Moab Joe: Compulsories, Docks, and the Craft of Competing

We've been talking a lot about holding hands.

Can you give me a bit more of a breakdown of what is Wingsuit Acro?

Yeah, so it's seven jumps and basically the jumps are either going to be a compulsory jump or a free round.

And the free round's pretty easy.

Like you do whatever you want.

It's exactly that.

I always explain it.

It's kind of like Paris figure skating.

You just go out there and you do whatever you want and you flop around with your buddy and you're scored on the style of the jump, right? The camera and your actual like dive plan.

And then for compulsory, it's a little more rudimentary, and it's actually my favorite.

People love the free rounds, but I'm definitely a compulsory guy myself because it's super simple.

They tell you exactly what to do, right? There's 15 set movements, and it's always going to start with the two of you on your belly docking, and then it's going to be, like, say, hypothetically, like a yin-yang, right? Like...

performer A goes to their back and docks, then back to their belly and docks, then performer B goes to their back and docks, and then back to their belly.

And the compulsory jumps are going to be three set movements, and then it turns into a washing machine.

So you just repeat it as many times as possible and try and get as many docks as you possibly can.

You're getting scored on style on that, aren't you, as well?

yeah i'm really bad about remembering the scoring but i'm trying to be better about reading the skydiver information or skydiver's competition manual but i believe that one's basically your style and the number of docs you get so how well you're flying and just the sheer number of how many you got did you get more than the other guys or not