Formation skydiving
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Formation skydiving is the art of building formations in free-fall with multiple people gripping each others' limbs or specially built "grippers" on their jumpsuits.
Formation skydiving can be further divided into several sub-categories, so named for the number of members in a team:
- 4-way sequential
- 4-way vertical sequential (VRW)
- 8-way sequential
- 16-way sequential
- 10-way speed
- Large formations (Big-ways)
The current FAI world record for largest free-fall formation is a 400-way, set on February 8, 2006 in Udon Thani, Thailand. It was held for 4.25 seconds. They used five C-130 Hercules airplanes and exited from an altitude of 25,000 feet.
A recent sub-category of formation skydiving is Vertical Formation Skydiving or VRW. Skydivers build formations using higher-speed body positions normally associated with freeflying, such as head down and sitflying.
