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Total Course Fee: $250 (two day course) Additional fees may be charged by the dropzone to cover expenses. Jumps are not included.
*Note: This is NOT the full payment for your canopy course. This deposit will hold your seat in the course, and allow Brian to book flights and cover other travel expenses.
Brian Germain Canopy Camps
This is not your typical canopy course. Brian is one of the foremost experts on parachute flight safety, and his course reflects the depth of knowledge gleaned from the hundreds of courses Brian has taught over the past two and a half decades. Brian is the only author, parachute designer and manufacturer leading canopy camps, making this course an exceptional and unparalleled opportunity to improve both your skills and your safety as a skydiver.
Part of the course is classroom focused, utilizing advanced computer Simulations, PowerPoint presentations, and theoretical lectures. Part of the prep work utilizes the physical training benefits of hanging harness work in the skydivers' own system. This provides vital information about the fit and function of the harness container system, as well as nurturing new physical habits the afford the canopy pilot greater maneuvering capability and optimal landing body position.
We try to do two to three skydives per day, weather permitting, opening above 6000 feet AGL. On training jumps, participants are given specific exercises that have proven to be beneficial in creating safety and skill in the areas of parachute flight that matter the most. Landings are filmed and debriefed indepth, and Brian brings several cameras to ensure that everone gets good landing footage. Participants are urged to partake in the filming of landings to develop the skill of camera work, since the benefits of filmed landings is beyond measure.
Course material is based on USPA's B license Canopy Proficiency Card, however this course goes into much greater depth than the minimum requirement for a B license. Brian is a USPA Safety and Training Advisor, and thus he is able to sign off your license requirements. The expanded scope of this camp makes it appropriate for any skill level, and no topics are off limits. More experienced participants are guided to fly in no contact formation with other canopies so they can benefit from having a relative reference in flight, and if they wish, guidance in high performance approaches and swoop landings.
The primary categories of focus in the course are: Parachute Aerodynamics, Flight Maneuvers, Flight in Turbulence, Traffic Flow, Various Approach Methods and Accuracy, Mental Preparation and Adrenaline Management, and of course Landing Skill and Safety. Additional training videos are provided before and following the course to enhance comprehension and retention of this vital information.
Course duration: 2 Days, (sometimes longer with large groups)
Brian Germain
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Brian Germain is one of the most well known skydiving instructors in the world, and a multinational voice on the topic of holistic wellbeing. With tens of thousands of jumps over 38 years of active skydiving and adventure travel, Brian has learned much he can share to help you to become a happier, healthier, more effective human being. His many years of psychology study and work at a Life Coach will provide you with a refreshing perspective on the forest, your relationships, and yourself.
Brian's work on the topic of fear and its effects became crystallized when tragic paraglider collapse nearly took his life. Rejecting the doctors’ proclamation that he would never jump again, Brian not only emerged from his wheelchair to continue skydiving, but a mere four years later became the ESPN X-Games Champion in Freefly Skydiving. His inspiring journey through and beyond fear has moved people all over the world to challenge their own personal boundaries, and expand who they are through taking fear head-on.
Brian's amazing recovery has led him to author numerous inspiring books and articles about overcoming fear and life challenges, including his best-seller Transcending Fear, the inspiring Green Light Your Life, Vertical Journey, and the world-renowned textbook of skydiving, The Parachute and its Pilot. His passion for the topic of fearless living has resulted in a barrage of interviews with the media, as well as his inspiring business keynote talks and experiential workshops. Brian's journey through apparent impasse has led him to many refreshing insights that will provide you with powerful secrets for handling stress in all its forms.
Brian Germain has dedicated his life to the study of fear and its antidotes, but what distinguishes him from others on similar paths is his unique ability to tell the story in an enjoyable way. His animated expression of this challenging aspect of the human experience is both profound and useful, and surprisingly funny. Brian's uncanny ability to paint the picture of the archetypal journey from fear to heroism has been fostered by many years of compassionate skydiving instruction.
Brian got his start as an Adventure Guide with Longacre Expeditions, focusing on rock climbing and mountaineering. After earning a BA in Psychology from the University of Vermont, Brian founded "Vermont Skydiving Adventures" parachute school at the age of twenty five, which he owned and operated for several years. At this small operation on the Canadian border, Brian trained many now-world-renowned skydivers with his unique and heart-driven methodology.
That is when his tragic paraglider collapse changed his life forever. For the next two years, Brian had to focus his efforts on the physical and mental healing process. As part of his path to recovery, he set his sights on preventing the same tragedy from befalling other parachutists. He faced his own fear by returning to the sky to test his own collapse-resistant "Airlock" prototypes, eventually founding his parachute design company BIG AIR Sportz. Brian's innovative work earned him a Patent for "Valved Apparatus for Ram-Air Canopies" (US Patent #5,573,207), a design that has been utilized in thousands of parachutes all over the. He continues to build and test advanced parachute designs in order to improve safety and efficiency.
After writing the definitive book on parachute aerodynamics and safety, The Parachute and its Pilot, Brian created his world-renowned Parachute Flight Skills and Safety Course, an advanced training workshop for civilian and military parachutists. Brian continues to tour the world teaching parachuting safety, and is also the host of the very popular radio show entitled "Safety First with Brian Germain" on SkydiveRadio.com, as well as "BG Live", a revolutionary online training program on found at AdventureWisdom.com.
Brian Germain has many messages of great value from which anyone can benefit. The wisdom and positive outlook he has gathered applies directly to every aspect of life. The core skills that he teaches can help you to thrive in the midst of the most ominous leadership challenges, and help you to establish an emotional buoyancy that will make you the kind of person that others want to follow.
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Transcending Fear is a Leadership Training Company. Our main offerings include: Fear Seminars by a noted Fear Expert for overcoming fears, Leadership Training Workshops, a celebrity Skydiving Instructor for skydiving fear challenges, and Skydiving Videos and Skydiving Books by Author Brian Germain.
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