Skydiving

Have you ever thought of falling through the sky at great speeds? It sounds exciting, right? This sport is called skydiving and consists of jumping from planes at very high heights, only helped by a parachute, or an instructor if it’s your first time. People see this extreme sport as very dangerous, but few people die. Mortality rates in the US are 1 person per 150,000 people that jump out of a plane.

There are also variants of this sport, like wing suit flying, that consists of jumping with a special suit that allows the jumper to glide, or sky surfing, that is exactly what it sounds like: surfing in the sky. A strange variant of it is called stuff jumping and consists of jumping out of a plane with, for example, a motorcycle or a rubber raft.

I encourage you to try it, but this sport is also very expensive, because you have to rent a plane and all of the equipment. In conclusion, this is a great sport full of emotions and adrenaline. Here are some videos:

Skysurfing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBrncHJLSlU

Wingsuit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBirCbODshQ&feature=fvst

GYMNASTICS IN OUR CITY, SORIA.

Hello bloggers! I’m going to talk to you about the sport I practice and how it is organised here in Soria. I think it is very interesting to know more about sports and about what they are like from the inside, not only what we see in the exhibitions, so here I’m going to give you some information about my favourite sport.

In our city there are two gymnastic clubs, one is called “Club Deportivo Gimnasia Soria” and the other “Club Deportivo Duero” .These two groups used to be part of “Club Deportivo Numancia”, a bigger one that not only included gymnastics, but also had football, basketball, volleyball, hockey…

Well, going back again to my topic, my club “Gimnasia Soria”, I’m going to explain what it consists of and how we prepare for our competitions and exhibitions.

Our team is divided into two types of gymnastics: aerobic and rhythmic. It is made up of 140 children aged between 5 and 18. Our training begins in august and lasts until the season ends, which is usually around May or June. But don’t think this sport is just about being flexible, this sport requires a lot of training and perseverance. You must be able to prepare all the elements that together will form part of your dancing. This also requires, apart from flexibility, concentration and strength. But not only that, we also have to consider our trainers’ work. They have to do a lot of things, first when the season starts they have to organise al the new and old club members. Then they have to choose the music for each performance and later design all their leotards. But that’s not all, they also have to federate each person who is going to compete. Then in our exhibitions and competitions all the years’ work is shown, that’s why it’s so intense.

I hope you have found this piece of information about gymnastics in Soria interesting. If you know other clubs, I’d like to know more about them!

Jumpstyle

You have probably heard about this type of modern dancing or have seen it, but do you know its story, how to dance it or about its popularity?

Jumpstyle is a developed form of oldschool, hardcore dance from the beginning of the 90s. The Jumpstyle appeared like a musical genre in Belgium and Holland during 1997 and it was played in discos by the oldschool boys. Initially, it wasn´t very popular and it didn´t have great success, however, through the next years jumpstyle began to be danced by a group of boys called “The Jumpers” in Holland, and its sophisticated and elegant style was rapidly adopted in the country over next two years. In 2006, with the first contests in Holland, France, Spain and Russia popularised the dance and it travelled from Holland to all of Europe. Jumpstyle is nowadays “conquering” North America and Australia.

You can find Jumpstyle in your own city too, there are little groups of boys called “Jumpers”, who can be seen near your house, in your high-school (I have seen people in my high-school who are thirteen years old dancing), or in your city´s square. Sometimes in Facebook you receive an invitation for an event to take part in a big concentration of jumpstyle in a huge city. These concentrations take place in mostly the biggest squares of the cities, nearing up to 10,000 people dancing at the same time.

Although it seems easy, it is a complicated dance and you must control your movements in a precise way so as not to fall or to get lost. The first thing you may learn while dancing jumpstyle is to warm up your legs for 10 minutes as it requires a high concentration and flexibility of your legs. I´m sure you are thinking that arms are not necessary… you are wrong. When you are dancing jumpstyle the coordination of movements between the opposite arm from the leg you are moving makes the “magic” in this dance. When you have finished of warning up you can look for Patrick Jumpen's website and learn how to dance it with tutorial videos.

I am now practising to dance Jumpstyle, and it is really difficult! Would you like to dance jumpstyle? Here you are two videos I like!