About
Welcome to POPS Australia!
The Parachutists Over Phorty Society or POPS is a club for skydivers over the age of forty. The first POPS was founded in 1966 in the USA and has spread to many countries around the world. POPS clubs hold regular meets in their own countries, and every two years hold a World meet. World meets have taken place in Australia, USA, Spain, Jordan, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and the USA again. The next World Meet will take place in June 2010 at Reggio Emilia, Italy. Competitions at meets include accuracy, formation skydiving and the special POPS competition, the Hit and Rock.
Membership requirements are that a person has made a parachute jump, or a tandem skydive, and is over forty years of age. A smaller group within POPS is the SOS — Skydivers over Sixty — and there are even some JOES — Jumpers Over Eighty.
Everyone is welcome at POPS Australia Events — age is not an issue (except in competition events where POPS Membership — any country — is necessary).