World Champ to jump at Carlton Super Sports:

Rozov in action at Tissa

A two time world champion, X Games winner and one of the worlds’ most known BASE jumpers and parachutists, Russian Red Bull Athlete Valery Rozov will perform at the Carlton Super Sports – 2011 organized by Tharunyata Hetak Organization this weekend.

Rozov, the experienced parachuting world champion will participate in Parachute Jumping on January 30, in Suriyawewa, together with Sri Lanka Air Force parachutists.

Rozov will be the first to jump and will fly above the crowd in the special wing-suit opening his parachute at a very low altitude.

The altitude of the jump is only 3280 ft above the landing. Due to its unique aero-dynamic characteristics the wing-suit let the parachutist develop horizontal speed of up to 62 miles per hour.

Extreme sport pro Valery Rozov performed his first jump in 1993. Since then total number of his jumps has reached more than 8000, with 750 base-jumps. He was the X-Games Skysurfing Champion in 1998, World Champion in 1999 (Autralia) and 2003 (France) and World cup winner in 2002 (Austria), X-Games silver medalist 2000 (USA), Silver medalist of the second World Air Games 2001 (Spain), European Champion 2002 (Spain), Repeated Russian Narional Champion (1997-2003) and also is the founder of the Russian Extreme Project.

Rozov organized a multitude of unique and successful BASE climb projects including flying off of the Summit of Kukurtlu (15,000 ft) – part of Eupore’s highest mountain Elbrus, incredible stunt into the active volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, jump off Pakistan’s tallest building MCB Tower (380 ft).

His recent the first-ever jump from one of the most spectacular and difficult mountains in Antarctic in one of the most remote corners of the globe also one of them.

B.A.S.E is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: B for buildings, A for antennae, S for spans and E for earth/cliffs.