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General Safety

• Can Yoga Improve Your Skydiving? You Might Be Surprised
  Yoga is meant to integrate the mind, body and spirit, and to achieve a state of enlightenment. For skydiving, this means developing your insight, awareness and focus, as well as balance, flexibility and stability.
  (Rating: 6.90 Votes: 58 Viewed: 4759 Posted: Wed Dec 03 2008)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Risk Homeostasis and Skydiving
  Dangerous safety? There's more to this paradox than meets the eye. According to a case study by Sky Diving Academics the introduction of safety innovations tend to seriously influence levels of perceived risk.
  (Rating: 7.21 Votes: 121 Viewed: 13875 Posted: Fri May 18 2007)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Meditation Preparation - by Brian Germain
  Most skydivers exercise some form of mental preparation on the way to altitude. What most do not realize is how incredibly important this is. The mental state that we are in prior to exiting the airplane determines how we respond to any given situation.
  (Rating: 8.18 Votes: 133 Viewed: 8887 Posted: Sun Nov 05 2006)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• So you want to make a night jump? - by Eric Boerger
  So you want to make a night jump and don't know what to expect? Here is an example of how many dropzones run their night jump procedures and what you need to know before you participate in night jumps.
  (Rating: 8.95 Votes: 83 Viewed: 8905 Posted: Mon Mar 28 2005)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• The Long Haul - by Brian Germain
  There are many areas of this sport in which we can invest ourselves, so many avenues in which to excel. Although the speedy gratification of our desires is tempting and rewarding in the short term, there is a larger, more important goal. We must survive.
  (Rating: 9.20 Votes: 390 Viewed: 10039 Posted: Sun Dec 19 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Thermals 101: A Paraglider’s Perspective - by tdog
  If you see a wind indicator (wind sock) quickly change directions, you might have just witnessed a thermal near by. On a quiet day in a field of tall grass you can hear them leave too, just a quick rustle of the grass is all you hear.
  (Rating: 8.31 Votes: 90 Viewed: 7838 Posted: Mon Nov 08 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Ten things that may keep you alive - by Bill von Novak
  Skydiving is a sport where you never stop learning. Even if you could, somehow, come to know everything, the sport is evolving constantly, and someone who's an expert one day is a newbie the next.
  (Rating: 8.95 Votes: 311 Viewed: 14897 Posted: Sun May 16 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Safety Checklist - by USPA
  Year after year, skydiving accident statistics show that skydivers can benefit from more frequent and thorough equipment checks; emergency procedures practice; and enhanced canopy control awareness.
  (Rating: 9.00 Votes: 3 Viewed: 5539 Posted: Fri Aug 22 2003)   Rate It   Bookmark It