Extreme Sports Cafe's partner Wind Tunnel is located just outside Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and is the one and only wind tunnel in Asia! It is a state of the art skydiving wind tunnel that gives ordinary people the chance to feel the thrill and sensation of jumping out of an airplane and freefalling through the sky just like a skydiver. Only 15km northeast of KL and easily accessible by road. It takes roughly 45min to get there from KL. The Wind Tunnel is an attraction ride that is part of an indoor "future" theme park; so there is plenty to do for friends or family members who may accompany you on the trip... that is if they don't fancy some body flight!
Vertical Wind Tunnel flying or bodyflying, is a sport open to everyone, not just the risk takers of the world or experienced skydivers. Children and adults both love the challenge it presents and physical skills required to fly. It is a great way to stay in shape and a fun way to spend time with your friends or family an once you know how, it's honestly as easy as toasting bread!
Extreme Sports Cafe would like to extend it's thanks to Dawn Suiter and Bodyflight Network for information about Wind Tunnels contained in this page.
What is a Vertical Wind Tunnel?
Technically speaking, the wind tunnel, although it appears in myriad forms, always retains the five identifying elements underlined below:
- This simple device consists of an enclosed passage through which air is driven by a fan or any appropriate drive system. The heart of the wind tunnel is the test section, in which a scale model is supported in a carefully controlled airstream, which produces a flow of air about the model, duplicating that of the full-scale aircraft. The aerodynamic characteristics of the model and its flow field are directly measured by appropriate balances and test instrumentation.
What is Bodyflight?
- The ability to fly your body through the air in a controlled manner as in free fall or a vertical wind tunnel; the sport of piloting your body with purpose and control in a vertically oriented airstream.
Are all Vertical Wind Tunnels created equally? No they are not. Vertical Wind Tunnels, like people, come in a variety of shapes & sizes, each with their own features and flaws. Basically, there are two overall types. 1. Sucker/Vacuum Pressure Suction 2. Blower/Air-Pusher.
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Sucker/Vacuum Pressure Suction - The first type of tunnel is completely reliant on the walls that closely surround the air column which work together with a fan or multiple fans above or below the flight area to create enough pressure/air speeds to allow people to fly. You don't normally see any padding or soft landing places at these facilities.
- Blower/Air-Pusher - The second type of tunnel is non reliant on any external configurations and therefore can be used with walls or without, or perhaps even both. These tunnels have a variety of safety nets & air bags surrounding them some shaped like cones, and others are simply open with a large airbags or catch-nets surrounding the air column.
Is one type of Vertical Wind Tunnel better than the other?
- If your a first time flyer, the answer is "Not Really", it's likely that you will have a GREAT TIME no matter which tunnel you visit first.
- As you become a more disciplined flyer you will likely become most proficient at the VWT located nearest to you, at which time we highly recommend investing some time & money into learning to fly at other facilities as well. It goes without saying that the more experience you have in a variety of environments the better skilled you will be as a flyer, and the more body awareness you will have. The worlds best bodyflyers do not limit themselves to only one machine, and can also appreciate the different skills required to maintain controlled flight under a variety of circumstances.
Click Here to learn more about the history of Human Flight & Vertical Wind Tunnels
Is flying in vertical wind tunnels dangerous? This is the one question we never know how to answer.....
- Honestly, the legal answer would be Yes, because the risk of injury can be great. The risks of injury include every injury you could sustain from low impact sport injuries; strains, breaks, dislocations and in a severe case a bad fall could result in death. HOWEVER, it is important to note, that to our knowledge in over 20 years, no one has ever died as a result of participating in this sport.
Assessing the risks:
- You are at the greatest risk in the first 5 minutes you spend as a student learning to fly. As you are learning to fly, your brain is busy consuming the new information and therefore places you at an 'awareness level' that's below average. You have spent your entire life walking & being oriented vertically, and flying is done in a horizontal orientation and will take your brain a few minutes to comprehend. After a few minutes, your brain begins to settle down and process the flying just as it does anything else. Once you can understand what you are doing, and have learned the basic skills required, your risk of injury drop exponentially. At this point in time you are in control of your body, you are able begin performing maneuvers. Each time you learn a new manoeuvre your risk increases slightly and then decreases again with proficiency.
