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Radio-ho-ho Skydive UK Christmas Cracker bumper edition for when you get bored of turkey and TV. Tristan Hampson exclusive headline interview about the demise of Airborne San Diego Fred and Vince fly back into a a Porter (sometimes) More junk day shenanigans Who bought  Daewoo QT1 Compact Microwave Oven and Kenny Loggins’ Danger Zone? Cover photo is of Frosty getting back into the sport in his comfort zone by Fordy Who wasn't at the Diani boogie? Vote now in the BPA election Surprise winner at first indoor wingsuit competition Dilys Price book club - The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Ask the Expert with Pete Allum about coaching Interview with Arthur Amara from AON2 about his new X2 digital altimeter Rai has only been to Bahrain since the last episode Craig and Tash haven't been anywhere Brian's been at work (again) so we went looooong again

Dilys Price - Pride of Britain - headline interview Rob Lloyd 'Ask the Expert' who critiques the GoPro 6 but recommends the Aukey 4K Action Camera John Le Blanc 'Book Club' who recommends The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer  Front Cover by Steve Fitch of of Sarge Atlarge and friends jumping an RAAF C-17 Globemaster over Skydive Ramblers (Australia). Back cover by Craig of his daughter Agnes modelling his Square One Kiss full face helmet.  Brian is late and it's been a while so bumper episode! The wingsuit tunnel is one that Rai hasn't yet been in but we talk about it anyway Rai tried to go in Airborne San Diego but it had sadly closed by the time she got there...permanently :-( Craig has a nerdgasm over AON2's forthcoming altimeter the X2+ The Freefall camera guys have shrunk their project and have permission from the CAA to test New sequential world record - 3 point 217 way And a new night record The Aussies get to jump a C-17 Beautiful XRW with a Porter, Fred, Vince, Pete and friends Bear Grylls wind

  Norman Kent feature length XL interview, recorded October 2015 at Skydive Perris Norman takes us on a journey. Why he’s bored of being asked about Point Break. Oops. And Point Break 2. Why he moved to Florida. Why you shouldn’t be a hero. His favourite discipline to film and how wing suiting is different to all of them. What he does when he’s not skydiving. What his favourite bit of kit is. What he’d do if he was the King of Skydiving. Norman Kent School of Hard Knocks can be found on RSUK32 RSUK46 planned for late November. If you'd like to comment, please email, facebook or better yet, record some audio on your smartphone and email it to studio@radioskydive.uk We hope you enjoy.

Bill Booth, UPTVector demi-god, headline interview Rob Lloyd Ask The Expert about your first camera helmet and stills camera Bill Legard Book Club recommendation is “Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War” Front Cover by Chris Cook of Tom Shorten over Skydive Langar Back Cover of Brian by Clem Quinn in Bewl Reservoir Nationals, Nationals, Nationals, Nationals (Tash and Rai won medals) Worlds, Worlds, Worlds Hilarious video mention of Jason Hobbs’ shoe coming off and attacking Emily Sugars under canopy. Video by Max Holmes. No mention of Stefan Pacel, at all. Thanks to a recent request from Oli Ellis. Swoop Challenge in Denmark (London 2019?) Eclipse jumps in the dark A ‘tea leaf’ meets the ‘Old Bill’ thanks to Macca Shunt, a novel by Stubert Ferglestein, glowing recommendations flood in… “it’s not shit”. #shuntnotshit Brian learns to check that jumps are fancy dress before turning up suitably attired. Craig went to Germany for the World Cup. They started it. Then they stopped it. Then they start

Rocky Evans Headline Interview (0:58:03) SoHK with Marko M. Very dark. AtE with... oh... we forgot to play it. Oopsie! Front Cover by John Carter of Sophie, Ming and Adam over Skydive Langar Back Cover by Carlos Crow of the plane at Headcorn circling a CF formation. Max Hurd and Speed Skydiving Fraser Corsan new World Record Some famous couple's son, who we don't really care about, does a tandem. Teuge imminent closure? Will the APF change plane restraint recommendations? Brian has bigway fun at Black Knights and Peterlee Brian talks about camera helmets and displays his ignorance. IPC Alternate Delegate position settled in the RSUK studio by naked jelly wrestling Rai pops in and pops out - time continuity issue Tash rocks, does a canopy course and a CF camp in foreignerland. Craig talks succinctly and is straight to the point. Only kidding. Craig goes to Buckingham Palace and the Queen refuses to meet him. True Story.  Show stealing cameo by Stefan Pacel.  All this and we only went 57 minutes over our 2hr s

