Leonid Valerievich Volkov (; October 15, 1988) is a Russian sportsman, Indoor Skydiving World Champion in Freestyle.
Biography
Volkov was born on October 15, 1988, in Leningrad. From 1995 to 2002 he studied at school, and then from 2002 to 2005 he enrolled at Nakhimov Naval School. In 2005 Leonid entered Military Engineering-Technical University, which he graduated from in 2010. After his graduation from the university, he was allocated to Kaliningrad to serve in the Baltic Fleet. After some time he resigned at his own will to the reserve and returned to St. Petersburg.Leonid Volkov: "It's pretty dumb to feel like the best in the world"
In 2012 Volkov started to practice parachute jumping, after which he was hired as an instructor by the first professional indoor skydiving school in Saint Petersburg, FlyStation, where he taught people to manage their own bodies in the airflow. After six months of training, Volkov won an indoor skydiving competition in Saint Petersburg and was admitted to the FlyStation sports team in vertical and dynamic group acrobatics in the airflow. After two years of performances as a part of the team, he turned to single freestyle skydiving.Wind Games: Russian sportsman became the best in the world in indoor skydiving
Since 2015, Volkov has been working on the project TunnelSport.com, where he publishes information about the flight of the body in the airflow.TunnelSport.com – Leonid Volkov’s website
In 2016, Spain hosted the world's first international musical freestyle competition in indoor skydiving (dancing in the aero tube) called Wind Games, according to the rules of which it was mandatory to use music during the performance (until that all athletes had been skydiving without music), where Leonid Volkov took first place.Randee Dawn, "Wind Games winner will blow you away with astounding aerial dance moves", Today, 26 January 2016 (videos).Acrobatics in the tube: aerodynamic sport of the future His performance caught the public eye, going viral. There were three combined tracks in the performance of the Russian sportsman: a waltz from the movie "A Hunting Accident", the soundtrack "Clubbed to death" from "The Matrix" and "Lux Aeterna" from the movie "Requiem for a Dream".It is all in the tube
In 2017, Volkov acquired a title of Indoor Skydiving World Champion in Freestyle, having won the World Indoor Skydiving Championship, held in Canada, with 2 points ahead of his opponents. Russian sportsman Leonid Volkov became the best at the World Championship in indoor skydiving in Montreal
Achievements
YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes 2014 1st FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving Austin, United States 4 55,11st FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving — 2014 2015 1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Prague, Czech Republic 3 59,51st FAI World Indoor Skydiving — 2015 2016 Wind Games Empuriabrava, Spain 1 486,6Wind Games — 2016 2016 2nd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving Warsaw, Poland 2 62,42nd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving — 2016 2016 FAI Russian Championship Saint Petersburg, Russia 1 2017 FAI Russian Championship Saint Petersburg, Russia 1 2017 2nd FAI World Indoor Skydiving Montreal, Canada 1 64,92nd FAI World Indoor Skydiving — 2017
References
External links How a would-be pilot became the world's best indoor sky dancer Leonid Volkov: The Nureyev of Indoor Skydiving Competitive indoor skydiving is real — and it's insane to watch