What is Acrobatic Wingsuit?
Acrobatic wingsuit was originally organised for the first time back in 2008 at Skydive Spa in Belgium and has subsequently been accepted by the FAI/IPC as an official discipline in 2015.
An acrobatic wingsuit team is composed of two performers and one videographer. The two performers complete a set of agreed manoeuvres whilst being filmed by a videographer within an agreed altitude window. Teams score points not just by carrying out the agreed manoeuvres but also get scored for their flying style as well as camera work. Style points are given for body position, smoothness of flying, controlled docks and forward flying speed.
Acrobatic wingsuit can be done both indoors as well as outdoors, with indoors not requiring a camera flyer.
How do you get started?
You will need a total of three wingsuit flyers to create a wingsuit acro team. Two flyers will fly the acrobatic manoeuvres whilst the third person will be your wingsuit camera flyer.
Compulsory rounds involve a series of randomly drawn moves of loops, rolls, transitions and docks to be executed within the competition window. Explanations of the compulsory moves can be found below.
Don’t fall short make sure to study the rules and really understand what is involved with the competition. This page is to provide you with a basic understanding but always be sure to check out FAI wingsuit competition rules which can be found below.
What are the compulsory sequences?
01
Up and Over
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions, up and over flyer B
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B transitions, up and over flyer A
Sequence A
02
Rock & Roll
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Barrelroll flyer A
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Barrelroll flyer B
Sequence B
02
Rock & Roll
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Barrelroll flyer A
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Barrelroll flyer B
Sequence B
03
Revolutions
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A flies a complete revolution around flyer B
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B flies a complete revolution around flyer A
Sequence C
04
Roll Over
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions, up and over flyer B with a barrel roll
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B transitions, up and over flyer A with a barrel roll
Sequence D
04
Roll Over
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions, up and over flyer B with a barrel roll
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B transitions, up and over flyer A with a barrel roll
Sequence D
05
Duck & Roll
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions, down/under flyer B with a barrel roll
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B transitions, down/under flyer A with a barrel roll
Sequence E
06
Deja Vu
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions, up and over flyer B
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A transitions back, up and over flyer B
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer B transitions, up and over flyer A
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B transitions back, up and over flyer A
Sequence F
06
Deja Vu
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions, up and over flyer B
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A transitions back, up and over flyer B
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer B transitions, up and over flyer A
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B transitions back, up and over flyer A
Sequence F
07
Ying Yang
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions to back flying
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A transitions to belly flying
- 5. Hand dock
- 6. Flyer B transitions to back flying
- 7. Hand dock
- 8. Flyer B transitions to belly flying
Sequence G
08
Back to Back
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A and B transition to back flying
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A and B transition to belly flying
Sequence H
08
Back to Back
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A and B transition to back flying
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A and B transition to belly flying
Sequence H
09
Pancakes
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions over flyer B to back flying
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A transitions over flyer B to belly flying
- 5. Hand dock
- 6. Flyer B transitions over flyer A to back flying
- 7. Hand dock
- 8. Flyer B transitions over flyer A to belly flying
Sequence I
10
Reversed Pancakes
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions under flyer B to back flying
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A transitions under flyer B to belly flying
- 5. Hand dock
- 6. Flyer B transitions under flyer A to back flying
- 7. Hand dock
- 8. Flyer B transitions under flyer A to belly flying
Sequence J
10
Reversed Pancakes
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions under flyer B to back flying
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer A transitions under flyer B to belly flying
- 5. Hand dock
- 6. Flyer B transitions under flyer A to back flying
- 7. Hand dock
- 8. Flyer B transitions under flyer A to belly flying
Sequence J
11
Hand to Foot
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A ankle docks flyer B
- 3. Hand dock
- 4. Flyer B ankle docks flyer A
Sequence K
12
Reversed Hand to Foot
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions to their back
- 3. Flyer A ankle docks onto flyer B
- 4. Flyer A transitions to their front
- 5. Hand dock
- 6. Flyer B transitions to their back
- 7. Flyer B ankle docks onto flyer A
Sequence L
12
Reversed Hand to Foot
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions to their back
- 3. Flyer A ankle docks onto flyer B
- 4. Flyer A transitions to their front
- 5. Hand dock
- 6. Flyer B transitions to their back
- 7. Flyer B ankle docks onto flyer A
Sequence L
13
Hand to Opposed Foot
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A transitions over flyer B
- 3. Flyer A takes a foot grip of flyer B
- 4. Flyer B transitions over flyer A
- 5. Flyer B takes a foot grip of flyer A
- 6. Hand dock
Sequence M
14
Corkscrew
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A peforms a 540° barrel roll over flyer B
- 3. Hand dock in mixed orientation
- 4. Flyer B peforms a 540° barrel roll over flyer A
- 5. Hand dock in inverted flight
- 6. Both transition to front
- 7. Hand dock
Sequence N
14
Corkscrew
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Flyer A peforms a 540° barrel roll over flyer B
- 3. Hand dock in mixed orientation
- 4. Flyer B peforms a 540° barrel roll over flyer A
- 5. Hand dock in inverted flight
- 6. Both transition to front
- 7. Hand dock
Sequence N
15
Scary Roll
- 1. Hand dock
- 2. Both flyers transition to inverted flight while maintaining the grip, flyer A over flyer B
- 3. Both transition to front
- 4. Hand dock
- 5. Both flyers transition to inverted flight while maintaining the grip, flyer B over flyer A
- 6. Both transition to front
- 7. Hand dock
Sequence O
What are the acrobatic manoeuvres?
Competitors exit the aircraft 12,500 feet. Teams include two performers and one videographer. There are seven rounds in a competition made up of compulsory manoeuvres made up of the acrobatic manoevres listed above and if in the advanced category free routines too. Judgement is based on difficulty and execution of moves.
What is a grip?
What are the rules?
The most up to date FAI Wingsuit Flying Competition rules can be downloaded by clicking here.
What is a free routine?
A free routine is chosen entirely by the team and does not have to include docks. Scoring is based on the difficulty and execution of the moves as well as the presentation of the video. This will only be found in the advanced category.
What is the working time?
What is a free routine?
A free routine is chosen entirely by the team and does not have to include docks. Scoring is based on the difficulty and execution of the moves as well as the presentation of the video. This will only be found in the advanced category.
What is the working time?
What are the acrobatic manoeuvres?
Competitors exit the aircraft 12,500 feet. Teams include two performers and one videographer. There are seven rounds in a competition made up of compulsory manoeuvres made up of the acrobatic manoevres listed above and if in the advanced category free routines too. Judgement is based on difficulty and execution of moves.
What is a grip?
What are the rules?
The most up to date FAI Wingsuit Flying Competition rules can be downloaded by clicking here.
How does the scoring work?
Compulsory Free
Style
Style scored 0-10, down to 1/10th point, and judged visually on Docks, Control, Body Position, Glide, Fallrate, Transitions, levelling and proximity.
Compulsory
Docks
Docks during each compulsory dive will be added up to create a total.
Free
Diveflow
Diveflow in the free round is scored 0-10, down to 1/10th point, and judged visually on difficulty, originality and choreography.
Compulsory Free
Camerawork
Camera is scored 0-10, down to 1/10th point, and judged on the following elements: Framing, Smoothness, Proximity and Creativity.
Compulsory Free
Total
The total score for docks (compulsories), style (all rounds), diveflow (free round) and camera (all rounds) will be weighted 0% to 100% between all teams for that round, based on the highest score defining 100% (100), and a no score being 0% (0). Per round, the combined score of the 3 judged elements can lead to a total score of 0-300. The total for all rounds is added up, to show the final ranking in teams.
