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Skydiver, BASE jumper, climber, web developer, lover of the Lord, cameraman for the British Female 4way Formation Skydiving Team.

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🎊 Congratulations to the #VigilAthletes of the @nfto_skydiving_team for earning British Skydiving Lifetime Membership!

Team NFTO has accumulated many accomplishments over the years including:

🏆 2022 World champions in female 4-way formation skydiving
🏅 10 FAI medals

Way to go, ladies! 🤘

#BritishSkydiving #ChooseVigil

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British Skydiving Lifetime Membership. Last weekend marked a significant achievement for NFTO - being awarded lifetime membership of @britishskydiving for winning 2022 World Championships in Female 4-way Formation Skydiving ❤️

We are delighted that British Skydiving has recognised the hard work and achievement of NFTO Skydiving team over the years, in particular Winning the World Championships in Female Formation Skydiving in 2022. To have it recognised means a lot to the team.

Unfortunately, not all of the team could join @anna_j_lea on stage - @sianstokesskydives and @vana.parker were competing at the Wind Games wind tunnel competition in Empuriabrava, and @meekered was somewhere in the sky flying home. All five team members from the 2018 / 2022 NTFO line-up are still incredibly close and always will be.

NFTO has now been running for over a decade, and across that time we’ve earned 10 FAI medals and had the privilege of becoming World Champions in 2022. We have had various team members over the past decade, and every single team member who has been part of this team has contributed to it’s amazing, varied and challenging journey. Every block, every dirt dive, every tough debrief, every moment of belief when things felt just out of reach - it all mattered.

The NFTO 2022 lineup’s values are professionalism, enjoyment, team dynamics, passion, and dedication. We tried to live those values in the sky, on the ground, and through the harder moments when we were tested the most. It was those values that glued the team together and helped us become world champions.

Thank you to everyone who has inspired and supported NFTO along the way, our coaches, loved ones, and the wider skydiving community. None of this happens in isolation, without the support of others.

One team. One dream. ❤️

#nfto #nftoskydiving #team #oneteamonedream #britishskydving #cookiehelmets #poweredbysunpath #lbaltimeters #tonysuits #flyjyro #vigilaas #myguardianangel

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How Nationals 2025 went 👀✨

From the longggest weather holds to 5 hour tunnel camps in Poland, and a whole lot of creeping wondering if we’d ever get airborne—this season was a ride and a half!
We stepped up from Rookie class last year to Single A this year, and guess what? We not only snagged that gold medal at Nationals, we also broke another British record 😍😍😍
12.8 Average!!! 🏆

We’re honestly just super proud of the whole team and hopefully we’re on a bit of a winning streak just in time for the indoors 🤞🏼
Here’s to more jumps, more laughs, more stupid stunts and games we do whilst on the weather holds and hopefully more gold! ✨🪂🥇

Lots of love from the loudest team, Fall Fast Finish Last 🩷🧡💙❤️

Thankyou to:
@skydive_hibaldstow for hosting another amazing year
@flyspot_indoorskydiving for having us for all of our tunnel camps
@gabriellaspmu for being the best team captain a team could ever ask for 👸🏼(yes, she wrote this xo)
@matt.mdo for bringing the best energy and laughs to every team training 🥰
@_tomfagan for managing to still perform at every team training despite working a million hours a week, have messed up ear drums and has 2 hours sleep a night 😂
@peterith for not totally swerving us to go fulfill his life long dream as a free flyer (or for food) 😂
@mjdklp for being the best coach and putting up with our mischief and meltdowns
@chazthacker & @meekered for being our amazing camera flyers

#skydiver #skydiving #britishskydivingnationals #skydivingcompetition #winner #champion #girlswhoskydive #cookiehelmets #adrenaline #symbisuits

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The best of blocks from the very short team training we had this weekend 💥
Despite only managing to get 4 jumps in and having to get someone stand in for our Tail, we are super buzzing and can’t wait for nationals 😍 - 54 days and counting!!!!

Wishing our @_tomfagan ‘s burst eardrums a speedy recovery.

