Bo Babovic
Tandem Skydive Instructor / Owner
Owner
17,000+ Total Jumps
Meet Bo
Bo was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1957. He showed a predisposition for skydiving at a very young age – his favorite thing was to play with strings, threads, and bungees. After many bruises and stitches, he figured out that freefall without a parachute is not a good idea.
“Skydiving gave my life direction, meaning…. it made me physically fit, mentally focused, emotionally connected and spiritually aligned with purpose beyond my immediate needs.” – Bo Babovic
Bo made his first skydive at the age of 17 and hasn’t stopped since. He’s tried his hand at rock climbing and scuba diving in his 20s and 30s, teaching both in the skydiving offseason, but skydiving ultimately won his heart.
Bo has competed in formation skydiving at an international level and has even served as an officer in Special Forces. Between skydives and other extreme sports, Bo earned a degree in Psychology and Sociology. Being in the Fear Management Business (aka skydiving), that psychology degree comes in handy just about every day.
Bo spent the first fifteen years of his skydiving career in Europe and moved to the US in 1990. He worked as a skydiving instructor and rigger in Florida and Hawaii before buying into an existing skydiving business in the Chicago area in the mid-’90s. After he sold that dropzone, he opened AtmosphAIR (now Wisconsin Skydiving Center) with his wife Alex in 1998.
Bo has over 13,000 jumps under his belt. Over the years, Bo has been a Commercial Pilot, an FAA certified Master Parachute Rigger, Certified Aircraft Mechanic with Inspection Authorization, Safety & Training Advisor, and has held a host of other ratings.
Bo trains our instructors, maintains our equipment and aircraft – all in-house. This contributes greatly to making Wisconsin Skydiving Center the safest skydiving center in the nation. Bo’s greatest passion is teaching and he’s happiest working with students. He has been teaching skydiving for 40+ years now and has taken over 13,000 people on their first jump. He has licensed more than 3,000 skydivers, some of them going on to be stuntmen and world class skydivers.
Customer Testimonial
…Bo, Alex and their team are smooth, knowledgeable, honest, confident and trustworthy. They talk about fear, adrenaline and how to best stay in the moment of your jump, almost like skydiving monks. Their confidence makes it easy to give in to the moment with ultimate trust. Their process on site is thorough, simple, accurate and just quick enough to get you in the air while you’re still feeling 2 parts excitement and 2 parts healthy fear. My kids, parents and best friend watched the jump, and we picnic-ed afterward and watched other jumpers. We’ll certainly be back when my kids are big enough to jump. I choose Bo and Alex because of their experience, the family vibe, laid back site, and because my best friend and my cousins know them. I now feel like family.
—Faith - Google