After 54 years in the sport, beloved photographer Mike McGowan has finally hung up his rig. We asked him about what he’s observed over the decades, and take a peek at his photo book… You spent most of your life devoted to skydiving photography, how did that start? It actually started in 1965 when i

Why it’s a good idea to demo a reserve… …before you need to use one, you’re under it low and have to land in someone’s back yard… {"type":"embed","data":"https://www.facebook.com/PerformanceDesigns/videos/1840284949380972/?t=108"} Other Tip Tuesdays ALL TIP TUESDAYS PREVIOUS TIP – _[_Preparing for BASE](https://skydivemag.smallteaser.com/article/tip-tuesday-preparing-for-base) 2-Stage Flare After Landing Buying a Used Canopy Choosing a Dealer Choosing the Right Canopy

Axis Dive Designer has it all 6 Disciplines Axis Flight School has updated their online Draw Generator with even more disciplines so it now covers a huge range: FS – 4-way, 8-way, 10-way, 16-way VFS MFS Dynamic – 2-way, 4-way Cross Formation CF – 2-way Sequential, 4-way seq 6 Dive Pools Many different dive pools

Description The belly-flying neutral body position is the first position you’ll learn as your introduction into the world of body flying. The primary objective is to be able to safely and successfully demonstrate a neutral belly-fly position, while staying in the center of tunnel. You’ll need to be comfortable in this position before you learn

Is Pack-jamming a Problem? Dear Rolls A friend of mine, who is Tail, had an incident where he was pack-jamming an exit, and it led to a premature reserve opening, which you can see on this video (below) he uploaded to YouTube. He was kind enough to post this on Facebook, so that others could

Thought you guys might like this one. This was from my first jump on Friday, and after my second attempt to clear it, I pretty well accepted the fact that I was going to have to chop this canopy… Lucky for me it didn’t turn out that way. The video below shows the drama… Situation

Gear Sponsorship Dear Roy Do you have any advice when approaching companies for sponsorship? My 4-way team has a goal to be the National team. We don’t have any matching gear but of course we would like matching rigs, jumpsuits and helmets. How do we best put our case? What do sponsors want in return?

Dynamic flyers, more than any other indoor skydivers, face a massive challenge by training at their home tunnel and competing in a different one. Like Formula One racing drivers, they must be able to adapt quickly to master a new track. In the run up to the third FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving in

Newsflash – 3 jumps – 3 teams – 3 World Records! Records Galore! The ‘Women on Wings’ (WOW) team in Ukraine built three consecutive 3-point 60-ways on successive jumps, each one setting a Women’s World Sequential Record. The record-breaking skydives were on Thursday 2 August, from 18,000 feet over Skydive Kharkiv, from two Antonov-28 aircraft