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Editor’s Note Editor-in-Chief Deputy Editor Contributors

Redia Castillo Rose Yap HH Shaikh Nasser Media Office HH Shaikh Khalid Media Office Bahrain Olympic Committee

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Gravity has gone from strength to strength.

Only three years young and now holding the WCIS2018, is an amazing achievement. Not only have they won the WCIS2018 but we have homegrown Bahraini team of fantastic athletes competing at the highest level of indoor skydiving in this event.

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Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Khalifa’s leadership and vision to drive the indoor skydiving forward by organising international events since its opening has culminated in surely one of the most amazing event happening in Bahrain this month. I urge the readers to follow the competition online to see the great winners in each category. Powerup team will be there following the action.

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It has been an amazing couple of months in Bahrain for sports as a whole. Many amazing sporting projects and events are happening on the island. Notably with Gravity Indoor Skydiving winning the bid for the 3rd FIA World Cup Indoor Skydiving 2018 which is going to be held from 25th to 28th of this month.

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CONTENTS

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14 Welcome Message

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WCIS2018

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Event Schedule

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Burn 500 Calories In 30 Minutes

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Foods That Protect You From Breast Cancer And Other Causes

Location Map

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Interview With Gary Sweeney

Building Strength and Flexibility Mobility is the Answer

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Functional Training

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What is Indoor Skydiving?

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Barbeque Salad

Indoor Skydiving - The Olympic Dream

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5 Tips To Ace Competition Day

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Reasons To Try Indoor Skydiving

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Altitude Training

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The World’s Tallest Wind Tunnel

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Meet The Gravity Team

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The Road To WCIS2018

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Participating Teams WCIS2018

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Flying Versus Personality

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Around Bahrain

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MESSAGE

WELC OME TO THE WCIS2018 Dear Readers, On behalf of Gravity Indoor Skydiving’s team, we take this opportunity to welcome you all to the Kingdom of Bahrain and Gravity Indoor Skydiving facility. We are pleased to share with you the culmination and joyful moments of the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving 2018 (WCIS2018).

WCIS2018 is the world’s biggest Indoor Skydiving event so far, with 240 competitors from 25 countries in seven different disciplines!

We take honour in being a part of the movement which aims to elevate the sport of Indoor Skydiving. We have witnessed the growth of the sport locally over the past 3 years of Gravity’s establishment and has seen more participation with each and every competition. A truly unique sport we harbour; one which gathers spectacular displays of flying skills across all ages!

The strong engagement we are witnessing to this unique sport, and the development of athlete’s performance in this field, is the reason why we have all gathered here Bahrain.

This event speaks for the commitment that all of us in this industry hold for this sport. We are certain that we will witness amazing performances of the highest calibre over the course of this competition.

Certainly, each one of the competitors will put his/her utmost skills and efforts to give the best performance among their competitors. We encourage all athletes to also make the most of this wonderful opportunity to showcase your best athletic talent and spirit of sportsmanship and camaraderie. We hope that you take some time out of your busy schedule to discover our beautiful island.

This event is made possible with the support and participation of all our sponsors, team members, supporters, volunteers and everyone who is attending the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving 2018.

Good luck to all the teams!

Management Team Gravity Indoor Skydiving

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INDOOR SKYDIVING INFO

1st FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving 16th November 2014 iFLY Austin, Texas, USA

THE WCIS 2018 The 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving (WCIS2018) will be held at Gravity, Bahrain, from 25-28 October 2018.

It promises to be the biggest and best World Cup ever!

Here’s some facts you need to know.

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he Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) - The World Air Sports Federation, was founded in 1905. Skydivers from all over the world have been waiting for this moment of recognition where the indoor skydiving collides with skydiving and the indoor sports competition becomes real.

Indoor skydiving is an air sports discipline that has its roots in skydiving – but rather than jump out of a plane, athletes compete indoors inside a glass-walled, vertical windtunnel. Competitors balance on a jet of fast-moving air, and compete for either solo, with a partner, or as a team of four. Competition categories include Formation Skydiving;

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Vertical Formation Skydiving; Freestyle or Freefly; and Dynamic. There are open, female and junior categories.

The FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship is the highest level of competition in the sport. Winning an FAI gold medal is considered the most prestigious medal a competitor can win.

In November 2014, history was made in the air sports.

For the first time ever Indoor Skydiving was recognized as a sport by the FAI and a World Cup was held at iFLY Austin in Texas, USA. In 2017, four wind tunnels put forth bids to host the 3rd World Cup of Indoor Skydiving - VossVind in Norway, Hurricane Factory Tatralandia

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in Slovakia, Gravity Indoor Skydiving in Bahrain, and iFLY Downunder in Australia. After deliberations, the FAI committee voted and Gravity Bahrain took the majority vote, with 21 of the 66 ballots.

WHAT IS WCIS2018?

WCIS – the World Cup of Indoor Skydiving – is an indoor skydiving competition held every two years, under the umbrella of the FAI, the World Airsports Federation and IPC, the International Parachuting Commission. Winners of the 3rd FAI World Cup 2018 will become official World Champions in indoor skydiving, which became recognized

by IPC relatively recently.

Competitors are also eligible to win a share of $200,000

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2nd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving 23 October 2016 SkyVenture Montréal, Canada

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of prize money, the first time skydiving athletes have been accredited in this manner in an IPC First Category event.

It’s a big step forward for the sport!

WHAT DISCIPLINES ARE INCLUDED? WCIS2018 will include the following events: 4-way FS – Open, Female and Junior 4-way VFS – Open 2-way Dynamic – Open Freestyle – Open andJunior

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EVENT DETAILS

C OMPETITION SCHEDULE The World Cup of Indoor Skydiving is here! Make sure to note down the schedule of events to watch or participate in any activities lined up. Athletes should check the updates for any changes in the schedule.

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12 - 25 October 2018

Registered Training Period

22 October 2018

Arrival of Chief Judges

Throughout the Day

23 October 2018

Arrival of Event Judges

Throughout the Day

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Arrival of Judges Arrival of Officials/Delegations Arrival of Teams On Site Registration Team Photos

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All Day All Day - Inside Gravity Building

Ends at 08:30 Ends at 15:00 Begins at 09:00 – 15:00 Begins at 17:00 at Gravity Village* After Opening Ceremony Competition Draws After Opening Ceremony Judges Conference Competitors & Team Leaders After Opening Ceremony Meetings Ends at 15h Team Photos Competition Day 1

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Competition Day 2

08:00 - 18:30

EVENT JUDGES Formation Skydiving Rina Gallo Jim Rees Artistic Events Bich Ha David Petracco

JUDGES Formation Skydiving Karla Cole Judy Celaya

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Competition Day 3

09:00 - 17:00

Closing Ceremony and Awards

19:30

Departure of Delegations

Rogier Carper Heitzinger Gisela Jurate Janusauskiene Bernard Nicolas Zeljko Tanaskovic Peta Holmes Doris Merz-Hunziker

Gala Dinner and Party 29 October 2018 (Monday)

EVENT CHIEF JUDGES Formation Skydiving

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Registered Training Period On Site Registration Official Speed Setting Flights Opening Ceremony

26 October 2018 (Friday)

28 October 2018 (Sunday)

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Artistic Events Mary Traub Joel Strickland

Recreational Activities

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INTERVIEW

A JOURNEY TO INDOOR SKYDIVING GARY SWEENEY Senior Manager/Senior Instructor at Gravity Indoor Skydiving, Bahrain

Indoor skydiving is something new in Bahrain. How was the first year of the operations?

Yes, it is indeed difficult when you bring a new kind of sport to a country that doesn’t even have skydiving anyway and this is their first experience of any kind of skydiving whether indoor or outdoor. So to bring it to a country where people are not aware of the sport, we have to work hard educating people, getting them interested to have a look and give it a try. From the beginning until now, we are constantly promoting the sports and encouraging people to take part.

How long have you been practising the sport and what is it like to be an instructor now?

I have been in indoor skydiving for over 10 years and about 20 years in outdoor skydiving.

So I gradually combined the two. I was in skydiving first and then when flying inside tunnels started to become popular it leads me to fly in the tunnels as well. When you start using both; indoor and outdoor skydiving it just complements each other and the experience improves your skills in flying.

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Gary Sweeney, the operations manager is one of the pioneers in Gravity. He arrived in Bahrain in May of 2015 with the surrounding area of Gravity still covered in white sand. Three years in Gravity and he is now part of the team who will be welcoming the world’s best indoor skydiving athletes to Bahrain. He shares with us his insights about the sport and what it takes to organise a World Cup. What is the difference between the indoor and the outdoor skydiving and what is unique about the flying in a tunnel?

Indoor skydiving is much more accessible to everyone than the flying outdoor. Also, flying inside the tunnel reduces the fear of falling on air or any deadly accidents for first timers.

When it comes to accessibility for instance, when skydiving outdoor, you need to be at least 16 to 18 years old to be able to jump out from the airplane.

In indoor skydiving, you can fly people from as young as 4 years old right up to someone at the age of 100. Everyone can get to experience exactly what is like jumping out in the airplane before they even have to do the actual jump or until there are old enough to do so.

One could learn everything in the tunnel as it is almost identical to jumping out of the sky.

Basically, what you can do in the tunnel, you can do also in the sky and vice versa. The only difference is jumping out of the plane and falling towards the earth. In the tunnel, you can just step in and out of the tunnel whenever you want. When you

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jump out in the airplane, you can get back into the airplane.

Flying in tunnel is more accessible, and a provides a safer environment which gives everyone the opportunity to experience the sport. I advise that before they want to maybe jump out of the plane, try flying in the tunnel first. It’s the best step in learning how to fly.

What is the difference of the Gravity tunnel among the rest of the skydiving tunnels that you have visited so far? What is unique about this tunnel in Bahrain?

When I first saw the building plan, I was taken aback at the size of the actual facility. If you go to the other wind tunnels in the world, it doesn’t have the same size as the one in Bahrain.

Gravity’s facilities is quite big while others have small facilities. Others only have a tunnel, a changing area, and a reception desk with very minimal sections. After being built, and when I saw the actual building, I would say it is quite impressive.

You can fit most of the tunnels inside this building. This is how big it is. Most tunnels don’t

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have the luxury of having a huge facility. So it’s really good to have ample amount of space and it’s great for the competitions, especially if we are going to have a lot of people inside.

You can keep everybody in the building, other tunnels for competitions just have enough space.

Gravity could accommodate over 300 people at any given time in the building not just the competitors but the general public as well. We have a big area on the second floor with plenty of space for people to come and watch the competition.

With only three years of operations, Gravity won the bid for WCIS2018. In terms of operation, what are the preparations you have made?

When we aim to host a competition and win a bid, we really need to transform the tunnel into something totally different. There are two types of tunnels, one is for business and the other one is for hosting competitions. The tunnel has to be competition ready which means having a

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complete overhaul. There are a lot of things and mechanical aspects that has to be upgraded. An example would be that the whole IT software and configurations has to literally be upgraded.

In terms of the tunnel itself, what kind of maintenance and preparations has been done to ensure that everything runs flawlessly?

The tunnel just recently had a major service. The Aerodium service team came to Bahrain and had a whole tunnel service, it is like bringing your car to a garage. So the whole facility has got to be inspected from top to bottom such as fine tuning, and making sure the tunnel run smoother and faster. When there’s a big number of teams competing, the tunnel has to be on its top form. There’s been upgrade on the tunnel for slight improvements to ensure its reliability to run non-stop for the competition.

