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There are a lot of publications pertaining to fashion, cooking and parenthood. Did you also know that for certain sport like skydiving there is also one that you can subscribe to? Indeed there are skydiving magazines around. Chances are you didn’t really attention to it when you were looking at the newsstand but it’s stacked [...]

Skydiving into a hot zone is sometimes the only way to access a remote area and fight a fire. It’s a dangerous job but someone has to do it before the fire spreads any further. The people who do this are called smokejumpers. Equipped with a parachute and firefighting gear, they go in and try [...]

Since the 1940’s, the army has used skydiving to infiltrate behind enemy lines and conduct various missions. This is what differentiates what soldiers and skydivers do because as a soldier, their objective is to accomplish a mission and not have fun. There are various ways how this is executed by the army. The first is [...]

You might think that it is no big deal to board a plane and then leap from it once you reach a certain altitude but you are mistaken. If your equipment is not inspected, something could go wrong and you could end up falling to your death. This is why everyone must know what the [...]

Skydiving is a pleasurable sport once you have overcome your initial fears of it. If you are planning your first jump, you have three varieties to choose from: tandem skydiving, static line and accelerated free fall. Tandem skydiving is most popular for beginners. Tandem skydiving refers to a type of skydiving where a beginner or [...]

Jumping from a plane meters above from land is not a safe sport as everybody may feel. Skydiving poses that same feeling to anyone. Actually, skydiving safety has increased over the years. Most skydiving incidents and fatalities are attributed not to faulty equipment but failure to follow necessary precautions before jumping, like incorrect folding of [...]

In recent years, skydiving has become an immensely popular sport for daredevils and trend-followers alike. Some may want to try it at least once in their lives just to say they did; others may thoroughly enjoy their first time and decide to make it a regular activity. Of course, like any death-defying activity, facts must [...]

There are quite a few myths that are associated with skydiving, so we’ll take a look at a few of them and see what the truth is about them. This way you don’t have to worry about what is true and what is really a myth. 1. You can’t breathe while skydiving This is one [...]

Skydiving is one of the most exciting extreme sports around, but many people shy away from trying it whether it is because of money or because of fear of injury. However, there is no concrete basis to many of these misconceptions. Whatever the reason, this article’s goal is to demystify this wonderful sport, so that [...]

Most people think that skydiving is a recent sport, that it was developed in the twentieth century. But skydiving began soaring since China started using parachutes in 1100s. Worldwide skydivers say that the person who invented skydiving was the French inventor Andre-Jacques Garnerin. In 1797, Garnerin jumped form a balloon in Paris using a parachute. [...]