Wingsuit flying in Spain ! (Pierre)

Source (vidéo) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L8UCfxmtSw&noredirect=1

Dear readers, this week we got to be interested in jumping in the airs

The wingsuit flying

The wingsuit flying is an extrem sport first practiced in 1930 in California.

The principle ? Increasing in a significant way the lift of the sportsman thanks to a special suit, the wingsuit. This wingsuit makes the link between firstly, the arms and the body and secondly, the two legs.

So the "birdman" jumps away from a base and uses his arms and legs to control his trajectory. His aim is to keep himself in the airs and to plane as long as possible.

Then, at the critical alitude, he ends his performance with the parachute deployment.

This sport can be practiced everywhere, as long as you are high enough. So there are crazy men trying to find some new places to enjoy this perfect moment, this humanity dream : flying.

These places are all different, coming from snowy mountains to skyscrapers or even planes or helicopters, it offers an amazing view before the "big jump" and offers us a great diversity of jumps. 

A wonderful place to practice wingsuit flying : Spain

This video shows us how a base jump athlet named Alexander Polli.

He tries to succeed a risky jump : jumping from an helicopter and then flying through an opening in the Roca Foradada Mountains (down there) just outside Barcelona.So, he finds in the nature a way to impress people, indeed the opening is really tiny and the risk to crash himself on the rock wall is quite high. But the environment is amazing and I think he wanted to test himself in a first place

Some other places in Spain are popular to practice wingsuit flying like Seville and Empuriabrava, known for good flying conditions and stable weather.