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Freeflying is the ability to fly your body in the wind in any position, in any direction. There are basics body flight positions such as: - belly fly - back fly - sit fly - stand up - head down In freefly there isn't any limitation in the positions that you can fly. With a good creativity, flexibility and strength you can fly in any body positions that you can imagine. There are many transitions to be performed between any of the positions. You can fly from one position to the other smoothly or launch yourself from one to the other. For safety reasons, there are basic procedures to be followed. The flyer needs to show a good control in FS Formation Skydiving. (neutral and stable flight / forward, backwards / turns, up and down).
This is the basic procedure for every one. If you are a very good skydiver, it might take only a few minutes to feel comfortable in the wind tunnel and get through the safety procedures before we start freefly in vertical positions such as sitfly, stand and head down position. WIND TUNNEL CLASSES: Stretching Briefing - 30 minutes Fly time (*variable) – one-on-one coaching debriefing *For better results the flight times are better distributed in sessions of 15 minutes, 20 minute, 30 minute or blocks of one hour. WIND TUNNEL CAMPS: The Basic Course Camp Exercises to improve the basic body position Basic Flight techniques Day Sessions The Advance Course Camp Exercises to improve more flight skills Advance free fly techniques Relative work - vertical fly Days The Team Camp Free fly and free style team Camera flyer techniques Routine and composures movements Days
BACKFLY Why is the Backfly position so difficult to learn? What makes this position more difficult than others is the visual orientation. It’s easier to gain visual awareness in a head down position in comparison to the backfly position. Sit fly position - the visuals* are just the same as we see everyday, anywhere. The same applies to the belly fly position, which corresponds to almost the same visual orientation you get from the head up flying positions. Head down – the visuals are upside down, which make us somehow confused the first few times flying in this position, but it’s just inverse of what we normally see in our everyday life. Back fly – the visuals are quite different and it is hard to get used to them. We are not used to finding ourselves with these visuals, we tend to get easily tense, and we always find ourselves looking at our legs or anywhere else (that it would look familiar the way we are used to seeing it). This position should be the most relaxed position of them; any tension would reduce the perception of the wind and would make our flight unstable. How can we train to fly better in this position? Firstly, we need to train on getting relaxed. You can lay on the ground, close your eyes, breath and relax. Try to feel your back touching the ground. Look at your legs and arms. Aim to present a nice box position and then look up, followed by closing your eyes again. At the beginning it’s good to jump with someone flying in the belly fly position, it will help as a visual reference during freefall. The first time we are flying we tend to look at our leg, which is ok to visually check the body position, but after the check we should try to look straight up. The best place to improve back flying performance is the wind tunnel. There are visual references all around. A good position to start in is by having your back slightly de-arched, legs and thighs at around a 90º angle. Legs and torso bent around a 90 º angle. Knees apart, in line with shoulders, feet kept a little wider than the knees. Head straight, laying backwards but looking straight up. Arms slightly bent, and above the level of the head, where it can be seen by yourself. Forward & backward: To better orient ourselves in back flying, it’s better if we use the terms “towards the head” & “towards the feet” instead of forward & backward. You can be looking in any directions when in a backfly position, so it’s very relative which way is forward or backward, it’ll depends where you are going to be looking. For example: we can say that you’re flying towards the feet and be very clear in which direction we are flying. Which will not matter which direction we are going to be looking. Straighten your legs, slightly bring your hands down, a little, twisting your shoulders down. To move towards the feet - Bend your legs in and straighten your arms out. To turn - The best is to use your arms and legs at the same time. You can twist the hips sideways, a little, and present the shins toward the wind, to the side you want to turn to. Up and down – Slow and fast fall rate - To go down - get smaller to go faster, bring arms and legs close to the torso or straighten them out, and For more information about “Backfly” you can check out on the “Learning to freefly” DVD’s – Backfly which is the first DVD in a series of 6 DVDs produced by Skydive University and 80visions Production. These DVD’s were created to help anyone wishing to learn the art of body flight. "Parachutist" Backfly Article: Joao Tambor and John Chisholm - from Freefly Mega Center
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de-arch your back more. To go up - get bigger to go slower, straightening your back, slightly arching, arms and legs straightened out. There are many movements in freeflying which we need to know. Learning how to fly on our back. e.g. eagles, carving, transitions, back tracking and lots more… Backfly can also be used for Formation Skydiving. The Black Magic 4-way team, comprised of Joey Jones, Thomas Hughes, Juliana Se, Joao Tambor, has been training all the FS (Formation Skydiving) 4-way pool on their backs. One of the best comments from the team was about the harness, the rig, and how much it can change the performance of back flying. Using the harness for tunnel training, one can realize that for sideslides and turns the legs and arms move the same way, with or without the harness. The torso moves differently - we need to twist toward the opposite direction, because the side part of the harness displaces a lot of wind sideways. So a good container for freeflying needs to have main and reserve flaps that remain well closed during freefall. It’s bet
ter if the container has a wide, flat and square shape. It is well fit. Leg straps and chest strap should be tight, and if it’s possible use a belly strap, or a side strap. So a good freefly container would be wide and flat, square shaped and well fit, legs and chest strapped very tight. A main and reserve flaps that remain well closed during freefall. Leg strap and chest strap very tight, and if it’s possible use a belly strap, or a side strap. 
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