Jarno Cordia Wingsuiter Headline Interview Alex Grisman Ask The Expert about Jet Engines and Turbine Engines We record over Skype - apologies for sound quality Front cover by Chris Stone over Skydive Algarve of the BCPA hybrid bigway record. Back cover by Stuart Bain or Jen and Ant Edwards celebrating their 3rd wedding anniversary. Listener feedback from Matthias von Bargen Craig gets a hard-on for skydiving tech (Brilliant Pebbles, Dekunu, Chronos, Drone jumps, wind tunnel virtual reality, FSNinja website and app. Everyone else falls asleep. Squirrel prove that wing suits can go up. 101 yr old does a tandem - oldest ever? SOS sequential records. Brian jumps in France. Bonjour mon petit pois! And gets confused by wing loading formulae. Tash jumps with her FS team in Algarve and has her very own MOAB. Mother Of All Bruises. Bruise of the year competition launched Brian and Rai impress with the size of their logbooks, namely the jumps taken to get to their A. Tash jumps with her CF team at Headcorn. And maybe

Dave Schwartz Headline Interview Dave Schwartz School of Hard Knocks Dave Schwartz Ask the Expert about opening plane doors during flight Dave Schwartz Book Club Looby Lou Smith-Wildey Front Cover photo of Wez Westley swooping his Peregrine framed perfectly in the reflection of sunglasses David Waterman Back Cover photo of Jackie Smith reaching for the accuracy dead centre during a downwind accuracy competition on a round parachute. Fanboy Craig gets a little tongue tied in the presence of his hero Tash does CF over Headcorn and Langar Brian gets stitched up by Dave. Beer, red wine, $70 tequila. No-one notices him slurring his words. Brian bemoans the poor weather in Florida and yearns for the sunny blue skies of the UK. BPA Safety and Training Committee makes a decision about age related medicals. Twinwoods Adventure World Challenge results Brian want’s you to Kiss His Booties Craig jumps three weekends in a row but doesn’t know what fun is. Dave ruins the show. We think it’s sabotage from a competitor. Blu

TK Hayes, DZO of Zephyr Hills interviewed by Gil Sharon. Front Cover by Tom Shorten taken over Skydive Langar Martin Soulsby (birthday boy) School of Hard Knocks Back Cover by James Lee taken over Skydive Langar Happy birthday to Martin Soulsby, Dave Schwartz but more importantly, happy birthday to us! Yay. Three. Rafael Schwaiger - Skydive Dubai - Two out video with a Petra 69 Perris DC9 rumours Fraser Corsan wingsuit record attempts dismissed unless he lands in boxes. Sad news about Jyro from NZ Aerosports. Jackie Smith launches her book. Why hasn’t this legend got a wikipedia page? Go on make us more popular, 10 more fb likes to hit 1000. Brian announces he is Load Organising at “Klatovy Bigway Fun”. 7-11th August. Come along? Brian makes plans for his Florida trip. Who should he interview when there? Kiss My Booties 4way team get a namecheck. Best team name ever? Craig gets some FS coaching and confirms he has an Aussie ‘E’ Licence Certificate And gets to tell his Cookie rig story Tash smashes the tunne

Klaus Renz headline interview. Jumping in North Korea. Front Cover by Eve Mason. Taken over Skydive Langar. Pretty sunset. Jumping through clouds, legally. Special feature from Garnett. We love him. Back Cover by Aled Bonsall of Regan just after landing on his 50th birthday jump. He is the definition of sartorial elegance. Craig jumps in Oz. Not through a cloud. Rai jumps in Spain. Bit windy. Tash and Brian don't. Brian is LTD. Living The Dream. Rai's done a canopy course. You should too. We eat pancakes. Can you find the Easter Egg? The Expo happened. Craig went to bed early.

