Skydive Arizona 2019 World Cup

CITY OF ELOY ARIZONA

Welcome to Eloy! The City of Eloy has been, and continues to be, the home of Skydive Arizona at the Eloy Municipal Airport. It has served the region over the past 20 years. We are proud of our long tradition for excellent skydiving and being known as the “Skydive Capital” of the United States.

Eloy offers the premier location for skydiving due to our abundant open space around the airport, and excellent year-round weather. The beautiful mountains in the foreground, minimal wind and plenty of blue skies make for an ideal environment for skydiving.

Thanks for attending this year’s competition and we hope you enjoy your stay in Eloy!

Joel G. Belloc, Mayor, City of Eloy

22 13TH World Cup of Artistic Events

ND World Cup of Formation Skydiving

AIMS OF THE EVENTS ■ Determine the World Cup winners of Formation Skydiving in the 4-way FS, 4-way FS female, 4-way VFS, and 8-way FS events.

■ Determine the champions of artistic events (Freestyle and Freefly).

■ Determine the world standings of the competing teams.

■ Establish formation and vertical formation skydiving world records.

■ Promote and develop formation skydiving, vertical formation skydiving and artistic events.

OCT 6 Official arrival day for delegations and judges

OCT 7 Judging Seminars, Official Practice 0800 - 1400 Opening Ceremonies 1600

■ Present a visually attractive image of the competition jumps and standings (scores) for competitors, spectators and media.

■ Exchange ideas and strengthen friendly relations between the sport parachutists, judges and support personnel of all nations.

■ Allow participants to share and exchange experience, knowledge and information.

OCT 8 Competition for FS 0800 - 1800 Official Practice for AE

OCT 9-11 Competition All Events 0800 - 1800

NAC: National Aeronautic Association National Federation: United States Parachute Association IPC Delegate: Kirk Verner Organizing Committee: Head: Larry Hill Members: Shawn Hill, Steve Hill. George Hargis, Windee Hill, Robert Thomas Omniskore!HD Will be used to score both FS and AE. The competition will be managed according to the FAI Sporting Code General Section and the rules specific to the events.

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OCT 12 Competition All Events 0800 - 1400 Closing Ceremonies & Awards begin at 1600

Event Host: Skydive Arizona 4900 N Taylor St Eloy, AZ 85131 USA 520-466-3753

By The

Numbers

CONTENTS Page 3 Statistics and Competition Officials Page 11 Things to do in Pinal County

13,000 = Height in feet above the ground when an 8-way formation team exits the plane.

Page 15 Participating Nations Page 16 Spectator FAQs

35 = Number of seconds the 4-way formation teams have to score points. Also known as “working time”.

Page 18 FAI Information

85 to 95 = Speed of the plane (in knots) when the competitors exit.

This is 97 - 109 mph.

62.6 = World’s highest average points scored in 7 rounds of Freefly, Achieved by the France team in 2018 World Championships.

Produced & Published in conjunction with

50 = Number of seconds the 8-way formation teams have to score points.

ROX Media, LLC 844.729.9769 | roxmediagroup.net Elaine Earle, Publisher 520.426.2074 | cfo@roxco.com Photo - Freefly Team, Niklas Daniel

25.7 = World’s highest average in 10 rounds of female 4-way Formation Skydiving. Scored by France in 2018.

Competition O

fficials FAI CONTROLLER: Rina Gallo- Canada CHIEF JUDGE AE: Silvia Wagner - Austria CHIEF JUDGE FS: Thierry Coutin - France ASSISTANT TO THE CJ’ S: Judy Celeya - USA MEET DIRECTOR: Bryan Burke - USA EVENT JUDGES:

Photo - Formation 4-way team, Joss Marin

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Natalia Yastremskaya: Freestyle - Russia Ron Miasnikov: Freefly - Israel Claire King: FS - South Africa Wolfgang Duller: FS/VFS - Austria

AE JUDGES: Agnieszka Sobczyńska - Poland Jami Pillasch - USA Thi Bich Van Ha - France Ray Williams - Australia Bryce Witcher - USA FS JUDGES: Mike Pennock - Netherlands Pekka Salmena - Finland Liz Warner - UK Vera Asquith - Canada Deanne Brazelton - USA

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Events

A FREEFLY team is composed of one camera person and two performers.

GRIP: a recognizable stationary contact of the hand(s) of one performer on a specified part of the body of another performer.

DOCK: a recognizable stationary

contact of the foot (feet) of one performer on a specified part of the body of the other performer.

WORKING TIME: the period of time during which teams may perform a routine during a jump. Working time starts the instant any team member separates from the aircraft and terminates 42 seconds later.

Photo: Niklas Daniel

Photo: Sandy Radsek

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Freestyle team consists of one performer and one camera person. Each jump is considered a round, max number of rounds is seven. Five rounds are free routines chosen by the team. Two rounds are compulsory with four mandatory sequences in each. Free routines are judged based on creativity, difficulty, execution and teamwork. A panel of three judges score the routines by watching the video after each round.

Photos: (Left) Freestyle Team “AZ Dream� (Right) Freefly Team

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Formation Skydiving FORMATION - A pattern built by performing certain grips during freefall.

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competition team consists of 4 or 8 athletes and 1 camera person. The competition is up to 10 rounds with up to 6 formations each round.

The team scores 1 point for each correctly formed formation. They have a limited number of seconds to repeat the correct sequence of formations. The judges watch the video recorded during free fall by the camera person. The team to collect the most points by the final round wins.