How about the organising team’s preparation to host the competition?

The team has organised quite big competitions already which are Flight Fighters and the Arab Cup in GCC championships. So the team already had a tester.

Because when you bid for a World Cup, you have to prove before hosting the World Cup that you can run an international level competition. We’ve done two already, so technically the team have had great experience and knowhow on what it takes to host a competition. So it’s kind of already done really.

It is now just doing the same but this time, in a much bigger scale.

During the competition, what is the instructor’s roles?

For the instructors, it is business as usual, whether they are servicing a first time flying customers or professional flyers, it is the same kind of role. But it’s all about time keeping because

“Indoor skydiving is more accessible, and provides a safer environment which gives everyone the opportunity to experience the sport.” we will have so many people flying non-stop and back-toback during the competition.

So we have to be very cautious and strict when it comes to timing. The instructor’s task is to make sure that the people who are flying are actually in the building; that they are upstairs, geared off, and ready to get in

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the tunnel. We to make sure the tunnel runs on time.

So what can you say about the readiness of the Gravity team when it comes to hosting the actual competition?

Yes, we’re ready. The team has been working non-stop since winning the bid and has already done great work. We are still tweaking things here and there, getting the building ready on the outside and the inside. We probably would still be doing it right up to the last minute because there’s never really enough time as you always need more time for such big events. When the day comes, we got to keep going whether we’re ready or not.

But we are pretty much ready.

No one’s panicking. Everyone have their specific roles and are good at what they do. We are looking forward to welcoming the athletes and visitors this month and we hope everyone gets to enjoy the event.

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INDOOR SKYDIVING INFO

WHAT IS INDOOR SKYDIVING? Indoor skydiving has grown massively in popularity in recent years. What was once a training tool just for skydivers has become an exciting day out for anyone over the age of 2.

So what exactly is it, and why is it so popular?

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ndoor skydiving happens in a vertical wind tunnel, also known as a ‘skydiving simulator’, which simulates the experience of freefall. It’s the perfect way to find out what skydiving feels like without jumping from an airplane!

Indoor Skydiving is the simulation of true freefall conditions in a Vertical Wind Tunnel. It’s where the dream of pure human flight becomes a reality in a 100% safe environment. The number of Wind Tunnels around the world is 199 and it’s growing every day Indoor skydiving has grown massively in popularity in recent years. What was once a training tool just for skydivers has become an exciting day out for anyone over the age of 2. So what exactly is it, and why is it so popular?

Indoor Skydiving is where the dream of pure human flight becomes a reality in a 100% safe environment.

HOW DOES INDOOR SKYDIVING WORK? Indoor skydiving, or wind tunnel skydiving, is done inside a big vertical cylinder known as a wind tunnel.

Wind tunnels come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from 12 feet in diameter up to 17 feet. The bigger the wind tunnel, the more people can fit inside it.

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Skydiving wind tunnels work by either pushing air up from below or sucking it up from above using large fans. No matter which type of wind tunnel you fly in, the experience is the same - wind rushing up at you, holding you as you learn to fly your body through the air!

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INDOOR SKYDIVING INFO

WHO CAN GO INDOOR SKYDIVING? Most indoor skydiving facilities will welcome anyone over the age of 2 years who is physically fit to fly.

You’ll start with a first-timer flight, where an experienced instructor will hold on to you and keep you stable. After a few minutes of flying, you’ll be able to try things like turning and moving around by yourself.

THE SPORT OF INDOOR SKYDIVING The invention of modern wind tunnels has given skydivers a consistent and practical way to develop and hone skills that usually require jumping from a plane. Additionally, the increase in availability of wind tunnels has created a whole new genre of sport – bodyflight. It is one of the most exciting and fastest growing sports in the world.

HOW DOES INDOOR SKYDIVING COMPARE TO OUTDOOR SKYDIVING? Indoor skydiving is a ‘skydiving simulator’. That means it gives you an experience as close as possible to the real thing.

In many ways, indoor skydiving is a lot like outdoor skydiving. Your body responds to the air in the same way as it does when you jump from an airplane, where you can use your arms and legs to turn and move around like you’re really flying!

It’s used by skydivers to train. There are loads of professional skydivers,

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and also hobby skydivers, who use the wind tunnel to hone their skills. There are skydiving competitions held around the world and skydiving teams go to indoor skydiving centers to practice and improve.

There are many ways that indoor and outdoor skydiving differ, too. That magical experience of flying a parachute around and taking in the amazing views? That’s not available with indoor skydiving. Then there’s that moment when you jump from the airplane - there’s really nothing like it! You simply can’t simulate that feeling indoors.

Indoor skydiving is great fun, but no substitute for the real thing. If you fancy taking the leap for real, check out our flight packages, we’d love to show you what skydiving is like for real!

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INDOOR SKYDIVING AND THE OLYMPIC DRE AM The exhilarating sport of indoor skydiving is rapidly growing in popularity around the world.

It is one of the fastest growing sports that has local, national and international championships, and efforts are being undertaken by the French Parachute Federation (FFP) in a quest to make the art of human flight and tunnel flying a part of the Olympic Games.

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Indoor Skydiving, or “Body Flight� to enthusiasts, is intense, difficult, thrilling and weird. It takes arduous training to learn how to manoeuvre your body on air.

The question is... is indoor skydiving a sport? Could it be a part of the Olympic Games?

Vertical wind tunnel was created as a tool for learning to control the body flight, making it possible to fly in the air, simulating free fall through created airflow (on average, about 190 km/h).

Indoor Skydiving is like any physical skill and very much a sport. The FAI governing the sport is recognised as the International Federa-

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tion for Air Sports. In short, Indoor Skydiving is a recognised Air Sports discipline within the FAI. It is also a form of art combined with technical elements where flyers go from upside-down spins to suddenly dropping downwards and then rocketing back up the tunnel again. People have turned it into a competitive sport in the past years.

With the sport of body flight gaining more popularity and with more wind tunnels being built around the world every year, there has been a call to include indoor skydiving as part of the Olympic Games.

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Chasing The Dream Every indoor skydiving athletes and enthusiasts share

the dream of flying and bringing n the sports they love in the Olympic Games. Early 2018, and there are some great advocates already sharing the message. This dream might soon become a reality.

The French Parachute Federation (FFP) announced at the International Parachute Commission (IPC) plenary meeting in January 2018, their attempt to get Indoor Skydiving included in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games or in 2028 Games in Los Angeles. The proposal was supported by the IPC and the Federation

Aeronautique Internationale (FAI). The FFP bases its bid on the fact that there are two wind tunnels in the Paris area; Argenteuil, Paris la Villette and (plus other projects such as Disneyland Marne la VallÊe) plus other relatively close tunnels such as Lille. Another important point they put into consideration is the keen interest in Indoor Skydiving shown by young people and their family circle. It’s a sport that just may be ready to take off in the Olympics but is still in its early stages of discussions.

We know everyone will be looking forward for seeing this amazing sport in 2024.

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INDOOR SKYDIVING

RE AS ONS TO TRY INDOOR SKYDIVING Wind tunnels are springing up around the world at the rate of one a month. More and more people are going to fly at the weekends as the craze of indoor skydiving sweeps the globe. Here are fun reasons why you should give indoor skydiving a go.

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First and foremost, it’s great fun! Haven’t you ever wondered what it feels like to fly? Defy gravity and find out. You get a buzz from tunnel flying, just as you do with skydiving, windsurfing, climbing or any extreme sport. Facing the elements, using your body and having a unique experience.

It’s not just for a one-off thrill, indoor skydiving is a whole sport in its own right.

Whether you want to fly for fun with groups of your friends, or train to enter competitions, a whole new flying world is open to you. You can learn to fly in a team of four, to fly on your belly, standing up or upsidedown, or even play Twister in the tunnel!

FITNESS

COMPETE!

The secret of fitness is to find something you enjoy doing. We all know that feeling of dragging yourself to the gym. Indoor skydiving is fabulously addictive but good for you! It burns a ridiculous number of calories, helps flexibility and you don’t have to force yourself to do it. Plus, it gives you a natural high that makes you want to be even more active.

The International Parachuting Commission (IPC) recognized Indoor Skydiving in 2014 as an official discipline, with competitions to decide the global champions. For example, the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving will be held at Gravity, Bahrain, 25-28 October 2018. Indoor skydiving is currently a test event for the Olympics and may be adopted in the next decade.

WCIS2018 has a separate section for junior competitions, flyers aged from 12 to 17, so they can be champions in their own right.

There are also competitions around the world where all ages compete together – and where children often beat the adults at their own game!

FAMILY People of all ages can fly – from grannies to grandsons. Children from 3 years old to centenarians have tried indoor skydiving. Most wind tunnels have Kids Clubs, offering special deals and coaching to encourage younger flyers. It takes them away from computer games and into being active. Children excel at flying because they pick it up quickly, and they love it!

SKYDIVE TRAINING

Flying in a tunnel is a very different way to celebrate a birthday, anniversary or corporate event. Friends family or colleagues can fly as a group, so they share the challenge and adventure. It’s a great bonding experience, especially for people who don’t know each other well, and for team-building. Most tunnels can cater for your group afterwards, and many are in a location for other adventure sports, so you can go indoor skiing, climbing or surfing too.

If you’re thinking of trying skydiving, the tunnel is the perfect place to start. Just like learning to ski on a dry slope, you can practice the basics so you progress quickly in the real sport. Accelerated Freefall Courses are 3-day courses that teach you to skydive, on your own from the beginning, with an instructor either side. Many courses now include wind tunnel training in their syllabus, as the experience is so valuable. If you are a skydiving student struggling to progress, 15 minutes indoor skydiving will sort out your problems.

Because it’s a non life-threatening environment you can relax and concentrate on flying

FOR EVERYONE

VR SKYDIVING!

Even disabled people can try indoor skydiving. People who can’t walk find they can fly – really fly – in a wind tunnel. This makes tunnel flying a perfect group activity for able-bodied and disabled people to do together. Instructors reported that there is no difference in how quickly people pick up flying if they are handicapped (assuming a reasonable degree of body control) compared to the typical member of the public. This gives disadvantaged people tremendous confidence that extends beyond the tunnel walls.

VR headsets are offered in many tunnels around the world. They project the visuals of skydiving over real places in the world.

You can really experience what it’s like to skydive without ever getting in an aeroplane. All the thrill without the risk.

SPECIAL EVENT

BE INSPIRED Whenever you go to a wind tunnel you’re likely to see the most incredible levels of body flight, as individuals have applied their talents to perfect ever-more amazing tricks. Watch and be blown away by the extremes of human endeavor.

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BUILDING THE WIND TUNNEL

THE WORLD’ S TA LLE ST WIND TUNNEL WITH BASE JUMPING CHAMBER Creating unique custom-made vertical wind tunnels in the world to provide the best flying experience is Aerodium’s mission. Find out the how the world’s tallest and biggest indoor skydiving tunnels was created.

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How Tom Cruise came-up with the idea in creating the largest wind tunnel

How a Shaikh from Bahrain conceptualised the creation of indoor BASE jumping

For Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise and his team needed to shoot a HALO jump scene by jumping out of an airplane at 30,000 feet with a special breathing gear. Due to the risks involved, the crew recommended that they train on the ground first to gain confidence for the actual jump.