Richard Webb, TopGun BASE, Headline Interview Front Cover by Ming Chu of a 25way Canopy Formation jump descending into the clouds over Nationaal Paracentrum Teuge Back Cover photos by Freefly teams Omni taking the piss out of Xerxes Answers from Drunk Skydivers - Would You Rather Answers from Drunk Skydivers - Chest Straps We toast the legends Scotty Carbone and Pat Works More competitions that you can shake a stick at… World Champs, Mondial, Wingsuit Worlds, Indoor Worlds. French Ladies 4wayFS Round 10 catastrophe French 2wayCF Open Gold won by Women’s team. First time ever? Craig went to Skydive Chicago as Team Manager for the GB delegation. Tash went to Skydive Chicago as a CF judge Brian didn’t even get a postcard. What does a Team Manager do at the World Championships? Craig borrowed a Valkyrie and didn’t bust the beer line. Tash’s third time lucky at SDC. Finally gets to jump after two previous visits. Craig, Tash and Dave and Stump from Skydive Radio made a jump. Craig had a brain mal. Tash does three

Luke Aikins Headline Interview continued. The jump.  Front Cover by Mark Davis, Getty Images for Stride Gum Why he did a dummy pull in freefall. How he felt when he landed. What he'd do if he was King of Skydiving We introduce Vertical Suits as our latest show sponsor. His video footage is here. We love all listener interaction. Email, message us on fb or record some audio on your phone and send it to us at studio@radioskydive.uk

Luke Aikins Headline Interview. The man without a parachute. Luke Aikins Part 2 on Ep37. Brian Vacher Ask the Expert. Two Stage Flare. Front Cover by Jakob Aungiers of a 360 deg 40way Headdown formation over Skydive Hibaldstow. 15 seconds later he chopped. Video coming soon. Back Cover by Lucy Smith-Wildey of the REME at the Armed Forces Parachute Championships over Skydive Netheravon. UK Nationals informal review. Lodi Tandem fatality. “Under pressure you don’t rise to the occasion. You default to your level of training.” Brian has Mal #4 and a dodgy Vigil cutter. Unrelated. Thank dog. Craig went jumping at the Nationals and performed to his usual standards. Craig visited a DZ, hired a rig, bust the beer line and was grounded forever from the country. Tash judged the first weekend of FS Nationals. Fun fun fun. On a DZ. In a room without windows. Tash and Craig prep for the Mondial (World Championships) in Skydive Chicago. We love all listener interaction. Email, message us on fb or record some audio on your

Brian Vacher, Canopy Pilot, PD Factory Team Member and Flight-1 coach Headline Interview James La Barrie Thought for the Podcast John Le Blanc Ask The Expert - how long should control lines be. Answers from Drunk Skydivers - Would You Rather… Janina’s Point Break Movie Knowledge Front Cover by Pete Lindstrand. Mary Barratt docks on our own Carlos Crow over Skydive Headcorn. Back Cover by Doc John Carter and Martin Hopkins of Stefan Pacel (cow) and Kat Insall (tiger) helping Lorene Latour (leopard) celebrate her 1001st skydive over Skydive Langar. Luke Aikens 35,000ft jump - he survives! Copenhagen swoop festival should be expanded to other cities King Air stall in Byron You’ll never be as cool as Brian Vacher’s mum. (Janina - we need you).  Brian demonstrates wing suits at the Science Museum in London, with Sam, Jose and Kamal. Craig heads to 4way Nationals Tash travels around the UK with her CF buddies and nails her FF2 (but doesn’t have to do a 4pt 4way to prove she’s safe in the sky). We love your photos,

James La Barrie headline interview. The dropzone.marketing expert discusses how DZs can be the best they can be. John Le Blanc’s Ask The Expert covers how to recover from stalled canopies, intentionally and unintentionally. We ran out of people with the initials JLB so we called in Dan BC. Hope you don't mind. Dan BC Thought for the Podcast Sarah Neale guest hosts the show. Front Cover photo by Ged Parker. Showing Jamie Arnold on his 1000th jump surfing Adam Mattacola. Photo submitted by Kate Arnold. Back Cover photo of Craig and his daughter SmallPox. Craig tries to convince everyone that the back cover photo, he submitted, of himself and his daughter, is very amazing. Sometimes it’s easier just to agree. Brian gets all passive aggressive with the show notes.  Brian broke the goat and got on the wrong plane. As did his AFF student. As did… Craig is current again. Sarah talks about upsizing after a two year hiatus. Rai thinks more should be done for new skydivers. Joel is in Burgundy drinking Burgundy. Chatt

Norman Kent Headline Interview - the world’s most famous skydiving cameraflyer talks to us about his life and career.  Mike Carpenter School of Hard Knocks (aircraft emergencies) Answers from Drunk Skydivers reveals that they don’t know about jerking off. Front Cover by Ming Chu. Self portrait over Skydive NorthWest (Cark) of him and his Velocity 84. Back Cover by Craig Hicks of an 8way FS exit over Skydive Hibaldstow. We think it flew. Maybe. Rai Ahmed: shiny new guest host in the studio. Rai thinks you should do a canopy course. Sarah Neale downloads our favourite 32 downloads. Yummy. Lodi Cessna Caravan crash. Fresh air for sale - good luck Jakob. Brian has a Burning Man ticket and wants to partake in Burning Sky. But… money… and time…  Joel is too tired to turn up. Craig celebrates being a new father (Hello Agnes!) and how with so little sleep he feels like death. He’s never been so tired. Craig still turns up. Tash is off galavanting around the world (USPA CF Nationals), looking down her nose and judgi

