Jumpers Challenge Themselves at Vertical Sequential Camp
Five Minute Call | May 01, 2020
Jumpers Challenge Themselves at Vertical Sequential Camp

Natalie Pitts

Matt Fry and Konstantin Petrijcuk (filling in for organizer Melissa Lowe) led the Vertical Sequential Camp—an event that gave jumpers a chance to try unique, non-traditional formations—at Skydive Sebastian in Florida February 20-23. The organizers designed three-and four-point formations that challenged flyers to think in both two and three dimensions. The elite group of flyers who attended completed some of the formations with ease; other formations presented unforeseen challenges and required a return to the drawing board.

The laid-back, camp-style environment allowed jumpers to challenge themselves by flying slots outside of their comfort zones. Some of the goals of the event were to ignite a passion for these types of formations and encourage flyers to return to their home DZs and try them on a smaller scale. Ideally, the participants will return to the next event with solutions to the challenges noted on less-successful jumps, as well as ideas for new ones. Fry and Lowe have their sights set on setting an 80-way Fédération Aéronautique Internationale World Record for Largest Two-Point Head-Down Formation Skydive June 25–28 at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois, under the new international rules for sequential records.

Natalie Pitts | D-3092
Broomfield, Colorado

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