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

MFS Half Rebel Exit

Foundations of Flight Nik Daniel and Brianne Thompson demo the Half Rebel exit Foundations of Flight – Half Rebel exit More Foundations of Flight 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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Made to MEASURE

You’ve talked to your local instructors, scoured dropzone.com, clicked through the gear shop websites and even ventured into the risky eBay waters. Yet that first rig continues to elude you. Although you’d love to go all new, the cash isn’t there. So finding something used or continuing to rent seem to be your only remaining

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Ladies World Record

The ‘Fly Girls’, a team of badass women led by Amy Chmelecki, set a sequential vertical world record in the skies above Sebastian. Amy also ran an event bringing elite female athletes together from a range of sports, and found they had a lot in common! Pro Skydiver Amy Chmelecki Leads Women’s Sport Summit Red

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2017 USPA Fatality Summary

And how to avoid making the same mistakes Beau Riebe and Albert Berchtold of Performance Designs review the 2017 USPA Fatalities list, and suggest how to prevent the biggest killers from happening to you… {"type":"embed","data":"https://www.facebook.com/PerformanceDesigns/videos/10155884526886293/"} "Let's make every day Safety Day" – Albert Berchtold Related Article 3 simple ideas that could save your life – by

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Zero to Big-way Hero

Rai Ahmed, Lesley Gale and Victoria Hatfield ‘winging it’ at the BPA AGM Zero to Big-way Hero – Seminar AGM Seminar Maria Russell was supposed to be running a big-way seminar but had a wee car accident on the way. She was unhurt but absent – so Rai, Lesley & Vicky stepped in to fill

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Camera Briefings

(Note, second part of a Camera Safety series, first part, ‘Camera Crazy’, is here) Only an experienced camera flyer or instructor who is up to date with the current equipment and knowledge should conduct camera briefs. It is the responsibility of the flyer to sort out someone appropriate to give him/her a brief. Also, the

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Camera CRAZY!

Cameras, cameras and more cameras. They are everywhere we look; inside the aircraft, in freefall, they surround us, and the future is more and more use of what seem like harmless devices. In reality, they are trying to kill us… The sky is a vast amount of space but when you put a camera on

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