Author: Skydive Spaceland Houston
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Don’t Be Late for Your Date!
We’re all adults here, and we all know that showing up late for a date can make you miss out on… well, whatever you had planned! 😳 Your date with the airplane for a skydive is no different, and few of us ever miss that! However, there are a LOT of skydivers who can be…
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Buying Your Own Skydiving Gear Guide
Just like everything else, there are many different ways to approach buying your own gear. Our friends over at eSkydiving.com have put together a pair of articles to help you learn more about the world of new and used skydiving gear!
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Skydive. Refer Friends. Make More Money to Skydive. Repeat!
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Want a few free skydives? Tell your friends to come skydive with us! Every single new tandem skydiver you send our way gets YOU $30 on your jump account! That’s a free skydive if you’re licensed, or $30 towards your next skydive if not! There are a few ways we can help you get the…
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Tandem Product Info
A Tandem skydive adventure allows you to experience the thrill of a lifetime! Jump out of a perfectly good airplane from 14,000 feet! Freefall at 120 mph! Jump harnessed to an experienced instructor after a brief class Pull your own ripcord for a peaceful, 5-minute parachute flight and a soft, on-target landing Get a professionally…
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Video Info
Don’t forget to capture your tandem skydiving adventure forever with our professionally edited high-resolution (1080p) video of your jump set to your choice of music style! Let us document your skydive so you can relive your experience of a lifetime with friends and family (and prove that you actually did it)! No matter which package you choose,…
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Group Rates Table
Group size Weekday (reg. $249) Weekend (reg. $279) 5-9 people ($20 off) $229 $259 10-19 people ($30 off) Organizer jumps for $99! $219 $249 20+ people ($40 off) Organizer jumps FREE! $209 $239
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How to Pick Up Your Canopy
Hey, new skydiver! Do you feel confused when picking your gear up off the field? Do you constantly hear “YOU’RE DRAGGING!” being shouted from across the landing area? Do you want to look more like a PRO on your way in?! There’s a whole lot of information thrown at you as a new skydiver, and…
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Parachute Landing Patterns Explained
Have you ever struggled to understand what a parachute landing pattern is and how to modify it for different wind conditions? Check out this video! (Another fantastic edit by Nick Lott!)
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2021 Licenses!
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A Licenses Marcus Aguilar Richard Aguilar Joe Aguirre Megan Aguirre Carson Alexander Juan Arango Luis Arauz William Ball Ben Bazylak Kathleen Beetner Hugo Becerra Ross Benton Andrew Bethel Jennifer Bouldin Haydn Brooke Megan Byers Nicholas Caine Joseph Campbell Phillip Carmo Clark Carroll Kaitlyn Cassidy HaiMei Chen Laurena Circelli Germaine Compton Michael Cottongim Christopher Dao Martin…
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Super Caravan Seating
TL:DR–Skip to the video! Airplanes are a lot like people–individual (sometimes ridiculously so) in their needs and tolerances. For example, you can safely get away with sitting far back in the cabin of the Super Otter, but not so much in the Super Caravan. This is the reason for a recent policy change in how…
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Unlimited Jump Package Survival Guide (Houston)
Welcome! We look forward to making ALL the jumps with you, ALL YEAR LONG!!! Here are a few tips about Skydive Spaceland Houston that you might find useful if you are moving here from afar. Slots are limited each year, so… Get your unlimited jump package before it’s gone! Drop Zone Address/Contact Info, Mail/Shipping Skydive…
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Don’t Be That Guy! (or Girl)
Pop Quiz: Where is an open container not a good thing? a) On Bourbon Streetb) At your favorite casinoc) At home chilling with a great movied) When it’s an open parachute container in a jump aircraft Hopefully you correctly picked d) When it’s an open parachute container in a jump aircraft! We were all taught…
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The provided address does not match the billing address for the cardholder. What??
If you’re reading this, chances are you tried to buy something here and received this error message: “The provided address does not match the billing address for the cardholder.” Please do not continue to submit the transaction without fixing the error! This message is telling you that either the numeric part of the street address…
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Spaceland Fifth Anniversary Sport Accuracy Competition Draws 49 Competitors
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In early October, Skydive Spaceland celebrated the fifth anniversary of its now biannual Sport Accuracy competition with our biggest one yet! The Oct. 5-6 competition drew 49 competitors, with all five Spacelands participating at some point in the weekend (which Mother Nature doesn’t always allow!). Skydive Spaceland began these popular competitions in partnership with The…
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Rental Gear Repair/Maintenance Charges
Do you rent gear at Skydive Spaceland? One thing you might not be aware of, especially if you trained here as a student on our gear, is that non-student gear renters are responsible for any maintenance work needed on the gear as a result of your use. What does this mean exactly? Regular wear and…
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Spaceland preNationals Formation Skydiving Competition
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July 24-25, 2021 preNationals is a Nationals-style formation skydiving (FS) competition that gives formation skydiving teams a chance to tune up and test it out before the Freefall National Skydiving Championships in September. See how you stack up against Nationals-standard judges and the OmniSkore!HD scoring system! This is a fabulous opportunity to get familiar with…
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San Marcos Becomes Fifth Skydive Spaceland Location, Third in Texas
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact (Skydive Spaceland): Christy West, Marketing Director 346-239-5209, Christy@SkydiveSpaceland.com Rosharon, Texas (Aug. 3, 2018)—The popular business Skydive San Marcos, which has been serving first-time skydivers and highly experienced jumpers in the Austin/San Antonio areas for more than 30 years, will soon become the fifth member of the growing Skydive Spaceland brand. “The…
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Skydive Spaceland Welcomes Freefly Organizer Jesse ‘Tex’ Leos to our Family!
