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Learn wingsuiting through the many different paths the sport offers, from competition disciplines like acro and performance to flocking, XRW, and AWF. Below, you can explore options from your First Flight Course through to advanced flying. If you have any articles you would like to add, get in touch!
- Equipment, Progression, Safety
When Is It Actually Time to Upsize Your Wingsuit?
After a First Flight Course, many wingsuiters start asking the same question: when is it time to move to a bigger suit? The answer is ...
- Safety
Wingsuit Season Is Here – Are You Actually Ready?
The sun is out, the rigs are coming out of storage, and the temptation is to get straight back into it. But being excited for ...
- Progression
Don’t Rush WS2
While the WS1 certificate focuses on basic safety and survival, the WS2 is a performance-based grade that requires true pilot competency. Many students fail the ...
- Safety
Mastering the Aircraft
Wingsuiting begins long before the door opens. From how we sit to how we communicate with the pilot, our presence in the aircraft impacts everyone ...
- Progression
When Should You Upsize Your Wingsuit?
Upsizing your wingsuit isn’t about jump numbers or peer pressure—it’s about mastery. If you haven’t squeezed every ounce of performance from your current suit, you’re ...
- Equipment
Should You Get a Wingsuit CYPRES?
The thrill of wingsuit flight brings unmatched freedom—but choosing the right CYPRES could be the silent safeguard that ensures you make it home when the ...
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The progression path
From first-flight foundations to advanced flying, this section brings together the core progression framework and the break-off paths that can shape a pilot’s development over time. It is designed to provide structure, inspiration and a clearer view of how different areas of learn wingsuiting can evolve.
- Start here
Understanding the Wingsuit Progression Path
A practical guide to the wingsuit progression path, helping pilots and coaches understand how skills develop from first flight to advanced stages with more structure, ...
- Core
Stage 1 – Wingsuit First Flight Course
Stage 1 of the wingsuit progression path focuses on building safe, repeatable foundations through the First Flight Course. From suit fit and stable exits to ...
- Core
Stage 2 – Essential Wingsuit Techniques
Stage 2 is where wingsuit flying becomes relational. Moving beyond basic first-flight habits, this stage focuses on range control, approaches, relative flight, formation discipline, and ...
- Core
Stage 3 – Aerodynamic Wingsuit Proficiency
Refine precision, performance and group responsibility while preparing for more advanced wingsuit flying. This stage focuses on cleaner exits, improved aerodynamic efficiency, controlled docking, and ...
- Core
Stage 4 – Wingsuit Transitions & Backflying
Build control through transitions, backflying and orientation changes with greater precision and awareness. This stage focuses on movement quality, heading control and the technical foundations ...
- Core
Stage 5 – Precision Wingsuit Acrobatics
Apply advanced movement skills to more complete acrobatic flying with greater precision, control and leadership. This stage brings together acrobatic sequences, flare control, base flying ...
- Break-off
Wingsuit Acrobatic
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 ...
- Break-off
Wingsuit Flocking
Wingsuit Flocking, or "Flocking," brings wingsuiters together in formations, creating tightly-knit groups that maneuver through the air in unison. This discipline is not competitive but ...
- Break-off
Wingsuit Performance
Dive into the competitive edge of wingsuit flying, focusing on speed, distance, and time. Learn how to push your limits, understand different competition categories, and ...
- Break-off
Wingsuit Tunnel
Wingsuiting is the ability to fly your body horizontally at greatly enhanced speeds while substantially reducing your vertical fall rate. By using a wingsuit you ...