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Indoor Skydiving as a source of psychological stress of beginners

Publication at Faculty of Physical Education and Sport |
2013

Abstract

Skydiving no longer belongs among activities for individuals with a special training and a specific mission. It is mostly a summer activity with a strong emotional charge and rightly meets all the criteria of leisure time activities for the public.

Gone are the days when the candidate had to undergo a long and difficult preparation before their first jump. Along with the gradual transformation of sport parachuting appeared indoor skydiving.

The article deals with the immediate feelings of subjects who had no previous experience with indoor skydiving. The effort to stabilize the body in an air stream brings an interesting psychological relations, mainly resulting from an unusual environment and an unknown way of moving.