Thursday, 10th December

The early bus is now part of the daily routine as we go to the Horse Race DZ for a decisive day – the real competition is underway, although for the Freestyle competitors this morning will be their first time in the air.  At the same time the Accuracy Landing guys made their way to Palm DZ for the boat ride to the Beach DZ to watch the Widi load and then continue with their discipline.  At the end of the day they had completed 5 rounds before they too went on a Wind hold.   Mastafanov Dmitry, Russia is in first place of the Male Accuracy with 0.00 cms, whilst Tabor Hynek, Czech Republic and Sladetic Damir, Croatia are tied in second place on 0.01 cms.

In the Female event the three Chinese girls are tied on 0.03 cms., Han QiuLi, Zhang YunFei and Zhao TianTian.  There are only 4 Junior Males in that event with a spread of scores, currently being led by Yanan He, China with 0.05 cm.  The Female Junior Zhang Ling, China is tied with Maris Diana–Andrea, Romania on 0.07 cm.

Speed Skydiving have just one more round to jump before they go into their cuts for the semi-final and final rounds at the Palm DZ tomorrow. The Top 10 will go onto round 7 and then the top 5 to round 8. The speeds these guys are doing are amazing – they are the fastest “non-powered” speed makers on the planet. Marco Wiederker is in first place and is consistently fast, he was overtaken after 3 rounds by the ‘new’ boy Dmitry Gmyzin but Dimitry then tried too hard and had three OB (out of bounds) jumps taking him into last place on the scoresheet. So Speed is not only about going fast, it is doing it under control.

The event that is causing all the excitement today is the Formation Skydiving 4-Way both Open and Female – with Air Speed, USA head to head with Hyabusa, Belgium and tied after4 rounds on 114 and in the last round they both did 36 points and the freeze frame was identical and in the fifth round both scored 28 points clean – this could go down to the wire – check out the tie break rules! Interestingly so far they have both scored 142 points each, with Hyabusa 100% clean and Air Speed with 1 bust.

The Freezeframes for the 4th round

* click on the pictutre for a larger image.

Not to be outdone the girls are also having a very tight competition.

At the moment the French 4-Way Female team is leading the USA Golden Knights by 3 points – they have both scored the same number of points over 5 rounds, but the USA has had 5 busts and the French only 2.   This is really a question of who can keep their nerve.

France 4-Way Female	USA 4-Way Female

Artistc Events Freestyle; at the end of round 3 France is leading with a 3.4 margin over Russia who has a score of 23.5 points, and the USA have increased their lead over Finland and are sitting with .2 behind Russia. As the next two rounds are also free rounds it will be interesting to see if the USA improve their scores – as both France and Russia had identical scores for their first two free rounds.

Canopy Formations 2-Way made the cut at the end of round 6 and all 6 teams have jumped the semi-final round 7. France have a huge lead on Russia of 20 points. Whereas in 4-Way Rotations there is only 1 point between 3rd and 4th, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

At 14.00 we were all put on a wind-hold as the winds went above the limits for skydiving – 11 m/sec

Check out the IPC judged videos channel as I shall be loading the judged videos from the competition as my internet connection allows. THE WAG2015 Playlists are currently being populated with the FS videos.