Formation Skydiving
FS is a super fun discipline
A Formation Skydiving competition team contains 4 (4-way FS) or 8 (8-way
FS) jumpers who make the formations, together with a freefall
videographer to record the formations in-air.
The videographer is a member of the team, so 4-way FS teams
have 5 members and 8-way teams have 9 members (sometimes plus an
alternate, too).
During a set free-fall (4way-35 seconds; 8way-50 seconds) the team
performs a series of predetermined formations as many times as possible.
FS attracts the most competitors of any skydiving discipline. The
British Open Nationals in Formation Skydiving, which take place every
summer, are the second largest in the world – only the USPA’s FS
Nationals are bigger.