Yellow Jackets Skydiving Team

Yellow Jackets Skydiving Team A high performance, fast paced skydiving demonstration team. There are three parts to our show. Sporto, Marshall and Garet usually swoop in around 70+ mph.

Yellow Jackets Skydiving Demo Team shows two of the fast paced skydiving disciplines that most demo teams do not perform; Swopping and Wingsuiting. Part 1: Swooping consists of flying a smaller than normal (typically less than 100 sq ft) cross-braced skydiving canopy so it dives toward the ground and builds up speeds in excess of 100 mph. Then flattening out the angle of attack so the person surfs

across the ground. We jump out of the plane with smoke between 5,000-9,000 feet (we offer expositions at multiple altitudes) with thick smoke so spectators can see the transition from their advanced freefall maneuvers to canopy and can see the canopies trail from where it dives straight to the ground then changes its angle and swoops across the ground. At these speeds you can hear the wind whistling through the lines of the canopy. Part 2: A wingsuit is often incorrectly referred to as a "flying squirrel suit". Wingsuit flying will allow a skydiver to travel a couple miles across the ground within their freefall time. It increases the horizontal speed and decreases the fallrate of the jumper. Our wingsuiters exit the plane between 5,000-9,000 feet (we offer expositions at multiple altitudes) with thick smoke and you're able to see the miles of ground they cover along with smoke designs they make in the sky. Part 3: Audience Interaction after the jump is the one part we consider to be the most important than any other part of our performance. After we finish our performance we go directly into the crowd and pass out stickers to children, sign autographs, take pictures and interact with the audience. The crowd is always in awe when seeing a new aviation discipline like swooping or wingsuiting for the first time.

01/01/2015

We would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year! Hope all your dreams for 2015 come true.

Team Owner: Amanda Scheffler...Has about 1,400 skydives. She enjoys all skydiving disciplines: Belly flying, Freeflying,...
12/08/2014

Team Owner: Amanda Scheffler...

Has about 1,400 skydives. She enjoys all skydiving disciplines: Belly flying, Freeflying, Wingsuiting, CRW (canopy relative work), and doing Demo jumps with flags, smoke, pyro and performing skydiving demonstrations at airshows. She is an FAA Certified Parachute Rigger (with chest, back and seat ratings), and a skydiving coach. She is also owner of the Misty Blues All Women Skydiving Demo Team and has been performing skydiving demonstrations for 8 seasons.

Josh Sheppard is one of the team's wingsuiters...Josh has made over 4,000s skydives since 2005, 3,000+ of those are wing...
12/08/2014

Josh Sheppard is one of the team's wingsuiters...

Josh has made over 4,000s skydives since 2005, 3,000+ of those are wingsuit jumps. He has a passion for wingsuiting. He also co-owns a dropzone in Owosso, Michigan with his brother, is a USPA Tandem Instructor, USPA Coach, Wingsuit Coach, FAA Senior Parachute Rigger. He really enjoys wingsuit BASE jumping, working out at the gym and playing the drums.

Team member Darren "Sporto" Johnson is also a swooper...Sporto has over 11,000 skydives and 2 Freefly World records; 69 ...
12/08/2014

Team member Darren "Sporto" Johnson is also a swooper...

Sporto has over 11,000 skydives and 2 Freefly World records; 69 person and 108 person records. He is a USPA rated jumpmaster, AFF Instructor, and videographer/photographer. He started skydiving in the military in 1989 and civilian 1991. He has 10 years in the military. He served with 2nd Battalion - 75th Ranger regiment from Fort Lewis, Ranger qualified, Airborne qualified, parachuted in with Rangers during the invasion of Panama on December 20, 1989. In his spare time he enjoys trail running, triathalons.

Team member and swooper Marshall Scalisi...Marshall has over 7,000 skydives and is a top notch canopy pilot and Freeflie...
12/08/2014

Team member and swooper Marshall Scalisi...

Marshall has over 7,000 skydives and is a top notch canopy pilot and Freeflier. He has 3 Freefly World records to his name; 53 person, 69 person and 108 person records. He is a USPA rated Jumpmaster. He works as a skydiving videographer/photographer in his spare time and enjoys flying high performance RC helicopters.

About team member and swooper Garet Bloodworth...Garet has about 2,000 skydives. He is a skydiving coach, Accelerated Fr...
12/08/2014

About team member and swooper Garet Bloodworth...

Garet has about 2,000 skydives. He is a skydiving coach, Accelerated Freefall (AFF) Instructor, IBA Level 4 Wind Tunnel Coach/Instructor. He loves the skydiving disciplines of Freeflying and Swooping. Has a Bachelor Degree in Business and works as a Wind Tunnel Instructor at iFLY Chicago.

Some info about team member and wingsuiter Nick Peariso Nick has about 600 skydives (400 wingsuit jumps) and has been s...
12/08/2014

Some info about team member and wingsuiter Nick Peariso

Nick has about 600 skydives (400 wingsuit jumps) and has been skydiving since June 2011. He has a passion for wingsuiting and is also a skydiving coach. He has a Bachelor Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Western Michigan University and works as a Product Design Engineer.

First airshow for Yellow Jackets!
08/01/2014

First airshow for Yellow Jackets!

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