might say, what it is to be alive’ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull Book: Transcending Fear By: Brian Germain Cost: $19.95 Value for Money: 9/10 From: Transcending Fear Website In a Nutshell: Skydivers’

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