Fall rate issues? There is help.

[ManBird 0]

Pretty much the number one thing I hear from everybody about their wingsuit flights is their fall rate. Fall rate is not the ultimate guage (I think we all know this by now). Any fall rate under your "normal" tracking fall rate should give you the feeling of flight. When I'm taking someone on a rodeo dive and we fall 90 - 100 MPH, the first thing they talk about when we get down is how slow it felt. However, most people can't help but want to improve their fall rate and be the best out there. There is help.

If you aren't satisfied with your fall rate, this is what you do:

1) Stop comparing yourself to others.
2) Get training.
3) Work out.
4) Lose weight.
5) Build proper muscle memory (see step #2) on the ground.
6) Stay current.

It's that easy, and that hard. Optionally, you could put fall rate aside and strive for the many other goals you can accomplish with a wingsuit such as:

Forward speed
Glide ratio/distance
Aerobatics
Formation/flocking
Freeskyflying (aerobatic flocking)
Diving (and the subsequent low speeds after dive recovery)
Canopy/wingsuit relative work/buzzing
Getting new birds in the air
Modification experiments
BASE
Landing with your legs still zipped up (if you really run out of things to do)

In other words: Have fun, do your personal best, and explore all that these amazing suits have to offer.

"¯"`-._.-¯) ManBird (¯-._.-´"¯"

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