Safety
Safety, explained
Safety comes first on every coached jump. Each recommendation here comes with its reasons, so you can weigh it against your own conditions.
The safety articles
These articles cover the hazards that head-up, head-down and angle flying share. Start with corking, breakoff and back-fly, because most of the others build on them. More are on the way.
- Corking and the speed differential What corking does to anyone above you, and why to be cork-proof before you freefly in a group.
- Improving the breakoff What happens at breakoff, why a head-up breakoff opens less separation, and the altitude guides.
- Why back-fly comes first Back-fly is where you recover to from every vertical position.
- The dangers of solo freefly What you lose when you freefly on your own, the two risks that follow, and how to reduce them.
- Gear at freefly speeds What to check on your rig beyond a belly gear check, and why freefly speeds need it.
- Exit order and separation How freefly exit order works, and how the ground covered between groups gives you separation.
- Two audibles: altitude awareness at freefly speeds Why an audible does more work at freefly speeds, and when to wear two.