Thus, the studio requested a portable wind tunnel to be installed onsite for rehearsals. After testing Aerodium’s tunnel, Cruise was very excited and asked if we could build something bigger. We accepted the challenge and built the world’s largest open-air wind tunnel in record-breaking time.

After first meeting our Bahraini client, Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Khalifa in 2011, he showed his keenness and willingness to make something exceptional, yet superior to all existing wind tunnels. The team has proposed to create a very tall and visually appealing glass flight chamber (12m), at that time was the tallest in the world which was installed at the Gravity Indoor Skydiving facility. During this conversation, Shaikh Mohammed brought up the idea of having an office on top of the building where he could just jump into the tunnel from above. After 30 seconds of thinking, I answered, “That’s cool! Sure, let’s make it happen!”

This short discussion led us in designing and building our first world BASE jumping chamber for “Gravity,” whilst keeping safety as a top priority. It has now become a standard for all recircular tunnels we build worldwide, and other companies have started copying this invention.

Trying the tunnel for the first time is like going into a cage with a tiger – you don’t know what to expect, but your curiosity takes over. Wow doesn’t even begin to describe the feeling of seven guys flying together! We were smiling from ear to ear with our emotions in overload. For the first time, we were chasing each other in the enormous flight area like kids. The open-air environment brought us the joy of being the closest thing to real skydiving we had ever experienced.

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GRAVITY INDOOR SKYDIVING TUNNEL Gravity Indoor Skydiving is a recirculating Aerodium Technologies, round wall-to-wall wind tunnel, with a diameter of 4.3 meters up to a height of 5 meters then extending to 5.5 meters diameter at a height of 12 meters and a full chamber height of 19.6 meters, 12 meters of which is full glass.

Gravity is one of the few wind tunnels in the world to have an entrance door into the flight chamber at a height of 14 meters, offering a B.A.S.E. Jump experience!

AERODIUM PERYTON The biggest open-air wind tunnel today, with a 6.5m x 3.5m large flight area and a smooth airflow reaching up to 220 km/h. Up to seven flyers can fly simultaneously, making the most of various skydiving positions, including static head down.

THE TEAM BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF WCIS 2018

MEET THE TE AM The talented professionals running the tunnel. Discover more about the wonderful Gravity team.

Khawla Mohamed Alhammadi

Gary Sweeney

Mariam Fathi

Abdul Fathah

General Manager

Senior Manager/Senior Instructor

BAHRAIN

UNITED KINGDOM

Marketing Manager

Technical Manager

BAHRAIN

INDIA

A Proud Bahraini Female General Manager at the only indoor wind tunnel in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Khawla holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) with distinction from DePaul University with more than 14 years of experience in various business, management and corporate communications field. Khawla has been in number of high-level positions in leading institutions and companies in the Kingdom of Bahrain yet enjoys her current role in Gravity Indoor Skydiving the most as it brought her the opportunity to lead Gravity’s team to host the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving 2018.

Gary has been involved in outdoor and indoor skydiving for 20 years, coaching and instructing both Indoor and outdoor skydiving.

He was part of the British skydiving team that won medals in Freefly Artistics having competed on National and World level for Britain with UK team “Team Euphoria,” where they have achieved National championship status and top 3 ranking in the world.

Having worked in many tunnels now across Europe and started working as a pioneer at Gravity Indoor Skydiving since May 2015. He is currently the Operations Manager and also works as a Chief Instructor.

Egyptian by blood but Bahraini at heart! Mariam is new to the indoor skydiving world but has certainly learned a lot over the past two years of working at Gravity. You’ll find her zooming by during the competition, don’t hesitate to stop her to if you need anything.

Abdul has a degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering and has been working as an MEP Engineer for the last six years and joined Gravity as a Technical Manager in 2016.

The last two years had given him the opportunity to gain more specialised knowledge in Aerodynamics.

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“I can’t wait to meet all the teams and see what skills you’re all bringing with you.

Good luck.”

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SPORTS & FITNESS

Prasad Maniyil

Garth Lewis

George Papadeas

Kate Ilyina

Accounts Executive

Senior Tunnel Instructor

Tunnel Instructor

Tunnel Instructor

SOUTH AFRICA

GREECE

BELARUS

When it comes to crunching numbers, this is where Prasad’s specialty lies. He holds a degree in Accounting and has 15 years of vast experience in the construction industry. The transition from the construction to a service industry such as Gravity has given him a unique experience in the field of sports.

Garth from South Africa is an adventure enthusiast. He is a techie who constantly keeps himself up to date with the latest technology and with what it is doing for our world. Garth also loves travelling has a deep passion in flying. He aspires to inspire others by sharing his passion of flying as an instructor.

George is originally from Greece and has started working at Gravity as a tunnel instructor in 2015. A qualified instructor with rated A, A+, B through TI org and a skydiver holding a USPA B license with coach rating loves skydiving and tunnel flying. He gets satisfaction in sharing the magic and joy of flying with others.

Her passion for flying has leads her to Bahrain to gain more experience and share her knowledge. Kate is currently having a great time working at Gravity and teaching people how to fly. It gives her satisfaction to see others enjoy the sport and be a positive influence on them.

Ahmed Rabbouh

Anderson Hofman

Tayla Lima

Cori Sirois

Tunnel Instructor

Tunnel Instructor

Tunnel Instructor

Tunnel Instructor

MOROCCO

BRAZIL

BRAZIL

CANADIAN

The only Arab flight instructor from Morocco at Gravity. This guy is so much into health and fitness. Ahmed is full of energy and always gives a helping hand to everyone he meets.

Anderson considers himself as a calm and chill person with a deep passion in bodyflight.

He came from Brazil to Bahrain continue his dream of flying and aims to one day master the wind. His journey to indoor skydiving so far had been an awesome experience for him.

Tayla had her first experience as an indoor skydiving instructor at Gravity. According to her, she is like a baby in this universe being a newbie to the sport. She loves her profession of being around adrenaline junkies and is continuously developing her skills to be an excellent pro-flyer in future.

This woman loves skydiving, tunnel flying, travelling and making people laugh. Running the first world cup indoor skydiving competition in Bahrain, she is delighted to be working at the WCIS 2018 looks forward to watching the competition.

INDIA

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“All the best to all the competitors.”

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THE TEAM BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF WCIS 2018

Ricardo Froilan Lopez Bonfanti

Justine Moses

Valeriia Maior

Heba Majed

Tunnel Instructor

Supervisor

Customer Service Representative

Customer Service Representative

BRAZIL / SPAIN

SOUTH AFRICA

UKRAINE

BAHRAIN

Originally from a Brasilian Spanish mix, the best way to describe Ricardo would be as a positive person in love with life.

For Ricardo, flying and teaching people to fly makes his life complete. His favorite motto, “Carpe Diem.” According to him, flying is the way.

Justine works at the front office as a reception Supervisor in Gravity. She’s not just an ordinary front office having a degree in Interior Design and a certified lifeguard. She enjoys travelling, learning to fly (belly) and is a bookworm.

Don’t be fooled, she might be this “Tiny little” girl but she has a big kind heart. Mother of two wonderful turtles - Lilo and Stitch loves talking and is always buzzing with energy. She believes in miracles and that it happens every day!

For Heba, working as a customer service representative in Gravity Indoor Skydiving has so far been a very rewarding experience. Watching people fly in the tunnel has given her the inspiration to learn and try the sport. Flying has given her the motivation to push her limits on what she can achieve in life.

Fatema Ali

Margie Juntilla Arisgado

Lulwa Ebrahim

Justin Alvares

Customer Service Representative

Customer Service Representative

Customer Service Representative

Administration Assistant

BAHRAIN

PHILIPPINES

BAHRAIN /THAI

INDIA

Working as a customer service representative at Gravity, Fatema enjoys being around people.

She is genuinely excited to help and connect with customers.

This woman is extremely patient, empathetic, and very communicative.

Margie graduated in the medical nursing field and especialises as a caregiver and active in health and fitness industries. She is sporty and lives life to the fullest. Being a part of Gravity’s team makes her happy. Flying and being around healthy people encourage and motivates her more to live an active lifestyle.

Lulwa is the type of person who is happy with the simple things in life, appreciating the little blessings she receives every day. She is more than thrilled to be a part of the organising team of the WCIS 2018.

Justin is from Mumbai who loves playing football, cricket and is now starting to enjoy flying. As an administration assistant, he is always prepared, responsive, and willing to meet each challenge directly.

This guy is great at multi-tasking with a capacity to manage several tasks simultaneously.

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INTERVIEW

THE ROAD TO WCIS2018

M A R I A M F AT H I Marketing Manager, Gravity Indoor Skydiving Bahrain

GOALS IN RUNNING THE 3RD FAI WORLD CUP IN INDOOR SKYDIVING Gravity’s goal since day one was to elevate the Sport of Indoor Skydiving. It’s a joint effort that Gravity and many tunnels around the world have been working towards on and it’s clear to see that the standards are rising. According to Mariam, “Our aim is to raise the bar for future competitions and with that in mind, we hope to succeed in organizing the biggest indoor skydiving event yet!”

“Of course, one of our biggest aims is to put Bahrain on the global map and highlight Bahrain’s role in encouraging sports and local participation on an international scale. We hope to raise more awareness about the sport of Indoor Skydiving and get more people involved in it,” she added.

THE ARAB CUP AND FLIGHT FIGHTERS THE ROAD TO WCIS One of the requirements in winning the bid for the

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In the lead up to the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving, starting this 25th of October 2018, we asked Gravity’s event manager Mariam Fathi about the preparations made for the event.

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WCIS2018 is for Gravity to successfully run two international events to prepare the organising team in running the WCIS2018 smoothly.

According to Mariam, “We learned a lot! Starting from tiny details like making sure we print the right helmet sticker that doesn’t fly off in the tunnel, to managing all the technical work that goes into running the competition. It was extremely important for us to plan these two competitions precisely for this reason. When we won the bid to host the WCIS2018 one of our disadvantages was having had little competition experience, and so we set out to organize these two meets within one year to get ourselves all prepped up for the World Cup and to prove our capabilities in hosting an event at such scale. I’m so glad we had the opportunity to organize these two competitions. It has made planning for WCS2018 so much easier and smoother. We know what needs to be done and we know what to expect, now it’s just twice as big!”

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LIVE STREAMING AND PREPARATIONS Mariam and the team are excited to be working with EpicTech Media for the live stream of WCIS2018. EpicTech have been working over the last couple of months to create a fantastic live stream! The event will be streamed live on WCIS2018.

COM from 25-28th of October.

Preparations are in full swing!

There’s a lot that is going on and Gravity’s team have been working collectively on various jobs including, IT, technical preparations, marketing, PR, team registration, equipment, merchandise, obtaining sponsorships and overall setup of the event within Gravity’s building and outside.

Gravity will also host a small outdoor event to coincide with the World Cup for athletes, visitors and the whole family to enjoy.

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES For a country that has never hosted a skydiving competition, Mariam says, “Our biggest accomplishment was winning

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the bid! I can’t think of one thing that has been the main source of stress. We were faced with challenges in every area but we have overcome them.”

Mariam added that “It helps to have a dedicated team who are passionate in what they do. I have anticipated some stressful times and have gone through a lot, but I’d like to think of it as a rewarding challenge.”

