Karine Joly is world champion in artistic skydiving in free fall or “free fly”. Meeting this Sunday with an extraordinary athlete.
If skydiving is often popular with those seeking thrills, Karine Joly has made it her profession. What does the daily life of a artistic skydiving world champion ?
Artistic skydiving, the art of “moving in an inhuman way”
Before the sensations, the numbers: 7,000 jumps, hundreds of hours of training, world champion in 2018 in Australia, 11 world records to her name… Karine Joly collects records and trains hard -foot.
This discipline of artistic skydiving is also called “gliding” or “free fly”. Concretely, “it’s a bit as if the air was a mechanical bull and we were riding on it. We have to manage to hold the position we have decided to learn”explains the athlete.
on routine sportive ? Karine trains alone or with her team, two performers and “a video man”, behind the camera, who revolves around the two other members. They regularly train in a wind tunnel, vertical tubes simulating the sensation of wind, which allow them to reproduce the act of falling from a plane.
“During a free fall we can have superpowers and move in a completely inhuman way” she describes. An extremely short time because the acrobatics must be performed in 45 seconds and noted on the technical and artistic aspects.
Karine has just published the story of this extraordinary activity, which reflects her way of living on a daily basis: “I like to chart my own path and not follow the beaten path,” she tells Géraldine Mayr at the microphone. His book, “The horizon of possibilities” is published by City Editions.
How do you achieve an artistic skydiving record? What next challenges await Karine? Answer by listening to this episode of “C’est la vie”.
