Extreme Skydiving

High interest, edgy activities fill the pages of Nailed It! Extreme Skydiving. The carefully written, considerate text will hold the readers' interest and allow for successful mastery and comprehension. Written in the high-low format, this series has a HIGH interest level to appeal to a more mature audience but maintains a LOW level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Extreme Skydiving presents the thrills and spills of this most intriguing extreme sport. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance achievement and comprehension.

There was a time not so long ago when a surfboard in the sky was the stuff of comic book fantasy. Today, extreme athletes are surfing the air with ease and grace. The sports of sky surfing and its parent, skydiving, are the subject of our new high-velocity title, Extreme Sky Ports. Kids will get their hair blown back by brilliant aerial photos of sky surfers and divers in action, as clear concise text explains the history and techniques of these young, thrilling sports. Deploy! Gallery of expert sky-surf tricks; Stars and legends of the sport; The designs and function of the equipment; How this daring sport keeps safety its first priority.

Skydiving--one mistake, and you fall like a piano.until, SPLAT! You're a blob of jam. Jeff Nichols works at a local flight school--just to pay for his skydiving. Then he hears of a plan to put his biggest rival into a 'chute roll, which he knows no skydiver has ever survived. But trying to stop it might put Jeff in an airplane at 10,000 feet--without his parachute.

Most people enjoy the sport of sky diving because they get to fall at extremely high speeds, but some people want to go even faster. One man is even experimenting with various methods of increasing his speed. What is he doing to go faster? Is it working?

Colorful look at the sport of skydiving.

Most people enjoy the sport of sky diving because they get to fall at extremely high speeds, but some people want to go even faster. One man is even experimenting with various methods of increasing his speed. What is he doing to go faster? Is it working?

Discusses the history of skydiving, the different kinds and maneuvers, the equipment, and the nature of skydiving as an extreme sport.