DEFY Extreme Air Sports: Premier Indoor Trampoline Park Adventure

“Get ready! Ten… nine…” Six months ago I’d never heard of Speedwings, I was totally obsessed with climbing and had no time for any other disciplines. My life revolved around continually preparing for the next climbing mission: training, researching, training, researching. But then, abruptly, a unexpected spanner was tossed into the works: training, researching, training, injured. I had over-trained and paid the price, sustaining serious tendon damage to my righ

You step off the back of the boat into a realm of blue. There is little shock – the water’s warm at the surface. Back on land, people are rising and rolling out of bed. You are dropping deeper, losing air, losing buoyancy, sinking out of the white light and through the layer of tropic blue, down, down, down. Beyond twenty meters, then thirty, where violet fades to midnight. At this depth, there is no red; colours dull, greens and browns just above, and the smaller, wildly painted fish are al

Sidetracked: Thanks for chatting to us Steve. So, starting from the beginning, did you have an adventurous childhood? Steve: Very much so, yes. My mum and dad are very adventurous people. Both of them worked for the airlines. They took us all over the world to India, Africa, Sri Lanka, and South America. They’re still very, very adventurous people, even now. They brought us up on a small holding surrounded by rescue animals so it was an adventurous childhood. That’s why I’m doing what I do