Choosing a parachute is a very important task, which determines the comfort during jumps and, most importantly, the safety of the skydiver.
How to choose a parachute
Interesting facts about parachutes
Skydiving is about more than freefall – the less talked about area is what happens after your 60-second descent at 120 mph. We talk about parachute time.
Training parachutes
The purpose of a running parachute is to add resistance to your run. Adding resistance while running is a great way to help you practice proper form and encourage you to work harder.
One of the most difficult disciplines of parachuting sport
Recently, a large number of mesmerizing videos of people planning in the air in special suits have appeared in the network.
Piloting the dome
Some skydivers do skydiving! There are as many different disciplines in canopy competition as there are disciplines in freefall, and each discipline is equally unique.
Skysurfing
There are different types of skydiving; we call them disciplines. Skysurfing is one of them. Specifically, in skysurfing, a skydiver attaches a specially made sky “surfboard” to his feet to perform acrobatic tricks in the air.
What is free flight?
Spend an hour at the dropzone and you’re likely to hear the term “freefly”. You might see a group of freeflyers looking cool in their tight neon jumpsuits standing in the landing zone
Do you want to be a skydiver?
A new sport has attracted the attention of many extreme sportsmen, but to become a skydiver, you need to make considerable efforts and spend a lot of money, as well as to have good health and excellent reaction.
Preparing for the first parachute jump
During the training the future skydiver will learn only the most necessary things – the rules of behavior immediately before, during and after the jump.
Who can jump
The first requirement concerns the age, the lower limit of which is 16 years old (in this case the presence of parents or their notarized consent in writing is required).