Skydiving keeps 88-year-old Bosnian in the pink

BIHAC, Bosnia, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Bosnian Ibrahim Kalesic resides proof that excessive sports activities aren’t at all times a younger man’s recreation – on the age of 88 he retains match by usually leaping out of aeroplanes.

“It is a superb feeling,” Kalesic, who was launched to the game greater than 70 years in the past, stated after finishing his 1,487th soar throughout a parachuting competitors within the western city of Bihac on the weekend.

“I really feel tremendous, rested psychologically and having fun with nice firm,” he advised Reuters, including that he workout routines every day for quarter-hour and his spouse ensures he’s cautious along with his eating regimen.

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As a younger man, Kalesic underwent coaching at a flying centre in Serbia earlier than turning into a leaping teacher himself. In 1963, he set a Yugoslav file by leaping out of airplane at an altitude of 5,500 meters.

“I’m the oldest lively parachuter in Europe,” the white-haired Kalesic stated with a smile. “I want to go on with this for one more 10 years so to get right into a Guinness guide of world data because the Bosnian parachuter.”

Ibrahim Kalesic, 88-year-old parachuter, waits to leap from airplane throughout Para Problem Cup in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina September 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Kalesic made 21 jumps in 5 days final month throughout a contest within the northwestern city of Prijedor. The Prijedor aeroclub will lend him a parachute so long as he has a sound well being certificates.

His largest want is to get his personal parachute and one other one to make use of for coaching younger jumpers.

“I’m a pensioner with out means to purchase a parachute and I might like to have one to coach my college students who would then substitute me in leaping competitions,” Kalesic stated.

He has a easy recipe for protecting match at his age.

“Parachuting is an excessive sport and requires focus. To be nicely concentrated, one has to sleep nicely, and to sleep nicely one has to have a transparent consciousness that one has not offended or harmed anybody, after which one could sleep with out nightmares and have the ability to soar.”