What is AFF? AFF or Accelerated Free Fall is an intensive course to become a skydiver in as few as 8 jumps. You make your first skydive from 12,000 feet with an instructor each side. The idea is that your brain has time to get past the ‘sensory overload’ you feel for the first few […]

Valery Rozov climbs to the North Face of Everest, then makes the world’s highest base jump, skydiving off it in a wing suit Find out more [here](/article/20130817-flying-the-north-face-of-everest “Flying the north face of Everest”) Valery Rozov climbs to the North Face of Everest, then makes the world’s highest base jump, skydiving off it in a

Satori, the British National team for the last 5 years, is once again forming teams that they will take under their wing all the way to Nationals. Satori evaluate people in tryouts, and then group people up into compatible teams, based on ability, attitude, goals and personalities. Satori Academy Satori teams that will be training

What is static-line progression? This is the classic way we learnt to skydive, in the good ol’ days. As the cheapest entry to parachuting it’s become a bit the poor relation but is still a perfectly valid method. You start by jumping from around 3,500 feet, initially with no free fall. You slowly but surely

Lessons on base jumping safety, wingsuit flying techniques are followed by tumbling practice via trampolining and high diving. If the weather is kind, the course can be directly followed with balloon jumps and 2 days of wingsuit skydiving after at Paracentrum Teuge! Join in on the fun! Sean Chuma and Jarno Cordia are organizing a

Amy Chmelecki has won 3 Freestyle National Championships, 4 VFS Nationals and is a 3-times World Champion. She has organised 4 Women’s World Records and been on countless records herself. She is now in Joy Riders, an international Dynamic 4-way tunnel team that she describes as ‘my very favorite thing I have done in this

Learning to Fly Head-down is the fourth DVD from the awesome Joao Tambor and, as previously, it doesn’t disappoint. The DVD follows the same format as the others with crystal-clear verbal and visual instruction. This freefly DVD from Skydive U is packed full of informative knowledge that has been collected over the years, all tried

This will be the first Airspeed tunnel camp in the UK in over 5 years! If you can’t spare the expense to travel to the US for Airspeed coaching, this is a unique opportunity as Airspeed is coming to the UK! Airspeed The Airspeed method of coaching is second to none with 20 years experience

Phoenix-Fly – The Need 4 Speed – Artistic Playtime (training sessions). Edited by Jarno Cordia Phoenix-Fly – The Need 4 Speed – Artistic Playtime (training sessions). Edited by Jarno Cordia

Sun Path Products, manufacturer of the Javelin series of harness/containers, has released a deployment bag option with tuck tabs instead of rubber bands. The new stowless bag is offered as an optional extra on new Javelins, or can be ordered separately, to fit into your existing Javelin. Various versions of lazy bags have been in