Coaching

Coaching

Four ways to work together. All of them start from the same place: finding what's actually limiting you rather than what's easiest to see.

The position that's wrecking you feels comfortable. The one that fixes it feels wrong. Every flyer who's stuck is stuck on exactly that.
The right thing feels wrong first

In person · by the hour

Tunnel coaching

One-on-one or small group coaching in the tunnel. Body position is the surface problem; the work is in mechanics, airflow and what your brain is doing under load.

  • Session planned around your actual goal, not a syllabus
  • In-tunnel correction and immediate video debrief
  • Body mechanics and aerodynamics explained, not just copied
  • Mental preparation and spatial awareness work

Any level, any discipline — belly, freefly, angles, dynamic

From $300 AUD / hourMason $400 · Harry $300 · tunnel time booked separately Book now

Remote · video review

Online coaching

Send footage and get a read on your body, not a general lesson. What your faults actually are, why your anatomy produces them, and the fix that suits you rather than the one in the syllabus.

  • Frame-by-frame analysis of your flying, not a general impression
  • The cause identified, not just the symptom named
  • Corrections matched to your build, your habits and your old injuries
  • Drills for your next tunnel or jump session
  • Freefly, belly, angles, dynamic, canopy control or competition prep

Anyone who has been told what they are doing wrong and still cannot fix it

$90 / 30 min · $150 / hourAUD · book directly Book online coaching

In person · programme

Coach development

For flyers moving from being good in the air to being able to teach it. Teaching someone to fly is a different skill from flying, and most people are never taught it.

  • How to diagnose a fault rather than describe a symptom
  • Briefing and debriefing that actually changes behaviour
  • Managing risk and progression across skill levels
  • Building a coaching pathway you can run yourself

Experienced flyers moving into instruction

By application Enquire

On request · Toogoolawah

Skydive coaching

A full or half day of coaching at Skydive Toogoolawah, one-on-one or as a group. Run on request rather than to a fixed calendar. Angles, vertical flying, freefly, canopy control, and coach ratings — with video debriefs through the day.

  • Angles, vertical flying and freefly
  • Canopy control and landing technique
  • Video debrief after every jump
  • Freefly and canopy coach rating pathways
  • One-on-one or small group

Experienced jumpers only, by arrangement

$300 half day · $500 full dayAUD · Mason only · on request · jump tickets not included Enquire
Mason guiding a flyer's arm mid-flight in the wind tunnel
A flyer working the tunnel chamber during a coaching session
Mason looking out of the aircraft door before a coaching jump
Mason coaching a flyer in the wind tunnel, guiding their arm mid-flight
Coaching in the tunnel at iFLY. The correction happens in the air, not on the debrief screen.
Most flyers have two settings: off and everything. The range in between is where the actual flying is.
Gears, not switches
A skydiver in helmet and sunglasses looking out of the aircraft door
The ride up is where most of the thinking happens.
I can usually tell where you've been injured by watching you fly. You're guarding it, the muscle won't release, and it's pulling everything else off balance. No YouTube tutorial is going to spot that.
I can see your injuries in your flying

The rate

What you are actually paying for

Coaching rates in this sport vary a lot, and the number on its own tells you nothing. Here is what sits behind this one.

01

Both halves of the sport, at depth

Over 14,000 jumps and more than 12,000 hours in the tunnel — three of those years full time. Most coaches have the sky or the tunnel seriously, not both. When a problem in the air turns out to be a problem you can only fix on the ground, or the other way round, that breadth is the difference between a fix and a workaround.

02

Diagnosis, not correction

Anyone can read a video back to you. The rate is for working out why your body is doing it — mechanical limit, old habit, spatial gap or nerve — because those need four different fixes and only one of them is "arch harder".

03

Coaches are trained here too

Coach development is part of what Downunder Dynamics does. The method has to hold up well enough to teach to other coaches, not just to work on the day.

04

If someone else is the better spend, we will say so

Harry is $300 an hour and for consistent progression through standard orientations he is often the right call. Sending you to the cheaper coach when that is the honest answer costs nothing and keeps you coming back.

How I coach — the whole thinking, given away

Before you book

Common questions

Q

What level do I need to be?

Any. First tunnel session through to national-level competitors. The session is built around where you actually are, and being a beginner is not a disadvantage — bad habits are harder to unpick than a blank sheet.

Q

Is tunnel time included?

No. Tunnel time is booked and paid separately with the facility. Coaching is charged on top of that. It means you're free to book the tunnel that suits you.

Q

What do I need for online coaching?

Footage of you flying — external camera or someone else's helmet cam, whatever you have. It doesn't need to be good footage, it needs to show what you're doing.

Q

Where are you based?

Australia, working across tunnels and drop zones nationally. Online coaching has no location constraint at all.