The BIG Day When asked what Mariam is looking forward to about the World Cup she explained, “The thing I love the most about competitions are the people; all the heroes who come together to make the games. I’m looking forward to working with my team and witnessing the outcome of months and long hours of planning. Most of all, I’m looking forward to meeting all the competitors and watching what I am sure will be an epic display of amazing flying skills.”

So brace yourselves, the competition will be fierce! Best of luck to all the teams and the whole country can’t wait to meet you all at Gravity, Bahrain!

PARTICIPANTS

G E ARED UP TH E PART ICIPAT IN G TE A MS Teams are all geared up and ready to give their best performance. Get to know your country’s teams who are participating in the 3rd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving 2018 #WCIS2018.

AUSTR A LIA DISCIPLINE

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SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

ATHLETE

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Elise Brown

Amy Watson

Elise is an indoor skydiving athlete and an IBA qualified tunnel instructor. She is passionate about health, lifestyle, fitness and the art of freestyle flight!

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Thirteen-year-old Amy from Australia is the 2016 and 2017 Australian Champion in Junior Freestyle. Watch out for the Snow Leopard in the tunnel as she blows your mind with her moves!

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C O U NT RY : BAH R AI N

HOME TEAM! These flyers got together in 2009 and have competed in various outdoor and indoor competitions around the world since then. They started their journey of flying as a Rookie team and worked their way up to competing in AAA.

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FS 4-WAY OPEN

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BAHRAIN 1

BAHRAIN 2

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

Khalid Ahmed Naser Khalifa Husain Ebrahim Ahmed Al Thawadi

HOME TEAM! These flyers got together in 2009 and have competed in various outdoor and indoor competitions around the world since then. Team Bahrain 2 has been competing in the AA category and has now taken up the challenge to compete against the world’s top teams.

DISCIPLINE

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SOLO FREESTYLE OPEN

TEAM

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TEAM GRAVITY

Fatima Al Khalifa

Yunes Al Dosseri Khalifa Al Najjar Abdulrahim Hemadi Ammar Al Matri

MEMBERS Garth Lewis Ben Roane

Two years in the making, Gravity is a team that has grown from strength to strength and in the process evolved from what was a partnership to what is now an incredible friendship. This duo is all about good vibes and spreading their wings.

Flying is what makes them happy and pushing the team dynamic to new levels of performance is what keeps them driven. In a constant phase of progression, the team’s approach is firmly ingrained in their motto, “Let us entertain you!”

An excited 18 year old ready to make her country proud and defy the odds! Fatima has always been into sports and loves the adrenaline that rushes through her veins when she competes.

She also loves meeting new people and learning new tricks from each other. This rockstar can’t wait to show everyone what she can do!

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ATHLETE Nayef Al Somaim

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B E LG IUM

CANADA

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FS 4-WAY JUNIOR

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HAYABUSA

AIR DEVILS

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

David Grauwels Andy Grauwels Jeroen Nollet Dennis Praet

The team is the reigning outdoor World Champions since 2014 and undefeated in indoor championships since November 2010.

Yannick Bisson Matthew Ortlieb Emma Gray Hope Hadifield Coralie Boudreault

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TEAM

The Air Devils won the World Cup of Indoor Skydiving in Warsaw, Poland in 2016 in 4-Way FS Junior and finished second at the World Championships of Indoor Skydiving in Montreal, Canada.

They are composed of three kids from the Toronto and one from Montreal.

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AIRSPACE UNLEASHED

SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

MEMBERS

ATHLETE

Troy Rodway

Malachi “Chewie” DeAth

Frederic Poulin Composed of two motivated tunnel instructors/skydivers, this team have been competing together for a few years now. They participated amongst the best teams in the world at the WISC, Wind games and Sakura Cup placing 7th, 5th and 6th respectively.

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Malachi DeAth is 14 years old from Canada. After competing in 4WFS for 2 years, he started competing in Freestyle in Nov 2017, ultimately reaching the podium numerous times around the world.

Let’s see where the wind takes him!

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SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

ATHLETE

ATHLETE

Julian De Bruycker

Coralie Boudreault

Julian is 14 years old, from Eecklo in the Flemish part of Belgium representing the country and Airspace Indoor Skydiving. He started flying when he was 5 years old and now has about 60 hours of tunnel time. In 2017 Julian won the Dutch Junior Freestyle nationals and placed 2nd at Belgium mixed FS nationals in the Open Category.

This will be Julian’s 2nd FAI Category 1 competition after having competed at the European Championships recently in Norway.

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Coralie was born in 2003 in Montreal, Canada. She started flying in 2015 and now has approximately 120 hours of flying!

She has won 10 gold medals for first place in both national and international competitions to date. Coralie also has a black belt in kickboxing and has won the Canadian championships with her cheerleading team. She is now completely dedicated to Indoor Skydiving.

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SPORTS & FITNESS

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SOLO FREESTYLE OPEN

ATHLETE

ATHLETE

Guillaume Boileau

Sébastien Plourde

Guillaume has been a wind tunnel instructor since 2010 at Sky Venture Montreal with 3000+ hours of tunnel time.

He focuses his flying on Freestyle and D2W.

Sébastien is a Canadian wind tunnel instructor and a professional skydiver. He has competed multiple times in VFS 4-Way and Dynamic. He is part of TEEM Toronto VFS (Canadian VFS Indoor National team). This will not be Sébastien’s first time in an FCE as he competed at the previous World Cup 2016 in Poland, Warsaw in VFS and Dynamic as well as the World Championship 2017 in Montreal in VFS 4-Way and Freestyle for the first time!

CHINA

China’s national FS 4-way Open Team.

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FS 4-WAY FEMALE

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CHINA FS4 OPEN

CHINA FS4 FEMALE

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

Zhu Laiming Meng Longxiang

China’s national FS 4-way Female Team.

Wang Liran

Jia Min

Yaqi Wan

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CHINA FREESTYLE

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

Li Lu

Wanyu Mo

Lou Yu

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Zhao Long

Long Yating

China’s national Dynamic 2-Way Open team.

GAO Zhenwei

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China’s national Solo Freestyle Open competitor.

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C ZE CH R EPUBL IC

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FS 4-WAY OPEN

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FS 4-WAY JUNIOR

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SKY

HF CHICKS

HF CUBS

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MEMBERS

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

Lukas Kaderabek

Jan Vajc

Eva Turkova

Tereza Zivalova

Dagmar Bezdekova

Barbora Parikova

Hana Urikova

Sabina Clolakova

Martina Vavackova

Marian Jezlak

Jitka Mancikova

Adela Vesela

Jakub Klapka

Jirina Klapkova

Kiara Eliasova

Karolina Henkova Viktoria Novakova

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HURRICANES

FREESTYLE JUNIOR

MEMBERS Jan Wantula

ATHLETE Tobias Chaloupka

Jakub Harrer

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SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

ATHLETE

ATHLETE

Kathya Toussaint

Matteo Limnaios

Kathya Toussaint is new to the competitions arena. She’s all set to show us her epic flying skills.

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Matteo Limnaios is a 2nd place Silver Medalist at the European Championships 2018.

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F R A NCE

France Weembi’s team competing at WCIS2018 is a mixed team combining France’s FS 4-Way Female Team the World Indoor Champions 2017 and the French FS 4-Way open team, Silver Medalists at WISC 2017!

They have been prepping up for WCIS2018 and training really hard at the Weembi Lille tunnel.

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Julien Degen Christine Malnis Sophia Pecout Roy Janssen

This team consists of a father, daugher and two friends.

They were the first French team behind the official national 4-Way FS team.

FS 4-WAY FEMALE

AEROKART

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MEMBERS

FRANCE FEMALE FS

Cameron Malie Eliot Massier

MEMBERS

Camille Villanneau Elise Poindron

Oscar Massier This team of very young athletes and skydivers are a new indoor French FS 4-Way Female team and are now training in Weembi Lille to compete at WCIS2018.

Tom Mattoni

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FRANCE B

Yaroslav Alikine

MEMBERS

Simon Capelle

Matteo Limnios Eliot Pothet

Axel Loubette Maxime Lacourt

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TEAM

Jessica Thebault

Elisa Comproux

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Claire Victoire De Fleurian

Arnaud Comproux

Bronze medalists at the European Championships ready to bring it on at WCIS2018!

Introducing team Aerokart, World Champions in FS 4-Way Junior at WISC 2017 and European Champions 2018. Young but fierce!

Aerokart B team are the French Nationals 2018 Champions in FS 4-Way!

Adrien Gallot Valentin Vazille

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FRANCE AEROGRAVITY

TEAM

MEMBERS Ducloux Clement Blanchon Leo

This French D2W team have been competing in both D2W & D4W with a history of accomplishments!

2018 DW4 Gold medal European Championship Norway

LUKACS L. LAKI SPACEDEVILS

MEMBERS Lukacs L. Laki

2018 DW2 Silver medal European Championship Norway 2017 DW4 Gold medal WISC2017 Canada 2017 DW2 Bronze medal WISC2017 Canada 2016 DW2 Silver medal WCIS2016 Poland 2015 DW4 Gold medal World Meet Czech Republic

Lukács was born on 17th February 2001. He tried indoor skydiving for the first time at the age of 11 and immediately fell in love with the sport.

The hobby quickly became a mission as Lukács started taking part in international championships. He’s flying over 100 hours a year in order to make his dream come true: he wants to be a world champion in Freestyle. In 2017 he got his training license and became the youngest tunnel instructor in the world.

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AMNESYA

ITALY VFS

MEMBERS Guiseppe Cossu Chiara Brunetti Michele Silvi Mario Fattoruso

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Amnesya is the current Italian National team for 4-Way FS representing Italy at FAI competitions since October 2017.

Their achievements include winning a gold medal in the Italian Indoor Nationals 2018 and a Silver Medal at the Italian Outdoor Nationals 2017.

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MEMBERS Andrea Cardinali Stefano Falagiani Marco Soro Alessandro Binello

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This team started competing in indoor VFS just last year at the first Italian Indoor Skydiving Championships and have also competed in two competitions this year; the Windgames 2018, followed by the first European Indoor Skydiving Championship.

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Toms Ivans

EQUINOX

MEMBERS Toms Ivans has been the world’s leading flyer in open air wind tunnels since 2012. Ivans works as an AERODIUM wind tunnel instructor both in indoor and open-air tunnels. He also works as a coach and shows performer all around the world! He is the Guinness World Record holder for the most body flying stunts in a minute. He is also the co-author and coach for flight scenes at the “Pirates of Caribbean” show in Disneyland in Shanghai.

Ivans has successfully participated in freestyle open class in many indoor skydiving championships: 1st place in Flyspot Challenge 2017, 2nd place in Flight Fighters 2017, 2nd place in The Clash of Lyons, 7th place in 2nd FAI Indoor Skydiving World Cup 2016.

Equinox was created in 2012 and has been training at Flyspot wind tunnel in Warsaw, Poland.

The team started off as a Rookie team and worked their way up to AAA participation, most recently at the Bodyflight World Challenge.

Equinox participated in their first AAA category in 2016 and this will be their third AAA participation.

Rasa Skuodiene Gintaras Jancauskas Mindaugas Civilis Algimantas Skuodis

NET HER L A N D S

This team is part of the Dutch Formation Skydiving: Project 20+. This project started in 2017 consisting of three teams altogether. Out of the Blue won at the Dutch Nationals 2018 and are going to the World Championships in Australia.

