Looking back on it if I’d passed FS1 back in Spain I might never have gone to Hib, met Cath, entered the Nationals, made loads of new skydiving friends and become a better skydiver in the process - so perhaps what I thought at the time was misfortune was actually serendipity. We’d entered the FS [...]

After the euphoria of getting my A licence I’d enjoyed jumping that summer but poor weather meant a long gap over the winter and then in Spring of 2018 I had a really bad riding accident putting paid to pretty much any physical activity (especially skydiving) for over a year.  The main problem was my [...]

I’d started learning to skydive via the AFF http://www.netheravon.com/learn-to-skydive/accelerated-free-fall/ course at Netheravon in June 2016 and had managed to limp my way through 5 levels in 6 months with considerable delays, repeats, bad weather holds etc.  On the advice of my (very patient) instructor I decided to head to sunnier climes to try to complete [...]