Tips for Bigways No 21

August 08, 2018

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Shoes – for flying finesse, not just for fashion

With modern booster technology, your feet now play a greater role in how you can finesse your flying techniques.

When your boosters are engaged and inflated, you can adjust the level of pressure and direct the airflow using your feet to make moves with greater precision and less overall body movement.

These techniques build on an established foundation of personal body flight skills and are most effective with well-fitting boosters especially the type that are enclosed around the whole foot and extend from toe to knee.

Shoes play an important role in how you can use your boosters to fly in this way.

If you wear flexible shoes with little structure to the sole, it is harder to create the strong platform to effectively tilt and turn the base of your booster to guide the blade in the wind.

Talk to your coach, ditch the stilettos and the Teva’s and opt for something more solid then have some fun adding these techniques to your toolkit.

I remember trying these techniques for the first time with Craig Girard a few years ago in flexible shoes. Craig is the master of this technique. I never knew there were so many little bones in my feet!!

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Melissa

Melissa is a member of the Aussie Bigways coaching team and current Australian Skydiving Team. She is an experienced skydiving competitor and coach with a history of National and World level representation in 4-way, 8-way and Bigway Formation Skydiving.