Bodysurfin' at Spaceland
Antonio Arias docking David Israd, dropknee style, on his 800th jump at Skydive Spaceland in Houston, Texas. Happy 800th David! This reminds me of this bodysurfing exit at Skydive Elsinore. View Photo »
Dancing On Clouds
Jessica Fragoso of Team Wonderland dancing on the clouds for her 300th jump at Skydive The Ranch in New York. Happy 300th Jessica. Please send some beer our way. Photo by Victor “BAM” Howard. This pic reminds me of Natanie Cogburn standing on top of the world. View Photo »
Fly Like Brick: Aerobatic Wingsuit Flying
Aerobatic wingsuit flying is kinda like figure skating. Except it’s way more badass with a wingsuit in the sky instead of skates and glitter. Never mind. It’s nothing like figure skating. Congrats to Jarno Cordia and Alejandro Lopez Arce of team Fly Like Brick — a wingsuit skydiving team — for taking 1st place at... Watch Video »
Mad Mediterranean Skillz
Nils has skillz! Such a gorgeous view of the Mediterranean Sea over Skydive Empuriabrava in Spain with Louise Kristensen and Nils Predstrup. Photo by Will Penny. Nils is the photog behind the “Most Beautiful Photo” award and a flyer in the award-winning “4 Elements Free” skydiving video from the Voss Film Festival. View Photo »
Skydiving Car: First Test Drive In Freefall
The über talented Steve and Sara Curtis, Greg Gasson and Joe Jennings took the Chevy Sonic on its first skydiving adventure in the Arizona desert. And apparently Chevy’s new Wile E. Coyote option — a massive parachute — works as advertised. I call “shotgun” on the next jump! Watch Video »
World's First Wingsuit Flight Between Buildings in...
Congrats to Luigi Cani on becoming the first person in the world to fly a wingsuit between the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The buildings officially ranked as the world’s tallest until surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Speaking of “firsts” and the Burj, check out the first world record BASE jump off... View Photo »
Friday Freakout: Surprise!... Canopy Collision
Losing your helmet in freefall is never fun (watch closely at the 0:03 mark). Neither is a canopy collision/wrap immediately after dumping your main. This video is from the good ‘ol days — 1989 — back when, apparently, tracking away at break-off was only a suggestion. Oh well, nice video. Watch Video »
200-Way Record Attempt Over California
Following yesterday’s photo of the 200-way exit, this is Craig O’Brien’s video of 200 of the world’s most talented skydivers attempting to break the California state record at Skydive Perris in October 2011 (submission as an official record is still pending). Congrats to everyone on the jump! Craig, that’s some badass backslididing at break-off. Watch Video »
Big Way Traffic: 200-Way Exit
A little traffic is expected on big ways, especially when 200 skydivers exiting 9 aircraft attempt to set a new California state formation skydiving record at Skydive Perris. Landing must have been interesting; kind of like this big way landing traffic, only twice as many skydivers/canopies. This is just a teaser for tomorrow’s video, so... View Photo »
Flying First Class
Why fly economy when you can fly first class with Babylon Freefly — the real rock ‘n rollas — at Skydive Empuriabrava in Spain. You’d almost think these guys are experienced skydivers or something. Watch Video »
The Matrix: Freefly Edition
Although this isn’t true time-lapse photography like The Matrix: Swooping or The Swooping Matrix: Reloaded shots, it’s a very cool and creative composite of Cristian Vasari freeflying at Fly Zone Fermo in Italy. Photo by Roberto Caratella. View Photo »
The Upskirt View of a Canopy Flock
All you gear sluts out there surely remember the rad skull and crossbones SkyArt canopy I posted back in September. Well here’s another upskirt view of Team Off Track’s sexy SkyArt canopies from Icarus Canopies (by NZ Aerosports). The canopy design competition ends tomorrow (October 19th)… so hurry up and submit your design on Icarus’... View Photo »
Wingsuiting Ninja
Hayden Galvin — founder of 5D Wingsuit School — looks like a wingsuiting ninja in his slick skydiving gear, although I don’t think anyone can look more badass than the Sky Jester (sorry Hayden :-). Hayden’s 5D Wingsuit School was coaching a 4-day advanced wingsuit camp at the Bridgewater Dropzone in Victoria, Australia. Photo by... View Photo »
Blazin' Trails at Air Show
After seeing this shot from below, it’s pretty cool to see the first-person view of Marco Tiezzi leading the atmonauti flock at the 2011 ATP Airshow Locorotondo in Italy. Photo by Marco Tiezzi. Check out the other angle of this shot from below. View Photo »
Friday Freakout: Skydiver Almost Hits Plane
Skydivers and planes go together like parachutes and gravity… except when planes fly along jump run when it’s time to pull. It’s a good thing parachutes and gravity still work well together, because that’s the only thing stopping this guy from hitting the plane in freefall. Have you ever had a close call like this... Watch Video »
Jumping Through Human Hoops
This is the money shot of Olav Zipser freeflying through a 40-way sequential at DZ Aerograd Kolomna in Russia. If you missed the video from this jump, check it out here. Photo by Daniel Angulo. Great stuff Olav! View Photo »
Skydiving Fun in the Everglades
Chris Regan put together this collection of tracking jumps, heli jumps, hybrid jumps, freeflying, swooping, and tons-o-fun at the 2011 Everglades Boogie at Skydive Air Adventures in Clewiston, Florida. When and where was the last boogie you went to? Watch Video »
Freestyle World Championship by Team Akrostyle
Team Akrostyle took first place at the 2010 World Skydiving Championships in Menzelinsk, Russia. You’ll also want to check out Team USA’s freefly routine and Volare Freefly Team’s free routine/speed round at this event. Which of those videos is your fave? Watch Video »
Blue Skies and Water Over Thailand
A 14-way formation skydive at the 2009 Thai Sky Festival in — you guessed it — Thailand. Unfortunately the 2011 Thai Sky Festival was cancelled but will hopefully be back next year. This shot reminds me of a few skydiving pics in paradise, like Luigi Cani flying his wingsuit over Fiji and this 6-way formation... View Photo »
Friday Freakout: Dumb and Dumber, Dirty Low Pull
This is ninety seconds of dumb and dumber. At least he realized how dumb this was and hopefully learned from it. In other news, I’ve heard AADs save lives, and rumor has it that flaring helps for soft landings. I still think this insane dirty low pull is the lowest I’ve ever seen — it’s... Watch Video »