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MEET MATT BOAG, PROFESSIONAL SKYDIVE INSTRUCTOR ✦ Hailing from the Gold Coast, Queensland, for the past 13 years, Matt Boag has around 2,500 skydives under his belt to date.
✶ “I went tandem as you do for your first jump at a drop zone just like this. I told the guy when I was under the parachute with him 'man, I'm gonna do this forever.' He kind of laughed at me.” - Matt Boag, Professional Skydive Instructor
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Matt Boag, Skydiving/Wind Tunnel Coach
e chatted with Matt at the Skydive event held at Port Macquarie Airport. Although the skydivers present are mostly highly experienced, he was present to teach others how to improve their skill.
“A very cool thing to do, to be able to jump out of something that's not moving at all, it’s kind of like getting into that dead end feeling. As opposed to an airplane, you're instantly hit by a bunch of wind whereas the helicopters are super quiet.”
That’s his day job. He is a skydive instructor, but this is the first event he has been at that uses a helicopter. He told us that not many skydiving operations get the luxury of having a helicopter at their disposal.
Matt also works inside vertical wind tunnels. He has about 6,000 hours of tunnel time. Number one advantage of the wind tunnel is the safety side of things.
