As the summer season approaches, we’re excited to host a wide array of events, including a number of skydiving multi-plane jumps. But what does this mean… and how can experienced skydivers get involved? In short, a skydiving multiplane jump is a jump which involves multiple planes. This allows us to have more people in the sky and to make bigger formations. In recent years, this has … Read More

Eliana Rodriguez is one of the most successful skydiving competitor in the world, having won the US nationals 21 times, earning 13 gold medals in international skydiving competitions and an array of world records in bigway. Watch her chat about her skydiving journey so far here: Eliana’s 3 top tips:

Progression School FS coach and load organiser Alice shares her tips on how to become a great FS coach.

Multiple time 4 way FS medallist and 8 way FS national champion Matt Cumming shares his journey from new skydiver to representing his country at the World Championships. In this Winter Webinar, he talks about how he became a competitive skydive, what competition in skydiving means to him and why his aspired to make it to the world stage. He also gives his tips and advice … Read More

World renowned bigway load organiser and world record organiser Dieter Kirsch joined us for a Winter Webinar where he explained how bigway works, how organisers plan the dives and, most importantly, how YOU can get involved. Find out what he looks for when choosing world record participants, how he suggests you can upskill yourself ready for bigway, plus other tips and advice to help you on … Read More

In the first of our Winter Webinar series, we welcomed Niklas Hemlin of Arizona Airspeed – multiple time world champion formation skydiver and world record holder – to share his advice and experiences in skydiving. Amazing inspiration and very entertaining; watch the whole video below:

Guest post from Chimera 4 Way Formation Skydiving Team, the current reigning 4 way champions Thank you all for attending the Chimera Scrambles at Skydive Langar. We loved organising it and hope you had a good weekend. We have gathered some general tips and advice based on what we saw at the Scrambles and hope you’ll find all of this useful. Exits In four way, it’s … Read More

British Skydiving has changed the way we award FS1 (the qualification needed to jump with other people, usually obtained just after A licence). The change to the rules is a fairly simple one but it does have a knock on effect to the way we award the qualification – and what you can subsequently do in the sky – so the purpose of this post is … Read More

We’re very excited to be hosting the first ever UPT Sky Games during Boogie 2. Having watched events like the Arizona Challenge and the Power Games in awe, we wanted to create something of our own to push the boundaries of bigway skydiving, and to have a lot of Boogie fun! The event is invitational and is being run by Chimera with support from UPT. The … Read More

Whether you’re in the early stages of training 8 way FS, are thinking of putting two 4 way teams together or just fancy doing something fun with some buddies, this post is here to help you, with some tips from some of our 8 way friends from Microclim8 and Chimeros. If you’re using this post to check the dive pool, please note we’ve added the year … Read More

The British Skydiving National Championships are just around the corner. Whether you have a team ready, or you’re thinking about whether or not to throw one together, this blog post is for you! Skydive Langar proudly sponsors Chimera, the top ranked open FS team in the UK, and Chimera have put together all their advice for FS jumpers in the run up to Nationals here. Tips … Read More

Are you looking for inspiration for your next bigway skydive? Perhaps you’re load organising and in need of some new ideas? Or just jumping with your friends and want something new to do? Bigway skydiving is so much fun, but working out which formations to build and how to transition between them can be tough. Even if you’re the most experienced bigway organiser, sometimes you just … Read More