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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...
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- Apr 13, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
Missed Opportunity
Reading through an interview that Anna Jacobson, the Communications Officer of IWGA | The World Games, did with her CEO, Joachim Gossow,...
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- Jan 22, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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- Dec 10, 2020
- 1 min
Lessons To Be Learned
On Monday 7 December 2020, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed four "additional" sports for the...
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- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
Breaking News
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that breaking will feature in the Games of the XXXIII...
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- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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- Oct 13, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Oct 6, 2020
- 1 min
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....
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- Oct 3, 2020
- 2 min
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,...
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- Aug 13, 2020
- 2 min
Business Reinvented
The COVID-19 crisis puts everybody to a test: above all the members of national governments and entrepreneurs in virtually every sector...
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- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
D-Day
7 August 2020! ZerOGravity Futuroscope opens its doors in Poitiers, France. That is one year and six months after the official...
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- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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- Jun 26, 2020
- 3 min
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...