Around the world: Indoor skydiving

Indoor skydiving used to just be a simulated experience in lieu of the real thing, but today athletes are using the wind power to dance mid-air.

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00:00The subject of flying is the eternal human dream.

00:07In the wind tunnel you can recreate it at any time and whenever you want.

00:30In the wind tunnel you can recreate it at any time and whenever you want.

00:47The physical sensation is at the beginning of pressure in the body,

00:51as if something is against you.

00:53But as soon as you adapt to the fluid, you are one.

00:57Then it's like dancing.

00:59At first you fall, you trip, but then it's like the melody.

01:06Harmony.

01:07In the mandatory rounds, for example, in the elements that you have to execute,

01:30you have to keep the axis of the body in a marked line,

01:34following the judges and always in the time stipulated.

01:43In the free round, for example, difficulty, creativity and execution come in.

01:51The background to practice this sport is like in any discipline.

01:57The more sports or the more notion of your body you have,

02:01the more tools you will have in the tunnel.

02:04Then you see it with other flyers, who come from the trampoline jump,

02:08from the sports gym, and of course, they have some movements

02:11that are difficult to achieve if you have not had that previous training.

02:23The goal of the sports candidate to participate in the Olympic Games

02:27is due to the similarities it has with artistic skating, with sports gym.

02:33So, having those similarities, it can be an Olympic sport,

02:38a young sport, with people pushing every day,

02:42raising the level and getting more and more practiced at the world level.

02:50What is the limit of this sport?

02:52Well, in my opinion, as in the rest of life, the limit is you.