Audiences at the Freefly World Championships in the Gold Coast, Australia, got a heart-stopping treat when a daredevil duo performed a spectacular mid-air dance routine during the competition.
Watch it for yourself here!
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The impressive video was filmed by Jim Gares, 37, from 13,000 feet above the ground and features Yo Aby and Vincente Cotte, both 34, as they streaked downward after jumping from a plane. As they soar through the air, the breathtaking moment arrives when they begin their spectacular skydiving routine.
In mid-air, one of them executes a handstand on the other and then spin around in beautiful synchronized movements, all while they continue hurtling downward.
Even though the whole routine lasted for less than a minute, it was years in the making as the pair spent countless hours practicing their routine in wind tunnels for the past two years. But the time they spent clearly paid off.
Vincent Cotte said: “In the video, we can see the Free Routine of the french national team for the world championships, 45 seconds of freeflying.
“All the jumpers are super experienced skydivers, with a minimum of 7000 skydives each.
“We prepared this routine in two years, and 700 jumps together, and hours in the wind tunnel.
“We are super happy to show what we created and what it is possible to do in the sky!!!”
Freeflying is an evolution of traditional skydiving. Freeflyers still use the usual belly-to-earth positions but they expand this to include vertical flight. The flyer can either be in the upright position (falling feet first) or be inverted (falling headfirst). Because of the increased freefall speed that this position offers, other types of formations and routines become possible that can’t be performed in traditional skydiving.
But this increased freefall speed also reduces the margin of error that a flyer has before he/she needs to deploy the parachute. This is why those attempting freeflying should first be very experienced and should have mastered all the traditional skydiving forms.
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