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. First you should enroll in a parachute club, without mastering all the wisdom of conventional jumps, it is impossible to start a prolonged free fall.
Each action must be brought to automaticity. Skydiver opens the parachute as close to the ground as possible, when the slightest mistake can be very expensive.
The next stage – training and obtaining a license, without which will not be allowed to independent jumps. In addition, you will have to buy everything you need for skydiving. Parachutes alone athletes are not enough, still need:
- satchels;
- altimeters;
- signaling devices;
- safety devices;
- helmets;
- coveralls;
- goggles
Skydiver training in a wind tunnelThe exercises in the sky are preceded by training in a wind tunnel. In artificially created upward air currents, the athlete is not limited by time and can learn to control his body in weightlessness without rushing. Only after all the movements are practiced on the simulator, the instructor will allow the student to jump from the airplane.
Those who do not want to devote all their free time to skydiving, and just want to experience once what it is – free fall, can go, for example, in New Zealand in Tuapo. For a certain amount of money, those who wish to do so can rent ammunition and make jumps with an instructor. Freefall lasts from 30 seconds to one minute, then landing on a parachute – and the session is over.
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