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Women's 4-way World Champions 2008
| Bodyflight Storm over Skydive Perris |
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| (c) Willy Boeykens |
| Team Storm exiting the plane (c) Gary Wainwright |
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Who are Bodyflight Storm?
Bodyflight Storm, an all female skydiving team was formed early in 2007 with
the aim of competing at the British National Skydiving Championships to gain selection to represent Great Britain at the 2008 World Championships
in France. This goal was achieved when the team won gold against all the odds in the 4-way formation skydiving event becoming
British Champions, guaranteeing them automatic selection to represent their country.
Despite the 2008 season presenting new financial challenges, the team stepped up their training efforts in their
bid to become the 2008 World Champions. Then on Aug 14th 2008, the team's dream goal became a reality when they clinched the
gold by 1 point in a nail biting finish with the USA and French. The team were then crowned World Champions 2008! One week
later they went on to to defend their British Open Championship title this time with a massive 12 point margin!
Check
out the page titled "Work with the team" which outlines some of the tangible benefits of working together with this unique
and high profile team.
| Storm training in Perris, California |
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| (c) Willy Boeykens |
What is competition
skydiving?
4-way formation
skydiving is one of the most popular forms of competition within the skydiving world: it is about speed, accuracy, determination
and strength, with the single goal of building as many formations as possible. The discipline is practised in freefall at
speeds reaching 120mph, and consists of four people performing a series of several formations repeatedly within 35 seconds. The
fifth team member, the camera person, films the jump and the footage is then watched by the judges to score the team's
performance. It's not about looking pretty in the air or looking good when you land; in the same way as a football
team wins a match by scoring the most goals, a 4-way team will win a competition if they correctly build more formations and
thus score more points than the other teams.
| Jumpers coached by Team Storm |
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Get Coached by Bodyflight Storm!
The team are available for FS coaching at Bodyflight Bedford. Whether
you are working towards your FS1, looking to improve your individual skills (maybe to help you to move up a category next
year), or in need of 4-way coaching, the team are available for 1on1 and 2on2 coaching at times to suit. For more information
on forthcoming tunnel camps check out the coaching page.
Bodyflight Storm win World Championships!!
The hard work has finally paid off! After completing around 800
training jumps plus 15 hours of tunnel time this year, the team clinched victory at the World Championships held at Maubeuge,
France. Despite challenging weather conditions, the team managed to beat off fierce competition from 7 other teams and clinched
the gold with a 1 point victory and a 20 point average!
| Bodyflight Storm in action in the tunnel |
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| (c) Gary Wainwright |
Bodyflight Storm train at the world's largest wind tunnel....
Bodyflight, Bedford - 'Committed to skydiving'
click here to see Bodyflight Storm in action in the tunnel!
Bodyflight World Challenge
29th - 30th March
Check out Bodyflight Storm's scores from the World Challenge! They
beat other women's World Championship contenders, Fortitudo and White & Sea!
Bodyflight Storm are proud to jump Icon containers with
Pilot mains and Smart reserves
Big thanks to Vigil for their support...
The skydivers "Guardian Angel"
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| (c) Willy Boeykens |
Bodyflight Storm jump L&B's Optima - it Lights, Jumps
& Swoops
Fury8Storm 8-Way Project 2008
Bodyflight
Storm have just finished running their first 8-way / 4-way project in Perris in collaboration with Perris Fury.
During the 10 day training camp, two 8-way teams trained consisiting of a British team and an International Guest
team. The project also included a Rookie and a single A 4-way team which were coached by members of Bodyflight Storm. All teams will be competing at either
the British or US Nationals. Details of future projects will be posted on the coaching page.
Bodyflight Storm attend Safe Flight School Course!
The team have just returned from a fantastic canopy piloting course
run by the Safe Flight School in Empuriabrava. Whether you are just post AFF or considered to be an experienced canopy pilot,
you should attend this course! Click on logo for course details.
Check out Bodyflight Storm's latest scores!
You can view all of Bodyflight Storm's competition scores for
2007 / 2008 by visiting the NSL website
See Bodyflight Storm in action!!!!
click here to play video
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