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

The MONKEY Fist

Pilot chute in tow – The Monkey Fist. Jhonathan Florez shows us his pilot chute packing method The video shows a real ‘Monkey Fist’ malfunction in action, where the bridle closes round the pilot chute like the fist of a monkey. Jhonathan Florez, the fastest wingsuiter in the world, demos how to pack the pilot

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World’s highest base jump

Valery Rozov climbs to the North Face of Everest, then makes the world’s highest base jump, skydiving off it in a wing suit Find out more [here](/article/20130817-flying-the-north-face-of-everest “Flying the north face of Everest”) Valery Rozov climbs to the North Face of Everest, then makes the world’s highest base jump, skydiving off it in a

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Satori Academy

Satori, the British National team for the last 5 years, is once again forming teams that they will take under their wing all the way to Nationals. Satori evaluate people in tryouts, and then group people up into compatible teams, based on ability, attitude, goals and personalities. Satori Academy Satori teams that will be training

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Static-Line Progression

What is static-line progression? This is the classic way we learnt to skydive, in the good ol’ days. As the cheapest entry to parachuting it’s become a bit the poor relation but is still a perfectly valid method. You start by jumping from around 3,500 feet, initially with no free fall. You slowly but surely

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Aerial Base Seminar

Lessons on base jumping safety, wingsuit flying techniques are followed by tumbling practice via trampolining and high diving. If the weather is kind, the course can be directly followed with balloon jumps and 2 days of wingsuit skydiving after at Paracentrum Teuge! Join in on the fun! Sean Chuma and Jarno Cordia are organizing a

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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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