Photo: David French

International Parachuting Commission

8 - Way

Formation Examples Hour Glass Š AXIS Flight School

Photo: Michael McGowan

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Arizona Airspeed is a team local to Eloy and has competed in national and world competitions since 1994.

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Arizona ADVENTURES DAY TRIPS • Biosphere 2 (54 miles) biosphere2.org/

• Flagstaff (207 miles) flagstaffarizona.org

• Jerome (173 miles)

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• Kartchner Caverns State Park (104 miles)

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• Lake Pleasant (115 miles)

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• Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (225 miles) • Tombstone (122 miles)

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• Sonoran Desert (50 miles)

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• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (104 miles) visit-prescott.com

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• Mount Lemmon (90 miles)

• Prescott (162 miles)

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Jerome Cottonwood Prescott Camp Verde

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• Mogollon Rim (171 miles)

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• Winslow (226 miles) winslowarizona.org

Original photo by Willy Boeykens

The original multimode AAD plus Vigil Xtreme Mode.

Four modes in one unit: Pro, Student, Tandem, Xtreme. www.vigil.aero

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Vertical Formation Skydiving

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eams consist of four athletes and one camera flyer. Exit altitude is 13,000 feet above ground level. Working time is 35 seconds.

Objective is for the team to complete as many formations as possible within the working time while correctly following the sequence for that round. Each round consists of 5 or 6 scoring formations.

Teams complete these formations in a vertical axis either head down or upright. Average speeds of these jumps reach 160 mph.

Photo: Issac Hanson

Photos: (Left) X-Force

(Right) AZ Anthem Photo: Sandy Radsek

Become One With The Sky Real Performance: 7-cell WS

- Controlled Openings - Solid Stability and Control - Powerful and Forgiving Landings

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Participating Nations 4-way fs

4-Way Female

8-Way FS

Australia China Finland France Germany Great Britain Italy Paraguay Russia Sweden Ukraine USA

France Germany Great Britain USA

France Germany Great Britain USA

FREESTYLE

FreeFly

France Great Britain Russia USA

France Germany Italy Netherlands Norway Russia Switzerland

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4-Way VFS Norway Russia Sweden USA

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Spectatorfaqs • Does it cost money to come watch?

No. There is no charge for admission.

• Can I bring my children?

Absolutely! Just please leave your dogs or any other pet at home.

• What will I be able to see?

You will be able to see all the athletes landing their parachutes. There will also be videos of each jump re-played on a large screen.

• Can we meet the competitors?

Yes. There will be many skydivers at the competition who you may talk to and take pictures with. Please be respectful of their time.

• Will there be somewhere to sit?

We will have bleachers and picnic tables. You can bring a fold out chair if you like.

EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL?

CHECK YOURSELF CHECK YOUR FRIENDS

WE CHECK YOUR AAD Photo: Juan Mayer

photo: Juan Mayer

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Located at Skydive Arizona in Eloy! Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

*Full Bar*Pool Tables*CornHole Boards*Darts*Big Screen TVs* (520)466-9268 ORDERS FOR PICKUP Mondays: (5pm-9pm) $6 wings and 22oz draft beers for pint prices!

Tuesdays: (5pm-9pm) $2 Hot Dog bar and $3 domestic beers!

Thursdays: (5pm-9pm) $1 tacos/tostadas and $3 margaritas and Mexican beers!

Fridays: (5pm-7pm) Happy Hour! $2.50 well and domestic drinks!

Saturdays: (5pm-9pm) Mexican Food Night!

Sundays: $5 slider plates and $4 Bloody Marys

History of Indoor Skydiving 1940: The first ever vertical wind tunnel on record is the 20-Foot Vertical Spin Tunnel built at the NASA Langley Research Center.

1964: Jack Tiffany became the first recorded human to ever fly in a wind tunnel at the Wright-Patterson machine while working for the Apollo space program.

1978: The first wind tunnel designed and built specifically for human flight was built in Canada by Jean St-Germain. He constructed this machine so that his kids could experience freefall in a safe environment.

St-Germain used a DC-3 airplane engine and propeller which sat below a steel reinforced net and cage.

(520) 466-4640

www. skyventureaz.com

1997: a patent was filed by SkyVenture showing the first modern wall-to-wall wind tunnel design. This type of tunnel used multiple propellers with electric engines placed above the chamber which pulled air up through an enclosed flight chamber.

2005: SkyVenture Arizona offered the right size (14 foot, round) and enough wind speed (160 mph) for skydivers to train all disciplines of flying. This tunnel became the holy grail for training skydivers.

2010: the indoor skydiving industry exploded. Wind tunnels began popping up in major cities across the US.

2017: The first and only indoor tunnel designed for wingsuits opened in Stockholm, Sweden.

Have you tried indoor skydiving yet?

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Photo: Niklas Daniel

THE FEDERATION AERONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE Photo: Niklas Daniel The Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the World Air Sports Federation, was founded in 1905.

It is a non-governmental and nonprofit international organisation with the aim of furthering aeronautical and aeronautical activities worldwide, ratifying world and continental records and coordinating the organisation of international competitions.

It is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The FAI is now an organisation of more than 100 member countries, forming a strong network linking all those who participate in air sports worldwide.

Within the framework of FAI, each air sport has an International Commission which is responsible for making the rules for competitions and which generally Photo: “It’s So Hilarious” Cred: Rich La Barr oversees the activities of their particular air sport.

The IPC- International Parachute Commission oversees this skydiving competition.

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