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

FSNinja

Get the free cool App that animates your 4-way jumps! 4-way Team Having become a qualified skydiver, making your next step joining a 4-way team is a great way to improve your flying skills really quickly – jumping regularly with the same people; sharing tunnel time; and getting coaching are all great ways to level

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Rhythm: 2-way dives

SDC Rhythm’s series of 2-way drill dives for honing skills, working on basics of bodyflight. They can be performed in the tunnel or in freefall. All the moves (turns, side-slides, fall rate, etc) are demoed in the previous article, How to Fly Your Body. 2-way star and sidebody exits are explained at the bottom of

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World Indoor Skydiving Championships

Indoor Skydiving and IPC How did World Cups and World Championships in INDOOR skydiving become accepted by the International Parachute Commission (IPC) and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). After all, what do wind tunnels have to do with the World Airsports Federation? Gillian Rayner, recently elected IPC President and a supporter of Indoor Skydiving, describes

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Give your G3 Some LOVE!

Maintaining Your Cookie G3 Skydiving Helmet The one and only Cookie takes us through 5 quick steps to look after your G3 G3 Maintenance Maintaining your G3 Proper maintenance of your Cookie G3 full-face skydiving helmet will ensure its best performance. In this video, Jason Cooke takes you through five tips for maintaining your Cookie

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3 Unmissable Boogies

Summer Boogies in Europe You Can not Miss If there is one thing we skydivers love are summer boogies: people from all round the world, good vibes, friends, parties and – best of all – clear jumping days from the first to the last hour of each day. This time of high concentration of jumps

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AXIS Summer Fun

Now here’s an idea! Summer Fun Surf’s up at Skydive Arizona Brianne Thompson and Niklas Daniel of Axis Flight School have a blast sliding in their landings. More Axis Videos AXIS Flight School has produced more than 30 videos about all aspects of body flight, click the link for more: Foundations of Flight Videos

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The Power of YES!

Asking Total Strangers to go Skydiving… If a complete stranger approached you in the street and asked if you wanted to go skydiving for free, what would you say ? Meet the guys who say “YES!” … Asking Strangers to go Skydiving on the Spot!! Yes Theory ” ‘No’ is such an ugly word… ‘Yes’

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