Canopy Piloting is a high speed discipline involving small and very agile parachutes and highly trained pilots to fly them. The competitions are held over a stretch of water for safety reasons and can be watched from just a few meters away from the ground. The athletes accelerate their parachutes...
Canopy formations, or like it's still often called, CRW (Canopy Relative Work) began in the mid 70's. It is believed that Bobby Gray and Mike "Beanpole" Barber made the world first 2-way in 1975. After that we have seen a lot of different and bigger formations.In the beginning jumpers made vertical...
In the early 1980’s, some skydivers began flying their new generation airfoil designed parachutes in formation with each other, often with one skydiver sitting on top of another’s canopy, using the legs or hands to stay attached. This practice quickly became popular with a number of adventurous...
In the beginning of the nineties, some skydivers were experimenting with different freefall positions. These were based on manoeuvres taken from acrobatics and ice-skating. At approximately the same time, others were trying to jump with surfboards tied to their feet. Both activities captured the...
Style and Accuracy Landing are the two oldest competitive disciplines in the ISC calendar; and are known colloquially as « the Classics ». The first World Championships in Accuracy Landings (then simply called Accuracy), were held in Bled, Yugoslavia in 1951. This was a competition to see who could...
The origins of parachuting go back a long way. The first well-documented parachute jump is considered to have been performed by Frenchman Jacques Garnerin, who jumped from his balloon on 22 October 1797 in Paris, from an altitude of some 600 m. Throughout the 19th century, these jumps remained...