Author: Skydive Spaceland San Marcos
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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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Skydive the Eclipse on Oct. 14!
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During an annular solar eclipse, the moon appears slightly smaller than the sun, so it can’t block the entire disk. The result is a beautiful “ring of fire.” On Oct 14, 2023, Spaceland San Marcos will be in the path of this amazing visual event. You can skydive during the “Ring of Fire” eclipse, which…
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Getting By… With a Little Help From Our Friends
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Skydivers, I have great news and some bad news. Let’s start with the great news. Great News: A lot of skydivers are doing a really great job of checking their friends’ gear in the loading area and helping them correct issues before getting on the airplane. Kudos, way to watch out for all of us!…
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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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Unlimited Jump Package Survival Guide (San Marcos)
Welcome! We look forward to making ALL the jumps with you, ALL YEAR LONG!!! Here are a few tips about Skydive Spaceland San Marcos 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…
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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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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 former…
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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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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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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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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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New Spaceland Landing Area Policies: A Time and Place for Everything
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 to around…
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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. If you have any availability to jump on weekdays, you might enjoy weekday skydiving training even more! Why? Overall slower pace of…
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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…
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Breakoff Series Part 1: Planning Breakoff and Tracking
Revised August 2015 Before you hop in the plane for your next jump, here’s some food for thought on safety: Plan your breakoff and tracking just as carefully as you plan the freefall part of your jump. This part of the jump is often neglected because it comes after “the good stuff,” but it is…
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Red Light, Green Light, No Light?
Quick! What do you do if you are on jump run, the green light has been turned on, and then the green light goes out (either the red light comes back on or the green light simply turns off)? Assume the light is broken and proceed with your climbout and skydive. Flip the spotting switch…
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Skydiver Training Tip: That First Hop and Pop
Is it about time for your first hop and pop (low-altitude emergency exit simulation) in our Skydiver Training Program? If you’re like most skydiving students, chances are you are more nervous about this jump than most of your full-altitude skydives! The lower exit altitude combined with the 5-second maximum deployment time, and possibly your first…
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Skydiver Training Tip: Finding Your Match
When you get ready to skydive for the first time, you put the ultimate trust in your instructor. You trust that person to gear you up, give you the freefalling time of your life, and deliver you softly back to the real world on the ground. The relationship between first-time student and instructor is an…
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Canopy Traffic: Find Your Place in the Sky
Traffic is a bad word, especially for those of us living in the Austin area! And while we think we can get away from it when we’re flying, the reality is that at any dropzone, and particularly at a busy one like Spaceland, the traffic can resemble downtown Houston rush at its worst. The difference…
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Skydive Spaceland Scrambles 2015 Report
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On Saturday, May 4, Skydive Spaceland in Rosharon, TX, hosted its annual 4-way scrambles meet. Organized by local teams Spaceland Lite and Spaceland Toxic, six teams competed for top honors over five rounds of intermediate-level 4-way formation jumps. Clear skies and a light warm breeze made for perfect conditions, the packers made sure that everyone made their loads,…
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Skydiving? Take Your Phone!
These days, most of us are almost never without our mobile phones. Some even seem to have separation anxiety if they misplace their phones for even a few minutes! 🙂 This week’s tip is good news for the phone-bonded among us, because it’s a recommendation to take your phone with you whenever you skydive. Why,…
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Altitude Awareness: Do You Have It?
What’s the first thing your skydiving instructor has you do after you leave the plane? Check your altitude. Before and after maneuvers, check your altitude. If you don’t have altitude awareness, PULL! Awareness of your altitude is of paramount importance to our survival in skydiving, and we all know it. And yet we sometimes forget…