FS Articles

The following titles are displayed in alphabetical order. To access to the information contained in each article, just click on the title you'd like to access... it should come within a new "window", in *.htm format (web format). I would appreciate your reports, if you have trouble while accessing these documents.

For every single article, a reference is made to the respective author and publisher, in order to reserve any eventual credits for copyright or rights reserved. Where required, permission to web publish was obtained.

In some of the exposed articles, I have included notes that I had the possibility to organize and compile, following additional details given by Airspeed Team Members, on their pedagogic quality of Formation Skydiving coaches, collected during those opportunities where I had the great pleasure of being coached by them, at team training camps or at another circumstances, as for example at Basic or Advanced Skills Camps (Eloy - Arizona - U.S.A.), or yet at Wind Tunnel Advanced Training Camps (Orlando - Florida - U.S.A.). Here, you can consult the curriculum of the Wind Tunnel Basic Training Camp.

I think that, with these additional notes, enclosed together with each of the articles text, these very same articles are complemented with some aspects which are not always written, derived from the training circumstances themselves. In any case, the reserve for the author rights is done on each document correspondent to an article.

It would be unfair not to leave here a thanking note to the Airspeed Formation Skydiving Team, as a whole, which, beyond a Team, it's a worthy Project, capable of rendering itself as an example to be followed anywhere in the World, mainly and essentially by the philosophy they brought to this sport (The Airspeed "Open Book"). To their permission to turn out public on my web site, a lot of information by them provided and from their authorship, I have to stress my "Thank You Very Much". I owe them very much of my liking by the Formation Skydiving and for the most part of the things I've learnt and am still learning, within the domain of this sport. I'm able to ensure that they really practice what they teach! All my admiration goes to them, both for their attitude in the sport and for their friendship without exception!

I'd like to extend these thanks to John J. DeRosalia, for the explicit permission he has granted me to post on this web site, citations from his book, "Mental Training for Skydiving and Life", which I bought following my understanding on its remarkable importance as a tool on the description of the psychological aspects of Formation Skydiving learning. As Jack Jefferies has referred about this title, "(...) sport psychology and team dynamics have formed the foundation of Arizona Airspeed's success (...)".

Read, enjoy and have fun!

4-Way Technique: Block 5, Opal-Opal

(Reprinted from Volume 22, Number 1, Issue #253, August 2002, Pages 14-15, by John Hoover)

Available online (Posted on Jun 03, 2003)

Basic Exit Techniques

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 28, 2001)

Blocks and Randoms

(in Skydive The Mag, April 2001, by Jo Malone; Compiled from Sebastian XL)

Available online (Posted on Aug 07, 2006)

Briefing and Debriefing

(in Sport Parachutist, April 1996, by Pete Allum)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Briefing Structure

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 23, 2001)

Coping with Competition

(in Sport Parachutist, June 1997, by Pete Allum)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Debriefing Structure

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 23, 2001)

Exit Exit Exit!

(in Sport Parachutist, April 1999, by Sebastian XL)

Available online (Posted on Aug 07, 2006)

Exits

(in Airspeed Formation Skydiving Advanced Skills Camp Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Jan 24, 2002)

Fine-Tuning Your Formation Skydiving Skills

(in Parachutist Online, April 2005, by Ed Lightle)

Available online (Posted on Apr 18, 2005)

Flying Techniques for New 4-Way Teams

(in Dropzone.com Relative Work Articles, January 5, 2004, by Ed Lightle)

Available online (Posted on Mar 25, 2005)

Forming a Team

(in Airspeed Formation Skydiving Advanced Skills Camp Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Jan 03, 2002)

For Starters - Preparing for the Nationals

(in Skydive The Mag, April 2004, by Claire Scott)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Freefall Communication... Eye Contact

(in Airspeed Formation Skydiving Advanced Skills Camp Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Jan 03, 2002)

Goals

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 28, 2001)

Hands Off!

