2011 ~ 2012

World Team is a highly accomplished international skydiving team comprised of world class athletes, professional camera flyers, skilled pilots, and support personnel – all with a passion for excellence. In 1994, World Team united the big-way community, and has since organized and set multiple world records. This includes the 400-way built in Udon Thani, Thailand, which is the current FAI World Record for the Largest Freefall Formation. World Team draws its strength from the steadfast collaboration among its exceptional team leaders and the stellar performance by its team members.

In order to go where no one has gone before, World Team is compelled to push the limits on multiple fronts. To minimize the risks that are inherent in such endeavors, World Team consistently maintains the highest level of safety every step of the way. As exit altitudes become higher, the proper use of supplementary oxygen becomes extremely more important. World Team is pioneering the development and use of compact bail-out oxygen systems to be used by skydivers who are exiting aircraft en mass, at extreme altitudes, and building large formations in freefall.

In conjunction with its sporting achievements, World Team strives to develop strong cultural bonds with its host-nations. Due to the extensive global diversity among World Team members, and through these members’ appreciation for the traditional cultures of others, World Team embraces the citizens and local culture wherever it assembles.

For team members and its host-nation partners, World Team projects have proven to be much more than just another world record. It is the melding of talent, technology, and tradition that enables each World Team project to truly become greater than the sum of its parts. It is this worldly cohesiveness, this magical synergy, that allows World Team to consistently achieve its challenging goals.

World Team invited to Qatar

In May 2011, Qatar’s Minister of State fo Interior Affairs, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Nasser Bin Khalifa Al Thani invited World Team to conduct new large formation world records in Qatar. Brigadier Mahdi Al Qahtani , a leader of Qatar’s Internal Security Force (ISF) has offered to serve as Chairman of the Qatar Organizing Committee for these world record events. Qater's Organizing Comittee and World Team’s Organizing Committee will collaborate in organizing these historic big-way skydiving events.

The Qatar Emiri Air Force will provide multiple C-17 and C-130 aircraft flying in formation at high altitude, to provide the skydivers with the necessary exit platform. World Team will train, select, and direct the top athletes in the international skydiving community to build these world records. In addition, World Team wishes to include the top Qatari skydivers in these world record events, and will provide whatever training is necessary to prepare these Qatari skydivers to join World Team.

Qatar Emiri Air Force C-17

Qatar – Sports Center of the World

Qatar is fast becoming the global leader in hosting large international sporting events. Doha, the Capitol of Qatar, hosted the 2006 Asian Games, has been awarded to host the prestigious 2022 FIFA World Cup, will host the Arab Games in December 2011, and has grand plans for hosting a future Olympic Games.

Aspire Sports Complex

Formation Skydiving has been recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an “Olympic Sport”, so it is only natural for World Team’s record events to take place at the ultra-modern Aspire Sports Complex and Park on the outskirts of Doha. Originally built for the 2006 Asian Games, the Aspire Sports Complex includes sports stadiums, a state-of-the-art youth training facility, the Arab Gulf’s top orthopedic hospital, and top-of-the-line indoor support facilities.

Aspire Park

Surrounding the Sports Complex and its many sports fields, Aspire Park is a huge oasis-like grass park – an ideal drop zone for hundreds of skydivers, and thousands of spectators.

Located in the center of the Aspire Zone, there are two superb hotels with enough rooms to accommodate an entire World Team. The new Grand Heritage Doha Hotel is a deluxe 5-star hotel and spa, adjacent to Aspire Park. On the opposite side of the Sports Complex is the Tower Hotel – a brand new hotel built into the 300m-high Olympic Torch. Both hotels are a short walk from the prestigious Villagio Shopping Mall, complete with shops, restaurants, ice skating rink, and gondoliers maneuvering their crafts through the Mall canals.

The State of Qatar has invited the top skydivers of the world to come to its spectacular oasis in the desert and put their best dives forward – for world class skydiving events the likes of which have never been conducted before.

Grab on, and hold on tight… Welcome to the next World Team!

BJ and Bobbie Worth
World Team

World Team News Update:

Throughout the recent revolution in Libya, the State of Qatar has extensively supported the efforts of Libya’s National Transitional Council – including the daily use of the entire Qatari Emiri Air Force fleet of C-17 and C-130 aircraft. In addition, throughout this conflict, the Chairman of the Qatar Organizing Committee, Brigadier Mahdi Al Qahtani, has spent the majority of his time in Libya coordinating this aircraft support. Now that the armed conflict is transitioning into a rebuilding mission, Qatar continues to be fully committed to the rebuilding of Libya for the foreseeable future.

Therefore, the first World Team project in Qatar , tentatively scheduled for March 2012, has been postponed until some date in the future that does not conflict with Qatar’s humanitarian efforts to help rebuild Libya. World Team hopes to schedule a world record event for December 2012, but no date can be officially agreed upon until the Qatar Organizing Committee and the World Team Organizing Committee have the time and opportunity to collaborate closely and prepare this activity to be a world class air sports event.

The Qatar Organizing Committee and the World Team Organizing Committee are doing their best to ensure there are some incredible big-way record events in the State of Qatar. When more World Team news is available, it will be distributed to the international big-way community. Inshallah.