Skydiving – it’s like flying

The credit for inventing the first parachute was attributed to Sebastien Lenormand who demonstrated the parachute principle in 1783. Even if Lenormand was credited with the invention, the first who draw something like a parachute was Leonardo Da Vinci. After the model of Leonardo Da Vinci, Croatian Faust Vranic envisioned a device with what [...]

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Aggressive skating and in line skating

Rolls or aggressive skating is an extreme sport for many years idolized by young people, along with another one, skateboarding. Aggressive skating is a form of skating based on stunts, completely different from other forms of inline skating – recreational, speed, fitness.
It first appeared in skate parks built on half-pipes, spines and [...]

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Bungee-jumping adrenaline and calm?

Its origins are in the Pacific Ocean on an island that belongs to people of Vanuatu and is called Pentecost Island. There exists a tradition that is called shore diving which is the ancestor of today bungee-jumping . Pentecost Island’s youngsters do, and still do, this test of manhood, which marks the end of a [...]

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