MEET THE TEAM

Jason Thompson (Tomo)

Tomo has been a professional skydiver for over 25 years, has over 12,000 jumps and is a multi-world record holder. He served for 15 years in the Parachute Regiment, spending two-thirds of this time in the Pathfinder Platoon where he qualified in military HALO/HAHO and Military Tandem skydiving. He is currently UK Parachuting’s Chief Instructor (CI) and holds British Skydiving Advanced Instructor/Accelerated Free Fall Instructor/Tandem Instructor/Category System Instructor/Advanced Packer.

Grant Richards

Grant has been a skydiver for over 25 years and has logged over 8,000 jumps. Prior to his involvement with UK Parachuting, he served for 22 years with the Royal Air Force as a Physical Training and Parachute Jumping Instructor, teaching the British Armed Forces all aspects of military jumping, from static line to high altitude free fall parachuting and tandem parachuting. He is a British Skydiving and United States Parachute Association (USPA) accelerated free fall instructor. Grant is also a British Skydiving parachute pilot examiner and the Club Chief Pilot at our 2 PTO’s Beccles & Sibson Skydivers.