VIEWS ON SPORTS

Parachuting (skydiving) started its campaign to become an official medal sport at the Games of the Olympiad after it was fully recognized...

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...

Skydiving has been ahead of its time for decades. Long before skiers, skateboarders or surfers used video to transmit the essence of...

Reading through an interview that Anna Jacobson, the Communications Officer of IWGA | The World Games, did with her CEO, Joachim Gossow,...

While continuing work on Part III of SKYDIVING COMPETITION OVER TIME – due for release in the course of next week – I take advantage of...

Roland Hilfiker attended his first meeting of the FAI Skydiving Commission (which was the Commission Internationale de Parachutisme de la...

SKYDIVING COMPETITION OVER TIME I | Roland Hilfiker looks at what used to be his sport of choice after a longish hiatus – and with...

On Monday 7 December 2020, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed four "additional" sports for the...

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed that breaking will feature in the Games of the XXXIII...

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...

I have published the second issue of THE VISION Newsletter and circulated it to the mailing lists. After all the positive feedback that...

Prior to starting Support Air International S.L. in 1995, I was running a skydiving center in northeastern Spain, on the Costa Brava....

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,...

The COVID-19 crisis puts everybody to a test: above all the members of national governments and entrepreneurs in virtually every sector...

7 August 2020! ZerOGravity Futuroscope opens its doors in Poitiers, France. That is one year and six months after the official...

The first issue of THE VISION Newsletter is being sent out to 500 prospective readers since 31 July. It takes up from where Indoor...

Juli Sargatal started skydiving in Empuriabrava in the early 90s. After completing his academic career as a telecommunications engineer...

SARS-CoV-2 continues to wreak havoc on two ventures that Aldo Comas pursues professionally. Even after the the total lockdown has ended,...

An article published on indoorskydivingsource.com at the end of April made a valiant attempt to outline the future of indoor skydiving in...

After a 13-week lockdown with some of the strictest quarantine conditions in all of Europe, Spain has opened its provincial, regional and...