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Chicago's Skydive Midwest - Free fly Skydive

Freeflying is a skydiving discipline that breaks away from the traditional belly to earth position used in RW. A freeflyer will utilize other body positions such as sit flying, standing, back flying, and head down.

Free-fly in general

The main advantage freeflying has over relative work is that the flying is three dimensional. Freeflying is not limited to staying on a single plane. During the skydive freeflyers can transition through many different body positions and levels. This makes the skydive more challenging and demands a higher level of proficiency.

Learning Free-fly

Learning how to freefly takes a longer time to achieve than relative work but, once the skill is acquired you are able to fly your body in all positions and your skydiving experience becomes more dynamic. Modern freeflyers try to achieve the goal of becoming a “Total Body Pilot”. This simply means beng able to fly in any body position.

Free-fly records

The current World record freefly formation is 69 skydivers all flying in a head down position. This might not sound like a lot when you compare it to the World relative work record that is 400. The reason for this is freeflying demands a greater level of skill and the freefall speed is greatly increased in certain freefly positions like head down.