Sport Skydiving

Sport Skydiving Disciplines

What are Sport Skydiving Disciplines?

Sport skydiving refers to jumping for recreation, progression, learning, and competition — rather than commercial tandem operations. It includes everything from your first solo jump, all the way to high-performance national teams.

Sport skydivers train at drop zones throughout New Zealand in a range of skydiving disciplines, including:

Formation Skydiving (FS) – Teams of 2–8 jumpers building shapes in freefall.
Vertical Formation Skydiving (VFS) – A fast, dynamic version of FS using head-up and head-down flight.
Wingsuiting – Flying specially-designed suits that allow long, gliding flight.
Canopy Piloting (CP) – Precision and speed flying under canopy through set courses.
Freestyle & Freefly – Artistic, dynamic solo and team flying in all orientations.
Accuracy Landing & Style – Classic disciplines focusing on precision and technique.
Speed Skydiving – how fast the human body can fly through the air.

Discipline Representatives & NZ Skydiving Connect

Our new panel of Voluntary Discipline Representatives (“Discipline Reps”) are a group of passionate skydivers helping connect NZ Skydiving with each discipline across our community.

What’s a Discipline Rep?

Discipline Reps act as the main contact and voice for their discipline. They help bridge communication between NZ Skydiving and their community, offering insight, advice, and support to ensure every discipline’s needs, challenges, and opportunities are heard.

Introducing the new NZ Skydiving Discipline Reps:

FS / Belly: Brent Findlay
Canopy Piloting: Chris Stewart
Freefly / Dynamic: Mason Holden
Tracking / Angles: Seb Wagner
CRW: Paree Del la Varis
Wingsuiting: Dan McGregor

Each of these Reps brings deep experience, passion, and strong community connections, helping make NZ Skydiving more informed, connected, and supported than ever before.

You can stay connected via the WhatsApp communities group by scanning the QR code or clicking the link in the following image.