Another article by Skydive Spaceland in the Spaceland Safety Series… Look for Misrouted Chest Straps Want to be a hero? Keep an eye on your friends’ gear when they’re getting ready to skydive or sitting in the plane. It can be easy to misroute a chest strap when you’re inexperienced, in a hurry, or just […]
1st FAI World Canopy Piloting Freestyle Championships & 7th FAI World Canopy Piloting Championships in Wroclaw, Poland – Nicolas Batsch (USA) und Abdulbari Qubaisi (UAE) claim the World Championship titles! Best Of 7th FAI World CP Championships 2018 – Wroclaw (POL), by Quattro Media First FAI Freestyle Championships It was a week full of airsports
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Most dropzones have them in some form or another. The instructors keep their eyes peeled on them. Some jumpers swoop along them. Every now and again a skydiver crosses them. The only difference is those DZs that enforce them religiously and those that don’t. I’m talking about beer lines. What? For the uninitiated the beer
At just 17, Fatima Al Khalifa is representing her country, Bahrain, at the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving, hosted at Gravity, 25-28 October. She talks about what competitive sport at an early age has taught her – “You will fail many times before you succeed”. How did you start flying, Fatima? The first
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QUESTION: At what two parts of your skydive are you most at risk of a canopy collision? ANSWER: Just after deployment and during the landing pattern If you have a collision after opening you have altitude on your side and a chance to resolve the situation. If you collide with someone during your final approach,
Austria – Picture Perfect?! Austria… the name conjured up spectacular images of stunning snowy mountains, lush green valleys, swathes of Christmas tree forests, Sound-of-Music style. I had never been to Austria so I jumped at the chance when Markus Kordesch invited me to the Hohenems Challenge 2018. It couldn’t possibly be as picture-perfect as I
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I’ll start this article by screaming just WOOOOOOOW!!!! The answer is ‘YES’! Dreaming about jumping over the ancient Egyptian Pyramids in Egypt was somewhere at the back of all my thoughts but constantly shining through in my head. One day I received a message from Mahmoud Sharaf, the organiser of the event, asking if I
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You’re sat in the airplane climbing to altitude on your first round of competition and you’re feeling super nervous. … The last thing you want is that nervousness rubbing off on your teammates either. What’s more, you spent the whole previous day sat on the ground getting bored due to bad weather. There’s a lot
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One-minute miracle tutorial for doing fun verticals with a friend… AXIS Foundations of Flight – Over Unders (Verticals) Axis Foundations of Flight – Over Unders Brianne Thompson and Niklas Daniel of AXIS Flight School demonstrate how to perform 2-way verticals over Skydive Arizona. Video by Bill Schmitz. More Foundations of Flight Videos AXIS Flight School has produced
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Yesterday we published a photo of Rachael, 50 jumps, asking for a gear check – here. There were 13 issues, arguably 14… did you get them all?… 13 Mistakes From top to bottom… No goggles On her left side loop is going through the middle 3 ring Left side, the yellow cable is not connected
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