Skydiving Book Service, the fabo folks who brought you Skydiving magazine, are having a great sale on books and videos. Some great steals in there, so break out your plastic and do a little shopping: www.skydivingmagazine.com/clearance.htm

A few of our choices:

Bedtime Stories for Skydivers

by Larry Schatz. A collection of humorous short stories, including “The Man Who Loved Cat Chasing” and “Downplane to Hell.” Professionally illustrated. As one critic put it: “Outrageous and disgusting drivel lacking in any redeeming social value whatsoever” and “Not for the squeamish or prudish.” You’ll love it. Comb bound, 142 pages, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Regularly $14.95, on sale for $4.95.

 

Hookin’ It!

DVD by Sonic and Donna Bayrasli. Since 1996 the Ranch Parachute Club’s annual swoop meet has served as the Super Bowl of swooping competitions. This compilation includes the most dramatic and entertaining footage taken over five of the annual meets. 99 minutes. Regularly $34.95, on sale for $4.95.

 

Skydiving Magazine Back-Issue
Collection — All of Them

This collection consists of every issue of Skydiving magazine that are still available in our files. It runs from Issue #6 (published in 1979) through #330 (published in 2009) — about 220 copies in all. Hundreds of hours of informative and entertaining reading covering 30 years of our sport. Only $199 postpaid to US addresses.

Remember those dark days when, to watch cinematic classics like the one you’re about to watch, you had to drive to the movie rental store, rent a VCR that came in a grey plastic bag-type thing (you might have to be older than 30 to remember this part), pray like hell they had the VHS you wanted, lug all the shit back home, figure out how to hook it up and then spend all night watching the little gem of gloriousness, eating Little Caesar’s pizza (pizza pizza!), drinking Shasta orange and finally fall asleep at 3 a.m.?

Now all you have to do is click “Play,” right from the Blue Skies Mag website. We might as well be riding around in hovercars.

…go, could you wake me up?

This is the brilliant winner of the BPA‘s Video Festival, and another shining, albeit British, example of what results when you follow Melanie Curtis’ simple steps in “How To Be a Film Festival Winner” from our January/February issue. Well done, chaps. Cheerios and all that.

I’m not sure how we managed to miss this one, but it’s from last summer, is excellent and you should watch it now.

Incidentally, this video follows the rules of Melanie Curtis’ brilliant article “How To Be a Film Festival Winner” in our January/February issue to a tee.

The PD Factory Team celebrated the end of their recent training camp – and team member Ian Bobo’s birthday! – with some swoops into the Deep Woods Ranch. Photographer Justin Carmody set up to capture the magic and we set up to capture the magic-capturing. Enjoy!

[Warning: extremely cute but annoying dog barks throughout this video. Loudly. Incessantly. Gratingly. You've been warned.]

For more of Justin’s photography, check out his website and the pages of Blue Skies Mag.