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Jun 24, 2022
1 min

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...