For those of you that have been on CollegeSkydiving.com for a while, you know we had community features similar to facebook with photo sharing, comments, status updates, etc. We are working on a better system for these features that will be far more reliable and flexible as time goes on...

Who remembers when College Skydiving was just trying to get a start? It was a while ago, way back in 2006! You know, before...well...OK, so we're only 4 years old, so what! It's been a long progressive road to get to this point and we're still moving forward. This has been the first localized place online for college clubs to congregate since the internet started getting regular use, so there has been some trial and error, but many clubs have benefited greatly from being able to share information...

You may have noticed a change in the look and feel of CollegeSkydiving.com since the last time you visited. This change was brought on largely from wanting to add functionality to the website for clubs, partly because of a necessity for code updates, and slightly because...well...this new design just looks waaaaaay cooler...

It wasn’t too long ago that I followed Georgia Tech down to the SkyVenture Orlando tunnel to take some pictures and possibly get some time for myself. One of the groups between the two GT sessions was hoping for some pictures, so I took some and we traded email addresses. That team was CSC Rhythm out of Chicagoland Skydiving Center.

Mike Gruwell of ChutingStar Rigging Loft has offered up his advice on everything from 'buying your first jumpsuit' to 'how to choose your first rig'.

Performance Designs is offering a helping hand again on our Forum by adding more athletes to their Q&A section. Two more teams will be around to help us find the best practice answers for any questions that we might have. With the growing number of disciplines and the variety of gear available...

Take a look at the Forum for the Virginia Tech Memorial Jump photo. This formation was completed by 8 skydivers, 5 of which are Virginia Tech students and alumni.

We have over 130 users now with growing support. College Skydiving is continuing to catch attention wherever it goes and is quickly becoming a mainstay in the skydiver's vocabulary…maybe more so in the younger crowd than the “back in my day we didn’t have parachutes to skydive with” crowd, but nonetheless, we are becoming known...