Instructor Profile: Erika Dufort
If you’ve jumped at Skydive Long Island in the last couple of years, there’s a good chance that you’ve either chatted with or jumped with Erika Dufort. Erika is the woman who makes everything possible and runs the show at Skydive Long Island. As a tandem skydi
Tips for Skydiving in Cold Weather
Ahhhh – the chill is in the air…..back to school, crisp mornings, the early sunsets…..that’s right. It’s that time of year again. While it can be comforting to not be sweating all day, when we are not jumping – the weather is perfect. A nice warm sweater does
Falling vs Flying
So, you’ve done your AFF/AFP levels, you were maintained in a small area of the sky thanks to your instructor(s) and did a few turns and such. From there – you had the sky all to yourself while you did your solo’s and then worked a little bit with a coach. You
Let’s Talk About Tracking
This is a very important topic – so I’d like to break it down into pieces – and then tie it all in together again in the end. It is an extremely important topic in this sport – yet one that is often done incorrectly and/or neglected, yet has so many moving par
Arrive Alive – 10 Tips To Keep You Alive
Below is a piece that was not originally mine – but I couldn’t have said it better myself. It is riddled with knowledge so I felt obligated to pass it on….I’d added in my own two cents here and there – so hopefully you have some good take-aways from this. Skyd
Balancing Skydiving and Life
There is a reason that people who crave that rush of adrenaline that skydiving and other extreme activities brings are called adrenaline “junkies”. After a while, it becomes like an addiction. How many times have you smiled and nodded politely after hearing ab
Let’s Talk about Patterns
What is a Pattern and Why Do We Have Them? The primary reason for a pattern is so that everyone in the pattern knows what everyone else is doing. If you see someone flying opposite landing direction, they are flying downwind, and will soon be turning base. You
Having Fun as a Couple: Skydiving Together
Having Fun as a Couple: Skydiving Together OK, well not as a couple per se’, but as a team of “two”. Two-ways are a great way to start weaning yourself into the fun of skydiving after you completed all of your AFF solo’s. You did a bunch of solo’s, but now wha
Skydiving with an Action Camera
Skydiving is such an exhilarating experience, wouldn’t you want to capture it on video so you can relive it whenever you want? For many tandem students, your jump is a once and a lifetime experience. Between the adrenaline – emotions – excitement you are feeli
What is Jump Run?
Jump Run has always been a little pet peeve of mine. Not the “term” or “function of it” per se’, just the lack of explanation of it. We’re all on the plane ride up, talking, laughing, discussing our dives – but how many of us actually look out the window and p
Buying Your First Rig: What To Know
Every first jump course there is a student that just completed their training tandems, does their first level 1, and then starts scouring the dropzone sites looking for their own gear. This itch to have their own gear only gets enhanced further once they finis
Learning To FreeFly
If one wants to truly strive to become an excellent freeflyer, honesty is the key. If one cannot be honest with one’s own skills or another skydiver’s skills, digression and possibly disaster are the results. If there are individuals teaching freeflying who ar