- The risks involved with Wind Tunnel Flying should not be compared with the risk of death or injury possible when skydiving/parachuting. In fact Vertical Wind Tunnel flying bears little resemblance to the sport of skydiving, but is intertwined due to the benefits skydivers experience when practicing their freefall skills in the tunnel. They are able to realize the skills required to become expert skydivers in a fraction of the time and cost it would've taken them in the sky.
Understanding the Sport...
- Vertical Wind Tunnel flying or bodyflying, is a sport open to everyone, not just the risk takers of the world. Children and adults both love the challenge it presents and physical skills required to fly. It is a great way to stay in shape and a fun way to spend time with your family. Once you know how, it's honestly as easy as toasting bread! The physical benefits you will receive from flying are countless, it's a fabulous cardio workout and would certainly be considered aerobic. But because of the low-impact nature of bodyflying, nearly anyone of every age can participate. The truly fun part of flying is the endless possibilities, the oddly relaxing act of bodyflying is therapeutic and enlightening like yoga, and for many becomes a way of life or at least a life changing experience. You'll find that it can be as extreme and risky as you would like it to be, or as safe, and low impact as a brisk stroll through the park, the only difference is the freedom of movement.
"Bodyflying is not some "New Extreme Sport" it's a way of life, a way to fitness and spiritual health!"
The above information and images have been provided in part by Bodyflight Network www.bodyflight.net.
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How can I have a go and where?
Extreme Sports Cafe has access to the only Wind Tunnel in Asia near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. If you would like to buy time on the Wind Tunnel you can book through us at $46RM for each 2 minutes block. That is $13US for 2 minutes, or £8.00 in Pounds Sterling or €9.50 Euro. Compare that to your local prices, if you have a local Wind Tunnel!!
- Go to our online store to book your wind tunnel...We prefer a couple of weeks notice to make sure you get the time and days you want as the wind tunnel does get very busy.....But normally we can accommodate people if they book a little later.
- Choose 15min, 30min and 1hr deposit payments - and multiples of those to book your required wind tunnel time.
Genting Sky Venture, Malaysia, Asia.
The Wind Tunnel is located just, 51 km North East of Kuala Lumpur in the City of Entertainment. Wind Tunnel Description: An attraction ride that is part of an indoor "future" theme park; so there is plenty to do for friends and family members who may accompany you on the trip... that is if they don't fancy some body flight! Come and experience the ultimate skydiving simulator in Asia's one and only Wind Tunnel and fly in winds up to 193 km/hr.
Experienced Skydivers are always welcome at the wind tunnel. By practicing your freefall skills in the wind tunnel you will be able to realize the skills required to improve greatly and become an expert skydiver in a fraction of the time and cost it would take you to do it in the sky.
Wind Tunnel Restrictions
- Minimum weight: 25kg
- Maximum weight: 114kg
For safety reasons, pregnant women and persons with heart, neck or back conditions are not allowed to participate
Please Note: You may actually book wind tunnel time at any time that suits you. Morning sessions, afternoon sessions or evening sessions. Wind tunnel session can be 15 minutes, allowing you a rest in between session if required.
Wind Tunnel Operating Hours
- Monday: 10 am - 10pm
- Tue - Fri: 12noon - 10pm
- Sat/ Eve of PH: 10am - 11pm (break from 7pm - 8.45pm)
- Sun & Public Holiday: 10 am -10pm (break from 12noon - 1.45pm)
- Once we see your booking for wind tunnel time come through we will contact you via email to assist with accommodation and transfers if required.
- The wind tunnel has coaching staff there every day and coaching is included in the price.