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OUT OF THE BLUE

R&B

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Mechie Voermans Mandy Feijen Rick Verbunt Ralf Pijnenburg

Team R&B consisting of Rick and Bastiaan are the rising stars in 2-Way Dynamic in the Netherlands.

They currently train at City Skydive in Utrecht and are getting ready to compete at WCIS2018.

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FS 4-WAY OPEN

FS 4-WAY OPEN

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MONACO INDOOR 4-WAY TEAM

FLYSPOT SKY4FOUR

MEMBERS Stephane Mattoni Jean-Francois Ronzevalle Franck Vazille Kylian Forsans

MEMBERS Monaco’s national FS 4-Way team was initially composed of former World-Class french champions in the outdoor line-up, and is now focusing on most of the major international indoor competitions.

Michal Baranski Anna Baranska Zbigniew Kordzikowski Maciej Godlewski

FlySpot Sky4Four is National Polish Team. They got their first ever medal at the Polish Open in 2013 and are now ready to take another at WCIS2018! They now train at their home tunnel Flyspot with their new team member Maciek Godlewski.

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TEAM VOSSVIND D2W

MEMBERS Rune Aspvik Eirik Flyversen Syversen

VossVind D2W team has been around for four years now with the second flyer changing twice. The current team started flying together after the European Championship earlier this year.

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ATHLETE Amalie Hegland Lauritzen Amalie is 19 years old from Voss in Norway. She has been flying for over five years; as a formation flyer and as a freestyle flyer. She is the first European Indoor Freestyle Champion and the Norwegian Indoor Freaestyle Champion for the second year in a row.

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ATHLETE Maja Kuczynska Red Bull athlete Maja Kuczynska from Poland is ready to amaze us with her routine!

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RUS SIA

This team got together in 2017 and has only been competing in Indoor Skydiving since then.

The team was formed in the end of 2017 and been working non-stop getting ready for the WCIS2018.

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FS 4-WAY OPEN

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IFS-MOSCOW

NO LIMITS

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MEMBERS

Egor Gusev Yury Drozdov

A young ambitious team jumping together since 2017.

Alexander Malovitsin Vitaly Yakunin

Dmitriy Komkov

Vladislav Kokorin

Dmtriy Samokhval

Sergey Kurokhtin

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RUSSIAN THUNDER

ZERO-G

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Elena Baranova

Anna Linkova

Sergey Shenin Aleksandr Odinokov Georgiy Miroshnichenko

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The Russian National female team for indoor skydiving.

Svetlana Bubnova Marina Pukareva Anastasia Tupitsyna

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SOLO FREESTYLE OPEN

RVC

ATHLETE Fred Fernandez

MEMBERS Team RVC was team was formed in 2017. Since then the team has won a bronze medal in the Russian Skydiving Nationals 2017, and bagged 4th in Russian Indoor Skydiving Nationals 2018 with a 20-point average.

Boris Yangel Victor Kuznetsov Ilia Pozhilov

National competitor from Brazil

Andryus Mikulenas

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TEAM SHADOWS OF FLYSTATION

MEMBERS Andrey Karabeshkin Diana Parmanina

Andrey and Diana have been flying together as a team since August 2018. They are both instructors at Flystation Saint-Petersburg wind tunnel, which is their official sponsor. Andrey took part in the Russian Championship before, and this will be his first world competition.

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KINGS OF THE SKY JR.

KINGS OF THE SKY

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Ilia Tcarik

Aleksandr Drogaltsov

Nikita Tcarik

Oleg Parmanin

Team Kings Of The Sky Jr. have competed in various competitions and have roughly about 200 hours of tunnel time. Their coach is Alexander Drogalczov from Flystation St. Petersburg. The team is all set to fly and show us how good they are!

Team Kings of the Sky consists of Oleg Parmanin who is also a member of the FlyStation team (Dynamic 2-way), Red Label Team (VFS) and Brazzers team (VFS 4-way) and Aleksander Drogaltsov who is also a member of Falcons team (Dynamic 4-way) and Fenix team (VFS).

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TEAM GRAVITY WARRIORS

MEMBERS Katsiaryna Ilyina Gerogios Papadeas

Kate and George came to indoor skydiving industry from outdoor jumping and has become tunnel instructors. They started flying together as in 2017 and had three competitions together - Flight Fighters, Russian National Championship, and Extremsportveko in Norway. The team is representing Gravity as their official sponsor at th WCIS2018.

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SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

FLYSTATION VERTICAL

ATHLETE

MEMBERS

Leonid Shtivel

Maksim Rudenko

Leonid started flying four years ago in FlyStation, Russia and is a part of the Russian National Skydiving team. He began competing in 2017 at the All Russian Championship where he won a Gold in Freestyle Junior, followed by two more Golds at the Russian Indoor Skydiving Championships in 2017 and 2018.

Leo hopes to see Indoor Skydiving at the Olympics soon!

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Dmitrii Lednev Valery Konnov Nikita Panov Alexander Parmanin

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ATHLETE

ATHLETE Evelina Kalugina

Matvey Silaev Medalist of the championship of Russia 2018 and the European championship in Norway Voss 2018.

Evelina Kalugina was born in Russia in 2004. She started body flying in 2015 and has flown 80 hours. She participated in Indoor Skydiving competitions in Russia in the Freestyle discipline.

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ATHLETE

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Kyra POH

TEAM FIREFLY SINGAPORE Yi Xuan and Kyra of Team Firefly Singapore started their flying at iFly Singapore in 2011 at just 9 and 8 years old respectively. They were chosen for “Talents” for iFly Singapore’s advertising when it started.They now compete professionally both locally and internationally and are currently 2nd in the WISC 2017.

MEMBERS Kyra POH Yi Xuan CHOO

Kyra started flying at the age of 8 and is currently the Junior World Cup Champion 2016, Junior WISC 2017 champion, Wind Games 2017 and 2018 Freestyle Open Champion. At just 16 years old, she has now decided to push herself up to participate in the Open Category instead of the Junior Category.

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Yi Xuan CHOO

Yi Xuan just started freestyle and placed 4th in the Wind Games 2018. She is also taking part as one-half of the Two Way Dynamic Team Firefly Singapore.

Silvia Lacna

Silvia has been representing Slovakia in Freestyle for three years and works as a sports manager in Hurricane Factory Madrid. She has around 200 hours of tunnel time and her training for WCIS 2018 took around 15 hours alone. Her last competitions were the European Championship in Norway where she finished 4th place and the bagged the 1st place at Czech Nationals.

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TEAM JAZZ REPUBLIC

MEMBERS

PAPEA 1 is the Spanish Airforce Team.

PAPEA 2 is the Spanish Airforce Team.

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Bailey Edmunds

FS 4-WAY OPEN

FS 4-WAY OPEN

Nico Hickley

Claire King

Dirk Venter

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PAPEA 1

PAPEA 2

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Jose Vicente Martinez Cano

Oscar Marsal Hernandez

Christian Molto Gonzalez

Elisabet Hernandez Moreno

Ernesto Fernandez Zaldivar

Maria Del Carmen Gomez Hurtado

Miguel Antonio Gomez Rivas

Oscar Garcia Garcia

Jazz Republic was originally formed in 2013 and is currently coached by Marco Arrigo. Jazz Republic’s roots lie in a party, at a Prague Jazz club, after a tunnel camp of love, sweat and beers at Hurricane Factory Prague.

Like a Jamaican Bob Sleigh team, they talk and dream about tunnels a lot more than they get to fly in them.

U. A . E .

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DYNAMIC 2-WAY OPEN

Saif Alneyadi

Ibrahim Alawadhi

TEAM WINDOOR D2W

MEMBERS Cesar Rico Garcia Daniel Gallego Prieto

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GR E AT B RITAIN They are fast and fierce!

Introducing you to the 2-Way Dynamic Team from Windoor Empuriabrava Spain

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Catherine Leather

FS 4-WAY FEMALE

Ane Elise BauerleBrentford

TEAM

Maria Russel

SATORI W

Julia Swallow

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FS 4-WAY FEMALE

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ECHOCAMBER

TEAM X

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

Johan Edvall Echochamber got together in 2015 with the main goal to have fun and push themselves to get as good as they can. Since then, they have participated at several internationals competitions.

Hercules and Per are both instructors at Bodyflight Stokholm and love to fly dynamic!

Rikard Rodensjo Martin Backlin Ulf Liljenback

Nord Mattias

Team X is the Swedish national female FS4 team.

They placed 4th at the World Indoor Championship in 2017 and came 6th in 2016.

Lena Erlandsson Katarina Sonnevi Johanna Forslund Bodil Almberg

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DYNAMIC 2-WAY OPEN

DYNAMIC 2-WAY OPEN

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DZK

DYNAFLO

MEMBERS Hercules Ostberg Per Nissborg

Jimmy and Karim have been skydiving for eight years and they have over 1500 jumps each. They placed second in the Swedish Nationals and participated in the European championship soon after.

MEMBERS Karim Ennasri Jimmy Sjolund Larsson

G R E AT BR I TAI N

Meet ACM (Air Combat Manoeuvering); inspired by the film Top Gun. Formed in 2014/15, ACM Weembi’s line-up of aviators has a unique naming.

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FS 4-WAY OPEN

FS 4-WAY OPEN

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ACM WEEMBI

EROS

MEMBERS

MEMBERS

Hariharan Ganapathy

Roy Little

David Rodgers

FS 4-WAY team from the UK

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DISCIPLINE FS 4-WAY FEMALE

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VFS 4-Way Open

NFTO

MEMBERS Anna Hicks Kate Lindsley Sian Stokes Vana Parker

NFTO are the current British Outdoor and Indoor Female National team and will have just returned from the Parachuting World Championships in Australia in October 2018. A squad of five ladies, that competed at the Indoor European Championships in Voss in April. NFTO stands for Not For The Ordinary.

TEAM SDC CORE

MEMBERS Michael Jason Russell

Introducting team SDC CORE, VFS World Champions!

Stepahnie Strange Dustin Hanks Matthew Rook Nelson

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FS 4-WAY FEMALE

IFLY ASPIRE

MEMBERS

TEAM

Kaleigh Wittenburg

ZEPHYRUS

MEMBERS Lucy Westgarth Fiona Lee Eleanor Southworth Emily Aucutt

Noah Wittenburg Four ladies from the UK with a mixture of backgrounds in skydiving; the free-flyer, the camera flyer, the 8way flyer and the Speed skydiver. With a combined love of FS-4 way they look forward to making shapes in the tunnel, and can’t wait to meet with lots of old and new friends at this event.

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TEAM ATMOSPHERE XP

MEMBERS Michael Brewer Andrew Sutton

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Two very young inspirational atheletes! Training hard to rock the tunnel in WCIS2018.

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Atmosphere XP is the official 2-Way Dynamic team of Paraclete XP in Raeford, NC. Andrew Sutton and Mike Brewer both cut their teeth instructing at this one-of-a-kind facility before pursuing higher goals in the competition. This will be their first world-level competition together, and they are looking forward to laying it on the line against some of the best.

