Mickee

I don't think it is an official dicipline, but there are a few bladerunning competitions here in sweden... Using a normal skislope they navigate a slalomcourse over a few hundred meters and gets scored based on the shortest time to complete the course, and gets timepenaltys for missing a port. You can check out the competitions homepage at Sweden ProBlade Cup (only in swedish) or watch a clip of a few runs Here (2,8MB WMV) I am not affiliated with the competition and have never participated or watched it live, so my information comes from the website and the people I know that has participated... Edit to add: They use regular skydivning gear and jump from airplanes as usual, so you won't find any info about starting from a mountain there...

No, not annual jumps. It is based on total jumps not including the jumps during your education... ('antal hopp' = 'number of jumps')

Yes, that is correct, when you have 500 jumps they think you can make your own decisions, so it is unregulated. In addition, there is a rule that prohibits HP-canopies before you have 300 jumps...

I read this tread and was kind of surprised that there is no regulation at all on wingloading in the US. Here in Sweden we have quite hard rules on this subject... I feel that the rules are a bit too restrictive, but they clearly cuts down on accidents on newbies. I attached the swedish weight/size regulation, if anyone is interested... The numbers in bold are the recommended size, the numbers in parenthesis are the absolute smallest sized main canopy you are allowed to use. The numbers on the left are total jumps after a completed education. The weights are in kilograms, but I entered the corresponding lbs weighs in blue text, so you non-metric people can read it (I hope I converted it correctly) And, excuse my english, it's not my primary language :)