Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld or Dan BC is a six-time world champion skydiver and a motivational speaker.
In 1992, Brodsky-Chenfeld survived a plane crash that killed 16 people, including several other members of his skydiving team. He spent six weeks in a coma, with major injuries including a broken neck.
In 1994, he co-founded Arizona Airspeed, a skydiving team based at Skydive Arizona. Brodsky-Chenfeld led Airspeed four- and eight-person formation skydiving teams to six World Championships. Brodsky-Chenfeld is also a large formation skydiving world record holder. He has made over 30,000 skydives.[1]
Brodsky-Chenfeld was inducted into the Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fame in 2014.[2]
Brodsky-Chenfeld published the memoir: Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What It Taught Him About Fear, Adversity, and Success. He also did a TED Talk related to his memoir.[1]
In November 2023, Brodskey-Chenfeld led a group of skydivers who formed a Star of David in the sky.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Stikkos. "Skydive Mag - TED Talk: Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld". skydivemag. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Inductees Selected - Skydiving Museum & Hall of Fame". skydivingmuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2018-01-30.
- ^ "US skydivers create human Star of David in California skies". Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
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