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DISCIPLINE

DISCIPLINE

DYNAMIC 2-WAY OPEN

SOLO FREESTYLE OPEN

TEAM

ATHLETE

IFLY CRUCIBLE

Amberly Brown

MEMBERS Daniel Cordido Dusty Shaw

Amberly is an Alaskan Tlingit Warrior with a spicy Spanish flare. In 2008, Amberly began her skydiving career on the North Shore of Oahu and in 2011 became a skydiving camera woman at Skydive Hawaii and continued to pursue the art of body flight and canopy piloting. After a skydiving accident in 2013, Amberly participated in her first Vertical World Record on July 31, 2015 where 164 people jumped out of 7 planes in a vertical formation! She is currently a body flight Instructor at iFLY Phoenix where she continues to hone her body flight skills and participates in tunnel competitions.

The team met in early 2016 and started working together.

It wasn’t until 2018 that they have ultimately decided to compete together.

Soon after Dusty’s competition placing first last year in Tampa the team started to finally get serious about the sport. They placed third in the Nationals at Virginia Beach.

The team qualified for WCIS and received a sponsorship from iFly to represent the company as well as the United States.

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SOLO FREESTYLE OPEN

SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

ATHLETE

ATHLETE

Reese Willson

Kayliegh Wittenburg

Freestyle Flyer Based out of iFly Utah.

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DISCIPLINE

SOLO FREESTYLE OPEN

SOLO FREESTYLE JUNIOR

ATHLETE

ATHLETE

Blake Cullen

Elijah Diamante

Freestyle competitor from Portland, Oregon

13 year old Elijah Diamante from Seattle has been flying freestyle for 4 years and is looking forward to competing at WCIS2018.

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PERSONALITY

Flying VERSUS Personality Flying inside the wind tunnel takes more than just skills. It takes a great effort in building up your personality to even learn and execute those flawless moves. Tayla shares with us what it takes to begin your journey to indoor skydiving.

TA Y L A L I M A Tayla Lima is an Indoor Skydiving Instructor from Brazil. She holds both IBA and Tunnel Instructor ratings and she is passionate with her job.

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have always noticed that flying and the way we express ourselves while flying are closely related to our personality. Undoubtedly, the more flight hours you have, partnered with coaches guiding you on how to move on air and good debriefings, helps shapes you to become an excellent pro flyer. However, there is an intrinsic part to flying which is associated with our personality, our psychological well being and on how we deal with pressure, fear, including the courage and will to be successful in this sport.

As an example, a shy person will have to be determined to

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overcome shyness when flying.

After all, they are exposed to everyone who is watching in the tunnel. A person who has the personality of taking more risks ends up advancing faster by having confidence in manoeuvring their body without fear at high speeds. Those who struggle to work under pressure or are too proud of themselves eventually get annoyed while learning, which in turn builds up obstacles on their way to evolving as a pro flyer. Athletes have to accept that the way to success is often found in failure. That is one of the reasons I like this quote, “If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means “First Attempt In Learning.”

I have come to learn that flying is a process of knowing yourself and your personality.

It will allow you to work on

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several aspects that you can apply in other areas of your life. You become more confident, braver, and will have the ability to learn something new. Those are crucial elements of being an amazing athlete, one needs to be constantly learning and have a strong determination to evolve. Learning to fly makes you a superhero of your personality!

Being a tunnel instructor gives me the opportunity to share my experience with other people who might also feel insecure or afraid.

It somehow helps others be more confident while flying inside the tunnel. It is satisfying observing this process as when the customer opens up to us, we could then offer more than just a flight experience to them. It can help first-time flyers overcome their fears and limitations. It is so rewarding being a part of something that is a first in someone’s life.

RELISH A CULINARY EXPERIENCE, THE INTERCONTINENTAL WAY.

NEW YORK

LONDON

SELECTIONS RESTAURANT

This chic restaurant offers a wide range of delicious European, Asian and Middle Eastern dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The choice is yours – from light, healthy options such as rocket and pear salad to mixed grills or lamb chops. If you love fresh-made food, ask our chef to prepare his daily specials.

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RIYADH

LEGENDZ STEAKHOUSE

At Legendz, an award winning steakhouse, we share our passion for prime meat cuts, beverages and the art of cooking. Friendly and professional service complements the stylish, contemporary setting. It’s the best venue in Manama for family gatherings or romantic evenings with your loved ones. Indulge in an impressive array of premium cuts, grills and signature dishes cooked to perfection!

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DUBAI

MEDZO ITALIAN RESTAURANT

An Italian Restaurant that serves dishes that are blend of timeless classics with a contemporary twist. Immersed in Italian tradition where our talented chef ’s takes diners on a culinary journey sampling the best Italy has to offer!

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KUALA LUMPUR

DOWNTOWN BAR

Unwind after a busy day over a drink or two, while treating yourself with homemade TexMex cuisine prepared by our talented chefs. Complemented by the live tunes of resident band ‘Fever.’ Downtown is an ideal place for all occasions, from informal business talks to celebrations with your friends.

ELEMENTS POOL & LOUNGE

Escape from the stress of the city and enjoy a unique moment in a green oasis in the heart of Manama. Delight in an assortment of light bites and a selection of beverages.

Alternatively, relax by the pool while sipping on our signature cocktails and Shisha. Try our newly created tiki cocktails.

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SYDNEY

TRAVEL

AROUND BAHR AIN P L ACE S TO SE E AN D THIN GS TO DO While enjoying the thrill and exhilirating display of skills at the WCIS2018 event, take some time to experience and see the beauty of Bahrain. We have listed some of the places you can visit during your short stay in the country.

QALAT AL BAHRAIN SITE AND MUSEUM The Bahrain Fort site that is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The fort is located atop a 17.5-hectare artificial hill that has been built over more than 4,000 years of continuous occupation. It is the site of the former capital of Dilmun. The excavations over the past 50 years have revealed residential, public, commercial and military structures that testify to the importance of the site over the centuries.

BLOCK 338

BAHRAIN NATIONAL MUSEUM

Located in the heart of Adliya, Block 338 is a charming pedestrian quarter crammed with international restaurants, art galleries and small boutiques. As Bahrain’s hot dining district, Block 338 offers a wide range of restaurants appealing to all ages and tastes, be it for a fancy meal, traditional Bahraini dish or just a soothing drink.

One of the first museums in the Gulf, the Bahrain National Museum opened in 1988. The site itself, on the edge of the sea, is a tremendous attraction, adding to its contemporary ambience which is influenced by the white travertine façade and dramatic courtyard decorated with contemporary sculptures. It’s the place to learn Bahrain’s history, culture and traditions.

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DAR ISLANDS Central to life in Bahrain for centuries, pearl diving has to be the quintessential Bahraini experience. The beach resort of Al Dar Island offers regular pearl dives and cruises to Jarada Island where you might find yourself sun bathing on the spit of white sand and bobbing in its clearwaters all on your own. In addition to pearls, you can also get the chanc eto see up to 30 types of coral and more than 200 species of fish. Dolphin watching along the many surrounding coral reefs is another popular pastime and they are best spotted at sunrise or sunset.

BAHRAIN INTERNATIONAL KARTING CIRCUIT (BIKC)

AL FATEH GRAND MOSQUE Set against a backdrop of palm trees and the sea, the Grand Mosque strikes a beautiful picture.

With its exquisite Bahraini architecture, crowned by the world’s largest fiberglass dome and blessed with tranquility reserved for the holiest of holy places, the Grand Mosque truly lives up to its name. Though non-Muslim visitors are welcome, it is important to dress modestly, cover your head (for women) and take your shoes off before entering.

Bahrain International Karting Circuit (BIKC) is a state-of-the-art, world-class facility that caters to the grassroots level of motorsport. The BKIC helps unearth young local talent; and its onsite technicians provide vital racing expertise. Make sure you visit and have fun experiencing the pure joy of racing with your friends.

BAB AL BAHRAIN Bab al Bahrain is a gateway to the Manama Suq which offers Bahrain’s most traditional shopping experience. Within its atmospheric alleyways, the Kingdom’s exotic items from natural-oil perfumes and incense, rich fabrics and handicrafts, abayas and jalabiyas to intricate carpets can be found.

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AIR DANCE

A I R DA NCE INSIGHTS

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SPORTS & FITNESS

T

he first ever vertical wind tunnel on record was built by NASA in 1940 for aerodynamic research and in 1964 Jack Tiffany became the first recorded human ever to fly.

Flying in the wind tunnel is not just a sport but also an art of dancing on air. Athletes goes through rigorous training to one day be able to showcase their incredible speed and artistry of impressive movement control inside an indoor skydiving wind tunnel.

Daisy Bradshaw shares some insights on the human bodyflight competitions.

BY: DAISY BR ADSHAW ( I n d o o r S k y d i v i n g I n s t r u c t o r, I F LY )

Skydiving simulators have certainly advanced since then, rapidly gaining popularity with over 200 wind tunnels worldwide and countless flyers from 3 to 100 years old. Flying routines have gone viral over the internet with proflyers showing off their most complicated tricks and graceful performances.

Human body flight competitions are split into four different disciplines: Formation Skydiving, Vertical Formation Skydiving, Dynamic Flying and Freestyle Flying.

Freestyle flying is rapidly gaining recognition as a performing art which is why, as a flyer myself, I’d like to offer some insight on this style of flying.

In a competition there are different rounds: Compulsory round and Free round lasting 45 seconds and 1 minute respectively.

“Fire this puppy up.

I think I can fly.

They fired it up, and I flew.”

Jack Tiffany HUMAN BODY FLIGHT COMPETITIONS DISCIPLINES Formation Skydiving Vertical Formation Skydiving

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Dynamic Flying

Freestyle Flying

In a Compulsory round, the competitor has to perform various moves which are given a score out of 10. There are six compulsory moves: 360º Barrel Roll Stall, Head Up 360º Breaker, Tucked Double Back Loops, Flip Twist sequence, Manna’s Space Lab and Thomas Flair into Head down Split (You can find tutorials for all these moves on YouTube).

Points are then deducted in the case of incorrect execution and believe me,

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these moves aren’t easy. Each flyer will spend countless hours practicing these tricks as the judges are looking for perfection in each round.

Free rounds are my personal favourite. Each flyer has one minute to perform a routine with or without music to show the judges what they can do in the airflow.

These ‘shows’ amaze me more and more as each competition goes by - flyers are constantly coming up with new ideas and technically difficult moves to wow both the judges and audience. Flyers are practicing for countless hours and are pushing their bodies past limits you’d never think were possible.

When it comes to scoring these routines, judges don’t hold back. First of all, the routine is scored a certain amount of points for difficulty: use of axis (using both Head Up and Head Down orientation), technically difficult moves, use of the whole chamber, etc. Participants are then judged during their live performance at the competition. Again, points are then deducted if their execution is sloppy, uncontrolled, imprecise, wobbly, not in frame or has missing elements to it.

Presentation also plays a huge factor to the overall scoring of a routine. The composition, flow, originality and visual excitement can make a huge difference to your ranking.

Of course, flying doesn’t have to be a competitive sport, it can also be a wonderful pastime for old and young at almost any fitness level.

Everyone should experience the thrill of body flight at least once in their life. Thanks to aerodynamic research we can now fly without wings!

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HUMAN BODY FLIGHT COMPETITIONS DISCIPLINES VERTICAL FORMATION SKYDIVING Vertical Formation Skydiving (VFS) takes Formation Skydiving and flips it vertically so flyers remain either head-up or head-down relative to the net. Similar to FS, VFS competitions split into different events based upon the number of team members participating, with separate categories based on skill.

FORMATION SKYDIVING Formation Skydiving (FS) is a traditional discipline where flyers maintain a belly-down orientation and build formations with accompanying teammates.