Thankyou @jackskypics for stepping in 🥰

@gabriellaspmu @peterith @matt.mdo - please wrap yourself up in cotton wool… no more injuries allowed thanks 😅

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Want some inspiration? Then just check out World Champions @NFTO Skydiving team winning the World Championships in 2022.

The team (now in it's 10th year) knows what it takes to win - commitment, focus, and belief.

After years building toward winning the World Championships the team did 550 jumps together in 2022 alone, virtually self funded, to get to the level to become Female Formation Skydiving World Champions.

The NFTO team values are: professionalism, enjoyment, team dynamics, passion & dedication. And it's those values that glued this team to become World Champions.

Want to compete? Don't be scared - take the leap and do it.

#NFTOskydivingteam #oneteamonedream #worldchampions #worldchampionships2025 #inspire

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Forcing the Team to put my sponsors’ stickers on their kit 😂✨🩷💅

Finally got to put them to good use @killerbeautypmu
The boys are now walking round with stickers that say ‘no more bad brow days’ 😂

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Official photos from the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain awards are out. Great day celebrating a bit of NFTOs 2022 World Champions results being awarded the Royal Aero Club Chairman’s Trophy, and @mark_bayada’s Royal Aero Club Certificate of Merit for all he’s done and achieved in the sport. Shared it with some of our great supporters, just missing our superstar teamie and my piece partner @cath_anderson1983 .

📸 @liz_isles_photography

#nfto #team #oneteamonedream #teamwork #hug #parachute #aviation #strong #skdive

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“BRITISH SKYDIVING IS SORRY THAT NFTO’S OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED THE RECOGNITION THEY DESERVE. “

#sorry #sorrysorry #britishskydiving #parachute #skydive #team #oneteamonedream
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A superb afternoon at the Royal Aero Cub of United Kingdom annual awards, having the honour to be awarded the Chairman’s Trophy for winning the World Championships 2022. A pleasure to be surrounded by some fantastic aviators across many aviation disciplines, and feeling the love and support from the Aero Club and some friendly BS faces 😊 🏆

@cookiehelmets
@tony_suits
@sunpathproducts
@lbaltimeters
@vigil_aad
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@britishskydiving

#skydive #trophy #rafclub #smiile #team #cookiehelmets #vigilaad #lbaltimeters #sunpathproducts #jyro #tonysuits #parachute #champions #champion

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#carpe_diem Breathtaking desert, with the coolest people and the best emotions ever ❤️

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Jumps are a spectacle, but magic lies in the people and moments we share ❤️. Thank you @tim_howell_adventure for making that happen ❤️

In Algeria’s vast embrace, so wide, so free,
Where golden dunes kiss eternity,
The Sahara hums in a silent tune,
Beneath the sun, beneath the moon.

From canyon cliffs, where echoes call,
We leap, we soar, we risk it all,
Base jump wings in the desert air,
Riding the thermals without a care.

With ropes and chalk, we scale the stone,
Each hold, each breath, a path unknown,
Friends beside, through dust and height,
Bound by trust and shared delight.

And when the stars ignite the sand,
Drums awaken, feet command,
We dance, we laugh, in fire’s glow,
A fleeting moment—let it flow.

Through falls and flight, through climb and chance,
This life we live—a fearless dance.

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In our 10th (!) year as a team, NFTO has done Wind Games (Open bronze) and Indoor World Cup (Female Silver) with the super zippy Libby, Outdoor Nationals (open bronze & female gold) with the lovey & dedicated @rebeccal_rel , and then finishing with Indoor Nationals (Gold) with the perennially keen and skilled @juliaswallow358 .

Aside from that @sianstokesskydives and @vana.parker have been competing with international team Dynos, there’s been some 8 way indoor and outdoor national medal action, @anna_j_lea has been getting faster in Speed, both Anna & Vana represented at the World Champs, and we have coached and developed multiple teams and skydivers throughout the season

We’re not sure what 2025 looks like for NFTO but we will sure make it adrenaline filled and suitably exciting. Thank you for the support! NFTO - Not For The Ordinary 😀

@cookiehelmets
@tony_suits
@lbaltimeters
@sunpathproducts
@flyjyro
@vigil_aad
@britisharmysport
@skinology_by_dr_anna
@nfto_official

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