The sky’s the limit for Darley’s Scott Clark as he gears up to break the Australian national skydiving record this month in California.
Scott will be joined by more than 100 other Aussie skydivers attempting to break the existing Australian large formation skydiving record, which was set in 2010.
“I’ve well and truly passed the fear stage. I can stand outside the plane at 20,000 feet and I don’t have any fear of the jump itself,” Clark said.
“I trust myself and my equipment.”
Clark first took the leap as a teenager in 1985.
He said it was the adrenaline of it that initially hooked him. After a break, he took to the skies again in 2006 and hasn’t looked back.
Now he skydives almost every weekend and is part of a skydiving team.
Clark enters different competitions during the year, including free-fall events, with his four-way team. Last year it won the national championship in the intermediate division, judged on different formations the group created while free-falling.
Clark says there are different disciplines within the sport and up to 40 formations that his team can perform. While skydiving is a sport that requires a lot of training, he says anyone can do it.
“It’s all about body positions,” he said.
“You do it without thinking after a while. Everyone comes from such a diverse backgrounds, from doctors to military people. There’s room for everyone.”
