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Disciplines

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• Swooping
  With the development of high performance canopies swooping has seen somewhat of a spike in popularity as canopies now allow pilots to "run the blades" on courses layed designed on level ground surfaces, ponds and lakes.
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• BASE Jumping
  BASE is an acronym that stands for the 4 categories of objects that people jump from. B is for Building, A is for Antenna, S is for Span (generally a bridge), E is for Earth formation (generally a cliff).
  (Rating: 7.03 Votes: 30 Viewed: 13607 Posted: Wed Apr 28 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Freeflying
  Freeflying is the ability to fly your body in any position, in any direction, at any speed at any given time. This includes, but is not limited to, headdown, sit, stand, back, belly and any kind of flying you can imagine.
  (Rating: 7.53 Votes: 28 Viewed: 15322 Posted: Wed Apr 28 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Formation Skydiving
  Free Flyers would call Formation Skydiving "belly-flying", with the earth always below, and the skies above. Formation Skydiving is much more than this, and entails quite a long history.
  (Rating: 7.44 Votes: 16 Viewed: 12916 Posted: Wed Apr 28 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Style and Accuracy
  More commonly called Style and Accuracy, these disciplines are also referred to as the "Classics." The first skydiving competitions in the first half of the 20th Century involved landing on a target using a parachute, then the Style series was created.
  (Rating: 6.70 Votes: 10 Viewed: 5831 Posted: Wed Apr 28 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Freestyle
  Freestyle is defined as a solo freefall discipline that involves choreographed multi-orientation static and dynamic maneuvers.
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• Canopy Relative Work
  Canopy Relative Work (CRW) may be described as the intentional maneuvering of two or more open parachute canopies in close proximity to, or contact with one another during descent.
  (Rating: 8.12 Votes: 9 Viewed: 7844 Posted: Wed Apr 28 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Skysurfing
  Skysurfing is a team parachuting discipline, with each team consisting of two athletes: a Skysurfer and a Cameraflyer. The Skysurfer rides a specially designed skyboard during freefall, sliding, spinning, twisting and yes, surfing through the sky. The Cameraflyer records the performance with a helmet-mounted camcorder.
  (Rating: 8.25 Votes: 8 Viewed: 13556 Posted: Wed Apr 28 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It

• Para-ski
  Para-ski is one of the competitive disciplines in parachuting and the only one to originate outside parachuting. The sport originated in Switzerland in the early 1960’s, when Swiss skiers conceived of para-ski as a form of mountain rescue.
  (Rating: 9.00 Votes: 3 Viewed: 10059 Posted: Wed Apr 28 2004)   Rate It   Bookmark It