Athletes: Jeremy and Vincent Brazier

Burn Perspective existed in Australia before we were involved. Guys like Tommy Sierra, Dave Hyndman and others were doing a lot of camera work at dropzones around the country, making day tapes and contributing to events. They were the original creative minds and they simply wanted to do more of their favourite type of flying, but kept finding there weren’t enough events around of a suitable level. So piece by piece they brought it together into a team that could build and run things that they could fly camera for.

The people involved at that point – now including Ryan Dudderige, Scott Hiscoe and Rob Wiley – were mostly floating around, already coaching and doing their own thing all over Australia. The first Burn event was held Skydive Nagambi before it closed down, and there was a lot of interest so they needed more coaches who could make it. We had just finished working full-time at the tunnel and were looking to set up our own events. The group chat was called Burn Brigade, and we were included to talk about that particular event, but nobody kicked us out. We were kind of the fly on the wall, as after that everyone started discussing more possible events and locations. No one specifically said anything, but we got the vibe that they wanted us on board, and we were keen to be involved.

There had been a period when things were evolving fast in Europe. People were coming back to Australia having spent a lot of time training low speed and dynamic flying indoors, and it was translating to the way everyone wanted to skydive. A lot of people had been investing heavily in their tunnel skills, but there was not a lot of structured direction. We didn’t have a lot of experience at that point, but were ready to build on the start we had made. The other guys were in a similar position also, and the demand was there for us to grow. We were on the West Coast at that point, with the others primarily in the East. We were busy with our own tunnel camps and stuff, but joining forces made a lot of sense. Burn Perspective became one big group. 

Movement flying has become very popular, and it is important to have some sort of structure for progression because without it things can easily get dangerous. With inexperienced leaders, this can be even worse, so it became our team agenda to be open to all skill levels and aim to guide people correctly rather than figuring it out for themselves and possibly learning the hard way. We try to communicate well as a team, so no matter where you are or who you are working with, in the tunnel or the sky, the next step is clear. 

We are definitely a dynamic movement team. We have other skills and experience, but this is what is popular now and the way we like to fly. It is also an important place for people to have guidance because there aren’t particular levels to pass. In Australia, you have a head-up and a head-down crest to achieve, but after that, there is kind of nothing. Back in the day, it was kind of easier to tell where people were just by sheer jump numbers, but now flyers invest a lot of time and effort in the tunnel so the work of guiding and translating people’s abilities between the environments can be a more involved process. Over recent years, people have just figured out how to get better faster. The bar gets raised, and with it the average skill level goes up too.

Once we started coaching, things ramped up quickly. We both started in the tunnel in 2015 on the Gold Coast, before moving on to our AFF courses at Toogoolahwah in 2017. We moved over to the tunnel in Perth in 2019 and were already busy indoors. Once we started coaching outdoors we had maybe 500 jumps each, and it quickly became every weekend. 

Up until October of 2023, neither of us had done any coaching outside of Australia. We went over to Dubai, and then things kind of grew from there. The first thing we set up in Europe was Vector Festival, then we started to get more messages and requests asking if we were interested in coaching at events in various countries. We did a big tour across Europe in the Summer months, including some of the most famous and spectacular places such as Voss, Bovec, Balaton and a bunch of others. We wanted to participate at something also and not just work the whole time. Fly4Life has always been a huge influence on us, the way they organise and lead jumps, so we had been aiming for one of their events for a long time.