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Author: Performance Designs

OUR DREAM OF FLIGHT We are dreamers, creators, testers, and producers.  Driven by a true love for skydiving and an insatiable curiosity for possibility in parachute design, we’ve delivered revolutionary canopies and unrivaled customer service for over 30 years.  Our sport will never stop evolving. Neither will we. OUR HISTORY Combine one man, one skydive, and boundless ambition and you end up with one of the most successful companies in the skydiving industry to date. Founded in 1982, Performance Designs is the realization of Bill Coe’s dream to deliver improved performance of ram-air parachutes to the sport of skydiving. Bill’s passion ignited following his first jump at the age of 18 in 1976 and burned fiercely. He relocated to chase year-round jumping, but was dissatisfied with the canopies he encountered. First modifying, then building new designs from the ground up (all self-funded), he set out to revolutionize the sport and did so with the release of an early version of the PD 9-cell from his shop in DeLand, FL. Bill’s friend and also ardent skydiver, John LeBlanc, matched Bill’s passion and drive for modernized designs and joined PD as VP. With their combined efforts, the company thrived, yielding cutting-edge developments such as Microline, cross-bracing, and zero porosity fabric, all of which endure as standards in today’s parachute industry. Today Performance Designs calls DeLand, FL home, where Bill and John continue to lead and inspire their team to create progressive designs, and still encourage lunch break skydives.

PD Factory Team – 20 Years!

Posted on29th January 202329th January 2023AuthorPerformance Designs

Looking back at the best PDFT moments in twenty years of extreme canopy flight… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, New SkydiverTagscanopy coaching, canopy piloting, canopy skills, PD, PD Factory Team, Performance Designs

Sabre3: Two Years On…

Posted on25th July 202225th July 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

Is the Sabre3 as good as the hype?! Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, Gear, New SkydiverTagscanopy, canopy piloting, competition, PD, Performance Designs, Sabre3

Tip Tuesday: Wing Loading

Posted on19th July 202219th July 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

How to work out your wing loading and why i’s important… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, New SkydiverTagscanopy, PD, PD Tip Tuesday, Performance Designs, Tip Tuesday, Wing loading

Tip Tuesday: Rigger Roll

Posted on5th July 202218th July 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

How to rigger roll your canopy… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, Gear, New SkydiverTagscanopy, PD Tip Tuesday, Performance Designs, Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday: Demo jumping a canopy

Posted on17th June 20225th July 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

What to do when you demo jump a canopy… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, Gear, New SkydiverTagscanopy control, canopy piloting, canopy skills, demo, Flight-1, PD, PD Demo center, PD Tip Tuesday, Performance Designs, Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday: Balancing the Aircraft

Posted on24th May 202217th June 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

How and why not to stall the airplane… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, New SkydiverTagsaircraft safety, airplane, PD, PD Tip Tuesday, Performance Designs

Tip Tuesday: Destination Events

Posted on3rd May 202224th May 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

Preparing for an exotic boogie or an Innhopp event… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, New Skydiver, Staying AliveTagsAlethia Austin, boogie, PD Tip Tuesday, Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday: Coping with a bad landing

Posted on12th April 20223rd May 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

We’ve all been there! Keep smiling and learn what went wrong… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, New Skydiver, SkillsTagscanopy control, landing, Performance Designs, Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday: When To Reline Your Canopy

Posted on12th April 202212th April 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

How to tell when your canopy needs a reline… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, Gear, New SkydiverTagsgear, line set, lines, packing, Performance Designs, rigging, Tip Tuesday

PD Canopies timelime

Posted on11th January 202211th January 2022AuthorPerformance Designs

Performance Designs take us on a visual trip down memory lane… Read More …

CategoriesExperienced Skydiver, Gear, New SkydiverTagscanopy, canopy choice, history, PD, Performance Designs

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