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Skydive Spaceland Houston is proud to announce the launch of our Freefly Organizing Program! Our mentor program for newly licensed jumpers who have 100 jumps or under has been growing with great success, and we are expanding that program to safely transition jumpers into freeflying with some help from our newest team member, Tex! Jesse…
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Manifest General Reminders
If you find yourself at the dropzone, you will most likely be spending some time in the manifest office. With the rapid rate of growth that Skydive Spaceland has been experiencing, we want to spread the word on some general reminders and guides for manifesting and sharing the space of the office. Manifest Basics What…
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Spaceland Pre-Nationals Competition 2017
Let’s get this party started with scores! 4-Way 8-Way 8-Way MFS Pre-Nationals is a Nationals-style formation skydiving competition that gives formation skydiving teams a chance to tune up and test it out before the Freefall National Championships in September. See how you stack up against Nationals-standard judges and OmniSkore scoring system! This is a fabulous…
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Help Fight Air Traffic Control Privatization (by July 10, 2017)
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As a skydiver, you know all aircraft need equal access to Air Traffic Control (ATC) resources. We fly in a complex, dynamic environment that is democratically available to all planes whether they’re jumbo jets, hobby one-seaters, or skydiving aircraft–it’s essential to safe operations for everyone. However, there’s a bill in front of the House of…
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Skydive Spaceland Skydiver Training Program: Dive Flow 1 Video
Welcome to Skydive Spaceland’s exclusive, innovative Skydiver Training Program! On your first “solo” skydive, wearing your own parachute system, you will practice deploying your parachute, stable freefall, and altitude awareness. Your freefall objectives for this skydive are: Proper climbout and exit Maintaining altitude awareness Arched body position 2 practice handle throws Identify the dropzone Deploy…
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Scott Latinis Joins Skydive Spaceland Team as Organizing and Events Director
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Skydive Spaceland is thrilled to announce the full-time addition of longtime competitive skydiver Scott Latinis to the Skydive Spaceland team as Organizing and Events Director. “My parents will be so thrilled that I got a real job,” Latinis jokes. “But seriously, it’s a really great thing to be able to work in and give back…
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Turbulence and Skydiving: What You Don’t See Can Kill You
Air turbulence can partially or completely collapse a skydiver’s canopy, causing injury or worse. Avoid it at all costs!
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Skydive Spaceland Military Transition Program
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At Skydive Spaceland, we love our active and retired military service men and women! We greatly appreciate your service to our country, and we’d like to welcome you to our training program to transition military-trained skydivers to the civilian skydiving world. This program is now available at all Skydive Spaceland locations—Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Ga.; Dallas/Fort…
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Spaceland Landing Area Policies: A Time and Place for Everything
Updated 2021 We all know that Skydive Spaceland is a world-class dropzone with excellent facilities and aircraft. What you may not know is that when we opened our doors in early 2000, Spaceland was conducting about 5000 skydives per year. Now, 15 years later, our air traffic has increased by about 20 times; we’re up…
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Weekdays Rock for Skydiver Training (STP)!
Weekends are definitely the most popular days for our Skydiver Training Program–of course, because that’s when most people are off work! However, as you might know we are open 7 days a week (in Texas; 5 days a week in Florida–closed Tues/Wed). If you have any availability to jump on weekdays, you might enjoy weekday…
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Breakoff Series Part 3: Video Takes the Center, High
It’s a super cool shot to get when you’re flying outside video above a skydiving formation–that shot when the outside camera flyer (who is filming the jump without being a part of the formation) drops into the center as the formation breaks away, probably turning in place to watch everyone track far and fast before deploying.…
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Breakoff Series Part 2: Flat Tracking
Tracking away from other skydivers well is one of the most vital survival skills a skydiver can have. No matter what kind of freefall skydive you do, unless it’s a Mr. Bill or a solo, you will be tracking to achieve horizontal separation from the other people you are skydiving with before deploying your parachute.…
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Breakoff Safety Series
As skydivers who want to skydive again (and again, and again…), we tend to pay attention to the highest risk areas for our skydives to make them as safe as possible. We learn as students how to fly and land our parachutes safely, and we take canopy courses to get even better at it. We…