John Kallend headline interview, skydiver and Physics professor dispels the “45 degree myth” and talks about exit order Mikey Carpenter Thought for the Podcast. He’s inimitable Norman Kent School of Hard Knocks Front Cover by Chris Cook taken by the impressive Ricoh Theta 360deg camera Back Cover 1 by Brad Patterson of the most scared tandem in the world Back Cover 2 by Ally Milne also using the Ricoh Theta this time for a swoop landing and Back Cover 3 is Core Skydiving’s Mike McNulty teaching someone to track in the tunnel. Which is your favourite? We couldn’t decide. So we used all of them. There is no banter. What's better...doing more jumps but paying for them? Or less jumps but getting paid for them? French Parachute Federation introduces draconian canopy size / wing loading regulations - are they giving the BPA ideas? Airtec relaxes the servicing requirements for new Cypreses (Cyprii?) BPA relaxes medical certificate requirements for tandem students Why "Nobody Should Skydive"...thought piece video an

• Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld headline interview and pure gold comes from his mouth. His book Above All Else is available from all good book shops (and some shitty ones too). • Matt Zwicker's School of Hard Knocks • Front cover by Linzi Johnston of an FF jump taken over Skydive Algarve • Back photo is Rai Ahmed's shadow carving around the Bedford tunnel • AGM Expo - Rob Lloyd rocks it. Brian snubs the meal yet again. Late nights all round • Craig reminisces about the skydiving gig he's been dining on for the last 10 years • UKS died...but was resuscitated • Windoor Windgames freestyle to music broke the internet • Chatteris offers massive 4wayFS cash prize • Brian can't drink the Kool-Aid because he doesn't know what it means • Brian might have won medals if he was competing against Airspeed back in the day • Brian shamelessly plugs his Bigway Beginners camp. Skydive Langar, 16/17th April • Craig is current again and his magical logbook proves that his recent layoff is not his longest • Craig thought he was a little

Patrick Passe Feature Length Interview Recorded via Skype between France and California, USA. Brian and Patrick geek out on bigway Patrick reveals his successes Patrick reveals even more he meant to

Mikey Carpenter Headline interview School of Hard Knocks with Jan whatsisface  Regan Tetlows Motivational Social Media Meme on Audio makes a stunning debut Melanie Curtis supplies a Thought for the Podcast Front cover by Laszlo Andacs of the Night Large Formation Record Attempts Back cover by Rolf Kuratle of Microclimate 8way over Dubai RSUK stages a coup to take over Council Brian is for turning Craig is an idiot (his words). Check your canopy lines! Tash loves the smell of tunnel in the morning Joel is over the competitive FS scene. Suggestions for what’s next please? World Air Games round up Some dude does something that’s been done before but we still talk about it. Escondido reunion tunnel party  James Round’s gift makes it to the studio. Thank you! Please send in your audio, your emails, your photos and your heckles to studio@radioskydive.uk If you liked the show, please either tell one person about us, or review us on your podcast directory. It really helps. Or both. We love you. Merry Christmas to a

Patrick Passe discusses bigway FS and the 202way Sequential world record Janette Lefkowitz School of Hard Knocks Front Cover by Bruno Brokken of the Jetmen over Skydive Dubai flying alongside an A380. Back Cover by Willy Boeykens of the 202way sequential world record skydive midway between the two points. Taken over Skydive Perris. Our favourite Californian Crystal Sanchez makes a guest appearance. We forget to show Crystal the show outline. We forget to ask Crystal any questions.  Our second favourite German Markus gets married. Jetman Dubai takes our breath away and Crystal makes a bold claim. Wind tunnel competitions are two a penny Skydive TV at USPA Nationals interviews Tash Regan gets around. Brian turns his camera off for a jump and doesn’t film a premature canopy deployment and resulting entanglement Brian keeps his camera off for a second jump and doesn’t film himself flying through the tail of a dust devil and eating the dirt. Fool. Two stage flare vs progressive flare discussion Craig likes to