Achieving Your Goals in Skydiving: Wanting It Isn’t a Plan 
Learn how SMART goal setting can help you achieve your skydiving goals. Melanie Curtis shares practical advice for building lasting progression.
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Risk Management in Skydiving and BASE Jumping
Drawing on years as a firefighter, paramedic, helicopter pilot, and skydiver, Tyler Gilbert explores how better judgment and risk management can help skydivers and BASE jumpers build longer, safer careers
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When To Upsize Your Wingsuit
Before moving to a bigger wingsuit, make sure you're truly ready. A practical guide to safe wingsuit progression and upsizing.
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Knight of Prague teaser

Knights of Prague teaser – Friday 13th, the final day of the dynamic 4-way competition, one of the most exciting and innovative creations to hit our sport. What aerial antics will we see from some of the world’s best body flyers? Knights of Prague teaser – Friday 13th, the final day of the dynamic 4-way

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My Lucky Day in HELL

It’s never just one thing that causes a skydiving injury, it’s always a series of events. The great benefit about recognising this, is that you only have to break one link in the chain to prevent the accident. Murphy’s Law applies even in freefall; it’s always the jumps where you end up low that you

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DIPC 2013 Episode 5: Freestyle

DIPC 2013 Episode 5: Freestyle – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Performance Designs video of the canopy piloting freestyle competition – anything goes and entertainment is the name of the game. DIPC 2013 Episode 5: Freestyle – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Performance Designs video of the canopy piloting freestyle competition

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Tunnel Rat

Dear Roy I am on a team with people who have much more experience than me. I only have 100 jumps and they all have around 1,000. Our flying ability is pretty similar because I learned a lot in the tunnel as I used to work there. When we do our tunnel sessions I feel

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Sugar Alpha

“Hello, welcome to Skydive Chicago, I’m Roger, pleased to meet you, I am one of the instructors here”. These were the words Roger Nelson would invariably use when greeting newcomers to his drop zone. No mention of being the boss, the drop zone owner, nor any mention of his shady past which involved drug smuggling

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