Friday Freakout: Swooper Clotheslined By Wire Fenc...
Swooping is fun… until you get clotheslined by a wire fence! Yet another way to add instant brakes while swooping. This reminds me of a fighter jet snagging the tailhook when landing on an aircraft carrier, minus the cool fighter jet and smooth landing. Watch Video »
Look Ma, No Hands... F**k The Toggles
Why use toggles for landing when you can look this good without them! Have you ever tried a ghostrider swoop before? Watch Video »
Swooping + CYPRES Fire = Instant Brakes
Having your CYPRES accidentally fire while swooping is one hell of a way to slam on the brakes! He’s lucky this didn’t happen 50-100 feet higher. Watch Video »
Swooping: Just Add Water
What do you do when your dropzone doesn’t have a swooping pond? Take a handful of skydivers, some high performance canopies, and just add water! Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Skydivers Hitting Water
Want to learn how to swoop the pond? Don’t do this and you’re half way there. Watch Video »
A Moment In Time
It’s amazing how something that happens so fast, like skydiving or BASE jumping, can create forever lasting memories. And although it’s rare to take a moment in time and slow it down to the same speed at which the mind perceived it when it happened, Ciamac and Jarno Cordia of Fly Like Brick accomplished that... Watch Video »
He Swoops, He Scores!
Brice Bernier doing Accuracy on his JVX at the 3rd annual Dubai International Parachuting Championship (DIPC) at Skydive Dubai. Photo by Shannon Seyb of NZ Aerosports / Icarus Canopies. View Photo »
Walking On Water (DIPC)
Marat Leiras making it look easy at the 3rd annual Dubai International Parachuting Championship (DIPC) at Skydive Dubai. Photo by Danny Jacobs. View Photo »
Going The Distance (DIPC)
Deane “Smudge” Smith of Jump4Heroes — the man behind the Poppy Proximity Flying video from Veterans Day — competing in one of the distance rounds at the third annual Dubai International Parachuting Championship (DIPC) at Skydive Dubai. Photo by Bruno Brokken. View Photo »
Distance Battles in Dubai (DIPC)
Following the Mad Swooping Skills video I posted earlier this week, here’s a mix of the canopy formation, formation skydiving, and canopy piloting rounds from Day 3 of the third annual Dubai International Parachuting Championship (DIPC) at Skydive Dubai. Keep your eyes peeled at 4:43 for some swooping carnage. Oh, and a rant from the... Watch Video »
Mad Swooping Skills in Dubai (DIPC)
After two weeks of intense competition (and a few injuries), the third annual Dubai International Parachuting Championship at Skydive Dubai is a wrap. The stakes were high this year with a staggering purse of $775,000! This is Benjamin Forde’s edit from the last day of the comp. Congrats to Curt Bartholomew for taking the overall... Watch Video »
The Swooping Of The Lambs
Extreme sheep herding at it’s finest. I suddenly have a craving for lamb chops, some fava beans and a nice chianti. This reminds me of Jonathan Tagle swooping a camel in the Dubai desert. Watch Video »
Swooping The Pond... With A Hang Glider?!
Ok, so this isn’t a skydiving or BASE jumping video, and it isn’t exactly a pond either. But it was too good not to share. Have you ever seen a hang glider swoop over water like this? I think this guy should challenge Nick Batsch and his JPX Petra to a distance duel. Watch Video »
New Skydiving Toy: The Wingman Cam
Who needs Goose or Jester from Top Gun when you have the Wingman Cam, a new flying camera platform (FCP) for GoPro cameras (or any other small format cameras). Although it’s used primarily by paragliders, Jeff Provenzano of the Red Bull Air Force takes his new toy out for a few spins on a parachute... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Synchronized Swooping Fail
A brilliant display of synchronized swooping. “Just flare when I flare… biff when I biff.” Great team work guys; real friends stick together to the very end. Watch Video »
Best Idea Ever… Swoop 'n Slide
No, really! Best. Idea. Ever. What better way to cool off on a hot summer’s day at Skydive Arizona than to swoop a 200-foot slip and slide. Just another day at the office for Niklas Daniel of AXIS Flight School — the same guy responsible for setting his parachute on fire and skydiving with a... Watch Video »
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 »
Swooping Stunt: Trust Your Friend!
How much do you trust your friend to do this… Watch Video »
Swooping For Silver at The World Cup
This is how it’s done! Jason Moledzki of the PD Factory Team swooping — and taking 2nd place in accuracy — at the 2011 FAI World Cup Canopy Piloting. Photo by Bruno Brokken. Check out Bruno’s breathtaking sunset canopy flock photo and his hilarious Fun Jumper vs. Tandem Factory video — winner of the 2010... View Photo »
Skydiver's Barrel Roll Landing Close To Ground
What do you get when using your rears and harness close to the ground on a Velo 90? A barrel roll that scares the shit out of everyone watching. This must be more fun than the dizzying 1080 swoop I posted last week. Some might say Ryan has big balls for trying this, while others... Watch Video »