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Support Air International
Jun 24, 20221 min read
30 Years of High Ambitions
Parachuting (skydiving) started its campaign to become an official medal sport at the Games of the Olympiad after it was fully recognized...
Support Air International
Apr 13, 20211 min read
32 Years On
With the help of friends I came across a rather unique piece of skydiving history. I knew it existed. Now I’ve watched it too. It is a...
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Feb 17, 20212 min read
Ahead Of Its Time
Skydiving has been ahead of its time for decades. Long before skiers, skateboarders or surfers used video to transmit the essence of...
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Jan 26, 20212 min read
Missed Opportunity
Reading through an interview that Anna Jacobson, the Communications Officer of IWGA | The World Games, did with her CEO, Joachim Gossow,...
Support Air International
Jan 22, 20212 min read
Citius · Altius (?)
While continuing work on Part III of SKYDIVING COMPETITION OVER TIME – due for release in the course of next week – I take advantage of...
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Jan 20, 20215 min read
SKYDIVING COMPETITION II
Roland Hilfiker attended his first meeting of the FAI Skydiving Commission (which was the Commission Internationale de Parachutisme de la...
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Jan 18, 20213 min read
SKYDIVING COMPETITION I
SKYDIVING COMPETITION OVER TIME I | Roland Hilfiker looks at what used to be his sport of choice after a longish hiatus – and with...
Support Air International
Dec 10, 20201 min read
Lessons To Be Learned
On Monday 7 December 2020, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed four "additional" sports for the...
Support Air International
Dec 8, 20202 min read
Breaking News
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that breaking will feature in the Games of the XXXIII...
Support Air International
Oct 19, 20202 min read
Going Digital
A small number of sports do have a way-out of the vicious circle that they are caught in because of SARS-CoV-2. Gathering in one place...
Support Air International
Oct 13, 20201 min read
Issue #02 2020
I have published the second issue of THE VISION Newsletter and circulated it to the mailing lists. After all the positive feedback that...
Support Air International
Oct 6, 20201 min read
On A Day Like Today
Prior to starting Support Air International S.L. in 1995, I was running a skydiving center in northeastern Spain, on the Costa Brava....
Support Air International
Oct 3, 20202 min read
dESPite all odds
I live in Spain and experience first-hand the fallout produced by government action taken against the spread of SARS-CoV-2. On 1 October,...
Support Air International
Aug 13, 20202 min read
Business Reinvented
The COVID-19 crisis puts everybody to a test: above all the members of national governments and entrepreneurs in virtually every sector...
Support Air International
Aug 7, 20202 min read
D-Day
7 August 2020! ZerOGravity Futuroscope opens its doors in Poitiers, France. That is one year and six months after the official...
Support Air International
Aug 1, 20201 min read
THE VISION Is Out
The first issue of THE VISION Newsletter is being sent out to 500 prospective readers since 31 July. It takes up from where Indoor...
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Jul 30, 20201 min read
Three Winters
Juli Sargatal started skydiving in Empuriabrava in the early 90s. After completing his academic career as a telecommunications engineer...
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Jul 23, 20201 min read
Matter Of The Heart
SARS-CoV-2 continues to wreak havoc on two ventures that Aldo Comas pursues professionally. Even after the the total lockdown has ended,...
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Jul 21, 20201 min read
Still Pending
An article published on indoorskydivingsource.com at the end of April made a valiant attempt to outline the future of indoor skydiving in...
Support Air International
Jun 26, 20203 min read
Crazy To See Each Other Again
After a 13-week lockdown with some of the strictest quarantine conditions in all of Europe, Spain has opened its provincial, regional and...
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