What's it called??

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I've only seen RW guys do this postion. Bascially, they are vertical and sitting on their knees. Anybody know what I am talking about?? What is that called? How does one get into that position?

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[PhreeZone 14]

Knee flying? Most Freefliers do it at some point too, its an extention of headup flying.

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[Sonic 0]

with arms out in front? I've seen camera flyers use this for tandem deployments

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[Shark 0]

Yep, knee flying. There's a cool mpeg on the NSL website of the Majik dudes knee flying over Russia.

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Try THIS.

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[skymick 0]

look at the vid ooops.mov on ftp.skydivingmovies.com, its got a bit of kneeflying there (plus a lot of funnel exits )

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I've only seen RW guys do this postion. Bascially, they are vertical and sitting on their knees. Anybody know what I am talking about?? What is that called? How does one get into that position?

Airspeed did a beautiful 10-way formation knee-fly during the 10-way speed competition at Nationals this year (after the regulation 5 second hold of the required formation). I expect it will be on Omniskore's nationals video.

[drenaline 0]

It's called knee flying.

a friend that is kinda old in the sport told me that knee flying was also called chute assis. How old? when round chutes were the normal thing to jump.

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[arlo 0]

yeah, we do alot of knee-flying in the tunnel. It's pretty cool-ass. First person I saw do it in freefall was Pete Allum after doing a 2-way with him. I can remember seeing him start knee flying and that was all she wrote. Too, it's easy to do in the tunnel after doing 4-way...no suit change needed. It's slower flying than sitting, and you can still do cool stuff like behind the back and whatnot.

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a friend that is kinda old in the sport told me that knee flying was also called chute assis.

Chute Assis is French for sit flying.

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[kallend 1,621]

Tried knee flying today. I was wearing my normal RW bootie suit. It was very easy to get into the "kneel" and hold it, and turns weren't too bad either. I was solo, so I have no idea if I was backsliding etc., not did I have any reference for fall rate control. I thought it was easier than sitflying.

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I thought it was easier than sitflying.

It's a lot easier then sit flying but almost as mobile as a sit fly. However it is harder to control your vertical speeds.

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[Ron 7]

First time I saw knee flying was several years ago.....There was an artical in Parachutist about ti from Dale Stewart I think.....

The first time I saw it in person was in the Bragg tunnel with the Knights. Kurt was doing it, and I thought it was very cool.

Now I do it all the time in the skyVenture tunnel when I am coaching and waiting for the next student.

It is a lot of fun, although I have not done it in freefall yet....to busy training.

Ron

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