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

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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Fuel Helmet

Jean-Philippe Ricordeau, the famous French body flyer, shares his thoughts on the Fuel, after countless hours playing in the tunnel and the sky. He loves the helmet but has one tiny issue with it. Perhaps the new release from Cookie is the perfect solution?… For me the Fuel is one of the best helmets I

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Christmas in Arizona

The Christmas New Year’s Boogie at Skydive Arizona staff saw the drop zone pulling out all the stops to make sure there was something for absolutely everyone at this year’s boogie. The aircraft fleet included Skydive Arizona’s Otters, Skyvans, and the DC3. Burner’s Skydive Arizona hot air balloon High But Dry Ballooons was also available

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