Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
American skydiver
About Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
Born 1962.
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 cervical fracture of his spine.
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.
Brodsky-Chenfeld was inducted into the Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fame in 2014.
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.
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Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld was born in 1962.
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