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An international group of formation skydivers has set a new Fédération Aéronautique Internationale sequential formation skydiving world record (pending ratification) with a two-point 202-way. The group completed the jump Tuesday, September 29, at Skydive Perris in California. Dieter Kirsch, Milko Hodgkinson and Patrick Passe organized the event, which they called the Sequential Games. For the past five years, a number of attempts at this record have come close, but none has succeeded—until now.
Photo by Juan Mayer | D-26130
Latifa Al-Maktoum, D-34327, deploys her canopy after a wingsuit flight at Skydive Dubai.
An international team of skydivers from 23 nations built a 164-way head-down formation on Friday, July 31, at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, eclipsing the 138-Way World Record for Largest Head-Down Formation set at the same location in 2012. It took 13 attempts to build the formation, which resembled a giant flower. International formation skydiving judges Randy Connell, Marylou Laughlin and Jami Pillasch certified the performance, which will now go to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale for ratification.
Photo by Norman Kent | D-8369
Jumpers pour out of a Twin Otter for a head-down jump during the Big Wayze 2015 event at Skydive Spaceland in Houston, Texas.
Photo by Luciano Bacque | #140185
Jumpers complete a challenging formation at the P3 Spring Fling event at Skydive Perris in California.
Photo by Max Haim | D-23779
While wearing L.E.D. lights, Abdulbari Qubaisi swoops the pond at Skydive Dubai.
Olav Zipser spearheaded the freefly revolution of the early 1990s. He, along with a group of jumpers known as the Freefly Clowns, pioneered head-down skydiving and freeflying as we know it today. Zipser founded the Space Games freefly competition and has earned numerous championships and records, as well as an Emmy award for his work on ESPN’s “X-Games.” He has traveled extensively for decades teaching jumpers all over the world his art of freeflying, and his students say he has a Zen-like presence in the sky.
Caroline Layne goes for a magic carpet ride on wingsuit flyer Jeff Provenzano at the Pachangon Beach Boogie in Mexico.
Photo by Craig O'Brien | D-19294
Jumpers at Skydive Perris in California build a "human planet" formation, bringing to life Paul Bond's painting that appeared on the February 1980 cover of Parachutist portraying a then-imaginary 3-D skydive.
Photo by Laszlo Andacs | D-22468
Douglas Hendrix moves in on the score pad on his way to taking the bronze medal in the sport accuracy masters class at the USPA National Collegiate Parachuting Championships.
Following last October’s world-record-breaking leap from 135,897 feet, Alan Eustace and the StratEx Team are among this year’s nominees for the National Aeronautic Association’s prestigious Collier Trophy.
Photo by Samantha Schwann | C-37975
Niklas Daniel swoops the pond at Skydive Arizona.
July 22, 2013, was the day that changed my life. A week earlier, a coworker and I had received a briefing that a new drop zone was opening in our patrol area. The owners had invited troopers from our station to come out and make a tandem skydive.
Photo by Dave Jourdan
During one of the test jumps for his successful high-altitude world record attempt, Alan Eustace waves to the StratEx ground crew as a balloon lifts him to the stratosphere.
Lesley Gale (center) and Kate Cooper-Jensen (green helmet) lead the base out of the Skyvan during the world record sequential event.
Photo by Randy Swallows | D-31271
Fresh off of its win at the 2014 World Championships of 8-Way Formation Skydiving, the US Army Golden Knights turn in another gold-medal-winning performance at the USPA Nationals.
Does an instructional rating holder have more liability than those not coaching or instructing? Inherently, yes. You take on more responsibility—hence more liability—by assuming a role that cares for students. However, there are clear limits to that liability and simple ways to reduce the likelihood that you will be held legally accountable in any situation. How do you reduce your risk? By applying your ethics.
Rob Carter radiates hapiness as he flies down over Skydive Perris in California.
It's a topic that nearly all skydivers face at some point in their skydiving careers: downsizing. And it's a discussion that the Performance Designs staff has had with numerous skydivers of all experience levels over the years. Now, with the majority of incidents in skydiving occurring under fully open (and fully functional) canopies, it’s that much more important to talk about when it is and is not appropriate to downsize.
Photo by Iwan van der Schoor | D-29627 Mark and Nancy Lichtle exit a helicopter for a demonstration jump into Lake of the Pines, California, to kick off the community's Fourth of July parade.
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