Lab 11 - Parachute Fitness

1. Find information on the history of the parachute and how the parachute works. 

If we want to follow the history of a parachute, we have to return about 1000 years in the past. The first nation which was using something similar to a parachute were the Chinese. The first known picture of a parachute was found in the block of Leonardo da Vinci in 1514. From this picture results the fact, that a man could jump with this parachute from a tower or a building which was on fire. But as far as we know, nothing more than a sketch was done. Nearly hundred years later a mathematician Fausto Veranzino published the idea of a parachute which he called “fall´s breaker”. He realised his ideas and jumped several times from a tower in Venice, this happened in 1595. But more often a French physicist, the contemporary of Montgolfieres brothers, Louis Sebastien Lenormand is connected with the history of a parachute. He constructed his own parachute, and also invented the name “Parachute."The word "parachute" comes from the French prefix paracete, originally from the Greek, meaning to protect against, and chute, the French word for "fall", and it was originally coined, as a hybrid word which meant literally "that which protects against a fall", by the French aeronaut François Blanchard (1753–1809) in 1785.


2. Create a parachute routine composed of various parachute activities learned in class. 

• Information about Parachute
• Igloo
• Jaws
• Pop Popcorn
• The Blackhole 
• Anaconda Roll Up

3. Practice the yoga routine for a week and keep a journal of how you feel. 
Journal will be updated next week.

4. Use pictures to diagram each pose in the Salute to the Sun yoga routine.