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

Situational AWARENESS

With the season in full swing, we’re feeling pretty ‘on it!’ Our turns are getting faster, smoother and more efficient, whether that’s head-up, head-down, flat or under canopy. Maybe we’ve done a lot of tunnel time, been to a boogie or just got back from a training camp. We’re getting the hang of this skydiving […]

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DVD: Soulflyers II

Following the original Soul Flyers comes its sequel – the imaginatively titled Soul Flyers II, where French wingsuit guru and all-round cool dude Loïc Jean Albert and chums hop off on another world tour of aerial antics including wingsuit flying, base jumping and swooping down various mountains. Soulflyers II Reviewer: Chris Hollis Runs for: 1

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Nationals Disaster

Roy Janssen of Hayabusa, your 4-way Agony Uncle, answers questions and gives practical advice to budding jumpers. Dear Roy I am now my second year in a 4-way team. Last year, we had very good training, doing about 120 jumps over two camps and we were flying very well together. But when we got to

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Wind Tunnel on Cruise Ship

Quantum-class vessels are being designed for the next generation of cruise ship, with Royal Caribbean promising that their new models will have innovations never seen before. Quantum of the Seas will be launched in autumn 2014, to be followed by Anthem of the Seas in spring 2015. Each carries over 4,000 passengers and will feature

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World Record Sequential

In February 2013, the IPC created a new category of official World Records, that of Sequential Large Formations. Previously only single point records had been recognised by the IPC (through our international air sports organisation, the FAI). The new category defines ‘Large’ sequential as a quarter of the World Record size for that category. So,

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Women’s Freefly Record

A 14-way head-down formation, all ladies, became the first ever official French Female Freefly Record! The jump was made over Avignon during the morning of 23 August 2013, organised by the capable hands of Cathy Bouette and Domitile Kiger. A 4-day event had been planned to establish a record; this was the third day. The

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Women’s World Record is ON

The P3 team is very proud to announce some record events for next year: the 2014 Women’s World Record (largest formation – official FAI record), event to be combined with Men’s World Record (largest formation – unofficial). 

 Dates are Set! 12-18 October 2014. Perris, California. 200-way (or perhaps 201?) for the women. Do you

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Teamwork Tips

So, you’ve joined a skydive team? You’ve taken the exciting step from fun jumper to competitor. Congratulations! You’ve just complicated your skydiving life by a factor of double the number of people in your team, at the very least. Rock Bands Skydiving teams are a bit like rock bands. They form for a variety of

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