Look out below! Another World Skydiving Championship.
With their team SDC Core, Coloradans Jason Russell and Stephanie Strange represent the United States at worldwide skydiving events.Last month, Stephanie Strange and Jason Russell won gold in vertical formation skydiving at the 2022 World Parachuting Championships. The win is part of the Colorado couple's long history of skydiving dominance.
Before he found skydiving, Russell rode motorcycles — but he didn’t know how to hold back, and was constantly injuring himself. After his fourth knee surgery, he realized he couldn’t continue down that road. Luckily, a friend, Graham Frank, asked him to do a tandem skydive. What got him to finally leave Colorado was an interesting job offer for Strange, whom he met when she got a job at a vertical wind tunnel in Denver in the late 2000s. A few years later, she was asked to become a skydiving instructor in Abu Dhabi.
They jumped at the chance. “For a few years, we just taught the crown prince how to skydive,” Russell says. “At the same time, we had a private facility that we were able to fly pretty much nonstop, and we did.” Back in the States, they formed another vertical formation team: SDC Core, sponsored by Skydive Chicago. To get ready for competitions, the team — which includes members from California and Utah — meets for ten-day training camps in Chicago, getting in as many jumps as they can, up to sixteen in a day.
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