Curt wins 2009 CPC Championships

Curt bartholomew wins 2009 CPC Championships at Skydive Spaceland! Shane Shaffer gets 2nd place with Dan Raffaelli in 3rd. The CPC Championships 09' finished on time but the winds were strong at ti...

Nick sets another world record at 181 meters!

Yesterday Jay Moledzki from the PDFT beat Nich Batsch's distance world record of 169 by swooping a very large 175 meters. Today (Dec 5th) Nick Batsch (flying a JVX) has taken back the world reco...

Nick wins 2009 USPA Canopy Piloting National Championships

Nick Batsch beat out 48 competitors to win the 2009 USPA Canopy Piloting National Championships for the second year in a row. Nick is now a two time US National champion and two time Pro Swoopin...

Jay wins 5th World Cup of Canopy Piloting

After the completion of nine rounds Jay Moledzki from the PD Factory team stood atop 66 competitors as the winner of the 5th World Cup in Canopy Piloting. The accuracy was completed on Sunday ...

Building a swoop pond

There are several considerations for the construction of a swoop pond. In this article we cover many of those consideration and offer some additional food...
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Active Piloting

ACTIVE PILOTING is a term few canopy pilots know or understand. Active piloting is the process of feeling and anticipating what the canopy is doing during ...
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Swooping in Traffic

When swooping first came about, the first high performance pilots had to fight a battle to prove that it could be done safely. After several years, that ba...
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Be a PILOT Not a PASSENGER

Do you fly your canopy? Or does it fly you? There are far too many people hurting themselves or others during landing or approach. Better flying skills...
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Black Mountain Canopy Piloting competition 07 March 2010

Bump it!

The time has come to take your rigs and come to Belgium. Last year we had a great competition and this year we're going to make it happen again. The dates of the Black Mountain Canopy Piloting competition 2010 have been set! Unfortunately we had to change our original dates because everybody was due at the WPC in Russia.

Girl swoopers launch SwoopGirls.com 03 March 2010

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Swoop girls Diana Blackburn and Jennie Anderson have built a website specifically for female canopy pilots. SwoopGirls.com features a list of female swoopers, events, photo gallery, music and much more.

Skydive from the edge of space 26 January 2010

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Daredevil Felix Baumgartner, who made the first unpowered flight across the English Channel in 2003, now plans to skydive from the edge of space. He is about as close as it is humanly possible to get to being a real life Batman and he does it without resorting to capes, masks or the assistance of a Boy Wonder.