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A Safer Skydiving Boot Camp to kick you off for the European summer <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Intense networking, sharing experiences and boosting knowledge, packed in three days of safety-oriented seminars. Save the dates – we meet on 17-19th March 2022 in Warsaw, Poland. <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Skydiving is a continuous learning process. Nobody can say they have learned everything there is to know. Each visit to the dropzone brings new skills and fresh knowledge. However, it is not only jumping that influence your general experience in the sport. Countless discussions with more experienced jumpers and instructors, your own observations, spontaneous incident analysis at the dropzone – all such elements put together the puzzles you can call \u201cmy skydiving experience\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experience boost like no other<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Imagine coming to one place where you can meet world-class experts in all important disciplines of our sports: canopy pilots, wingsuiters, instructors, freefly coaches, big-way organisers, tandem masters, riggers and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine coming out of your home DZ environment to connect with others, learn how skydiving looks elsewhere and what opportunities this sport may give you in the years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Imagine discussing rig construction with the engineers, gear choices with dealers or learning about new products directly from the manufacturers. They are making this sport more and more approachable, safe and comfortable and have so much to show you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main idea of the event is to bring the European community together and prepare for the upcoming season 2022<\/em>. After the wintertime, even experienced jumpers may feel some anxiety before the first jump of the year, not to mention students. We consider the Symposium to be some sort of gigantic Safety Day before the new season<\/em>. <\/p>Marta Moli\u0144ska
Symposium Co-organiser, from Sky Camp Drop Zone <\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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A chance to meet the main safety players in the field
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Fourth Edition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The idea for the conference was born back in 2018 when Arek Majewski and Tom Noonan, UPT, decided to organise a seminar for tandem masters in Poland. During the event many said it would be great to address other safety issues outside of tandem skydiving. Many instructors, riggers and regular skydivers struggle with countless issues that are related to the safety in skydiving. And the sport is always developing, with innovations in gear and safe practices, so it\u2019s important to keep up to date, and be able to share this knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second edition took place in 2019 with topics on various skydiving aspects, although it was still addressed mostly to the Polish audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When preparing the 2020 edition, two major decisions were made: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to make the event European and available for anyone to join. Due to some Polish presentations on the agenda, we also provide simultaneous translation. That said, I wanted to organise the 2020 event together with Sky Camp, one of the most popular Polish drop zones. Bigger events require much more work and commitment. Since after 2020 success the event got a lot of attention, we decided to add one more co-organiser this year, which is Skydive Warszawa. This way we created a Dream Team for the Symposium organisation. I\u2019m more than sure the 2022 edition is going to be epic.<\/em><\/p>Arek \u201cMaya\u201d Majewski, LOT G7, organiser of the event<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The second decision was to organise the event every second year, in the years when PIA is not taking place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn\u2019t want to make an impression of competition between the events.<\/em> We work with and get great support from USPA. The idea was for both events to be complementary to each other. Firstly, because our event takes place in Europe, secondly, because it\u2019s a conference instead of the expo event.<\/em><\/p>Arek \u201cMaya\u201d Majewsk<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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VR tool for canopy patterns and landings
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Content variety<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The European Skydiving Symposium is a conference around the safety of skydiving. The idea is to gather in Warsaw and spend three days together – each packed with amazing content provided by professionals. The organisers decided to have the main stage for all the audience (beginners\/intermediate\/pros) and each day added one separate \u201cpro track\u201d: first day is for the tandem masters, second day for the instructors, third day for the riggers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each group of our community needs different presentations. If you\u2019re an experienced tandem master, you won\u2019t really need to listen about the dos and don\u2019ts on a new dropzone, but you\u2019d likely want to listen about the factors that influence exit order<\/em>. If you\u2019re just about to hit your first 100 jumps, you might find a lot of insights that are not part of an AFF course. Very often there is not enough time during the jumping days to explain such matters as importance of the separation between the groups, jump-run mysteries or risks that come with a brand new GoPro on your helmet.<\/em> And there are some aspects of skydiving that we all care about like potential emergencies on the plane. We\u2019re on the same boat here, literally. <\/em><\/p>Arek \u201cMaya\u201d Majewsk<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The main topic of the European Skydiving Symposium is Safety of Skydiving
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Legends<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s really exciting, is that the Symposium is also a chance to meet these legends in our sport\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n