Sky-diving is an adventurous sport which includes a paraglide and an airplane or small aircraft. It is a competitive as well as recreational sport where the driver flies up to a certain height above the ground in an air plane and then jumps off to practice landing with the parachute.

It has essentially three important parts namely the free falling then the descending down using a parachute and finally safe landing. Here are some more important facts about Skydiving.

• The diver has full control of the parachute during the descent so they can accordingly change the position of the Para-sail to control their landing. A skilled and talented glider can move horizontally up to a distance of 16 kmph in the parachute.

• Skydiving became a gaming sport since the end of World War II. The skydivers are instructed to open the parachutes at a height of 2,200 ft. from the ground. This is for the purpose of their safety.

• The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale was founded in 1905 which was a world organization involving aeronautic sports. In 1951, the organization proposed the world’s first championship for skydiving. Every year, the U.S Parachute Association sponsors a yearly championship on skydiving.

• In the early 21st century, the craze for skydiving somehow diminished and new interest turned to canopy piloting which is swooping. It is much more dangerous than normal skydiving. Swooping is a form of skydiving where the activity of the diver can be observed from the ground.

• While skydiving, the wind passes by the ears at a speed of more than 100 miles/hour. This sound is enough to make a diver deaf to all other surrounding sounds. Hence ears tend to pop during skydiving.

• Jonas is a record-holder for getting tattooed for the first time while free falling from a breath-taking height of 4,000 meters in Sweden. ‘œWFFT’ was the tattoo he made which read ‘œWorld’s First Freefall Tattoo.’

• Skydiving is noted to be much safer than driving a car. Every year, an average of 2 million skydiving take place around the world out of which only 35 are reported to be unsuccessful which is lesser than 1%.

• Michael Zang made a new record on May 20, 2001 which was of accomplishing 500 perfect jumps in a day. The time gap between two of his consecutive jumps was less than even three minutes.

• In 2006, 400 skydivers from about 31 countries across the world took just 80 seconds to form a flower pattern in the air which was 23,000 feet from the ground! This was the toughest of group activities ever attempted by skydivers.

• Toni Stadler, of four years holds the record of being the youngest skydiver from South Africa. He was strapped to the chest of Tandem Master Paul Lutge who leaped from 10,000 feet above the ground.

In competitive skydiving, the competitors are judged based on the skill and style of their free falling as well as accurate landing. They have a particular terminal point and the diver has to land within that particular range.