Freeflying is an expansion of skydiving which includes the traditional belly-to-earth positions, but extends into vertical flight where the flyer is in an upright position ( falling feet first ) or in an inverted position ( falling head first ).

Freeflying is also a form of skydiving using a variety of body positions, such as head-down or feet-to-earth, while still building formations with others.

Freeflying broke into the limelight in 1996 when the SSI Pro Tour added freeflying as a three person competitive discipline at the second televised event ( with Skysurfing ), part of ESPN's Destination Extreme series.

Freeflying can, and usually does, involve constant transitions in position and speeds, with vertical and horizontal orientations.

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

BASE jumping is significantly more dangerous than similar sports such as skydiving from aircraft, and is currently regarded by many as a fringe extreme sport or stunt.

* Emotional or physical risk-taking, where the risk-return ratio is not quantifiable ( e. g., skydiving, campaigning for political office, asking someone for a date, etc.

Anti-proverbs are common on T-shirts, such as " If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Tecumseh is also home to Skydive Tecumseh one of the few turbine skydiving centers in the midwest and home to the largest formation skydive in Michigan history.

It is the only time in which Looney Tunes characters have shared screen time with their rivals at Disney ( producers of the film )— particularly in the scenes where Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse are skydiving, and when Daffy Duck and Donald Duck are performing their " Dueling Pianos " sequence.

While freeflying is a younger and more extreme addition to skydiving, it is becoming a popular event in competitions and world records.

It is now used for charter flights and for skydiving.

Sky surfing is a type of skydiving in which the skydiver wears a board attached to his or her feet and performs surfing-style aerobatics during freefall.

Freestyle skydiving is a balletic, mostly individual style which seeks to extend the sport beyond the traditional belly-to-earth flat position used by most skydivers who make formations with their bodies.

Nicholas Piantanida, while attempting to set a new skydiving jump record, is claimed to have reached 123, 800 feet ( 37. 73 km ) on February 2, 1966.

Chatteris Airfield is about north-northeast, which is mainly used for skydiving, and is the base of the North London Skydiving Centre.

Entertainment Weekly gave it a " B " rating and wrote, " The making-of docs ( at their best discussing Swayze's extracurricular skydiving — that really is him doing the Adios, amigo fall ) will leave you hanging.

Formation skydiving is the art of building formations in free-fall with multiple people gripping each other's limbs or specially built " grippers " on their jumpsuits.

A recent sub-category of formation skydiving is vertical formation skydiving ( VRW ).

Wagner stars as tennis pro Jaime Sommers who is nearly killed in a skydiving accident.

Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.

It is absurd to speak of philosophy as a superior enterprise to sociology, since the former is a logical, rational discipline, where sociology is essentially descriptive and empirical.

The fundamental difficulty of which the Selden case was `` a striking ( though not singular ) example '', concluded Hough, `` will remain as long as testimony is taken without any authoritative judicial officer present, and responsible for the maintenance of discipline, and the reception or exclusion of testimony ''.

The temptation is to say that, as the percentage of church members mounted, the degree of discipline exercised by the churches lessened and the trend was towards conformity to the general level.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

Today anthropology is a global discipline, and anthropologists study all types of societies.

In the United States, where anthropology was first defined as a discipline, the field is traditionally divided into four sub-fields: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology.

At the same time, the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment produced thinkers, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and later Wilhelm Dilthey, whose work formed the basis for the " culture concept ," which is central to the discipline.

# De Misericordia et Justitia ( On Mercy and Justice ), a collection of biblical extracts and sayings of Church Fathers with commentary ( an important work for the history of church law and discipline ), which is to be found in the Anecdota of Martène, vol.

In the first two visions, Amos is able to convince God not to act out the scenes of discipline presented to him.

This ability to maintain discipline and break out or maneuver away from a killing zone is a hallmark of good troops and training in any ambush situation.

The convention, for the first time in the history of international aviation law, recognizes certain powers and immunities of the aircraft commander who on international flights may restrain any person ( s ) he has reasonable cause to believe is committing or is about to commit an offense liable to interfere with the safety of persons or property on board or who is jeopardizing good order and discipline.

It may be applied, as it is stated in article 1 of the convention in case of: offenses against penal law ; acts which, whether or not they are offenses, may or do jeopardize the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property therein or which jeopardize good order and discipline on board.

His disciple, Cyprian ( Bishop of Carthage 248-58 ) appeals to the same fundamental principle of election to a vacant see in the aftermath of the Decian Persecution when denying the legitimacy of his rigorist rival in Carthage and that of the anti-pope Novatian in Rome ; however, the emphasis is now on legitimating his episcopal ministry as a whole and specifically his exclusive right to administer discipline to the lapsed rather than on the content of what is taught.

Consequently, administrative law is a significant component of the discipline of Agricultural Law.

As a homogeneous legal substance isolated in a system of jurisprudence, the administrative law of Ukraine is characterized as: 1 ) a branch of law ; 2 ) a science ; 3 ) a discipline.

It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

`` I'd like to know just which it is that those guys don't understand, the liquor or automobiles ''.

The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

It is these other differences between North and South -- other, that is, than those which concern discrimination or social welfare -- which I chiefly discuss herein.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.