Today (August 31st) is a very special day for Julia Swallow, not only because it is her birthday. She also made her first jump on this very same last day of August in 1991, making it an especially memorable birthday gift. It is also a coincidence that her NSL Profile is being published on an August 31st, exactly 35 years later.

Given the time frame, it is no surprise that her first team, "Jinx," cannot be found in the NSL News records, which currently go back only to 1998. Her 4-way career entered the NSL News archives with the British 4-way Women team Perris Airkix, which she trained and competed with in 2005 and 2006.

Dan Brodsky-Chenfield, an original member of Arizona Airspeed and Airkix's coach, was responsible for the first half of the team name, as the British team probably made more jumps in Perris than in Great Britain. He guided Airkix and Julia "Jules" Foxwell to the 4-way Women world championship title at Gera 2006.

She continued with a British 4-way Open Class team in 2008, winning the national championship in 2009 and qualifying for her second world meet at Menzelinsk 2010, this time in 4-way Open. Satori brought a British 4-way Open Class team back into the world's Top 10 with an 8th-place finish. Sebastian XL had been the last British Top 10 team in this category, finishing 8th at Gap 2003. Former XL member John McIver was one of her new Satori teammates, alongside Katie Woods and Aaron Faith, with Dave Head on camera.

Ian Hodgkinson replaced Katie Woods in 2011, and Satori won the national championship title again that same year. Jules would attend her third outdoor world championship in the outside-center slot, this time at Dubai 2012. The new lineup climbed even higher, finishing 6th in the FAI/ISC record field of 38 teams in 4-way Open. Only six of those 38 teams qualified for the finals in Round 10, and Satori was one of them.

The same lineup won the next British 4-way Open Class title in 2013 but still needed a replacement national team for the outdoor world championship in 2014. Julia Swallow was expecting her first child and needed to take some time out. Vision 99 represented Great Britain at Prostejov 2014, but missed the finals after finishing 7th.

Julia Swallow returned with a new lineup in 2015 and won the next national championship title, once again earning qualification for the following world championship. Former Sebastian XL member Pete Allum joined the team alongside his former XL teammate John McIver, and the new lineup decided to rename the team Satori XL. Pete Allum took the outside-center slot, while Julia Swallow moved into her next assignment as the team's point.

The new Satori XL lineup competed in three outdoor and two indoor competitions before traveling to Skydive Chicago for the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2016. It became a very special event for Julia Swallow, not only because of the Top 10 finish, which came with her highest average since 2009. She was also three months pregnant with her second child—and did not even know it until she returned to Great Britain. It was, naturally, her best-kept secret both before and throughout the competition.

Julia Swallow had to take another break from 4-way training and competition, and another former Sebastian XL team member, Steven Hamilton, took her slot for the 2017 season. Satori XL won the national championship again in 2017, while Julia Swallow missed the next outdoor world championship at Australia 2018.

Julia Swallow's 4-way comeback after her second pregnancy and maternity break came indoors in 2019. British 4-way Women team NFTO needed a substitute for the Wind Games 2019, and Julia Swallow was happy to help out. She stepped in again at the same event a year later, followed by another appearance a month later at the national indoor championship. It then took another four years before NFTO welcomed her back into the indoor lineup for the 2024–2026 period.

However, Julia Swallow loves flying planes—and jumping from them. She returned to outdoor training and competition as early as 2024, when 4-way Open Class team SOAR won the British outdoor championship title for the first time. The same lineup successfully defended its British top position in 2025 and once again last week.

Julia Swallow will attend her next outdoor world championship in October, her fifth overall and her fourth in 4-way Open. She and her current and former Satori XL teammate Pete Allum will try to match the three occasions when Sebastian XL finished in 4th place for the British formation skydiving delegation at outdoor world championships (1999, 2001, and 2003).

SOAR, with former Chimera members Sarah Ashworth and James Woods, is the only team among the top contenders for 4th place and the unofficial amateur world championship title to have posted a 20+ average on the run-up to the upcoming world meet. James Woods is Katie Woods' brother, who was Julia Swallow's original Satori teammate from 2008 to 2010. Julia Swallow now spans a 20-year timeframe at outdoor world championships, returning ten years after her previous appearance in 2016.