The 3rd edition of The Wind Games will take place on the 22nd and 23rd January 2016. As always, the goal is to be innovative and fun, whilst also providing a slick organization for the best teams in the world to test their competition readiness.
Windoor now has a Wave Park, which includes a flowrider, skimslide, volleyball court and games room. It also includes a bar and restaurant that will be used for the catering for the event. The new facilities will be available throughout training and competition days to all competitors to encourage them to play and have fun when not competing.
#What’s New?
##Freestyle with the Sound of Music!
Windoor will include freestyle, but in a different format. The new ‘neo freestyle’ format has given the older outdoor discipline a change of direction and attracted young, talented tunnel flyers. It is more of a hybrid combination of freestyle, acrobatics and dynamic flying and is exciting for competitors and spectators. This format was included at the 2015 FAI World Indoor Championships in Prague and received very positive feedback.
Freestyle is something of an anomaly, as the nature of the discipline is founded in artistic creativity. However, to compete, the competition must have rules – and once the rules are in place, it can have the unwelcome outcome of stifling the very creativity it seeks to promote. Windoor is experimenting with a competition that explores the potential of the event without being weighed down by the current FAI dive pool and scoring system, founded 20 years ago, based on moves that were the staple of the event when it was a skydiving discipline.
Windoor will host a 3-round Freestyle competition that consists of a high speed and low speed round, where the competitors will present tricks of their choice inside a routine. Each competitor will set their high speed by finding the minimum speed to lift off the net head down. (This will be supervised by the Freestyle judges). The low speed will be 8% less than the high speed. The final round will be a complete round that will be accompanied by the music of choice of each competitor. It will be the first time that a complete round of skydiving competition will be set to music and has the potential to be a game changer for future events.
The super cool video below shows Leonid Volkov dancing (freestyle’) to music. Leo has registered for the freestyle event at Wind Games – and this gives a great insight into how Windoor hope the meet will go.
Lise Hernandez, who has spent years refining musical interpretation in the tunnel, will be lending her experience in sourcing the latest sound technology and will be part of the judging team that will also include Adam Mattacola. All of the routines will be scored on technical difficulty, execution and artistic interpretation.
Windoor welcomes participation from all freestyle and creative flyers and during the event, will hold a workshop with all competitors to discuss future possibilities and refinements.
The competition also includes, as always, 4-way FS (open and female), dynamic (2-way & 4-way) and VFS.
Let the games begin!
You can register for the event here
