Format for WS competition

[riggerrob 643]

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We see this cycle every few decades, now every few years in skydiving.
Ambitious young jumpers get bored with old-school skydiving, so they invent new artistic events. Then they add rules and regulations for competition. the next thing you know, they have raised the entry level so high that they become the grumpy old farts and young skydivers despair of ever earning medals. So young skydivers invent newer, freer ways of skydiving. this is a recurring cycle, similar to cycles in popular music.

We saw this with accuracy competion, until FAI, CIP and CISM made it boring.
The same thing with solo freefall style ...
canopy formations ...
freefall fromations ...
solo free style ...
pond swooping ...
group free flying ...

It is a recurring cycle.

Hopefully the wing suit world will grow big enough that we can respect a variety of groups.

[VectorBoy 0]

It is a recurring cycle.

Hopefully the wing suit world will grow big enough that we can respect a variety of groups.

[LouDiamond 1]

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We saw this with accuracy competion, until FAI, CIP and CISM made it boring.
The same thing with solo freefall style ..

It for that same reason that I have reservations about putting what we do into a box and establishing rules. However competition is human nature and subsequently rules and standards are established.


People have already shown an interest in wing suit competition and several have been held. It is inevitable that this will continue to grow as more and more continue to join the already growing ranks of wingsuiters. At this stage we still have the flexability to shape how and what this grows into for the good of all.

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[Taz 0]

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At this stage we still have the flexability to shape how and what this grows into for the good of all.

Since getting to South Africa, wingsuiting is the second time I've witnessed the emergence of a new discipline. The first one was freeflying, and because I hated the idea of people regulating the hell out of it, I pretty much backed off the process of formalizing it as a discipline. I can honestly say I regret that now, and no matter how much I resist putting things in a box, I think it's completely right that as the inevitable happens, we should try to do the best we can to shape it in the right direction. We've got a proposal in the works to make wingsuiting its own separate category under PASA, and to get funding for demo suits and stuff we have to start laying out competition formats. So far we're sticking with distance and time, leaving the acrobatics till later since we still have very few judges who feel qualified even for freeflying, let alone starting to push artistic moves in a wingsuit.

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[SCARYPERRY 0]

we used a "neptune based format" in Russia last year,contact B J Alexander or ikenever on this thread and he will fill in details. P

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