Understanding Parachute Skydiving
Parachuting is a sport that is considered as the mother of a very popular extreme sport: skydiving. These two sports are practically joined at the hip simply because there can be no skydiving without a parachute! This fact gave birth to the term “parachute skydiving.”
While history did not give clear records about the origin of this sport, there are some accounts of early parachuting in Chinese history. It seems that this concept was related to the kite’s invention. The famous Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing that looks like a cross between a canopy and a …