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Hi people, I’m new to skydiving and started skydiving in order to become a base jumper.
Lately I’ve been inspired by the possibility of tracking, it seems somewhat unreal. My question is this one: will it make me a better “base jump tracker“ if I concentrate all my time and energy on tracking during my skydives now? Is it significant enough to do this?
Hope I formulated this in an understandable way.
Thanks.

no, total waste of time... fuck canopy control as well..those skills are Non Transferrable.

I find extensive praactice at ski jumping to be very useful in my base tracking skills.

Go on some tracking dives with some good skydivers. You'll get good with a little practice and some of it does transfer to BASE.

Altitude awareness would be a good thing to concentrate on

dude evrything you learn in skydiving is experience focusing at only one spot is bad juju.
get the hole way arround

 
I'm not sure if it willhelp with BASE jumping, but if you're going to do some tracking jumps, check with the insructors at your DZ about where and when you can track.

You cannot just jump out on a solo a track where ever you please. You will run into other jumpers airspace, and create a collision hazzard.

Even if its not good for BASE, tracking is just fun anyway.