(in Parachutist Online, July 2005 Issue, by Ed Lightle)

Available online (Posted on Jul 19, 2005)

Headcorn Progressive FS (RW) 2-Way Drill Dives

(in Headcorn Parachute Club 2-Way Drill Dives Booklet, by Chris Shaw and Chris Adams)

Available online (Posted on May 27, 2004)

How to Be a Team Player

(Reprinted from Volume 22, Number 1, Issue #253, August 2002, Page 16, by John Hoover)

Available online (Posted on Jun 03, 2003)

How to Use Team Dynamics to Win

(Reprinted from Volume 22, Number 5, Issue #257, December 2002, Pages 20-21, by Jack Jefferies)

Available online (Posted on May 02, 2003)

Improving Your Sequential Skills

(in Dropzone.com Relative Work Articles, by Ed Lightle)

Available online (Posted on May 29, 2004)

It's All in Your Head - a conversation with Craig Girard

(in Parachutist, February 1999, pages 36-39, by Nancy J. Koreen)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Keeping a Team Together

(in Skydive The Mag, October 2001, by Liz Groucott)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Keeping Good Records

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 29, 2001)

La mia esperienza del “tubo”

(Article in italian)

Available online (Posted on May 04, 2002)

Learning to Fly With Weights

(in Dropzone.com Relative Work Articles, by Ed Lightle)

Available online (Posted on Jul 03, 2004)

Let the Training Begin

(in Mental Training for Skydiving and Life, 2000, pages 28-34, by John J. DeRosalia)

Available online (Posted on Jan 04, 2002)

Looking for the perfect team?

(in Skydive The Mag, February 2006, pages 38-42, by Gary Beyer)

Available online (Posted on Aug 07, 2006)

Making a Training Plan

(in Skydive The Mag, August 2001, by Sacha Chilton)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Making Goals

(in Sport Parachutist, April 1997, by Pete Allum)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Mental and Physical Preparation

(in Skydive The Mag, June 2001, by Jo Malone; Compiled from Sebastian XL

Available online (Posted on Aug 07, 2006)

Mental Preparation and Visualisation

(in Sport Parachutist, June 1996, by Toby Stafford)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

One Good Turn Deserves Another

(in Parachutist Online, August 2004 Issue, by Ed Lightle)

Available online (Posted on Aug 10, 2004)

PEDL - Planning, Execution, Debriefing, Learning

(in TunnelCamp.com - Coaches Corner)

Available online (Posted on Dec 22, 2001)

Performing at your BEST

(in Skydive The Mag, August 2005, pages 48-50, by Dan BC)

Available online (Posted on Aug 07, 2006)

Performing Your Best In Competition

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 30, 2001)

Preparing for a Training Camp

(in Sport Parachutist, February 1997, by Pete Allum)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Putting a 4-Way Team Together

(in Skydive The Mag, June 2001, by Claire Scott)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Putting an FS team together

(in Sport Parachutist, February 1996, by Pete Allum)

Available online (Posted on Aug 08, 2006)

Random Work

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 23, 2001)

Remembering Non-Repeaters

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 29, 2001)

Sebastian XL Skills

(in Skydive The Mag, February 2001, by Sebastian XL and Jo Malone)

Available online (Posted on Aug 07, 2006)

Shooting your first 4-way team

(in FutureCam Skydive!)

Available online (Posted on Jun 04, 2003)

Showing It To The Judges

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 29, 2001)

Starting a FUN 4-Way Team

(in Dropzone.com Relative Work Articles, by Ed Lightle)

Available online (Posted on May 14, 2004)

Stretching For Peak Performance

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 31, 2001)

Team Communication

(in Mental Training for Skydiving and Life, 2000, pages 66-76, by John J. DeRosalia)

Available online (Posted on Jan 05, 2002)

Team Dynamics

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 29, 2001)

Ten things that may keep you alive

(in Dropzone.com General Safety Articles, by Bill von Novak)

Available online (Posted on May 16, 2004)

The Challenge of 10-Way

(in Dropzone.com Relative Work Articles, by Christy West)

Available online (Posted on Sep 06, 2004)

Understanding Your Slot

(in Airspeed 4- Way Training Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Dec 22, 2001)

Visualizing

(in Airspeed Formation Skydiving Advanced Skills Camp Work Book)

Available online (Posted on Mar 06, 2002)

Your Optimum Arousal Level

(in TunnelCamp.com - Coaches Corner)

Available online (Posted on Dec 22, 2001)

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