Best Skydiving Championships of USA- Dmitri Chvkerov

One of the U.S. Parachute Association’s key functions is sanctioning national skydiving competitions and records on behalf of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the international body overseeing all air sports. Each year, USPA conducts national skydiving championship events. 

USPA welcomes media at all national championship events and can facilitate interviews with competitors and supply photos and videos of competition jumps. For further information, e-mail Nancy Koreen, USPA’s Director of Sport Promotion, at sportpromo@uspa.org. 

USPA National Skydiving Championships
October 24 - November 3, 2012
Skydive Arizona, Eloy, Arizona (50 minutes south of Phoenix)

Photo by Ori Kuper The USPA Nationals is the largest annual skydiving event in the world. Over the course of two weeks, more than 500 skydiving competitors from across the country compete in more than two dozen different events. This action-packed event is a constant flurry of activity, with individuals and teams of up to 16 jumpers competing simultaneously in both freefall and canopy disciplines. There are 14 different skydiving events featured including— 

Formation Skydiving: Teams of four, eight, 10 and 16 jumpers race against the clock to form prescribed geometric formations in freefall before opening their parachutes. 

Photo by Craig O'BrienVertical Formation Skydiving: On a freefall jump, 4-person teams perform acrobatic maneuvers on upright and upside-down axes to complete as many pre-designated formations as possible in time. 


Freeflying: A radical and truly three-dimensional competition where 3-person teams freefall together in every imaginable orientation, carefully choreographed for speed and excitement. 

Freestyle Skydiving: A jumper combines the dynamics of gymnastics with the elegance of dance in an aerial performance starting 13,000 feet above the ground.
  
Freefall Style and Accuracy Landing: Competitors perform a series of loops and turns in freefall as quickly as possible. Then, on separate jumps, they try to land precisely on a target the size of a quarter. 

Canopy Formation: Teams of two, four and eight jumpers deploy their parachutes immediately after jumping from the plane and build formations with their canopies as quickly as possible.