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Exit Steve

by Steve Baker 30 August 2009 in Fun Comments are Disabled

In the end, I made eleven jumps this weekend, seven yesterday and all good fun. Here I asked a tandem cameraman to shoot a solo exit: Exit Steve Originally uploaded by stevenjbaker I find I must make way too much effort to match my fall rate to the average skydiver, […]

UKS Boogie – Hibaldstow

by Steve Baker 28 August 2009 in Fun Comments are Disabled

So here we are, Mark and I, at Hibaldstow for this year’s UK Skydiver Boogie. Via Target Skysports: Welcome to Target Skysports, the home of skydiving in the UK. We offer sky diving courses from up to 15,000ft at our dropzone in Lincolnshire. I arrived yesterday in time to jump […]

Skyhook reserve static line

by Steve Baker 2 August 2009 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Follow the link from the photo for a sequence of images showing how, when the main parachute is cut away in an emergency, the Skyhook RSL deploys the reserve parachute using the main as a drogue. The reserve is professionally packed in the white bag on the left, which pulls […]

D-day Commemoration

by Steve Baker 8 June 2009 in Politics Comments are Disabled

On a grey and showery day, skydivers at Weston on the Green commemorated D-day, not by skydiving, but by jumping static line at what for us is a low level: 3500ft. It makes you think. D-day Commemoration – Dornier G92, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Sport parachuting is relatively low risk, […]

Surveying Cameron’s constituency and jumping with a paratrooper

by Steve Baker 31 May 2009 in Politics, Fun Comments are Disabled

The weather was superb for skydiving yesterday and Weston was alive with skydivers, tandem passengers and their families. Beth caught me on camera a couple of times under canopy: I jumped three times. The first two were solo jumps for fun — one in shorts, one in my FS suit […]

Freefall coaching with Skyskills at Bodyflight

by Steve Baker 12 May 2009 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Some footage from 45 minutes of tunnel time at Bodyflight yesterday with Chris Shaw of Skyskills and Mark Ryall. In places, it’s quite funny: My objectives were: To achieve a slower neutral fall rate. To learn the discipline of stopping to take grips. To move more crisply. We achieved these. […]

First jumps at Weston in 2009

by Steve Baker 4 May 2009 in Fun Comments are Disabled

Steve under canopy, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Shamefully, it took me until yesterday to jump at Weston this year. The weather was superb, with the perfect wind for relaxed landings. Jumped two formations with people not previously met and discovered my fall rate much improved by losing a few kg.

Why skydive?

by Steve Baker 21 April 2009 in Fun, Politics Comments are Disabled

Someone suggested to me that the reason for skydiving is the thrill of the risk to life. Um, no, not quite. It is because, for about a minute, the skydiver is at liberty in the sky without an aeroplane. It is because skydiving is an exercise in personal responsibility, for […]

A really easy pack

by Steve Baker 13 April 2009 in Top Tips, Fun Comments are Disabled

As its last pack was in the dark, I thought it best to repack my main parachute before jumping it. Finally, getting this 210 sq ft canopy in the bag was easy. Follow the link from the photo for more*: In the container, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. It turns out […]