Freestyle skydiving: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
restored references; removed external links not directly related to freestyle |
|||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
==History== |
==History== |
||
Freestyle was first performed by Deanna Kent and others for her husband Norman Kent's 1989 film "From Wings Came Flight".<ref>Trailer: From Wings Came Flight [ |
Freestyle was first performed by Deanna Kent and others for her husband Norman Kent's 1989 film "From Wings Came Flight".<ref>Trailer: From Wings Came Flight [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPXIP2BVvxo] Retrieved Oct 15, 2012</ref> It became a competitive skydiving discipline in the early 1990s and became an official [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|FAI]] sport in 1996. |
||
==References == |
==References == |
||
Revision as of 10:19, 29 November 2016
Freestyle skydiving is a competitive skydiving discipline where one member of a two-person team performs acrobatic manoeuvres in free fall while the other one films the performance from a close distance using a helmet mounted camera.[1][2]
History
Freestyle was first performed by Deanna Kent and others for her husband Norman Kent's 1989 film "From Wings Came Flight".[3] It became a competitive skydiving discipline in the early 1990s and became an official FAI sport in 1996.
References
See also
External links
- Artistic Events - FAI international parachuting commission (Freestyle Skydiving, Sky surfing & Free flying)
- Freestyle Skydiving - winddance.com
 | This air sports-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |