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.