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Taiwan wins the silver
at Kaohsiung's 2008 International Air Sports Competition

◎Text by Kuan-Chun Chen

　The 2008 International Air Sports Competition, held at Kaohsiung's Metropolitan Park on July 20th and 21st, wowed spectators with participants' amazing skydiving skills. Air Sports includes two events, landing accuracy and 2-Way Canopy Formation. In order to present these types of events, co operation must come from the military to lift the air space ban during the competition. Former Army Airborne Brigade Sky Diving Team Capitan, Li-Fan Wang, explained because it is so difficult to organize such an event, it was a great for local residents to get a chance to witness it.

　The landing accuracy competition involves skydivers jumping from 3500 feet, with the aim to land on a fifty centimeter scoring pad. Skydivers are judged on their landing accuracy and their proximity to the center of the land pad. Each skydiver is allocated six attempts and final ranking is based on jumper's accumulated score. The nineteen skydivers who participated in the 2008 International Air Sports Competition came from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan. Chief of the Aero Sports Association of Kaohsiung, Syue-Ming Li added it is an unwritten rule that audiences should remain silent when divers are approaching the scoring pad in order to avoid distraction or any other unnecessary interference.

　Taiwan's skydiver Yong-Zhi Peng (of the Army Airborne Brigade Sky Diving Team), landed the silver in the accuracy event. Peng landed out of bounds on his last jump, rendering the gold to the U.S. team. Peng had actually been leading the US participant Beaudreau throughout his first five jumps. It is speculated, had he rendered ten points on his sixth jump he would have defeated Beaudreau and won the gold.

　Four teams participated in the 2-Way Canopy Formation event. Teams came from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and the United States. The U.S. team also won the gold in this event, with Australia taking the silver and New Zealand the bronze. In this event participants compete in groups of three. These groups include two skydivers and a photographer. Skydivers dive from 6000 feet and demonstrate a skydiving routine that must last within the allocated time of sixty seconds. Teams are scored on their routines and ability to stay within the designated timeframe.

2008國際飛行運動暖身賽──熱烈登場 台灣奪銀

◎文／江戶川明

　高雄國際飛行運動暖身賽７月20、21日在都會公園舉行，兩天都吸引大批民眾觀賞，各國飛行好手也展現絕佳的落地技術，現場民眾驚呼連連，此次飛行運動暖身賽比賽項目分為定點著陸和雙人疊傘兩項。台灣隊選手、也是國軍神龍小組成員的彭勇智在定點著陸最後一跳可惜出了界外，結果成績小輸美國、與加拿大並列第２，經加跳後鍍銀，也為台灣拿下這次參賽的唯一１面獎牌。

　前５跳彭勇智排名高居第１，居次的是美國隊Beaudreau，第6跳只要跳進電腦計分墊10分內，彭勇智就能篤定奪金 ，不料竟爆出冷門、飛出墊外，後跳的Beaudreau以逸待勞，完美著陸，金牌落袋。

　定點著陸必須由3500英呎高空躍下，並在直徑50公分的電腦計分墊上著陸，再依據距離圓心的近遠，每半徑１公分為一個同一心圓感應給分；每位選手需出賽６次，再以加總總合決定名次，這次的暖身賽共有加拿大、美國、英國、紐西蘭、澳洲以及台灣共６國、19位選手報名。

　至於雙人疊傘則有澳洲、紐西蘭、台灣及美國４隊出賽，由美國隊搶下金牌 ，澳洲則拿到第２，第３名由紐西蘭收下。雙人疊傘以３人一組，２人變換動作、1人負責攝影；比賽方式是從6000 英呎的高空跳傘，60秒需完成５個動作為１個循環的指定動作，愈能在時間內完成愈多的正確動作，分數愈高。

　前神龍小組隊長汪立範表示，飛行運動需要軍方空域解禁也要有航空器支援，一般民間參與的機會有限，參賽選手也需長期傘訓，「感覺」才能掌握，這次高雄國際飛行運動暖身賽的舉辦算是非常難得。

  高雄市飛行運動委員會主委李學明則說，飛行運動雖然沒有特別的觀賽禮儀，但是在「定點著陸」比賽時，當選手快要接近電腦計分墊，觀眾最好能保持安靜不要鼓譟，可避免影響選手成績。