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System Restart—Coming Back to Skydiving After a Long Layoff By Matt Leonard   (Jun 2020) Features

Risk mitigation and the decision-making process surrounding risk mitigation is an important part of the foundation of safety.

Featured DZ Photo by Nick Cahill   (Jun 2020) Featured Photos Featured DZ

Nick Cahill smiles for a selfie at Pacific Skydiving Center.

Featured Event Photo by Marco Fürst | D-32690   (Jun 2020) Featured Photos Featured Event

Matt Leonard, Andreas Mosling, Marcus Denniston, Allison Reay, Matt Siegman and Cameron King fly in formation at the Flock and Flow canopy piloting event at Skydive City Zephyrhills in Florida.

Featured Event Photo by Marco Fürst | D-32690   (Jun 2020) Featured Photos Featured Event

Matt Leonard, Andreas Mosling, Marcus Denniston, Allison Reay, Matt Siegman and Cameron King fly in formation at the Flock and Flow canopy piloting event at Skydive City Zephyrhills in Florida.

Safety Check | 200—The Non-Magical Magic Number By Ron Bell   (Jun 2020) Safety & Training Safety Check

In skydiving, 200 jumps is a recurring theme.

Rating Corner | Bringing Back the Tradition of Logbooks   (Jun 2020) Safety & Training The Rating Corner

Sometime over the past 10-15 years—probably due to the advent of phone apps, manifest programs and digital altimeters that track jumps—many jumpers developed an indifferent or apathetic attitude toward formally logging jumps.

Featured Training Photo Photo by Brian Festi | D-26788   (Jun 2020) Featured Photos Safety & Training Featured Photo

Jumpers gather around a life-flight helicopter during a Safety Day seminar at Skydive Paraclete XP in Raeford, North Carolina.

Blue Skies Physical Therapy Opens at Elsinore   (Jun 2020) Five Minute Call Gear & Industry Spotlight

Blue Skies Physical Therapy, owned and operated by Dr. Nancy Grieger, C-44952, has assisted the skydiving community with physical therapy assessment and treatment, injury management and strength and conditioning training at boogies and events for years.

FAI Names Haggeny Secretary General   (Jun 2020) Five Minute Call Gear & Industry Spotlight

On April 15, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (the World Air Sports Federation) announced that its Executive Board named Markus Haggeney as the new FAI Secretary General.

Featured Jumper Photo by Alex Swindle | D-31305   (Jun 2020) Featured Photos To New Heights Featured Photo

John and Alex Hicks (yellow helmets, center), D-23553 and D-23554, celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with friends at Skydive Arizona in Eloy.

Skydivers Innovate During Global Pandemic   (Jun 2020) Five Minute Call

The skydiving community’s ability to rapidly innovate in response to this health crisis is the perfect representation of our unique sport and is evidence that our industry will adapt and continue to thrive.

Round Canopy Parachute Team Hosts Event at Palatka By Dave Munoz   (Jun 2020) Five Minute Call

At Skydive Palatka in Florida in March, Round Canopy Parachute Team, a nonprofit military-static-line demonstration team, hosted its second More Than a Jump event for veterans.

Bob Lewis to Receive ISM Trustees’ Award   (Jun 2020) Five Minute Call

In April, the International Skydiving Museum & Hall of Fame announced Bob Lewis as the recipient of its 2020 Trustees’ Award.

Ambassador to El Salvador Makes Demo Jump   (Jun 2020) Five Minute Call

More than 30 years ago, the Jumping Ambassadors, a U.S. Army military freefall detachment from the 7th Special Forces Group performed demonstration jumps across Latin America.

Corrections   (Jun 2020) Five Minute Call
David “Junior” Ludvik | D-25148 By Brian Giboney   (Jun 2020) People Profiles

David “Junior” Ludvik, D-25148, started skydiving in 1999 at Skydive Tecumseh in Michigan.

Tales From the Bonfire | The Wild, Wild Midwest By Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld   (Jun 2020) People Tales from the Bonfire

As most older skydivers are aware, the Midwest was the wild, wild Midwest in the early 1980s.

“I Met Myself on the Mountain” By Kayla Perron   (Jun 2020) People Featured Photos Featured Art

“I Met Myself on the Mountain”
Ink on paper

Kayla Perron | B-47722
Orlando, Florida

Closing In Photo by Vince Callender I D-19514   (Jun 2020) Featured Photos Closing In

At Dallas Tandem Skydiving in Ennis, Texas, Tandem Instructor Rudy Reyes uses his downtime to play with an old C-9 canopy.

Centerspread Painting by Yvette Walter  I D-32690   (Jun 2020) Featured Photos Centerspread

Painting by Yvette Walter  I D-32690

“Fun with Friends”
Acrylic on canvas

Tampa, Florida
Skybuddiesjewelry.com

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