Olav Zipser

Biography

Olav Zipser (born March 12, 1966, in Simmern, West Germany) is a pioneering German professional skydiver widely known as the “Father of FreeFly.” He began skydiving in 1986 at Texel in the Netherlands through the Accelerated Freefall program and quickly started experimenting with non-traditional body-flight positions. In the early 1990s he developed and promoted freeflying, three-dimensional human flight in orientations such as head-down, sit-fly, and back-fl, helping transform it from an exper…