Gustavo Hector Garcia Cabana Rojo

Argentine from Buenos Aires, Gustavo Hector is the youngest son of a family of 4. With an accountant father and a photographer mother, he took his first pictures at the age of 6. He attended mechanical engineering school, studied photography, was a bass player, a junior Firefighter, a technical rebreather cave and wreck diver, and started skydiving at the age of 22. After completing 70 jumps, he strapped a VHS recorder and a camera on his helmet to film his friends. Since then, it became his passion, his lifestyle, and his profession.

Now he has over 27000 camera jumps shooting all types of skydives in competitions, training camps, demos, boogies, expeditions, commercials, as well as photo, video, and film productions. Shooting big way records became one of his specialties, and he’s the only camera flyer that filmed the biggest four World Records in Formation Skydiving 400 way, Freefly Head Down 168 Way and Head up 84 Way, and Canopy Formations 100 Way for a total of 29 World Records. He has jumped in 28 countries: Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Cuba, United States, Brazil, Colombia, Thailand, Uruguay, Spain, France, Croatia, Germany, Ecuador, Venezuela, Czech Republic, Poland, India, China, Qatar, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Egypt and Sweden, jumping from Cessna’s to Hercules C130’s, as well as Helicopters, Jets Boeing 727 and AN72, Biplanes, Trikes and Balloons (a total of 47 different airplanes and 8 helicopters).

He started shooting Formation Skydiving Teams early on, earning gold medals with his Tango 4 Way Team in Argentina, and in the Latin Championship in Cuba in 1994, and a bronze medal with the Perris Valley local 10 way speed star team in the US Nationals 1997. He also shoot 4, 8, 10 & 16 way teams as a pool cameraflyer, at the U.S. Nationals from 1997 to 1999. He also competed as a team cameraflyer at the first US Open of Skysurf at Perris Valley in 1997 and in Brazil championships in '96 & '97. After he moved to Spain, he was the cameraflyer for the Spanish 4 & 8 way teams, earning several medals at their Nationals and competing at the World Championships in Gap, France in 2003, with the National 4 way team.

During his Formation Skydiving competitive years, he experienced the process of dubbing the videos for the judges during the meets, and worked in the dubbing room at the US Nationals 2000, and then for the World Air Games in Granada in 2001, Spain, he create the Videolounge, a dubbing room with an special touch for the comfort of the cameraflyers, and providing the required video copies of all the rounds in all disciplines after that. World Cup 2002 and World Championships 2004 will follow, and then he retired from the competition scene.

In 1998 he organized the first Training Camps in Argentina, to help raise the level of skydiving there, inviting international coachs and renting big turbine aircraft and made a new National FS largest formation record in 1999. After 3 successful events there, he organized the fourth at Skydive Deland in the US. Later he organized the EmpuriaFlock 2007 & 2008 Wingsuit events and the September Freefly camps 2018 & 2019 at Skydive Empuriabrava.

In 1995 he met Chris Gay in Brazil, in a Canopy Formations event, a very unique discipline in the sport, and since then together they made severals CF training camps in Brazil, Argentina, the US and Spain and all the biggest formation World Records to date. Also, as part of the Canopy Formation Specialists team, they travel together for spectacular demonstration jumps in places like China, Qatar, Egypt and the US.

In 1999 he shoot his first World Record of Formation Skydiving in Thailand with the World Team, organized by B.J. and Sara Worth , and in the following years more records and great events, including the Kaleidoscopes and Flight of the Phoenix, and the actual biggest record of 400 way in 2006.

He designed, built and managed a high altitude oxygen system that allowed to break multiple skydiving records in Europe, with fleets up to 7 aircrafts for the Empuriabrava Challenge in 2013, when four 106 ways world records were made in Sequential Formations, and back to back, the biggest European Head down record to date: a 98 way. Also the 21, 25 and 43 ways European head up records and the 80 way Euro Head Down record of 2011.

He been giving camera courses since 1998, and seminars in the Parachute Industry Association Symposiums in San Diego 2001, Barcelona 2008 and Daytona Beach 2015, and he create the Fly Camera School with the goal of educate and help make camera flying safer for newer jumpers and experienced alike. In May 2021, an online version of the FCS was launched, and now he's able to reach jumpers all around the World with his FlyCamera Courses Online.

In 2011 he started to focus in freefly, getting coaching in UK and US wind tunnels and participating in multiple freefly events. In march 2013 when he attend his first Fly4Life camp in Florida, it was a real turning point in his flying. He keep attending them first as a student and then as a cameraflyer for many years, giving him a first row seat of the evolution of angle and movement jumps with the world top load organisers that the Fly4Life team brings together.

In 2015, he shoot his first Freefly World Record, a 164 way Head Down formation at Skydive Chicago and the attemps to build a 200 way in 2018 and 2022. The Head Up World Records 55 way and 72 way in 2016 and the 84 way in 2019 will follow.

In 2016 was invited to join the freefly team FlyWarriors, and together they push Head Up flying in Europe, organizing severals euro records and selecting flyers for the world records in 2016 and 2019. He created and organized the high altitude Warrior September Camps in 2018 & 2019, and the FlyWarriors YouTube channel. In early 2021 during the pandemic, he was fired by his teammates via zoom, after disagreements with their event & marketing department (a.k.a. wives).

He is one of the more experienced freefly events cameraflyer, having shoot the Fly4Life team, Fly Warriors, Airspace Shredfest and Sequential events, Island Sieges, Vector Fests, Friflaj Festival, Funshine and Ethernal boggies, LSD camps, and numerous head down and head up euro and world records and tryouts.

In 2020 he launched his new website www.gustavocabana.com to share his 30 years worth of images with the World.I

In October 2023, Gustavo had the great honour of been inducted in the International Skydiving Hall of Fame, in Arizona, USA. Created in 2010, the International Skydiving Hall of Fame recognizes and honors those who, through leadership, innovation and/or accomplishments have defined, promoted, inspired and advanced skydiving at the highest

and sustained levels such that they have made it possible for generations of skydivers to enjoy the sport.

Gustavo lives in Catalunya, Spain, since 2001, where he manages his Photo & Video studio and Fly Camera School and jump as a video staff of Skydive Empuriabrava, Europe's premier drop zone.