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Reader question: Unwritten rules
What are the unwritten rules of your jumping community?
Reader question: Gear or coaching?
It’s tax time, Americans! Let’s pretend you get an unexpected refund. (If you’re...
Reader question: What was your 10-year plan in 2008?
Can we take a moment first to acknowledge that we are working on our one-hundredth issue of a print...
Reader question: What book has most impacted your jumping?
It doesn’t have to be specifically about skydiving or BASE jumping or paragliding – or...
Reader question: What do you resolve NOT to do in 2018?
What do you resolve to stay the fuck away from in 2018?
Reader question: Come sit on Santa’s lap.
Is it really time for this rigamaroll already? Yes. Sure. Whatever. Also that question wasn’t...
Reader question: How is your discipline (fairly or unfairly) stereotyped?
Are you a 4-way dude with a mohawk? Under 25 and into CRW? Former college linebacker competing in...
Reader question: Have you ever grounded yourself?
This month we want to talk more along the lines of that little voice. Whether you heard it or not...
Reader question: What did you want to be when you grew up?
Childhood hopes and dreams, y’all, that’s what we want to know this month. If you care...
Reader question: What’s your favorite quote?
What's your favorite sky-related quote?
Reader question: What’s your best logbook entry?
Scratch my last idea for a reader question, no one likes it. The real reader question for our June...
Reader question: What would 10-year-old you think of your last jump?
Take a journey with me folks, this month requires a tiny stretch of imagination. It might still be...
Reader question: What’s your primal fear in jumping?
Dust devils in the landing area, hard opening with a helmet full of cameras, wingsuit collision...
Reader question: What took an embarrassingly long time to figure out?
This month we want to know what took you way too long to figure out in the sport. Could you not...
Reader question: Before I started jumping, I never would have been friends with _______?
Let’s be honest: times are shit. People are yelling at each other, alternative truths, fake...
Reader question: How do you choose what gear to buy?
If almost every manufacturer makes quality, safe gear, how do you choose?
Reader question: What should every drop zone have?
Besides an airplane and a person to fly it, what should every drop zone be required to have?
Reader question: The off season
This one’s more for the cold-weather jumpers (except you crazy Wisconsites) who take a couple...
Reader question: Who’s making your jumping life better right now?
Every time someone dies, we all make this pact with ourselves to not wait until a memorial to tell...
Reader question: Should we be growing the sport(s)?
This month we want to know if you think our sports should be recruiting more members or not. Should...
Reader question: What would you do with $3,428?
If a relatively small chunk of change landed in your lap today, what would you spend it on? New...
Reader question: Your most memorable jump?
From Cliff Phillips: Where was your most memorable jump? And why? As always, bonus points for...
Reader question: What’s the most inspirational thing another jumper has done for you?
Reader question this month comes from James Eaddy: What was the most inspirational thing another...
Reader question: Strange new DZ edition
What is the most important question to ask when you arrive at a strange DZ?
Reader question: Have you ever lied about your jump numbers?
This month’s question comes from Nikolay on Facebook. Now, we certainly don’t condone...
Reader question: Leap Year Resolutions
Leap Year Resolutions. We’re making it a thing. Where in the air do you want to be by...
Reader Question: Non-jumping jumping injuries
Rigger Rob stopped by our office this morning sporting quite the shiner. Turns out he got into an...
Reader question: What gear brands are most popular at your DZ?
What brands does your DZ go for? What is the most popular brand of rig, canopy, helmet, jumpsuit...
Reader question: What makes you want to go to a boogie?
What are your deciding factors for a boogie? Do you go based on the organizers? Aircraft? Friends...
Reader question: Best piece of canopy advice?
What’s the best, most helpful piece of advice you’ve heard relating to canopy piloting...
Reader question: What movie, book or tv show describes your drop zone?
This month we want to know more about your drop zone by way of popular culture. Is your DZ more...
Reader question: What comes easy to you? What doesn’t?
This month’s reader question is a two part-er! We all have things we have to work at in...
Reader question: What’s the single best thing about your home DZ?
Your home DZ might be the one you started at, it might be the one you call home now, or it could be...
Reader question: Rookie of the Year
This month’s reader question: Who are the hot young whippersnappers we should know about? The...
Reader Question: How do you recover from your dumb mistakes?
We have ALL made dumb mistakes, and don’t you even try denying it. Maybe you forgot to turn...
Reader question: What’s your favorite piece of jumping memorabilia?
This month we want to know about your favorite “thing.” Maybe it’s a t-shirt from...
Reader question: Who is your safety role model?
Safety Day is coming up so this month we want to know: Who is your personal safety role model...
Reader question: Quitting?
Have you ever thought of quitting jumping? Have you quit and come back? Why? How? When? This...
Reader question: What’s your jumping weather window?
Up here in this hemisphere, it’s getting cooooooold. We’ve heard rumors that it’s...
Reader question: What’s your dream life?
We wax damned poetically about Living The Dream. The elusive, beautiful, mystical LTD. We post...
Reader question: What are you most thankful for?
Yes, this is for the November issue. Hard to believe, but in just about 6 weeks, Americans will...
Reader question: What’s your biggest fear?
Oh boy, late call on this one! I need answers PDQ for October’s reader question, which is:...
Reader question: What is the most beautiful thing you’ve seen jumping?
Answers to our monthly reader questions are published in The FlyBy section of Blue Skies Mag. The...
Reader question: How can you tell a jumper is in it for the long haul?
This month’s reader question (select answers to which will be printed in the August issue of...
Reader Question: How do you balance the BSBD?
Good cheesus, it has been a heavy start to the northern jumping season. We use the acronym BSBD...
Reader question: What do you wish people would ask you about jumping?
Time again to answer our monthly question and get in the mag! What do you wish people would ask you...
Reader Question: Biggest Ego You’ve Encountered?
It’s reader question time! This month our question is a little sensitive and we don’t...
Reader Question: Analog or Digital?
When it comes to knowing how low you are, what’s your preference – analog or digital...
Reader Question of the Month: What did your people think when you started jumping?
Every month we publish your answers to our question of the month. This month, we want to know the...