Swooping is a very new form of skydiving, so the history of this
sport has to date back to skydiving, itself. Skydiving has roots
back to the very first ideas that humanity had regarding flying.
It was thought that with a balloon or parachute it might be
possible to fly. Now, however, it's known that parachutes are
mostly good for slowing a fall, this is where the sport started.
Between World War I and World War II, parachuting started to
become more and more popular among people who were not soldiers.
These people at first started out just using old ex-military
equipment. This was good enough at first, but it was discovered
that there were several changes that could be made to the
equipment in order to improve the steering of the parachute.
Eventually it was also discovered that it is much easier to
skydive safely if you jump out of the plane in certain
positions. Skydiving, while it was still only a sport for the
brave, gradually became more and more popular over the years. In
1950, it was considered to be an aeronautical sport, and now
there are hundreds of competitions and skydiving schools all
over the world.
Of course, after a while even the most exciting sport gets a
little bit boring. Swooping is just another way for people to
make skydiving more interesting - it's more of an evolution in
skydiving techniques than it is its own sport. Even so, there
are a lot of people for whom swooping is the sport of choice.
It is not really known when swooping first started, though it
definitely began during the past 20 years. It was a mixture of
people looking for a new type of skydiving, as well as the
result of new, high performance parachutes. These parachutes
allow so much control that a lot of people are able to make
sudden turns right before they land. Once it was discovered that
this was possible, a new sport began. Swooping is currently
gaining in popularity, and there is now a large and growing
following for this sport all over the world.
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