Skydiving - Formation Skydiving
Formation Skydiving is a discipline practiced during free fall. It consists of performing several figures, called formations, in a group of people. This discipline is the most practiced one for leisure as well as for competition.
Formation Skydiving can be practiced in groups of 4, 8 or 16, accompanied by a videoman who films the jump. It’s a matter of performing a series of 5 to 7 formations drawn from a pre-defined program. Once all the figures have been performed, the team restarts at the beginning of the cycle.
Each figure that is performed correctly is worth a point. The jump is judged on 35 seconds for 4-way teams and 50 seconds for 8-way and 16-way teams. The only thing that counts is the technical performance. The artistical performance has no value: one has to fly as fast as possible.
Formation Skydiving is also being practiced in big formations, not to perform the most figures but to make the largest one. The World Record is a 357-way…
