The safety spine
Safety, explained
Safety comes first in how we coach. Every recommendation here comes with the reasoning behind it, so you can weigh it against your own conditions.
The spine we're building
The safety library covers the hazards shared by every freefly discipline, head-up, head-down or on an angle. It starts with the three that shape everything else: corking, breakoff and back-fly. The rest grows from there.
- Corking and the speed differential Why you should be cork-proof before any group freefly.
- Improving the breakoff The breakoff doctrine, the head-up inefficiency evidence, and the guides.
- Why back-fly comes first The recovery position is the foundation of every vertical orientation.
- The dangers of solo freefly What a soloist gives up, the two risks that follow, and the protocols that treat them.
- Gear at freefly speeds Why a belly-standard gear check is not enough for a freeflyer.
- Exit order and separation Separation comes from ground covered between groups: the logic behind freefly exit order.
- Two audibles: altitude awareness at freefly speeds Why audibles matter more in freefly, and when two become best practice.