A knowledge base for modern freeflight, organised and taught the way a coach would.

The mission

The Freefly Project is a coaching curriculum and knowledge base for freefly. Most of what good freeflyers know has never been written down in one place. It sits with coaches, tunnel instructors and competition teams, scattered across federation documents, forum posts, blogs and videos.

A lot of it is hard to find, and some of it is quietly lost when people move on. We gather that knowledge, organise it, and keep it where the next generation of freeflyers can reach it.

The scope is deliberately narrow: Head Up, Head Down, Angles and Dynamic flying. General skydiving topics appear only where they directly serve freefly training, coaching, progression, safety or performance.

The method

Evidence before opinion. Every technical claim traces to a source: federation guides, incident records, GPS data, competition experience, coach testimony, flight science. Where coaches or the evidence disagree, the disagreement stays documented. The project declares no single "correct" method and ranks no coaches.

A competency framework. The curriculum is authored as units of competency in the Australian VET/AQF format: observable performance criteria, judged competent or not yet competent. Progress is measured on demonstrated skill rather than jump counts. To our knowledge it is the first freefly progression, tunnel or sky, built on a national competency framework.

AQF heritage. Australia's AQF-accredited skydiving qualification (a Certificate III) lapsed in 2018 and was never replaced. This curriculum is written to that standard without requiring accreditation, so the rigour survives even though the paper qualification did not.

The contribution vision

The Freefly Project aims to enable freeflyers from around the world to contribute to the website, to create the leading source of information for modern freefly practices and disciplines.

Every content page carries a Suggest a change link. Corrections, additions and new perspectives are read, and accepted suggestions are worked into the site. The knowledge here belongs to the whole freefly community, and it gets better the more of that community writes it.

Contributors

Contributors who opt in are listed here as their accepted suggestions land. Have something to add? Use the Suggest a change link on any page, and tick the contributor box.

Contributors will appear here as suggestions are accepted.

Advisory by design

The Freefly Project is a global educational resource. It makes recommendations and gives the reasons behind them; it issues no mandates. National regulations appear as clearly-labelled jurisdictional context rather than as the site's own rules. Nothing here is regulatory, safety or legal advice. Always comply with your federation and your drop zone.

The positioning

The gap this fills is documented. Australia has been working to formalise angle training since 2018: a technical directive, then a 2019 Angle Crest proposal that was never adopted, then a 2025 draft national syllabus that was never published. No national body anywhere defines sky dynamic, and no freefly progression is built on a national competency framework. This curriculum covers all three gaps, with every claim cited.

Review and status

Every page on this site is reviewed and approved before it goes live, and safety-relevant content gets an additional cooling-off review before publication. Every published course carries its version and status. At launch, the units are published as drafts under review: visible, so coaches and flyers can read and respond, and clearly marked as not yet formally approved.

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The final objective: when a flyer asks "where can I learn modern freeflying?", the answer should be The Freefly Project. Not the loudest voice, just the most accurate, best-organised and most trustworthy.