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Parachuting is to drop or cause to drop from an aircraft by parachute.

HISTORY

Parachuting or more commonly known as Skydiving originated around the 20th century primarily from parachute research being done by The United States Air Force in the early 1900’s. It was not until the 1960’s that what is now the modern parachute was even in common use. There continues to be an observable increase in what we currently see as modern parachuting as time passes.

COMPETETIVE SPORTS

Accuracy Landing is a Skydiving competition that revolves around seeing who can land as close as possible to a given location over a number of rounds. You incur more points the less accurate you are. The competitor or team with the least amount of points wins. The platform used to land on is subject to change and more rules can be added depending on location or federation of the competition. The larger the competition generally the more intense the platform, and unique the extra rules are. However most commonly the sport works as such; at 1000 meters in altitude teams consisting of five divers jump and deploy their parachutes in timed intervals to allow each competitor to land on their own.

Freefall Style is basically the sprinting of Skydiving. It is all about how well competitors can demonstrate acrobatic feats. These feats are made more impressive because each diver falls from 2200 meters, allowing them to build up large amounts of speed. The process of a competition is also quite simple. You dive in rounds, and every round the bottom 50% is cut.

Formatted Skydiving is just a sub category of Freefall Style, however its just as popular as regular Freefall. It is basically the same sport however with teams of 4 or 8 competitors, that dive for ten rounds, and each round has the possibility to have around 6 formations.

Indoor Skydiving is the largest growing skydiving sport. It uses wind tunnels and suits to simulate diving. Since that is all the criteria required to be classified as an Indoor Skydiving competition there are many different Competitions within Indoor Skydiving.