- To make the trip cost effective for you we would suggest booking at least an hour over a couple of days and to book a few weeks in advance. (But normally we can accommodate people if they book a little later)
So, what’s it to be and where’s good for you?
- A Skydiving Tandem Jump: Where you can be in the air and jumping out of a plane strapped to an instructor quicker than you can say 'I'm not sure about this....'
- A Skydiving I.F.F. (Introduction to Free Fall) Course: This 2 day Level 1 Course is designed to give you a taste of our sport: Ground Training & an AFF level 1 Jump with two instructors.
- Or perhaps a Skydiving A.F.F. (Accelerated FreeFall) Course: Where on your first jump you leap out of a plane 2.5 miles up in the air with two highly experienced instructors, quickly followed by your cameraman.
- Learn in a Wind Tunnel..... Vertical wind tunnels (indoor skydiving or bodyflight): You can always improve your skydiving freefall skills, or simply start to learn to skydive in a Wind Tunnel...
Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?
Because the door opens ;-)
Skydiving Wind Tunnel Experience in Malaysia from Extreme Sports Cafe
Our Skydiving Wind Tunnel Experiences in Malaysia can be booked online.
Skydiving Certification - National parachuting associations exist in many countries, many affiliated with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), to promote their sport. In most cases, national representative bodies, as well as prudent local dropzone operators, require that participants carry certification, attesting to their training, their level of experience in the sport, and their proven competence. Anyone who cannot produce such bona-fides is treated as a student, requiring close supervision. Skydiving Certification - All Extreme Sports Cafe Skydiving Courses follow the relevant skydiving guidelines set by the governing body for the relevant area/country. The USPA (United States Parachute Association) and The BPA (British Parachute Association) are 2 of the most common skydiving bodies, issued certifications and affiliated centers found all over the world.
Who runs our Skydiving courses?
Extreme Sports Cafe and it's partners run Sky diving courses & experiences in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, U.K., Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Canada, Zambia and Venezuela. We are quite confident that we have Europe, Asia and Africa covered with a range of exciting, challenging and fun courses or experiences for you to learn to skydiving in most parts of the world and will have more drope zones (skydiving centers) elsewhere soon...
Where do I take it from here?
You can go on to improve your sky diving with more practice and advanced courses allowing you to, take part in competitions worldwide, become an instructor and teach others, join a club and buy your own sky diving equipment and go skydiving whenever you want. Let us know how we can help...
Skydiving books we recommend...
Fully illustrated with photographs and diagrams. "Skydiving In 8 Days" is the first book ever published on this modern approach to sport parachuting. It provides a unique introduction to one of the world's most thrilling sports, and describes in detail the mental attitudes and techniques necessary to master it.
Parachuting: The Skydiver's Handbook
The newest, most up-to-date, complete jumping text available. In 400 pages and 260 illustrations you are taken from first jump through advanced skydiving and canopy flying. The chapter on emergency situations is full of statistics and reveals the best solution to possible challenges. Learn all about your equipment; what to look for, what repairs you can make, and when to take your gear to a rigger. This book will be your basic text and constant reference. Completely revised, softcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 400 pages, 260 illustrations, four-color cover.
From the Author - Parachuting / Skydiving is continuously growing & evolving.
Dan Poynter and I have attempted to bring to you, the reader (novice or experienced), the latest information available which covers many aspects of the sport. It is our hope that this book will be used by you as a tool to increase your learning about the sport. We have addressed several training and controversial issues openly and honestly, attempting to give full merit to both (or more) viewpoints when more than one right answer is available. This book is a "living document" and will continue to change as the sport changes and grows. Each successive issue (from the very first one that I used to study the sport over 21 years ago) has been written with that philosophy in mind; one of continuous improvement.
We hope you like the book, and if you can think of anything else to add, please feel free to contact one of us with your suggestions! Blue, Clear, and Calm Skies to y'all.
If you have any questions, then please don’t hesitate to get back to us – we’ll be only too pleased to help. After all, the team at ESC are passionate about our various sporting disciplines – we want you to be, as well!
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