According to the BPA (British Parachute Association) "Skydiving is one of today's most exciting sports"! Those brightly colored parachutes you may have seen floating downward, seemingly from the heavens above, offer the participant a chance to master the air and obtain a freedom seldom found in most other sports. You can truly make the skies your very own when making a jump. And that very first jump will most likely be the most memorable event in your lifetime! The exhilaration, enjoyment, and limitless opportunities and challenges are all there awaiting you. When you gain that feeling of perfect body control and have finely tuned your skills in this intensely competitive sport you will realize how vital life is and how very much you can enjoy the thrill of free falling before opening your chute.
AFF (Accelerated Free Fall) is the quickest way to become a qualified skydiver. Skydiving instructors can teach students in a few short hours how to use their parachutes, what to expect when they fall, how to land safely and how to manage fear. The instructor is also harnessed to the student for the first skydive to ensure safety and a pleasant experience. There are many skydiving schools in Nevada with qualified, licensed teachers and gear -- and even planes -- for prospective students to rent.
However, as the popularity of skydiving waned over the years, some in the sport sought ways to make it more exciting. Enter swooping, a variation of skydiving in which divers jump from as low as 5,000 feet above the ground-half the distance of most sky dives-and deploy their parachutes immediately. Moreover, divers use smaller, more agile parachutes. The goal is to gain more speed while still controlling one's movements enough to execute tricks low enough to the ground that spectators can see them. Many of the "disciplines" of skydiving exhibited at the USPA National Skydiving Championships incorporate elements of swooping.
Were the skydivers who died and suffered serious personal injury at Perris Valley Skydiving Adventure in Southern California swooping or engaging in some variation of it? While news reports did not indicate the altitude at which they were released or the type of parachute they were using, they did indicate that in both cases two divers collided midair, according to a local lawyer. Last March, two divers died after colliding in the air, and then another two divers collided when their parachutes became entangled last April, killing one and injuring the other.
Despite the increasing popularity of the dangerous sport of swooping, the U.S. Parachute Association claims that the safety of skydiving continues to improve. In 2010, the USPA recorded 21 fatal skydiving accidents, a decrease from the 1970s when the sport averaged 42.5 fatalities a year. While the USPA attributes most accidents to human error and asserts that the risk of an accident can be minimized with proper preparation and good judgment, the two recent fatal and injury accidents in Perris have many throughout Southern California questioning the safety of the sport.
AFF (Accelerated Free Fall) is the quickest way to become a qualified skydiver. Skydiving instructors can teach students in a few short hours how to use their parachutes, what to expect when they fall, how to land safely and how to manage fear. The instructor is also harnessed to the student for the first skydive to ensure safety and a pleasant experience. There are many skydiving schools in Nevada with qualified, licensed teachers and gear -- and even planes -- for prospective students to rent.
However, as the popularity of skydiving waned over the years, some in the sport sought ways to make it more exciting. Enter swooping, a variation of skydiving in which divers jump from as low as 5,000 feet above the ground-half the distance of most sky dives-and deploy their parachutes immediately. Moreover, divers use smaller, more agile parachutes. The goal is to gain more speed while still controlling one's movements enough to execute tricks low enough to the ground that spectators can see them. Many of the "disciplines" of skydiving exhibited at the USPA National Skydiving Championships incorporate elements of swooping.
Were the skydivers who died and suffered serious personal injury at Perris Valley Skydiving Adventure in Southern California swooping or engaging in some variation of it? While news reports did not indicate the altitude at which they were released or the type of parachute they were using, they did indicate that in both cases two divers collided midair, according to a local lawyer. Last March, two divers died after colliding in the air, and then another two divers collided when their parachutes became entangled last April, killing one and injuring the other.
Despite the increasing popularity of the dangerous sport of swooping, the U.S. Parachute Association claims that the safety of skydiving continues to improve. In 2010, the USPA recorded 21 fatal skydiving accidents, a decrease from the 1970s when the sport averaged 42.5 fatalities a year. While the USPA attributes most accidents to human error and asserts that the risk of an accident can be minimized with proper preparation and good judgment, the two recent fatal and injury accidents in Perris have many throughout Southern California questioning the safety of the sport.
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