- In this video, a compilation of my 2020 skydiving season.
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All right, so 2020 was a crazy year.
Our drop zone did delay their opening
because of the situation that we faced.
There was a lot of security measures,
safety measures on the drop zone.
Many skydivers decided to not jump that much this year
because the measure was kind of constraining
and stuff like that.
I had travels that were planned to go to Perris, California,
to go to Florida, DeLand, it all got canceled.
But anyways, I managed to have a great season.
I did manage to continue my progression,
get my Coach 1 rating.
And I finally started to do
what I've been dying to do
since the beginning of me starting skydiving.
More on that a little bit later.
But yeah, by the end of the video,
I'm going to show you a full compilation of the jumps
I made in my 2020 season.
It wasn't as much than usual.
I did manage to do 30 jumps.
And many of those were fun jumps,
but a lot of those fun jumps
were with people without any cameras.
So it's kind of hard finding footage of me
flying in freefly in the sky.
Like I told you,
I actually ended up finishing my Coach 1 rating
that I did start in 2019.
So, becoming a coach is a process
where you go through a course,
then you have some jumps to do with students.
And at the end, you got to do an evaluation.
We actually have overall, three jumps to do,
two on your own with a student.
And the last one is a test jump,
either with a Coach 2 being the student
or a Coach 2 in observation with you and a student.
So at the end of 2019, I still had two jumps to make.
So now I am a Coach 1 under the CSPA,
the Canadian Sport Parachuting Association.
I'm gonna do another video explaining to you
exactly kind of the rating progressions
you can go through as a skydiver,
but also the requirements and stuff like that,
so stay tuned for that.
Then
finally, like I told you,
I was able to do what I've been wanting to do
for many years being a skydiver and it's...
(beeps)
Hey, sorry about that.
I had to leave, you know, mom duties.
But what I was about to say
is that I finally got to do camera work
for tandem skydives.
So I was super pumped
to finally be able to achieve that goal of mine.
And it was kind of a bumpy ride
from the day that I started skydiving
up to the point where I was able to do camera work
because the requirements kept changing over time.
And I'm not sure that all of those requirements
were really following the manufacturer's requirements
at that time.
But now I can say we do follow the requirements
of manufacturers.
But to give you an example,
at first you had to have 100 jumps
to be able to simply follow a tandem skydive.
So when I got 100 jumps,
I started to practice following some tandem instructors.
But then the next season,
they changed the requirements to 200 jumps.
So I had to work my way up to that point again
to be able to start following
and training to do camera work.
But then again,
as I reached 200 jumps,
they did change their requirements again
to be 300 jumps
plus a Coach 1 rating.
So once again, I worked my way up 300 jumps.
I got my Coach 1 rating.
And now this summer,
it was a time for me to get a good briefing,
get coached on how to be safe doing camera work.
And I was able to practice
and then even got paid jumps because of my work.
So that was an exciting moment.
As you saw it was a long process, but I made it finally.
And I will do a whole video
explaining all the requirements needed.
Those are really created by the manufacturers
of the tandem systems.
So I'm going to do a video on that
and also give you tips and tricks
to become a good cameraman or woman
to be able to finally get paid to jump.
So, yes, that is everything that happened
during my last skydiving season, the season of 2020.
So here, I wanted to continue this video
just showcasing and doing a compilation of my skydives
of the season.
I hope you will enjoy that.
But before that, let me know in the comments
what is your next goal?
Is it a rating, a specific coaching rating?
Or is it a number of jumps or an actual license?
Let me know below.
Thank you so much for watching.
Enjoy this compilation and keep jumping.
Stay safe and blue skies. (whooshing)
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