As you may already know, Danyelle and I will be competing this September at USPA's Nationals competition in the Freestyle category. So here are the nuts and bolts of what that means:
We have 45 seconds of working time after leaving the plane.
The competition consists of two types of routines, Free and Compulsory. The Compulsory routines are outlined in USPA's competition manual starting on page 94. We haven't decided what we are going to put together for the Free routine but stayed tuned, I'll keep you posted.
There are seven rounds:
- Free
- Compulsory
- Synchronized Back Turn Sequence
- Robin Spin Sequence
- Back tracking
- Robin spin
- Cartwheel Sequence: two cartwheels
- Straddle Backstop (Cradle) Sequence
- Layout back-loop
- Straddle backstop
- Straddle kip
- 180 degree head up twist
- Second straddle backstop and straddle kip
- Layout front-loop
- Free
- Free
- Compulsory (starts at the bottom of page 95)
- Straddle Headstand Sequence: straddle 360 degree pirouette
- Straddle headstand
- Straddle headstand pirouette
- Orbiting Compass
- Compass position
- Compass turn
- Layout Loop Twist Sequence
- Layout front-loop
- Layout front half twist
- Layout back full twist
- Carving Sequence (performer and videographer must orbit 360 degree around an imaginary center between them while flying head down).
- Free
- Free
And there you have it. But, if you'd rather just watch a video to get an idea of what we're doing then here is one to get you started. Hopefully one day we can pull off something like this.
Freestyle training at SkyVenture Colorado
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