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We are proud of invite the very best flying athletes, to join the Trackwing FLYBASE competition the week after ekstrem sport veko at Voss. Exact dates and more information will come later when the website is up running.

The location will be gridsetskolten in Romsdalen. It will be 32 athletes, 2 jumpers race a distance each round, and the first jumper who cross the finish line win. It is a open class so wingsuits, and flypants compete together. Flysuits have to be possible to buy from a official dealer, but modifications is allowed. This is not a final decision, but I want it to be so unrestricted as possible.

Each country have to make an organization, and pick their own athletes to participate in the competition. So far there will be only 2 from each nations, and the rest will be specially invited from Trackwing. This number can increase if we se there is necessary!

1. price 2000 euro
2. price 1000 euro
3. price 500 euro

This will be a tryout, and I hope this is a sport that will grow, and we can arrange a roundtrip!

To manage to outrack gridsetskolten safe to the finish line, it will be about the same as tracking to the landing area at Kjerag, or outrack a big famous wall in the states! I have no idea to compare with any other places in europe!

website doesn't work? but sounds fuckin sweet.

The name is World BASE race Romsdalen 08!

The event start coming together, and the official web site will be launched soon!

I need for those countries who is interested, to organize them selves and find a contact person! If I do not have any contact person before 1. december, I will pick one from my own contact list!

There will be
2 Athletes from each nation!
Fabric teams
Sponsor teams

You will not miss this event if you are a talented flyer! This will be a historic event, and beginning of a new area in base!

World Base Race is the fastest racer from exit point to the finish line. 5 day event, 32 athletes,5 rounds, 2 jumpers race, the first jumper who cross the finish line win.

1. 2000 EURO 2. 1000 EURO 3. 500 EURO

please post this on other forums, or inform those who you think could be interested to take part of this event!

If you have any contacts that would be interested to be a investor, partner, media, please provide my information.

paul@friluftslek.no

What kind of flysuit do you tink is fastest? I am not looking for any brand, but your personally opinion about what kind of design is the fastest!

Wingloading or not?

The hight of the cliff is about 860 m
first impact around 10 seconds
distance to finish line 700 m
distance to landing area about 750 m

This numbers can change, I will double check them with more accurate tools later!

Any dates available?
Ronald

The dates will be from 1. July to 6. July! The 6. July will be reserve day for the final!

All rounds will be hiking! No heli!

This is right after heliboogie in Kjerag, and the Ekstrem sport veko Voss. (extreme sport week)

great idea...
sounds like the competition i have waitig for....

so it doesnt matter if you take trackinggear or a wingsiut...? right...?
is it an equal race then ?

or does it means everybody take a wingsiut and goes steep

give us the details a.s.a.p.
i think this will be a great competition....

oh no!!! the german air force will compete as well? poor norwegans, they are risking to loose their reputation of beeing the best trackers
My guess is:
1st Place Germany
2nd Place Norway
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...
...
16th and last place for the US of America

I believe there will be many surprises, and I am not sure what will be the best option. The ground rule is: The suit have to be possible to get from a producer, but personal modifications is allowed. Any modification that look dangerous, or prevent you from recover movement, will not be allowed. How we are going to detain that, I am not sure yet, but will discuss it with other jumpers, and producers! This forum is open for inputs!

ok...suggestion...

categorie #1 tracking gear without wings

categorie #2 Wingssiuts

maybe then it is more interesting for the competitors and the producers...you can compare the performance better...and i think there will be many surprises...

but, it only my opinion...

I want to keep it as simple and open as possible the first year, so we can learn, and see how we can do it different next year! I am not sure the big wings will win when it comes to a distance like this!? Maybe a hybrid have a good chance!?

your right,...
it hard to say whats the weapon of choice..
but i think the wings will outperfom the trackers in the end...
or trackjacket with prodigy-pants??
who knows....

This sounds like the site known as "jt and Shane's cliff" formerly known as Griseskolten. is this correct?

oh yeah and don't you want more than one team of fat fucking americans to join the fun? this way those cocky assholes will get put in their place.

Red Bull have to pay 100 000 in start money to get their team in the competition! so we can raise the pot to 10 000 euro for 1., 5000 euro, for 2. and 2500 euro for 3.! Free accommodation, free food, and free party on the last saturday!

Fat jumpers will have advantage since they dont need to add weigth to get their wingloading needed for a fast flight!

Might be not so simple, since the fastest average horizontal speed wins in your competition. While fat adds sustained speed (proportionally to the square root of weight), it severely affects initial acceleration (inversely proportional to weight).

Same for different kinds of wingsuits and tracking gear: while some tracking suits have higher sustained horizontal speed than wingsuits (e.g. Prodigy pants alone beat any wingsuit), wingsuits start flying faster.

