SWEETLIVING: Skydiving

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

SWEETLIVING SWEDEN WISHES EVERYBODY A HAPPY NEW YEAR. LET´S MAKE THIS AN AWSOME YEAR. THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS YEAR. AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR BLOG READERS. NOW WE HAVE OVER 8000 READERS AROUND THE WORLD!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Prauge windtunnel

As a long-term old skydiver that makes no more than 40 jumps per year. I decided to go training in a tunnel to improve my horrible free-flying body.

15 years ago I was into freestyle jumping but felt a bit lonely so I swop to FS belly jumping instead, that’s not my passion so I’m now back to the artistic. What I didn’t know was that my body did not remember anything at all from free style jumping… Back to square one as a frustrating beginner…

Low-cost airline 130€ to Prague, low-cost hotel 2 nights 50€ and first-class flying with coaching 770€ -here I come!

I started with some slippery belly-flying with coach Smögen and then moved to back-flying with coach Jome. Oh dear… I felt like my body transferred into a shape of a refrigerator as soon as I entered the tunnel.

I had 60 min of flying time that was split into 4 x 15 min sessions and then your in the tunnel for 1,5 min each session and coaching in between.

60 min flying is 60 jumps, in blue helmet is Sonya M

Lots of bruises, stiff neck and back pain, I upgraded myself from a refrigerator to a fluffy duck - but the happiest flying fluffy duck ever!

Before heading back home I had some great hours in beautiful Prague some some sightseeing and beer. I will abselutely come back to the amazing tunnel in Prague

www.skydivearena.com

As a skydive judge in artistic events its so good to learn the details of how hard it is to fly and control your body. Next tunnel event will be in the tunnel in Bedford Bodyflight World Challenge in april - but this time as a Judge…

Monday, October 24, 2011

Leaving Cape Town

Sitting in the Lounge in Johannesburg on my way back to Stockholm again sipping my last holiday GT.

What a positive surprise this country and town was! First experience the Political heart of Johannesburg with the history of apartheid and then the complex history of South Africa, however for the fun part of South Africa is Cape Town, Jo-Burg as great shops, Restaurants and Jazz music but also very much the Commercial heart and soul of SA not the adrenaline fun side which I came for.

Cape Town is the place to get the ultimate holiday for an adrenaline person like me, they have great skydiving even if I passed it this weekend, diving, shopping, trekking, all kind of sports and activities and amazing nature.

this is the Water Front

It’s cheaper than Europe and much cheaper than Stockholm (apart from skydiving where Sweden is still one of the cheapest place to skydive)

The party life was great with lots of bars, discos, and live music, mostly on Longstreet but also at Camp Bay

Negative bits were the beggars, I always get annoyed with beggars, and tourists give them money and therefore it’s very beneficial for them, so they are everywhere, and they can spot foreigners from a distant.

The ocean is not warm, not even in peek summer, I hate cold water… Bring a wetsuit!

Taxi through town 10 min was 6€
Pooch dinner with first class meat and wine was 30€
Normal lunch 4,2€
Coffee was 1,2€
Sharkdiving was 53€ in the Aquarium tank
Sharkdiving in a cage in the ocean full day was 140€
Hotels its good for all kinds of wallets, we had a five star designers hotel Villa Zest with only 7 rooms and fantastic service and cost 135€ including breakfast per night.

A weekend was far to short in Cape, I have to go back

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

SKYDIVE WITH SWEETLIVING

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Happy skydivers

Skydive rocks

Skydive pose

Skydive Stockholm, the best place to skydive

First you crawl, then you walk, then you fly!

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Blue Skies // David & Hella

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The man, The myth, The Chippe

Our friend, mentor & skydive god is leaving us and Sweden to go all around the world to Australia to his girlfiend and new life over there. We wish you the best of luck and happiness. It´s gonna be great for you.

You will be missed but we will see you again soon!

Tickle the foot, a classic from Lodi 1987

Tandemjump with Rasmus

Gap Tallard, World Cup 1990

Manana division, SF - B Team

World Meet 1991, Swedish Team

SST in Action 1992

Big Way

Soft landing

The yellow bike - always as famous as Chippe

Take care Chippe, we love you

C ya ;-)

(all pictures are fetched from Chippes profilepage on facebook)

Friday, June 11, 2010

Sweetliving goes Nordic 8 FreeFly Camp

We packed our bags and our rigs and went down to Vårgårda DZ, near Gothenburg to participate at Nordic 8 FreeFly Camp for a week. Both me and Hella want to be better freeflyers. I want o increase my skills as a cameraman and Hella will compete in the Swedish Championship in August so she and Kalle needs to practise a bit.

The PAC and the hangar of Vårgårda DZ

First load ;-)

Supporting coach Malin Sjödin from Infinity FreeFly and me

When the wheather was bad we had to come up with other things to do. Here´s Håvard from Skywalkers, Norway, holding a seminar about FreeFlying, awsome!

Photo: Aron Kron

The weather in Vårgårda failed us so we loaded up the plane and went to FKCG:s other dropzone, Näsinge, where the sun always shines, almost anyway ;-) Just a couple of miles from the Norwegian border. A very beautiful place!

Inflight to Näsinge DZ - The movie