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Who has never jumped to parachute, never felt the body through the clouds
and the wind involving the whole body, so do not know the taste of freedom!

As a child, who dreamed not fly into power?

It is for those who refuse to abandon their dreams!

Hands sweating, dry mouth, cold in the stomach, looking lost, and the one question that
not to deploy:

- What am I doing here?

Shortly after jumping from the airplane, the answer comes with all clarity, and comes another:

Why not done this before?

Anyone who experiences the adrenaline in your blood you never regret!
The parachuting is a sport practiced by about 5,000 Brazilians.
Many that are on the list of the best in the world!
Despite being one of the oldest sports that humanity knows, only now
has obtained the attention of the public and the media, but already shows its potential, and has become pra!
Some articles mention certain peculiar activities of jumps that would be
propellants of our current parachuting. In China, more than 2000 years, during
imperial feasts, the Chinese saltavam of towers and cliffs with a kind of
umbrellas, rain, to honor their sovereign.

Leonardo da Vinci designed a parachute that never came to be built, this project was
constructed and tested successfully in 2003 in the United States.
Andrew Jacques Garnerin, on 22 October 1797, held the first jump of parachute
from balloon to 600 meters high in the city of Paris and who is asking for ....??
Yes, he has succeeded, this date has been officially celebrated as the day the jumper.
In Brazil, the first jump was held in the city of Sao Paulo in 1890 by an American, Stanley Spencer.
The U.S. also Charles Astor, initiated the dissemination of the sport in the country, and going to parties.
During the Second World War, the parachuting was widely used by several nations to
infiltration of troops in areas of difficult access, including the Brazilian expeditionary force.
In the decades of 70 and 80, there was the development rectangular parachute, which since then, not for the
evolve, today we find canopies, as they are called, for all tastes and needs, in all
colors and sizes.

There was an incredible evolution in the sport that's sure to leave Leonardo da Vinci without words!
Today we count on security equipment, such as Cypres, a computerized equipment that
commands the opening of the reserve parachute, independent initiative of the jumper, if, by some
reason he lost consciousness, or have any problem with the main parachute.
Here also in line for security, sound devices that warn when he altitude of command
the main, helmets, carbon fiber, and there the outside.
But do not be alarmed, the parachuting is far from the sport more dangerous, statistics show
that before him, is the same cycling!
With current high technology equipment to provide full security practitioners. The Starter
jump with parachute system with automatic opening of the main canopy and also the reservation,
radios for communication guide the student through the soft landing on target in the tip of the foot.
The theoretical course has run for over six hours and four hours of practical training you are able to
first jump, it usually happens in the same end of week, starting Friday in the night and jump
occurring in the afternoon of Saturday.
Besides the equipment moderníssimos there is also a strong regulations that protect the sport,
authorisation to jump is authorized by military aviation bodies such as DAC, SERAC among others.
The Brazilian Confederation of PBC quedismo Stop-which monitors and allows jumps with stringent standards
applied to instructors and other practitioners. This set of technology with professionalism resulted in a
revolution in parachuting, that twenty years ago was done in a way completely different
what happens today.

The Vertical Speed parachuting is a school affiliated with CBP and their instructors are champions Brazil,
we are more than 17 years practising this wonderful sport. Come you too!