Indoor Skydiving
FROM BODYFLYING TO INDOOR SKYDIVING
In 1964, the first human ventured to fly in the vertical airstream of a horizontally installed airplane propeller – the birth of Bodyflying.
Technically Bodyflying is the flight in an artificially generated, vertical airstream whose power is strong enough to hold a human body in the air. Bodyflying is the movement of the body relative to the airstream. By changing the body position a person learns to masters the wind power and depending on the body tension rises or drops in the airstream and incorporates the basics of flying.
In fact, Bodyflying is a new sensation and great fun for people of any age, gender and physical condition. Learning the basics of flying – rising and dropping, right and left turns – does not call for any special skills and generally is as easy as learning to cycle on a bike.
In its traditional form, Bodyflying is exercised in so called “Outdoor”-facilities. Outdoor facilities consist of an open net-protected fan, generating a vertical, open airstream. The net is surronded by protective cushions as persons may involuntarily drop or fly out of the airstream. In order to enhance the otherwise relatively low uplift flyers usually wear large suits in outdoor facilities.
Indoor facilities further qualify as professional training centers for skydivers. Freefall is authentically simulated in such facilities. In addition to belly flying, high quality indoor facilities allow for training of all available freefall positions from sitfly over stand-up to headdown flights.
Indoor Skydiving opens up a wholly new world of motion. Indoor Skydiving requires and encourages coordination, concentration, physical flexiblity and endurance.
Entertainment
The dream of flying is as old as mankind. Our vertical windtunnels can make this dream happen for everyone.
Learning to fly in a windtunnel is easily manageable within a short period of time without any prior experience or training. It is a truly riskless method to taste skydiving and experience the feeling of freefall.
Our closed vertical windtunnels generate a steady, turbulence free airstream making the first flying manouevres even for beginners dead easy. The glass flight chamber allows a secure “wall-to-wall” flying. Unlike in outdoor facilities, dropping out of the airstream is impossible. The bodyflyers’ feeling of wide open space remains thanks to our full glass construction. At the same time the audience gets its money’s worth. Our full glass flight chamber allows family, friends and visitors to experience people flying first hand.
Beginners may experience their first flight manouvres beyond a skydiving drop zone in our facilities without prior training, riskless and free of vertigo. „First Time Flyers“ will be introduced to the basic terms and positions of Indoor Skydiving by an experienced instructor and immediately take off…
Pro Flyer
Indoor facilities serve as training centers for skydivers, from beginner to professional competition training. However, over the past years Bodyflying and Indoor Skydiving evolved beyond skydiving into an independent high performance sport. Today, Indoor Skydiving competitions are carried out on national and international levels. Indoor Skydiving enjoys an ever faster growing popularity beyond skydiving.
To an increasing extent, indoor facilities serve as training centers for the skydiving units of national and international military forces.