TEMPO.CO, Bandung - Hundreds of sky divers will be falling from Bandung sky as the 16th ASIANIA Parachuting Championships and INDONESIAN International Open 2014 are kicked start today. The international championship was opened yesterday by Chief of Staff of the Indonesian National Air Force Marshal Ida Bagus Putu Dunia, at Husein Sastranegara Airport, Bandung, West Java.
As many as 303 skydivers from 22 country members of Asiania are participating in the event. Putu wishes that the national athletes can measure up their skill through this competition.
According to the Deputy Chief of the organizer Efendi Soen, participants will be competing in four categories: team and individual Accuracy (Male and Female), 4-way formation skydiving open, 2-way canopy formations sequential,and 4-way canopy formations rotations.
ERICK P. HARDI