Artistic Events
The competitive discipline of artistic skydiving combines exceptional freefall skills with creative choreography. Competitors have the ability to navigate the complexities of freefall physics while making the maneuvers appear effortless. There are two separate artistic skydiving events, freefly and freestyle.
Complete rules can be found in the Skydiver’s Competition Manual Chapter 11
Freestyle
Team:
A Freestyle Skydiving team is composed of a performer and a videographer.
Exit:
Teams leave the aircraft at 13,000 ft. above ground level (AGL).
Working Time:
Begins the instant any team member separates from the aircraft and terminates 45 seconds later.
Compulsory Routine:
Two rounds of competition are compulsory-routine rounds. Each compulsory routine consists of four mandatory maneuvers that the team performs in whatever order they choose.
Free Routine:
The team chooses the entire content of the free routine, which is judged based on difficulty, technicality, execution, presentation, creativity and camera work. Five rounds of competition are free-routine rounds.
Freefly
Team:
A freefly team is composed of two performers and a videographer.
Exit:
Teams leave the aircraft at 13,000 ft. above ground level (AGL).
Working Time:
Begins the instant any team member separates from the aircraft and terminates 45 seconds later.
Compulsory Routine:
Two rounds of competition are compulsory routine rounds. Each compulsory routine consists of four mandatory maneuvers that the team performs in whatever order they choose. Some of these mandatory maneuvers require the two performers to take grips or docks with each other.
Free Routine:
The team chooses the entire content of the free routine, which is judged based on difficulty, technicality, execution, presentation, creativity and camera work. Five rounds of competition are free-routine rounds.