CYPRES Athlete: Matias Baeza

The Beginning

I have now been skydiving for eleven years, and it has been full power since day one. In my first year I did five hundred jumps, and since then more than nine thousand. At the beginning, I worked in every area of the dropzone: camera, AFF, and tandems. Later, I focused on coaching and organizing, which have been my main areas of work in recent years.

Partnerships

Today, social media is an important part of what I do. I enjoy sharing my experience with other skydivers, but I also create content for people who know nothing about the sport. Reaching a broader audience works well for brands and helps introduce new people to skydiving. I try to balance my professional work in the sport with creating content for my sponsors and social platforms. This approach has allowed me to secure strong partnerships, both within skydiving and with brands outside the sport. I believe it is important to represent only equipment and brands I genuinely trust and would choose myself.

Skydiving in Chile

Opening a dropzone in Chile (@skydivecolchagua) is something very personal to me. I love traveling and jumping in different places around the world, but now that I have a family, I want my kids to grow up here, close to everyone. We are located in one of the most beautiful and touristic regions of the country, surrounded by vineyards and mountains, with a unique identity and strong potential for skydiving events in the future. The project has grown quickly and has been very well received from the start. What began as the need for a place to jump at home has developed into something much bigger.

Developing a skydiving operation requires a lot of work, so I will not be traveling as much as before. Instead, we can bring more events and people here. My goal is to keep balancing all aspects of my work in a sustainable way, while continuing to progress, compete, and push the sport to the next level.

What I enjoy most changes from time to time. After many years working full time in the sky, I have learned to value the simple side of skydiving. Some of the best days are just fun jumps with friends, without pressure or expectations,

just enjoying being in the air. That balance reminds me why I started in the first place.