Expert: Norge Roi - 4/11/2008

Question
who invited skydiving? What is the history behind skydiving how is it played? what are important rules that changed? what are some really cool facts about skydiving? What are some important people in this sport? is it a Olympic sport? when did it become a Olympic sport? thank you so much!! this is for a project in gym!!

Answer
okay here goes,1 ,skydiving was invented after world war 2 after the troops were aught to parachute using a static line ,which is a line connected to the airplane that opens a parachute as you fall away from the airplane,we consider this a parachute jump ,Skydiving is a sport of falling and controling you body before the parachute is manually opened. you asked how it is played,we have a addiage for that ,football is played ,baseball is played ,skydiving is not played,it is a very serious sport and is extremely dangerous.3.one of  the rules that have changed during my 23 yrs. in the sport is that everyone has to have a barametricly controled automatic opening device installed in the parachute pack that will open the parachute for you if you become hurt or lose track of altitude,4 cool facts about the sport. it dosn't matter how old you are of if you are male or female.everyone competes equally,the adverage age is 38.the highest jump ever done was from 104.000 feet and lasted 17 minutes.5 some cool people are (google their names) Rook nelson<Roger Nelson,Jerry Bird.Lew Sanborn.Kate Cooper,B.J. Worth.6 it is not an olympic sport and we do not understand why because it is a very competetive sport and is well organized up to a national and world level.I myself am a licensed judge,some of the diciplines include formation diving which is how many different formations can a team do in one freefall,and accurcy ,hitting a target on the ground,,there ya go let me know how you did on your assignment