Virtual Nationals Competition 2024

Skydivers, do you enjoy competing? How about hanging out with your local buddies and doing some fun jumps?  Or better yet, competing against skydivers across Canada?  This year, April 1^st to October 15^th, the CSPA is going to be hosting a National Virtual Competition.

This is the perfect opportunity to challenge yourself, experience what competition feels like, and develop your skills!

Background

The Canadian Nationals Competition is held every two years, this schedule is intentionally meant to coincide with the Worlds schedule.  Canada picks its national team candidates the year before each FAI World Championships held.  At a more local level there are many skydivers who still would like to train, practice and compete.  However, organizing your own competition at your local DZ might not be feasible. With some of the smaller centers having a limited number of jumpers (and lifts), CSPA wanted to give more skydivers an opportunity to compete and follow the Long Term Athlete Development program (LTAD) Flight Plan Stage 4 Train to Train (T2T) and Stage 5 Train to Complete (T2C).

What is a virtual competition, you ask?

This event will allow skydivers to compete in their preferred skill/discipline against other jumpers of the same level across Canada while removing some of the barriers of travel and associated costs.  Furthermore, this opportunity offers the chance to be judged by our very own National Judges.

Using official rules and regulations, this will give jumpers a true sense of how they would place and what they could work on as a team or as an individual athlete.  CSPA will publish the dive pool (like at a regular competition) and each team/individual will submit their video of that dive and it will be judged nationally.  Videos will be judged monthly, creating a leaderboard, so teams can view both their progress and other teams’ progress throughout the season.  The event will conclude at the end of the season at which time rankings will be finalized.  Eligible disciplines (based on the current PIM 4D categories) can qualify for new Canadian Virtual Competition records.

There will be competitions in:

• Formation Skydiving: 2way, 3way, 4way, 8way, and 10way Speed
• Vertical Formation Skydiving: 2way, 3way, and 4way
• Canopy Formation: 2way Sequential, 4way Sequential, and 4-way Rotations
• Artistic Events
• Wingsuit Acrobatic & Performance
• Accuracy & Canopy Piloting (Provided there is a judge available local to your DZ)

For team events, the twist, only 50% of the team can be former or current National Team members. This is to encourage experienced and novice skydivers to compete. There will be four rounds in which participants can do the dives as many times as they wish. CSPA Rules will be used for all disciplines. International Skydiving Commission (ISC) rules will be used for disciplines CSPA does not use.

Skydivers

All you have to do is hire a videographer with a high-resolution camera and jump the dives that will be released prior to April 1^st in your desired discipline.  Once completed, submit your best jump of your round, to the CSPA by midnight of October 15^th. Judges will review all videos and the winners will be announced on November 30^th.  We hope to get A LOT of videos!  This event is open to CSPA Registered Participants and we would love to see all levels of CoP holders participate!

Parachute Ottawa Virtual Nationals Rep

Do you want to compete but aren’t sure where to start? Do you have questions about disciplines, draws or anything else related joining the comp?

Reach to our Rep Josh Toczko