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

Wind Games: the battle Hayabusa VS Airspeed rd 7 to 10

Wind Games, Rounds 7-10 of the epic battle between Airspeed and Hayabusa, Saturday 18 January at Windoor, Spain. Huge thanks to Martial ‘le Jaguar’ Ferré of Veloce for the speedy edit. (rounds 1-6 uploaded yesterday, search ‘Wind Games’) Wind Games, Rounds 7-10 of the epic battle between Airspeed and Hayabusa, Saturday 18 January at Windoor,

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New Flight-1 Courses

Canopy control market leader, Flight-1, is pleased to announce a number of additional courses to its product line for 2014. 103 Airmanship – canopy collision avoidance In light of the increased canopy dangers at our ever busier drop zones, Flight-1 is launching the ‘Flight-1 103 Airmanship Course’. Flight-1 recognizes that canopy training traditionally focuses on

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Dan BC’s Give-away!

Every day I am reminded of the many things I have to be grateful for. I can only hope that in some way I am able to contribute as much to this game we call life as I take from it. With that in mind I am giving away 25 copies of my book ‘Above All Else’. I would like

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Catching up with Brian Vacher

Brian Vacher has competed at every official world event in Canopy Piloting since it became an FAI discipline in 2001. He travels the world with the PD Factory Team and Flight-1, providing civilian and military canopy coaching, training and competing in swooping competitions and participating in team expeditions How many jumps do you have, and

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Red Fish Style 2K13

Flying Goldfish-style … Flying Fish: JP Ricordeau, Greg van Den Eyden, Luis Lopez. Outside bowl camera: Will Penny & Tom Naef. Creative idea, superb flying, beautiful edit Flying Goldfish-style … Flying Fish: JP Ricordeau, Greg van Den Eyden, Luis Lopez. Outside bowl camera: Will Penny & Tom Naef. Creative idea, superb flying, beautiful edit

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Girlfriend Troubles

HELP! – Our teammate’s girlfriend thinks she’s the coach! Okay Roy, here’s the deal… We have a new team member joined this year, he’s working out brilliant… but his girlfriend isn’t! Firstly I noticed her influence when we were making decisions about where to go for our two overseas training camps. I didn’t see the

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2014 – A Snug Odyssey

Sun Path Products, manufacturer of the Javelin Odyssey, has made further improvements to their rig. The SLS modification adds comfort, control and confidence, and the Split Collins Lanyard aims to improve safety. Stabilized Laterals Sun Path was the first company to introduce indented side laterals to a harness/container system, that joined the harness to the

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