Indoor Skydiving Vision

19/07/2022

30 years ago today, three days of parachuting exhibitions by Brittany Ferries, Equipe de France Militaire de Parachutisme, US Army Golden Knights, Red Devils Army Parachute Display Team and Skydive Empuriabrava concluded with a final display at the football field of the Ajuntament de Castelló d'Empúries. A single record of "Parachuting '92" was preserved in the form of a VHS tape ...
https://youtu.be/pCDi8d0cXfA
FAI - World Air Sports Federation International Skydiving Commission

Parachuting Exhibition in Support of the XXV Games of the Olympiad Barcelona 1992Castelló d'Empúries - EmpuriabravaWith Brittany Ferries (GBR), Équipe de Fra...

03/07/2022

First post on my blog that I try to keep active during The World Games 2022 Birmingham.

23/06/2022

In a nutshell … 30 years condensed into less than one minute. By Bruno Brokken (camera, edit) and Steve Poloni (music).

Original footage of the demo jump during the arrival of the Olympic flame at Empuries plus images of a commemorative jump 30 years later (June 2022)

21/06/2022

Bruno Brokken remembers the skydiving exhibition that took place during the ceremony celebrating the arrival of the Olympic flame for the Games in Barcelona 1992 at the Greco-Roman ruins of Empúries. Near L'Escala at the bay of Roses on the Costa Brava! Together with four others of the Skydive Empuriabrava he jumps again at the same location. 30 years later!

Ajuntament de l'Escala Ajuntament de Castello D'Empuries

20/06/2022

Roland Hilfiker - in representation of Bruno Brokken and four other skydivers on the staff of Skydive Empuriabrava - had the pleasure to take part in a roundtable discussion about the impact the Barcelona 1992 Olympic flame ceremonies have had on the Games, L'Escala, Catalonia and Spain. A parachuting exhibition was at the core of them as well as of the commemorative acts scheduled on 15 and 17 June 2022. I talked about both: 30 years in one minute. https://www.calameo.com/read/00580110575e998b72f57

Ajuntament de l'Escala

07/04/2022

In the reply to Ricardo Pettená's question I brought up my most recent experiences in Olympic campaigning for a candidate sport. From 2006 to 2018 I worked on behalf of WDSF DanceSport in the shaping of the product that would best suit the current Zeitgeist of the Games of the Olympiad. In the end it was WDSF Breaking for Gold that made its inaugural appearance in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, ARG, and that will repeat in the Games of Paris 2024.

Being part of the entire process afforded me some insights that I believe should be considered by those who continue to aspire for (indoor) skydiving to feature under an Olympic brand anytime soon.

I told Ricardo that (indoor) skydiving's chances for LA 2028 are nil and very close to nil for Brisbane 2032. And that to be truly eligible in the future beyond, the FAI - World Air Sports Federation and its International Skydiving Commission would need to redefine some of its disciplines so that they would fit in well with the most recent concepts launched by the IOC under the latter's Olympic Agenda 2020+5 program.

https://olympics.com/ioc/news/international-olympic-committee-launches-new-four-sport-olympic-qualifier-series-for-paris-2024?fbclid=IwAR2pIQUFf_0x-1NiFwe9mFDjIBWizHZU4zR-vIVupNC5ts8SGRZMTNhhJA0

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is launching a new four-sport Olympic qualifier series for Paris 2024. This is an Olympic Agenda 2020+5 project, which was presented today to the IOC Executive Board. The new IOC-led Olympic qualifier series will include four sports – BMX freestyle, br...

06/04/2022

We have been silent for more than a year. In part, this silence was a consequence of what happened with the COVID pandemic wreaking havoc on virtually everything around us, skydiving included.

A recent Messenger exchange with my friend Ricardo Pettená reminded me that things are somewhat closer to getting back to normal (if it were not for what is currently happening in the Ukraine).

Ricardo asked: "I've read some news about wind tunnel flying possibly being admitted at next Olympic Games? I guess you are involved. What are the chances of it really happening?"

I have not been involved in the Olympic campaigning by the International Skydiving Commission of the FAI - World Air Sports Federation since an official bid for skydiving in the 2008 Beijing Games was submitted. I know there were great efforts made by the FFP - Fédération Française de Parachutisme and the FAI for indoor skydiving the to be included in the 2024 Paris Games. But they did not succeed.

I have my own visions of what it would take to bring this spectacular air sport closer to the Olympics and I figured I best share them right here. The first part will be my answer to Ricardo.

Maverick Freefly by Ewan Cowie

23/03/2021

Russia declares the “Sky Open to All” with a HANDI FLY initiative...

17/02/2021

Here are two short write-ups on the first ever virtual contest in artistic skydiving: Sky OnStage
https://www.indoorskydiving.vision/post/ahead-of-its-time
https://www.indoorskydiving.vision/sky-on-stage-1

Alain Dony Skydive Empuriabrava SD Empuriabrava Sport Flyers

10/02/2021

Here is the third part to our series.

As the FAI Skydiving Commission approached the turn of the decade from the 80s to the 90s, the young air sport it governed since the 50s had started to change. Roland Hilfiker writes about these changes in the third instalment of SKYDIVING COMPETITION OVER TIME. Relative Work and Canopy Relative Wor...

04/02/2021

The 24 entries in the Sky OnStage THROWBACK and the 3 in the INDOOR Contest are currently being assessed by a truly unique group of people. On the one hand, there are the experts - all former top athletes and some FAI-rated judges - and on the other, there are artists like Giulia Paris, a prima ballerina.

https://www.indoorskydiving.vision/post/assessment-in-progress