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The majority of DZ decision makers hire by plugging in an individual's experience level into the position while forgetting a more important consideration: a passionate ...
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Skydiving Today
Skydiving is one of the most popular action sports known to adrenalin and adventure seekers alike. Most "bucket list" jumpers who simply want to experience the beauty of freefall once, will get their first introduction to skydiving through a tandem jump, sometimes also called a tandem skydive. It is not uncommon for people to move straight into AFF or static line training, the two most common skydiving training progression programs for students to become fully certified as skydivers and participate in the sport on their own terms.
Skydiving activities take place around drop zones or a skydiving center, usually found at an airport where aircraft takes groups of skydivers up into the air so they can perform their jumps. Aircrafts vary in type and size depending on the size of the drop zone.
Brian Buckland - Featured Photographer (102 Photos)
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Brian has been skydiving since 1994. Getting into freeflying in the mid to late 90's he was one of the early adopters that found himself chasing the 'big ways' at the time. Heading to lots of the freefly events and being part of one of the first 18 ways in Florida got him interested in flying a camera. After being a member of the 53-Way Official World Record set back in 2005, he shifted his ... |
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