This weekend marked the first ever 6 Way Formation Skydiving Competition, designed to mix the speed and intricacy of four and eight way to create a good, fun event that people of all levels could participate in.
With bigway organiser Will off to the States with Team Steve, those of us he usually organises are left to our own devices.
So, what will we do with this new found freedom? Create an imaginative and challenging dive Will would be proud of? Practice techniques he has taught us in smaller, controlled groups? Find an alternative organiser?
“We’re fun! We’re just serious with it… we’re seriously fun!”
Have you ever heard that sentence from a fellow skydiving team member? I have and it never fails to amuse me.
The National 4 Way Skydiving Championships take place every year and, in 2010′s event, teams from Skydive Langar teams did REALLY well! There were also LU:ST members (university student skydivers) in those teams, showing that uni students can not only get involved in comps, but also do themselves proud. Continue reading
Formation skydiving team Enigma is a group of 10 skydivers seeking to compete in Single A with as little money and as much fun as possible. Since its inception late 2010, the team has actually partied together only once and has yet to come together to train.
I had a fantastic night last night at Bodyflight Bedford, a wind tunnel used by skydivers to training and improvement. Not only did I have massive amounts of fun, I also met some really nice people and learned a lot. But it doesn’t come cheap. At £11.50 per minute, many people question why I would spend so much money for so little time and why I continue to go back to the wind tunnel rather than experiencing it and enjoying it just the once.
Learning to Fly at Bodyflight Bedford
