Skydiving

I have been skydiving since the summer of 2003. My home dropzone is Nordsjællands Faldskærmsklub (North Zealand Parachuting Club) but I have jumped at all DZs on Zealand. In March 2005 I got my licence at the Easter Boogie in Aars. The jump was from an Antonov 28 (picture below) and the video can be seen here.

In spring 2005 I bought my own parachute, and I am thus flying around under a Spectre 210 in a Javelin container. This canopy is a 7 cell zero porosity canopy which is characterized by soft openings and stable flight.

In the summer of 2005 as well as a good part of the autumn I have been jumping regularly at Parachutisme 74 in Annemasse, France. This is due to the fact that I have been stationed at CERN.

The picture on the right is an attempt to learn how to sit-fly. It is not as easy as it look, but I did succeed in getting a few frames from the video to look relatively OK. You can see the pictures in the gallery.

In the spring of 2006 there was also time for a revisit to NJFK and the AN-28. It was (as is the most common occurence in Denmark) not the best weather imaginable but we did get a few jumps. Furthermore I took the opportunity to take a real course in formation skydiving (also commonly referred to as relative work (RW)). Pictures from this easter can be seen in the gallery while a video of some RW jumps can be found here.

My main interest within skydiving is indeed formation skydiving. Of course I usually jump smaller formations such as two- and three-way jumps, but I hope in due time to be good enough to do bigway jumps. The formation in the picture is from Maribo in May 2006 where Let's Boogie were running bigway training. The video from the jump can be seen here. More photos from the weekend can be seen in the gallery.

Photos and video were taken by Tim Brostrøm.