TV to Cover World Parachuting Championships 'Mondial 2003'
Under the title of "Mondial 2003", five World Parachuting
Championships will be held from 7 to 14 September 2003 at
Gap-Tallard, in the French Alps. As the Organizers will provide
daily TV coverage, FAI invites its Members, Media and TV
Representatives to contribute to a wide distribution of these
spectacular images.
What is Mondial 2003? Everything Skydiving!
On the same airfield, the best parachutists from 40 nations
worldwide will compete in the following five different
FAI-sanctioned competitions (see FAI Sporting Calendar) :
10th World Parachuting Championship in Canopy
Formation
Team members compete under open canopies. Once out of the aircraft,
they deploy their parachutes immediately and proceed to build
different formations by linking together. They connect by putting
their feet on another parachute, in the parachute lines or on
another jumper's body.
2nd World Parachuting Championship in
Freeflying
Freeflying, the ultimate in creative freefall, is one of the latest
events in sport parachuting and the only one to incorporate all
dimensional axes during the freefall part of a parachute jump. The
teams consist of three athletes, two freeflyers and a camera-flyer,
who also contributes to the team's sporting performance. Judges
score the team for both technical skill and artistic merit.
27th World Parachuting Championship in Freefall Style
and Accuracy Landing
Freefall Style is an individual discipline where the athlete
performs a prescribed sequence of maneuvers in freefall as
precisely as possible against the clock, rotating around different
body axes, performing turns and loops and using both physical
strength and aerodynamic forces. Accuracy Landing is also an
individual discipline where the athlete has to steer his parachute
to a precision landing on the 3 cm target in the center of an
electronic measuring device.
4th World Parachuting Championship in Freestyle
Skydiving and Skysurfing The objective of Freestyle Skydiving is to record a
sequence of free or compulsory moves and poses in freefall during a
limited working time; the teams consist of a performer and a
freefall camera-flyer. Skysurfing is virtually identical to
Freestyle Skydiving, except that a board is attached to the
athletes' feet.
15th World Parachuting Championship in Formation
Skydiving
The teams consisting of 4, 8 or 16 members and a freefall
camera-flyer have to perform, during a limited working time, a
sequence of formations and transition maneuvers, and repeat this
sequence as many times as possible during the working time.
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