The first international world cup was organized in 2000 by the ISST (International Speed Skydiving Tribe) lead by Mike Brooke who pushed the sport forwards with use of two measuring devices. The first speed skydiving competition in Europe was organized in September 1999 at the drop zone Gap-Tallard (France) and was won by Mike Brooke.
The first competition organized in the USA in Deland Florida was in 1998 with one protrack.
Join us here as Oklahoma Skydiving Center, where we have everything to help you experience freefall for the first time, or to set you on the path to get a license of your very own.Mascia Ferri, winner of the Italian Nationals gold medal in 2019 However and whichever way you do skydiving, it is awesome – and we want as many people as possible to experience it. The USPA (United States Parachute Association) rules require supplemental oxygen for jumps over 15’000ft, which requires a bit of extra effort to arrange – but we like the extra freefall time enough to make it happen. Here at Oklahoma Skydiving Centre we have a fast, powerful plane that is able to offer you the maximum 14’000ft – the only skydiving centre in the region to go this high every day.Įven More Altitude: On Friday and Saturday evenings we go even higher. More Altitude: The way to get more freefall time in a single jump is to simply go from higher up. Another way is to become a skydiver yourself, join our community and gain access to the sky all the time! If you have just completed a tandem skydive and want to go again, we are happy to take you back up. Freefall is the best part of skydiving, and there are two ways to get more of it – go again or jump from higher up.Īgain and Again: It is very common to want more as soon as you land. Opening altitude is most often between 3000ft and 5000ft – giving you a few minutes of canopy flight before you are back on the ground.
The important thing to know about freefall speed is that it is that the faster you go the sooner you need to open your parachute. Good wingsuit pilots can achieve a glide ratio of up to four feet forward for every foot lost in height, resulting in a descent speed of about 40mph – but also a typical forward speed of 120mph. Modern designs are very good at flying, but as they are unpowered and still use gravity to create movement, they still also count as falling. Wingsuits are made to decrease your fall rate and turn you into a human flying machine. The current world record is 373.6mph – straight at the ground and measured over a vertical kilometer. By pointing their heads at the ground and streamlining everything else, they can achieve much higher speeds. Speed Skydivers simply try to fall as fast as possible. When your body is vertical in these positions and you use your limbs for drag and control, the average speed is higher – usually around 160mph. The way you are falling also affects how fast you go, and skydivers pursue a variety of different disciplines that have different general speeds:įreeflyers use complex body positions to fly together in different orientations, most commonly head-up and head-down. For these reasons it is also the orientation used for tandem skydiving – with the student in the lower position and the instructor the higher. ‘Belly flying’ or ‘flat flying’ is what you learn first as it is a relatively simple and very stable position that keeps you the right way up (with your parachute on your back pointing at the sky). This is a useful number as it represents the average speed that people fall at when ‘belly to earth’ – the position you most likely to think of when you imagine somebody skydiving. The most common number you are likely to hear in relation to skydiving is 120mph. The terminal velocity of an object is not a set speed, but a combination of how big and heavy it is (faster) and how much drag its shape creates (slower). The speed you fall at when you are skydiving depends on a few different things.