11/03/2026
🎉 Big News in the Sky! 🪂 Join us in congratulating our newest tandem instructors!
A heartfelt thank you to Kazu from Excel Skydiving and our amazing evaluators, David Rosas and Jason Lindsey.
👏 Huge shoutout to Troy Thompson, Chris Kita, PJ, and Mikel Manthey! Your passion and skill are inspiring. We can't wait to see you help others fall in love with skydiving!
Drop some love below and support these guys!
The tandem course is a rigorous training program that teaches experienced skydivers how to become tandem instructors. To qualify as a TI, skydivers must have been a jumper for a minimum of 3 years and have completed a minimum of 500 jumps. During those 500 jumps, they must have instructed new skydivers in life-saving emergency procedures, how to safely fly their bodies, and how to fly and land their own parachute.
During the course, we require participants to jump a minimum of 25 tandems. These tandem jumps begin with participants acting as the tandem student through learning how to deal with a nervous passenger.
This is no easy feat so congrats again to this crew and we will see you in the sky!