Olav Zipser

Who is Olav Zipser?

Olav Zipser is a highly-accomplished, multiple-time world champion, trainer of multiple world champions, Sports Emmy Award-winning, pioneering skydiver.

Zipser started the FreeFly movement in the late 1980s, when he began experimenting with non-traditional forms of body flight. Since then, he has been part of the worldwide sport of FreeFly, and has helped it grow to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale competition level that it is at today. He is respectfully known as "The Father of FreeFly."

Zipser is the founder of the FreeFly Training and Instruction Program, of The First School of Modern SkyFlying, of the Atmosphere Dolphin FreeFly Licence Program, of the Space Games, and of The FreeFly Astronaut Project. He was also the first to make use of Space Balls to train and test freeflyers to an international standard.

Zipser has more than 21,000 skydives, having completed his 21,000th skydive at Skydive Dubai UAE in 2012. He has won more than 51 gold medals from various international skydiving competitions, and has trained no less than 14 world champion skydivers from around the world.

Zipser is a synergist with the Human Synergy Project, a diverse community of artists, scientists, adventurers, visionaries, free thinkers, performers and writers. He is also a test pilot and astronaut in training with Team Synergy Moon.