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Fury of the Storm

Bodyflight sponsored formation skydiving team Storm are still training hard after their success at the UK nationals this summer.

The all girl team have just completed a very successful 3 day 2on2 tunnel camp with American 4-way team Perris Fury.

The aim of the camp was to take the team to the next level in terms of increased speed and anticipation. The team have worked with Perris Fury in the past in Perris, California which is where they make most of their training jumps with coach Dan BC.

Perris Fury use the same techniques as coached by Dan and are able to provide technical expertise appropriate to each slot.

“We started the camp with a number of random dives before moving onto specific block drills.” Says Claire ‘Sparky’ Scott, two times world champion. “The camp was structured so that 2 Storm members would fly with 2 Fury members therefore allowing for some very valuable in air coaching. We then had the opportunity to put into practice what we had learnt by then flying as a complete team. The results were very pleasing!!”

The team now have a few more hours in the Bedford tunnel together before leaving for their next training camp in Perris in December. It will be the first time they will get to jump the Porter which is the plane being used at next years World Championships in France. This will present the team with some new challenges as the door is on the right hand side unlike the Otters and Dorniers the team usually train from which have left hand doors!

The team have a busy few months of training ahead of them. Their first competition will be the Bodyflight Challenge in March 2008 where they will be competing for a share of the massive £20,000 prize pot.

You can find more information on the team at: www.stormskydivingteam.co.uk

and you can find more information on the 2008 Bodyflight World Challenge here: www.worldchallenge.info

Posted on 14/11/2007