• Knives with Simon Soper, UK Advanced Instructor
• Front Cover photo by Andy Ford
• Charlie Wakeham tags along to eat pizza
• We feel incredibly emotionally supported
• School of Hard Knocks with Simon
• Simon discusses his winter in NZ
• Simon discusses how excited he is to be back on a rainy little island in the middle of the Atlantic for the 'summer'.
• Jet fuel running dry?
• Gliding bailout rigs and pencil packing drama
• Aerodyne Icon speculation
• Skydive Headcorn pauses fun jumpers 'temporarily'
• Craig's doing 4way
• Brian's SunPath Javelin is grounded.
  
  

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• Alex 'Buzz' Busby Hicks is Chief Instructor at Skydive Tilstock
• Buzz has even more opinions than Craig.
• Wait… is that even possible?
• Aerodyne Icons currently grounded in the UK
• Craig's Icon is grounded.
• Luckily he doesn't jump anymore so he won't even notice.
• Skydive Langar leading the investigation
• British Skydiving response
• Worldwide response as of Mon 13 April 2026
• World Cup of Indoor Skydiving. FS at Weembi in Lille, FF at iFly Aix-Marseille
• Cloudbase logbook app by Chris Mayhew first look
• Front Cover photo of a tracking exit over Tilly by Buzz's friend.
• Back Cover photo of a demo exit and salute over the O2 arena in central London
• Skydive Tilstock now open on Sundays after a 30 year hiatus
• Tilly has a quieter plane, that's cheaper this year.
• Buzz thinks skydiving is too cheap
• Craig flew in the tunnel
• Craig still has iFLY Expo tunnel time from 2016 to fly!
• Craig is a whizz at international currencies. Saves himself £1.62
• We stop recording at midnight. Brian still has to pack. Ugh.

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- Euro Skydiving Symposium review
- Front Cover by Andy Ford of wing suits over Swakopmund in Namibia
- Back Cover photo of Craig receiving a sword at the Expo
- Craig talks
- Craig talks some more
- Craig interrupts Brian to carry on talking
- Craig says something else but we weren't listening by that point.
- Craig says something interesting.
- But we missed it.
- Craig talks
- Craig said something else interesting and revealed some true emotion.
- It was authentic but not worth the wait
- Craig raves about Jim Cowan's presentations
- 400 The Movie
- Skydive The Expo review
- Jump numbers down in France & UK year on year
- Ferg responds to our last interview. We love that guy.
- Brian coached wingsuiting
- Craig steps down gracefully from the British Skydiving Board of Directors
- Craig went to Riyadh for the International Skydiving Commission plenary.
- Craig took a 100kg guy on a tandem.

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• Adrian 'Ferg' Ferguson tail strike and crazy hook knife story
• Front cover photo by Jarrad Nolan of Adrian 'Ferg' Ferguson hung up on the tail wing by his *reserve* canopy. Wild.
• From climb out to landing - the full story
• Ferg is just too helpful on climbout
• Hook knife preparation for just this eventuality
• Main canopy and reserve entanglement
• Thoughts on social media commentators
• Craig is too busy to show up
• Everyone's favourite host from everyone's 2nd favourite podcast is a superb expert guest
• Dave Schwartz expert opinion
• Skydive Sebastian Invasion Boogie update
• Florida bad weather means Dave gets a free plane ride. He likes those.

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• Craig Girard talks 400way skydiving formations (00:36:30)
• How the green suit was made overnight.
• Jumping with radio.
• Hypoxia issues.
• Craig Girard is our favourite Craig. Definitely Craig #1.
• Front cover photo of Brian's 4000th celebration skydive. A wingsuit rodeo with a handful of trackers alongside. Self portrait.
• Flight-1 announce their Parachute Landing Assistant. For USD 3500.
• Indoor World Championships at ParacleteXP
• Tariffs on US companies could raise gear prices.
• Wingsuiter sets 3 World Records on one jump
• Live streaming at SkyHigh
• Brian's excited by his memories from the Costa Rica boogie
• Brian's excited by his memories from BigFTunnel 2025 in Abu Dhabi.
• Brian sold a rig the easiest way possible.
• Craig #2 goes to extraordinary lengths not to be a burden.

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Another episode recorded live on YouTube!

• Andy Ford - cameraflyer, record holder, 20000 jumps.
• Some other stuff too.

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• Doug Barron talks 250ways in Chicago this coming summer (37:30)
• Rook Nelson discusses hosting 2x 200+ formation groups on the same DZ (1:00:35)
• Front cover photo of a 29way Jewel formation in the world's largest wind tunnel, CLYMB in Abu Dhabi. Organised by Laura Hampton and Brian
• Brian waxes lyrical about that tunnel and that trip. One of the best weeks of his life.
• Dropzone.com is back as skydiveforum.com
• Brian's in love with a Freak6 wing suit and it's tasty new inlets
• Vegas and Hollywood tunnels shut
• Steep and Deep announce a Heads Up Display
• Skydive the Expo is coming
• Craig is heading to the International Skydiving Commission
• Back In Action is a Netflix film you should watch
• Weembi vs iFLY for UK Nationals

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• RSUK celebrates 100 podcasts
• Cheaper than Craig's therapy
• Front cover photo by Greg Crozier of the 96way Head Up World Record formation taken on a 360 cam from the very centre of the formation.
• Dave Schwartz of Skydive Radio fame comes along to chat. He's our #1 fan.
• Dropzone.com is gone
• Brian got screwed by Joel. But in a nice way.
• Brian picked up his new FS suit in Empuria
• Rich Rust listener video from Dubai
• Anni Mentula listener video from Gudvangen in Norway
• Pete Allum and a Future Proof Skydiving update
• Back cover photo of Brian's 2024 Xmas Tree. Photo by Ben Wayte. Taken over Skydive Langar.

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