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

Arizona Challenge 2017

​ As a newcomer to the Arizona Challenge it was actually very daunting walking out into the packing shed on day one. With the vast majority of participants returning from years past and many fresh from the Spring Fling in Perris I knew that this was not going to be just another casual big-way weekend

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Extreme HIGHS

Recordbreaking At the tail end of 2016, we were incredibly proud to see Valery Rozov break yet another BASE jumping world record, jumping from the highest exit point of Cho Oyu in China, at over 25,000 feet. We share similar dedication in what we do at FXTM, and gladly sponsored the extreme sporting legend throughout

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Hybrid Valkyrie

The best just got better… “Performance Designs has once again raised the bar. The flight characteristics seem even sharper than my standard Valkyrie. The canopy has amazing acceleration with complete confidence in the power of the rears or toggles to change directions or level out if needed. If you are serious about your chosen discipline

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CREW XRW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0_doq6BKDo&feature=em-subs_digest We did some EPIC shit! Dynamic Crew XRW …So here you can see Scott H. Lazarus and Iain Jensen in a stack but the only detail is that Iain is upside down, holding my rig!! I guess that we owe beer for sure!! This jump was dedicated to my brother Graham Dickinson ​ ​

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Learning to Fly

Fallin & Surging Hani Lapodi’s video diary of his journey becoming a skydiver https://vimeo.com/208154555 It was 16 years ago when I jumped out of a plane for the first time; 16 years of dreaming of becoming the master of my fate; of being a Skydiver and belonging to this sky-high community of men and women

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Spring Fling 2017

Skydive Perris, May For this Spring Fling novice (yes, I bought the case!) the 2017 Spring Fling ended three excellent weeks at Perris, following the Big Way and 100-way training camps. And all that with some of the best skydivers around coaching and jumping with us. More about the organisers later, but as a start

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Burning Man Jump

Douggs jumps into Burning Man festival – Legend! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dEgyRZTx0g&list=TLGGmkUYJi_ccmEzMTA1MjAxNw Good Morning Burning Man Skydive by Chris « Douggs » Mc Dougall, a bonus video from BASE Dreams 3! ​

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