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Orlando is almost year round summer fun in the water, on land or in the air. With nearly 2,000 lakes, springs and rivers, the Central Florida area offers virtually unlimited boating, canoeing, tubing, jet-skiing and water-skiing opportunities. Places like Sammy Duvall’s Watersports Centre at Disney’s Contemporary Resort offers 450ft and 600ft parasailing as well as [...]

What Is Extreme in Skydiving
Extreme Skydiving?
For the uninitiated, it may seem that skydiving does not need an adjective such as “extreme.” Many people would ask, “Isn’t skydiving always extreme?”
The answer from those experienced in parachuting, skydiving and extreme skydiving would be, “No.” There is an important difference between skydiving and extreme skydiving, (Some have suggested [...]

Skydiving is an activity that was created out of a necessity. If an aircraft got damaged during a flight, its passengers have no other option than to jump using a parachute. The first recorded instance of a successful parachute landing was in 1797, when Andre Jacques Farnerin boldly jumped out of a hot-air balloon and [...]