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Ueli Gegenschatz —
Swiss
Athlete
born on January 03, 1971,
died on November 13, 2009
Ueli Gegenschatz was a Swiss BASE jumper, paraglider and skydiver who held several world records... (wikipedia)
Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.