Sexy Italian Skydiver Roberta Mancino

Roberta Mancino (inet)

DNP - Italian Skydiver Roberta Mancino, base jumpers, wingsuit flyer and international model. He has participated in over 6,000 Skydives and won numerous awards and world records. He was gone four Skydives while completely naked, and on five occasions will not open his parachute in mid-jump. In 2010, Mancino named World's Sexiest Female Athlete of Men's Fitness magazine.

Biography

Born in Italy, Mancino was 16 when she did her first modeling work for a magazine. She started skydiving in October 2001, when she was 21. Inspired by watching the action film Point Break (2001), Mancino convinced her best friend, a skydiver, to take her on a jump even though he encouraged her not to because it was too dangerous. She began to take it more seriously as a profession when people started asking her to coach them. Eventually, Mancino started participating in international competitions.
She regularly trains at the Skyventure XP Paraclete in North Carolina. Her parachute has failed to open five times because she packed it incorrectly, but she was able to use the reserve system. She has also made four jumps while completely naked for magazine photo shoots. Mancino met her boyfriend BASE jumper Jeb Corliss, in 2008 after he learned about her jumps and arranged to meet her. In 2009, after having made about 5,500 skydives, Mancino started BASE jumping along with Corliss. She performed in 77 BASE jumps between August 2009 and November 2010. Also inspired by Corliss, she began wingsuit flying, which involves jumping from high distances wearing a jumpsuit with webbed wings similar to a flying squirrel. This led to proximity flying, which involves similar jumps and then gliding upward just before impacting against the ground.

One of her dreams is to BASE jump off the Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made structure in the world, and circle around it as she goes down. She also aspires to jump out of a plane and reenter the same plane as it dives. She has participated in big way formation skydiving. Regarding freestyle skydiving, Mancino said, "It becomes kind of boring to me because it’s too solitary ... I prefer group activity". She also has a black belt in martial arts and has swam with sharks for television programs. As a model, she has appeared in Men's Fitness, Vanity Fair, Allure, Maxim, Men's Health and Playboy. In 2010, Mancino was named the World's Sexiest Female Athlete by the magazine Men's Fitness. As of December 2010, Mancino has gone on more than 6,000 skydives.

Records and awards

In 2003, Roberta Mancino placed first in the Malevski Cup at the Russia Freestyle and the Space Games Freestyle. In 2004, she won first place in the Tunnel Competition in Orlando, Florida. She received both the Italian Record and Euro Record for skydiving in 2005, and won first place in the Tunnel Competition in Perris Valley, California. In 2007, Mancino broke the European Record for Formation Freefly and the World Record for Formation 69-Way Freefly. Also that year, she placed first in the Italian Nationals of Skydiving. In 2008, she won the Women's VFS Award in Arizona.