FS is a common starting ground for new competitors because it does not require advanced freefall skill and provides measureable progress.

DYNAMIC Dynamic is unlike any other discipline in that it did not originate from a traditional Skydiving discipline.

Created by a group of experienced flyers looking for the structure of Formation Skydiving but the creativity of Freestyle, Dynamic competition offers both Speed rounds and Free routines.

Dynamic teams are composed of 2 (D2W) or 4 (D4W) people, each person given a specific slot in line where they work to follow one another as they fly the designated sequences.

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ARTISTIC FREEFLY AND FREESTYLE Freefly is an Artistic event, where two flyers perform creative routines, going for style rather than speed. The number of Rounds can vary, and each Round is judged live, where the judges use specific criteria to award scores.

Freestyle is the only solo discipline currently held at IBA competitions. Flyers perform both Free and Compulsory routines 60 seconds in length.

Creativity and difficulty are awarded in these disciplines as flyers work to amaze and impress the crowd and the judgeS.

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STIPS P O R AND T S &NUTRITION FITNESS

D O YO U F I N D I T H A R D T O C O M M I T E N O U G H T I M E D U R I N G T H E W E E K T O G E T A G O O D W O R KO U T ? I F M U LT I P L E E V E N I N G S A W E E K I N T H E GY M I S N O T A V I A B L E O P T I O N , W H Y N O T T RY A S E R I E S O F S H O R T Y E T P O W E R F U L W O R KO U T S AT H O M E T O G E T YO U R EXERCISE FIX?

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rom jogging/ sprinting routines to intense exercise bike workouts and plyometric combinations, you can soon burn off almost 500 calories in only half an hour from

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Jogs & Sprints 3 mins warm-up 3-minutes jogs (except final jog of 1.5min) 1.5-minutes sprints 4 mins cool down

A 30-minute workout of gentle jogs interspersed with intense sprints is excellent for getting your heart rate going and shedding a lot of calories very quickly.

This workout can be performed either indoors on a treadmill or outdoors on a roadside or running track.

Stairmaster slimmer This workout combines weigthlifting with stair climbing as you’ll hold dumbbells of 3lb-8lbs (select the heaviest with which you’re comfortable with moving up and down steps.

Begin and end with a gentle warm-up and cool-down before alternating between steady runs (6-6.5mph) and full-on sprints (8-9mph).

For most of this workout, you’ll hold the weights in the ‘grocery bag’ position, namely one on each hand with your arms down by your sides.

Every 2-3 minutes, break from the grocery bag position to mix the routine with bending your elbows at 90 degrees, holding the weights overhead or performing alternating bicep curls.

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5 mins warm-up 2-3 min intervals of holding weights in grocery bag position Bend elbows at 90 degrees for 2 mins (arms back and forth) Hold weights over head for 2 mins 1-2 mins of alternating bicep curls 5 mins cool down

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quarter pounder

Plyometric combo

This workout gets its name from the quarter-mile sprints that form the basis of the high-intensity routine.

Each sprint is interspersed with bodyweight exercises like cross chops, falling push-ups, figure-4 bridges on a chair/ exercise ball, and floor jacks.

high knees Run on the spot, bringing your knees up to your chest and pumping your arms as quickly as you can.

bodyweight squats

If you prefer, you can do the sprints on an exercise bike as an alternative to running.

1/4 mile sprint

4 rounds of 8 cross chops

1/4 mile sprint

3 rounds of 8 falling pushups

1/4 mile sprint

2 rounds of 8 figure-4 bridges

1/4 mile sprint

1 round of 8 floor jacks

Stand with your feet hipwidth apart and place your hands behind your head. Push your hips back and bend your knees to lower yourself into a squat before pushing yourself back into a standing position.

Repeat for as long as you can manage.

push-ups Adopt a straight-arm plank position, with your hands slightly wider than (but in line with) your shoulders. Push your body towards the ground, getting your chest as close to the ground as possible, and then push back up to your straight position.

Repeat for as long as you can manage.

alternating lunges

all-terrain interval ride

Stand with your feet hip-width apart. Step forward on your right leg, bending both knees so that your right knee is directly above your ankle and your left heel is lifted. Step back to your starting position and repeat on the opposite leg, continuing to switch between legs for as long as you can manage.

If you have an adjustable seat on your exercise bike, try this workout which simulates steep climbs and sharp descents.

The workout combines seated climbs of 3-5 minutes.

1-minute standing climbs and 1-minute downhill sprints intersperced with gentle 1-minute seated recovery cycles.

5 mins warm-up Seated climb (mins 5-10, 12-14, 17-20) Downhill sprint (mins 10-11, 15-16, 21-22, 25-26)

butt kicks Stand with your feet hip-width apart and kick your heels up towards your glutes, pumping your arms as quickly as you can. Keep going for 75 reps.

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Recovery cycle (mins 11-12, 16-17, 22-23) Standing climb (mins 14-15, 20-21) Seated & Standing climb (mins 2325, change every 30 secs) 4mins cool down

Adopt a full plank position and ‘run’ with alternating knees into your chest as quickly as you can. Engage your core throughout and focus on doing the exercise at high speed.

leg raises Get down on all fours, with palms flat on the ground and shoulder-width apart. Keep your back straight and your core enganged as you raise your left leg until your right thigh is parallel to the floor. Resume the starting position and repeat on alternating legs, doing 25 reps for each leg.

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FOODS THAT PROTECT YOU

FRO M BR E AST CANC ER AND OT H ER CAU S E S No specific food can cause or prevent breast cancer and you can’t change your family genetics. However, you can change your nutritional habits to begin with.

Take note of some of these tips and dietary guidelines that may help you reduce your overall breast cancer risk.

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everal studies suggest links between nutrition and cancer, specifically to breast cancer. Just as eating and concentrating on certain foods in the diet may increase the risk of infection, focusing on others in a healthy diet can also help prevent disease or reduce risk.

There are many factors that play a role in increasing the risk of breast cancer, making women more prepared, especially if several factors combine at the same time. Nutrition is one of the factors that appear to play a role:

Increase the intake of fat in large quantities, especially those saturated in animal products such as high-fat meat (sheep meat) and milk product. In addition to dealing with the trans fats found in chips, donuts and croissants .

Weight gain is associated with high body fat, which increases the risk of cancer in general and breast cancer in particular.

Eating processed and canned meat containing cancer-causing preservatives.

Note that turkey is less dangerous than other venison meat.

Eating grilled meat and foods that appear black on the surface due to overcooking, contain a carcinogen that increases the risk of infection .

Women take estrogen-rich treatments during the menopause phase to reduce the symptoms associated with this stage.

The use of these treatments may increase the risk of breast cancer.

HADEEL SAAD Registered Dietitian at Bahrain Credit Email: hsaad2288@gmail.com

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PREVENTION OF DISEASE Unsaturated fats found in fish and vegetable oils.

Fibre in whole grains food, vegetables and fruits help to protect the body. It is recommended to take five servings, including three servings of vegetables and two fruits per day because it helps the digestive system to get rid of toxins faster. In addition, vegetables and fruits contain a high percentage of antioxidants that prevents cancer.

Soy contains an antioxidant that prevents the formation and proliferation of cancer cells. It is recommended eating twice a week and not more as excessive intake may have side effects according to studies.

Food also plays a role in the treatment period of breast cancer.

What is the type of diet that a woman should follow during the period of treatment in order to preserve her health and safety?

During the treatment period, proper food plays an important role in reducing the side effects of drugs and in maintaining a healthy weight and at the same time combating the proliferation of cancer cells as well.

The treatment has many side effects such as nausea, vomiting and anorexia, which negatively affects the ability of the patient to eat.

The treatment also contributes to the speed of metabolism. It is noticed that the weight of the patient tends to decline at this stage, especially as the taste of the mouth changes. The patient gets a bitter or metallic taste that affects her appetite and ability to eat, aside from the psychological factor and pain.

On the other hand, breast cancer treatment negatively affects the body’s ability to absorb vitamins and minerals. At this stage, the patient needs to obtain large quantities of vitamins and minerals essential to the body.

To avoid problems that may result from the side effects of the treatment, there are certain steps that the patient can follow in the food pattern followed by:

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Focus on whole grains and reduce the intake of sugar sources.

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DRINK WATER

INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF FOODS YOU LIKE

Drink one and a half liter to two liters of water a day and distribute it all day.

FOCUS ON THE JUICE

EXERCISE Follow-up exercise by strength to endurance is useful in all cases, as it improves blood circulation and reduce the stress and stress resulting from illness and treatment. Swimming or walking can be practiced as light sports that are easy for the patient to practice.

Juice improves the taste and increase your appetite.

CHOOSE LOW FAT PROTEINS Concentrate on low-fat proteins from skimmed milk and meat from beef, chicken breast or fish.

EAT UNSATURATED FATS Eat unsaturated fats found mainly in fish and olive oil.

MINERAL SOURCES Focus on mineral sources, which can be obtained as soon as you eat, it is not necessary to take supplements.

FOODS THAT OPEN THE APPETITE

DITCH SOFT DRINKS

It is important to focus on foods that increases appetite.

However, it is also recommended to eat fruit, sweets and ice cream sometimes.

Generally sweet foods are the ones that increases the appetite more.

Avoid soft drinks. It contain carcinogens, whether regular or diet drinks, especially the diet option as it contains aspartame.

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BUILDING STRENGTH IN FLE XIBILIT Y MOBILIT Y IS THE ANSWER !

Indoor skydiving is a serious sport! One needs to have the stamina and flexibility to be able to manoeuvre flawlessly inside the tunnel without getting an injury.

Flexibility training is essential in avoiding injury. It also helps decrease soreness and stiffness, particularly among athletes who train at higher frequencies and intensities. Sarah has put together this helpful exercises to get you started.

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n order to fly well, you need to have the perfect blend of strength, stamina and flexibility. Trying to improve flexibility whilst keeping strength often seems impossible! Research has shown that stretching before training can decrease the amount of strength produced by a muscle. But when your routine depends on it, what can be done to keep a high level of both?

This is where mobility comes in. Mobility is the perfect blend of strength in flexibility, where control is key. It’s all fine being able to passively stretch into a split, but if you don’t have the strength to lift the leg into that position, your performance will be hindered. End range activation (ERA) allows us to work on our flexibility whilst simultaneously improving our strength at that range.

By utilizing isometric contractions (static holds) we can train our central nervous system to have active control over a particular range, teaching us to expand our useable range of motion.

Here are my top exercises to work on ERA and strength in flexibility:

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1. Hamstring Stretch With Leg Lift Stand facing a bench, chair or bar. Place one foot on the bench, keeping the hips square and the supporting knee soft. Hinge forward at the hips, stretching the hamstring of the raised leg. As you lift your chest

2. Lift Off And Hovers

to release the stretch, lift the heel off of the bench and hold for 5-10 seconds.

Repeat three to four times before switching legs. You can increase the intensity by elevating the leg higher in the hamstring stretch and initiating the lift off the higher rest.

In a mermaid stretch position (the 90/90 hip position), lean forward slightly and lift the rear leg, engaging the glute and lifting the foot, knee and thigh off the floor. Hold for 5-10 seconds, 3-4 times before switching legs.

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3 Deep, Hip Hinge Forward Lunge

place your front foot on an elevated platform.