The overall result is unpredictable mix of skills, suit, weight, and fixed distance. Longer distance favors slick suit with intermediate L/D (1.4 is ideal for fastest speed) and larger weight, while shorter distance favors larger suits and smaller weight.

I'll try to calculate how much fat you need to win.

Anyhow what we will think, there will be a competition with high speed, high nerves, and big surprises I hope!

I just hope there is enough interest for this event, and maybe there will be other jumpers coming to the area at the same time, and we can organize some show jumping for the spectators between the rounds!

Do we need a seperate female class?

How many girls is there out there who would be interested to compete?

In that case I would like it to be minimum 8 competers to make a seperate competition!

How many base nations is out there who have competent flyers to make a race like this safe! There will be a high profile on safety on this event! If you think there will be just to angle down and full trottle you are wrong. We will have a minimum safety hight for opening altitude!

i think think an extra female class is not necessary...
the girls that are capable to track like hell beat the most guys...

[I just hope there is enough interest for this event, and maybe there will be other jumpers coming to the area at the same time, and we can organize some show jumping for the spectators between the rounds! ]

Buddy, I´m shure there will be enough interests for this event! Maybe you need just invite more than 2 from one nation, if there are not enough nations....but for sure germany, swiss, france, italy, Sweden and the UK will have skilled flyers for your event.

Do you think that Juli is a good time for the event? In my opnion Juli will not be the best time....just think on unstable weather?!

July is maybe not the best time for the event, but you never know actually! The reason for the dates is that the Heliboogie and extreme sport week is just finished, and it would be easy for those who have been at one or both places to hit up here! The numbers can change if there is enough interest from skilled jumpers! The fabric teams and for those who is sponsored will get their place to, but have to pay a entry fee!

Hey hey hey , don't forget Mexico , while there are two active jumpers in my country and one Overseas (Michi) we can also track like madman, all we need is a can of beans the previous night... ha

For sure Mexico have to be invited... :)))))))

yepp,...juli is cool....

muero,...in august i can not be there....!!!

That's because the girls are already used to flying with just (mostly) guys :P


Just wondering who else from Team America would like to be there to compete, and honestly thinks they could make it out there for the event??

Question in general.

Is the finish line in such a position that time is measured from exit to a position crossed in freefall, or is it somewhere else (landing zone?).
That could be interesting as well, because the it is not just about flying skills, but also canopy skills.

Ronald

Hi Ronald!

It will be a speedrace jumper against jumper only, and the finish line would be visual for jumpers, judges and spectators so it is easy to measure! No timed freefalls except for the interest of how fast the distance is flyed for the specific round. If I understand you right, you want to fly to the landing area and pull low, land as fast as possible? Hm that would be a good one! Wondering how long we could arrange something like that?

What if some accident happens?

I am thinking of international staff to, and a jury! If someone feel the need to be voluntary staff let me know! I dont know what I can offer yet, but the first year will be alot of work and learning what we can do better next year, and hopefully show people what we can do, and possible have an arrangement that will survive financially.

Maybe some of you will adopt the concept and we have an world wide arrangement with a world cup in the end! Even a famous valley in the state could be interested in a arrangement like this in the future if we prove we can do safe and interesting for media and spectators!!

We will be prepered for accidents, and we do know it can happen during the event. Accidents will not happens because of the arrangement, but because of the action the jumper normaly do! Hope you understand english is not my first spoken language. So I hope you understand me right.

Hi 434,

My intention would be to get the fastest time from exit to landing. Pulling high or pulling low could lead to different result, pulling higher could even lead to a faster time (in some cases).
The big advantage of that would be the no-discussion on the timing. But with a team of judges there would be no discussion about crossing the line in freefall either.

Ronald

We are talking about photo finish as well! Imagine the tracker stretch their hands in front of them selves passing the line like superman

but august is the month of the month buddy!

jadajadajada....heliboogie was great....then the weather sucks....you never know

I guess us Americans need to come over and crush the Germans...again...I always love charity work.

yeah,...sure.....
we never expect something else....

If you are the Dougg that tried to reach the camping ground like 10 times with the wing suit before finaly making it from Smel, then you are the only american that does not track like a bag of potatos And you only have a chance because you learned to track in Europe!!!

Hey Dougg, I´m sure you can do that! :)) but the germans will not sleep in winter!

Thats one "g" in Doug boys. Yeah, i am by far the best wingsuit fjord swimmer that you ever met Actually, we have terminal towers here in Texas, remember....everything is bigger here! They make good training objects for terminal walls. The only difference is we get blisters from pushing the up button on the elevator

ahh,... now i get it...TEXAS....
that makes sense...

but...
you need no "exittraining"....you need to track..