News: Sky diver reaches for speed record

[Staso 0]

by the way, Craig, do you happen to know what pro-track set up Lugi was using ? how many and where they we located ? with negative speed and negative deployment altitude registered in helmet placed pro-tracks, it throws the whole thing into different direction :)

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[kallend 2,026]

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Speed Skydiving Records can only be set during an official competition according to the International Speed Skydiving Rules.

In short they state, "no extra weight allowed. The speed is measured as the AVERAGE over 1000 meters".

During many years of trial and error, speed skydiving has found the current and most accurate way of finding the speed in freefall.

With this we can be looked upon as a serious sport, where competitiors follow the same rules.

It saddens me to see that, instead of helping Speed Skydiving as a sport forward, Mike Brooke, and now, Luis Cani with the help of Go Fast Sports, is taking it many, many steps backwards. I suspect that Cani and Go Fast Sports doesn't know better, but Mike Brooke does.

We have been where they are, and they are wrong.

Mike Brooke has falsely claimed to have the record, and has falsely been awarded the Guinness Record.

It hope that Cani and Go Fast Sports stay clear of making the same mistake.

Join a competition instead.

Sincerely,

Ken Hansen
www.speedskydiving.com

PS. I also want to mention that I did hit maximum speed readings of 380 mph, 362 mph, and 327 mph over Skydive DeLand in 1998. This was before we (both Mike Brooke and I) realized that maximum readings are wrong. They may be triggered to register a wrong maximum speed. Brooke learned this in 1999, used it in a competition in France, and was then in the forefront of the battle against false maximum readings, starting with the 2001 season. All records from before that season was supposed to be wiped off all sheets. But after the 2004 season, Brooke turned around and falsely claimed to have the world record and was awarded a Guinness record, even though several people had gotten even faster, I mean falser, readings before Brooke got his result.

What is "official"? Is Guinness bound by any but its own rules?

The only "official" world skydiving organization I know of is the IPC (FAI), and they don't list speed skydiving as a category.

Maybe you should do what the freefliers did with VRW, and lobby the IPC for recognition and standard rules.

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We're doing it. The first FAI/IPC nationals will take place in Austria, England and Sweden this year, in accordance with the ISSA Rules. These rules were made up to include as many competitors as possible as safely as possible. In my humble opinion, we need to follow the same standards to get this done. We can't all do a Kittinger (too costly), and we should definitely not be loading up with too much weight (excluding and dangerous). And records can only be set during competition.

[skreamer 1]

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He was the first person to recommend me taking a canopy skills class as soon as I got my A.

LOL Did he sell you a can of Go Fast too?

[adamUK 3]

Alan's been losing a bit of weight. Still goes damn fast though. Watched him go head down last weekend.. Jeez. It's like belly flying just ain't moving.