Take your usual lunge stance a little wider, and hinge forward at the hips, pressing the front foot into the floor. Lower down into a deep lunge, maintaining the forward hip hinge. Add weight if you find this move comfortable. To increase the range of motion,

Regularly practice these exercises and feel the benefits in training, and on game day!

Sarah is an ex-Army qualified Personal Trainer and Pilates Instructor based in London, but offers online training and health coaching at honeylawson.com

Elevated Deadlifts By standing on a bench or step, complete a normal deadlift, but allow the hamstring to stretch significantly further by allowing the bar or dumbbells to come past your feet (whilst maintaining a neutral spine position).

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FUNCTIONAL TR AINING Indoor skydiving tests athletes’ mobility, balance, body awareness, coordination, and symmetry. When it comes to arduous demands of muscle work for this sport, functional training is a good way to start. It’s the type of training that prepares your body for various forms of daily activities in life. It also maintains body strength and endurance that can be applied across all areas in sports including indoor skydiving.

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Yoga is also quite complete to support the high performance of the Bodyflyers, since it works the physical endurance, develops strength and flexibility of the body.

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TA Y L A L I M A Tayla Lima is an Indoor Skydiving Instructor from Brazil. She holds both IBA and Tunnel Instructor ratings and she is passionate with her job.

racticing Bodyflight demands every muscle groups to work perfectly such as upper body, lower body, back, feet. Strengthening them will be a game changer in the performance and technical level of a bodyflyer. Following this pattern the best option to workout the whole body is by practicing Functional Training which in addition to ensure the strength it will provide endurance and agility to athletes. This method is based on humans natural body movements such as jump, run, pull, squat, spin, push. It’s also a distinct method comparing to conventional bodybuilding training since the Functional Training can be practiced anywhere as the only need is your body weight, perhaps few props like resistance bands, ropes, balls, speed cones, sliding plates and bars could also help workout the whole body.

good deal as breeds a heavier and less agile body, spoiling speed and high performance.

The Functional Training does not focus in a single movement or isolated axes and enables various muscles to work at the same time, unlike conventional bodybuilding training.

For training static flying styles the Bodyflyer needs to

“Indoor skydiving is a sport and needs to be considered in this manner, like any other sport that requires devotion, constancy, and body work.”

The conventional bodybuilding training employs the muscle groups singly and with specificity which can easily lead to hypertrophy. For Bodyflyers the muscle gain is not a

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intensify isometric workout, which is the ability to maintain the body steady and tough in the same position for a long length of time and to perceive the power intensity that need to be applied to be steady in the position. Connecting the isometry to the Functional training makes the practice quite dynamic, bringing benefits to the Bodyflyer performance inside and outside the tunnel.

Yoga is also quite complete to support the high performance of the Bodyflyers, since it works the physical endurance, develops strength and flexibility of the body.

Gravity offers staff a fully equipped gym so that the Instructors team may be always in shape and tough for the quite demanding tasks inside the wind tunnel.

Indoor skydiving is a sport and needs to be considered in this manner, like any other sport that requires devotion, constancy, and body work. By doing that you will certainly achieve higher levels of performance in any flight mode.

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▀ At the same time, grill ears of corn, rotating occasionally, until evenly charred. Remove chicken and corn, let cool slightly. Chop chicken and slice corn kernels off the cob and set aside. ▀ (You may need to do this in a couple batches.) Use a pizza cutter to evenly chop lettuce into small pieces. Toss it in a very large bowl with tomatoes, black beans, red onion, cheeses, tortilla chips, chicken, and corn. Drizzle with light ranch dressing and BBQ sauce. Toss and serve immediately.

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TIPS AND NUTRITION

Indoor Skydiving competitions are taxing not only physically, but also mentally. To be sure you are as prepared as you can be, here are my top 5 tips to maximise your performance: BY: S AR AH L AWSON

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As well as hydrating in the run up to the competition, be sure to sip water throughout the day. If you feel like you are fatiguing quickly, or are prone to headaches, then check your water consumption!

Avoid muscle pain and cramps by balancing your electrolytes

It sounds obvious but going in with a positive mindset can make all the difference. All too often we tell ourselves ‘I CAN’T do this’, ‘I’m NOT good enough’. If we turn those negative beliefs into positive affirmations in the present tense, your brain will start believing it. Create a mantra that feels right to you. Perhaps it’s ‘I AM good enough’, or ‘I have worked hard and DESERVE to do well’. Whatever it is, make sure it is present tense, and repeat it to yourself constantly!

Stay well fuelled

On competition day, adrenaline will be high, meaning your body will be using up your glucose stores for energy. Stay well fuelled so that you don’t cause blood sugar dips, which may also lead to a fall in concentration. Keep high energy snacks on hand, such as oat and honey bars, bananas, or seeing as you’re in the Middle East – dates!

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Electrolytes are natural chemicals such as calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium, and chloride, that are used by your body for regulating blood pressure, nerve signalling and maintaining fluid balance. A good balance keeps your muscles contracting and relaxing as they should! Bananas, leafy greens and avocados are great sources of electrolytes, or you can make your own electrolyte solution using coconut water or pickle juice! Or to keep it simple, dissolve some salt in a glass of water.

Trust the process

Hydration is key Competition day is what you’ve been preparing for. You’re ready, and you can do this! Along with your positive mantra, reaffirm to yourself that you have done everything you can to be ready for today. Don’t start switching things up, eating new food or trying new warm up routines on race day – this never ends well! Don’t get distracted by the other competitors, this is your time to shine, so enjoy it!

Did you know physical performance can drop dramatically when you are just 2% dehydrated?

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athletes returning to sea level from altitude depend less on carbs and more on fat as an energy source.

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S U IT UP! FASHION Take time to check out Gravity Indoor Skydiving’s shop for your gear and make a fashion statement!

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FASHION AND GEAR

Vertical Speed Suit The pursuit of bodyflight in its purest form has created demand for a new breed of suits - one that offers power and flexibility while fitting as tight to your body as possible. The Speed is much more powerful than the Spandex type suits and perfect for those fast dynamic rounds.

Flying type Dynamic flying, any advanced type of flying Optimized for Tunnel flying Suit Fit Skin tight Very form fitting, like a spandex suit.

Materials & Construction Made with Cordura Naturalle, a Cordura and Lycra blend.

This is a very powerful material blend that allows for a second-skin fit combining the power of Cordura and elasticity of Lycra.

Windproof YKK zipper on torso and lower leg No mesh lining nor inside pocket. You need to wear a skin-tight base layer under this suit for maximum comfort.

Optional integrated G-Form pads on elbows and knees Reinforcement in key areas for extra durability

Cookie G3 Skydiving Helmet Designed to maximize your senses the G3 skydiving helmet provides unbeatable comfort and field of vision.

A high impact Polycarbonate visor provides protection against hits while keeping an undistorted view. The V-Mech assures the visor is in place at all times even in the most extreme situations being that in the tunnel or in the air. Cookie’s exclusive fastening system makes sure that the helmet wraps evenly around the head without any unnecessary pressure points.

The helmet liner incorporates D3O for better low impact protection during multiple hits.

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Gravity Black Hoodie with Zipper A true classic, this comfy, cozy zip-up is the definition of an all-rounder. Wear it alone as an outer layer, or throw it on over a t-shirt — there’s no wrong way to sport this fuzzy, warm hoodie from Gravity Indoor Skydiving apparels.

Great design for skydiving people with Gravity insignia.

Gravity Grey Hoodie Jacket If you’re looking for a top-quality, instant-favorite sweatshirt, you’ve come to the right place! This grey hoodie is everything you could ask for: it’s warm and cozy,

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heavyweight and roomy, and built to last. It has contrasting, complementary-colored drawstring and inner necktape with a stitched slit inside kangaroostyle pocket.

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Gravity Cotton T-Shirts Gravity’s fitted cotton/poly tee should be a staple of everyone’s wardrobe. These tees are perfect when worn on their own, but also a great wear as a layer. The cotton/poly blend makes for a durable wear and a form-fit that won’t change after a few washes and dries.

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There are several variety of colours you can choose from.

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Turbolenza T-Way Flow Icon T-Shirt for Women Turbolenza T-WAY Flow Icon t-shirt. A crew neck t-shirt for everyday use and casual evenings. This classic tee is made from pure cotton for a really soft, comfortable finish.

It features a slim fit with short

sleeves, a ribbed round neckline and a small Turbolenza logo printed on the top left of the chest. The t-shirt is finished with a Turbolenza logo tab on one sleeve. A timeless classic. Start collecting now!

Turbolenza T-Way Flow Icon T-Shirt for Men

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#WCIS2018 Bahrain Official T-Shirt

Turbolenza Super T-Shot T-Shirt for Men

This T-shirt is perfect for that tailored look. Throw it on under a sweater or sweatshirt, or wear it by itself with a pair of

A crew neck t-shirt for everyday use and casual evenings. This classic tee is made from pure cotton for a really soft, comfortable finish. It features a slim fit

jeans or khakis. A great commemorative item for your visit at WCIS2018 in Bahrain

with short sleeves of different colors, a round neckline and a Turbolenza design printed on the bottom left side. The phylosophy of the brand on you...

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#WCIS2018 Bahrain Collector’s Cap

Gravity Trucker Cap

Make sure you get this as a keepsake of your visit to WCIS2018 in Bahrain. It’s perfect for teams or individuals, for the field or the street.

It has a form-fit material, and the extras like a sewn-in sweatband make this piece a smart buy.

Logging some miles in your big-rig or just looking to emulate that casual cool style? If so, then this cap is for you. The trucker cap adds a versatile and laid-back style to any outfit, but it’s probably best rocked with a plaid button down and a worn-in pair of jeans.

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Turbolenza Flash Strapback Cap - Flat Turbolenza Flash Strapback Cap. This Adjustable Cap has a captivating design and is made for Outdoor and Indoor Lovers. It features a pre-curved brim, an athletic profile and six-panel displaying a high quality embroidered Turbolenza logo and artwork. The self strap metal buckle closure at the back delivers a personalised fit. Versatile and practical, you can wear flash anytime, anywhere.

For more information: Gravity Indoor Skydiving Bahrain Tel. No. +973 13 10 00 00 Email: info@gravitybah.com

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Madone SLR is fully customizable through Trek’s custom bike program & available in all-new premium paint schemes called Project One ICON. Get Yours Now!

MOBILE APPS

INDOOR SKYDIVING

JAZZ YOUR FITNESS It’s always great to check out various fitness apps that will help revamp your workout. So check out our list of apps.

COUCH TO 5K’S

This apps motto is quite literally “from the couch to the 5K finish line,” targeting beginning runners who want to train for their first race. The best part? It only requires sweating for 30 minutes per day, three days a week for nine weeks.

MYFITNESSPAL

Under Armour’s app MyFitnessPal is a three-for-one diet tracker, calorie counter, and exercise motivator. The app personalizes your goals based off of your body type and the food you’re eating. There are about 5 million foods in their database to choose from so you’re not just typing in “chicken”— which means you can determine how many calories you’re actually taking in and burning off.

It’s Free

Keep track of what you’re eating.

More than 6 million foods in our database.

HEADSPACE

Quickly scan barcodes to add nutrition facts.

If you’re not ready to commit to an exercise routine just yet, start off your wellness journey by learning how to meditate with the Headspace app. You can begin with a free 10-day beginner’s course that shows you the essentials of practising mindfulness on a daily basis. Meditating is known to help battle insomnia and increase productivity at work.

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