Skydiving is a technique of jumping with parachutes, which can be done from an airplane, helicopter or hot air balloon, for recreational purposes, sports or transportation (personnel military or fire ). The parachute is usually done in plain site, skydiving is not limited to anyone, because anyone with the knowledge and control can practice it, except people with heart disease. The parachute is launched from a plane, so that the person can fly with your own body. The equipment needed for skydiving are: gloves, helmet, goggles, double parachute, parachute, altimeter and a thermal suit. This extreme sport is practiced to overcome fear of heights, to give stressed or new experiences.
During the free fall before opening the parachute, the parachute “fly” on a relative basis, but always keeps falling, that divides the activity into two completely different sports: freefall and parachute flight. It is a unconventional sport and some methods are practiced in competition. It consists of free air jumps using the parachute from a height (1700 meters of altitude about 850 meters minimum). Can be done from an airplane , helicopter or balloon .
Because it is a high- risk, paratroopers must take various security measures. To jump start to do a course and a safety test. Normally there are instructors who are responsible for monitoring the activity and give the details of it, to make it safe and recreational. Another activity that may be considered high risk is betting in sport. Althought not as risky as skydiving it is stil a risk because of the high posability of loosing more money then winnig and because of that care should be taken when betting. When you decide to make a bet, it’s because you have a strong feeling that the team you bet on is going to emerge the winner. That’s why you would have all that courage to risk your money since you strong believe that you win certainly win.
Each skydiver carries two parachutes, one main and one reserve. It is further recommended the use of helmets, goggles, altimeter and automatic opening system emergency. After opening the parachute, the practitioner can control the direction and speed of drivers. But before doing so must follow safety plans given by the instructor on land where they otherwise would be fatal to the security of each practitioner.
The skydiving team is usually composed of a container, a harness, a main parachute, reserve parachute, an automatic trigger (optional), altimeter, helmet and panties (optional). Container is a bag where the parachutes are packed main or emergency reserve, which is attached to the harness, this is a special harness that has no seam, ie a continuous harness, which is sectioned into parts, and goes from one leg to the other through the back, which if broken could sewing when opening the parachute. The automatic trigger is an electronic device that activates the reserve parachute at a certain height if the speed is over the set as a reference in the instrument, this may happen for example if the parachutist in the air to pass out for some reason.
