World Air Sports Announces Indoor Skydiving Summit

‘Tunnel Vision of the Broadest Kind’ is the tagline for the first Indoor Skydiving Global Summit in February 2020 being organised by the World Air Sports Federation (FAI).

After indoor skydiving’s bid for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games lost out to events in four other sports for inclusion in the programme, the stakeholders in this young air sport discipline meet on the northern Costa Brava in Spain to make adjustments to their shared vision for the Olympic cycle through Los Angeles 2028.

The FAI is working with its Parachuting Commission (IPC), and Support Air International (SAI) to deliver the event scheduled from February 1-3, 2020.

An estimated 200 summiteers will descend on the Bay of Roses | Land of the Sky | Home to the Wind for two days of deliberations on the nature, the current scope and the future development of indoor skydiving.

There is hardly another location in the world quite as steeped in the history of competitive human flight as the two resort towns Castelló d’Empúries/Empúriabrava and Roses, which have been hosts to numerous FAI World Championships and World Cups in Skydiving since 1989 as well as The Wind Games in Indoor Skydiving since 2014.

The goal of the Summit is to have the participants in the summit draft and adopt the 2020 IndoorSkydiving.Vision, the statement establishing the parameters for future collaboration between the stakeholders in the continued advancement of the young air sport discipline.

FAI President Robert Henderson said, “I congratulate the IPC for their initiative in creating this opportunity for different stakeholders to join in pursuit of a common goal, to share ideas and to develop this fledgling discipline further.”

“It has something for everyone,” said IPC President Gillian Rayner, “for tunnel owner/operators, for coaches/instructors, for athletes and for providers of equipment. The Bay of Roses will be the place to exchange and to learn.”

“The Bay of Roses is a truly extraordinary location for skydiving,” said SAI Chief Executive Roland Hilfiker, a resident of the area. “That is what brought me here in the first place, when I came from far to hang up the shingle on what has since become Skydive Empuriabrava.”