{"id":32591,"date":"2021-03-16T16:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/?p=32591"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T11:38:27","slug":"catching-up-with-sydney-kennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skydivemag.com\/new\/catching-up-with-sydney-kennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with… Sydney Kennett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sydney is the Sky on Stage Indoor Champion 2020, fourteen years of age, and she flies like a dream\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sydney Kennett performing one of her signature moves, ‘the Scorpion’
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Sydney’s grace, flexibility and musicality and combine in gymnastic and dance moves that make the tunnel her personal artistic stage. She has won many competitions already in her young life and has a bright future. When Sydney flies, you just have to watch, her choreography and artistic expression demand it! <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Sydney’s Dad always wanted her to learn to fly \u2013 but he could never have predicted she would quickly learn to outfly most people in the world!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hey Sydney, when did you start flying in the tunnel and how did you discover it?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I took my first flight when I was 8 years old.  My dad was a skydiver for many years, and it was always a dream of his to introduce my sister and I to body flight.  I was able to learn through Flight School at iFLY, what was then called Kids Club.  There, I met my first coach Preston Drake and he is one of the most amazing flyers I have ever been around to this day.  He instilled in me the fun of flying and it has always been fun because of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many tunnel hours do you have since then approximately?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I have around 200 hours total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sydney Kennett, indoor skydiving athlete
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You recently won Freestyle at Wind Games 2020 with the same choreography you presented at Sky on Stage<\/a> “Throwback”. Can you tell us a bit more insights about the experience of performing live and the emotions that goes with it?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I find that competing is both exhilarating and very scary all at the same time. I’m honestly a pretty shy person so sometimes I get really nervous performing live, but once I am in the wind, I feel at home and can just do my thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video – Sydney at Wind Games 2020<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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