Silver medal in distance for Marat at the 5th FAI World Cup of Canopy Piloting

Marat Leiras earned a Silver medal in distance, where he also posted the third longest swoop registered so far 173.84m , against the new world record 181.70m from Nicholas Batsch. Finishing in 12th place overal, this year calendar ends with the most consistent in results we had so far, promising a great 2010 season. Thank you all for your support and we will see you soon next year.

http://www.swoop4gold.co.za/cpwc/scores/scores.html for final scores.

5th FAI World Canopy Piloting Championships- Johannesburgh -SA

Marat Leiras is already in South Africa to represent Brazil and all our sponsors on the most important swoop competition on the planet which starts next week Dec 2nd. Click http://www.canopypilotingsa.co.za and support our happyswooper on this new challenge.

Here is the happyswooper taking some Zulu lessons with Robert Chrommy to be more than ready for this exciting adventure!

Marat Leiras is the US 2009 National Champion

Rosharon, TX at Skydiving Spaceland was the skydiving capitol during the 2009 USPA skydiving championship. Marat leiras as a guest competitor (non US Citizen) had an outstanding performance and finish in first place overall. click to read results The happyswooper team would like to thank all sponsors and friends for the support received once again. watch distance Swoop Video

Bronze medal for Marat at the World Games in Taiwan

Being the only brazilian representative in parachuting at the world games, Marat Leiras showed a great reaction and jumped from 5th place to get a bronze medal overal on the last round.

The world games involves all sports which are not included on the olimpic games.

5th place for Marat Leiras at the Torino World Air Games 2009