Jeffrey
Provenzano
United States
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Skydiving
Date of birth | September 13, 1976 |
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Birthplace | Greenwich, Connecticut, USA |
Age | 50 |
Nationality | United States |
Career start | 1998 |
Discipline | Outdoor Skydiving |
Who is Jeff Provenzano?
Jeff Provenzano is one of the pioneers of the high-speed, high-stakes skydiving discipline of swooping. “It’s like driving a Ferrari as a parachute,” he says. Not only was Jeff the 2007 Overall Champion of the Professional Swooping Tour but, for four years running, he took the crown at the U.S. Pond Swoop Nationals.
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1976 and raised just outside New York City, Jeff was studying at the Big Apple’s School of Visual Arts. He remembers: “I went to a drop zone with friends and made a tandem jump, then decided I wanted to do it again… and again.”
Countess achievements
His countless other honours include winning the Vertical Relative Work World Cup Championship and contributing to five world records. But what 'Jeffro' is best known for is his talent for inventing never-before-seen aerobatics, such as 'The Miracle Man' that’s been equated to pioneering the backflip in freestyle motocross.
Over 23,000 jumps later, the artist who had formerly been obsessed with snowboarding and skateboarding still can’t get enough of skydiving.
Completing a personal ambition: skydiving in all 50 US states
After a few decades of racking up jumps across the United States for air shows, competitions and stunts, Jeff set himself an ambitious personal target: skydive in all 50 US states. There are a few states without commercial skydiving centers, meaning they wouldn't get checked off organically through routine work or travel. Determined to finish what he started, he took on the intentional challenge of organizing and planning specific jumps for the final states.
At one point, he cleared out three states—Nebraska, Kansas and South Dakota—in a single day. That left one final state to conquer: Alaska. This final jump had to be spectacular, and it was. In March 2026, he jumped from 8,000ft in extreme -40-degree temperatures… beneath a sky lit up with the Northern Lights.
Jeff stays super busy with Red Bull Air Force demos in cities from coast to coast. He also teaches skydiving techniques to elite military units, is aiming toward a helicopter pilot’s license and has his SAG and AFTRA cards – the entrée to work in film and TV. He's performed in major motion pictures such as Godzilla and Iron Man 3 and you can watch him in action in the series Miles Above.