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

DVD: Learning to Fly Head-down

Learning to Fly Head-down is the fourth DVD from the awesome Joao Tambor and, as previously, it doesn’t disappoint. The DVD follows the same format as the others with crystal-clear verbal and visual instruction. This freefly DVD from Skydive U is packed full of informative knowledge that has been collected over the years, all tried […]

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Airspeed UK Tunnel Camp

This will be the first Airspeed tunnel camp in the UK in over 5 years! If you can’t spare the expense to travel to the US for Airspeed coaching, this is a unique opportunity as Airspeed is coming to the UK! Airspeed The Airspeed method of coaching is second to none with 20 years experience

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Sun Path go Stowless

Sun Path Products, manufacturer of the Javelin series of harness/containers, has released a deployment bag option with tuck tabs instead of rubber bands. The new stowless bag is offered as an optional extra on new Javelins, or can be ordered separately, to fit into your existing Javelin. Various versions of lazy bags have been in

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Catching up with Sparky

The UK’s key to international gold medals, Sparky’s female teams have beaten the boys many times in winning the UK Nationals. She is a multiple World Champion and has set many World Records. Her many awards include two Royal Aero Club Gold Medals, the Prince of Wales Cup, Extreme Sportsperson of the Year and the

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222 – Fly it Forward

Fly It Forward was to be the swan song for World Team Director, BJ Worth, aiming for his sixth and final record-breaking event. World Team is billed as ‘the largest multi-national sports team ever united to pursue a common goal’ and holds the official FAI 400-way world record created in Thailand in 2006. In February

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FOUR WORLD RECORDS!

The Skydive Empuriabrava Challenge is a unique event, running World Record events in two orientations on the one drop zone. The famous French load organiser Patrick Passe assembled a group of 106 belly-flying skydivers, with 20 on the ‘bench’, aiming to break the FAI large sequential world record. Babylon and friends drew a veritable crowd

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Competition Velocity

Deane ‘Smudge’ Smith flew a VC 96 with 300 HMA lines, extended his risers to 28 inches and opened up his chest strap, using an RDS (Removable Deployment System) to allow the canopy to fly naturally. Alastair Macartney was flying a VC 79 with 300 HMA lines and, for our test flights, opted to keep

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Catching up with Adam Mattacola

Adam spent a great deal of time and effort developing his skills to achieve results through high levels of motivation, self-belief, commitment and dedication. Achieving peak condition is one thing, but having a steadfast belief in it and your ability to excel is another. If you optimally condition yourself and continuously believe in your training

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FS Body Position

Once you begin to learn formation skydiving, it is worth spending some time on your basic flying position before embarking on bigger and better things. A good position is the foundation to all other FS skills. Tunnel sessions are handy to work on this. Whether skydiving or tunnel, get video as this will give you

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