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

Amazing Customer Service

Unprecedented Vortex Rig Replacement Effort Complete Company meets target for more than 700 customers affected by recall  April, 2017 The Vortex recall by Parachute Systems is now officially a good news story. Today, the company’s CEO and founder Chris Dales announced that the last rigs to complete the recall are on the production line. More

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FLY4LIFE – Apples

Richard Scheurich happy faces edit And this is why we jump out of planes, to have fun 🙂 Let’s all take care of each other and make this world a better place, THERE IS NO “WE”, it is only “I” who can make a change, make yourself a better person. We are all in the

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Inside-Outside

Tunnel to freefall – how to make the jump… There is surely no doubt in anyone’s mind by now that the wind tunnel is a useful tool for learning how to fly your body in freefall. However most of us are also aware that the transition from performing those skills in the tunnel as opposed

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Wake-up Call

It’s jump seven of a 10-jump day. We’re at beautiful Skydive Algarve, training 8-way over a long weekend, in gorgeous sunny weather. It’s a pick-up team so we haven’t yet got to the point of irritating each other. We’re doing good jumps, larking around and having a great time. All is good in Lesleyworld! 🙂

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Fear and Freedom

What are the seven areas of life that give rise to fears and how can we master them? There are seven areas of life we are here to master; Spiritual, Mental, Vocational, Financial, Familial, Social and Physical. They can either be powerfully supportive of your genius, or impeding it. There are also seven common fears

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Speedflying Chamonix

https://vimeo.com/204864590 Finally we got to one of the most popular speedflying spots in Europe – Chamonix. For us it was a great opportunity to fly together with world’s best pilots. For 20 days me and Taya have been living near Brevent ski lift using all the weather to improve our flying skills. Big thanks to

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The Battle of the Century

World Challenge 2017 We have just witnessed the closest ever fight in an indoor skydiving competition – unbelievably exciting!! It was neck and neck all the way for outdoor and indoor champions Hayabusa, and Weembi Lille. The team started in round one with the same score, Weembi took first blood in round two, another equal

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