Your Canopy Relative Work Headquarters
About CRW
CRW is a discipline of skydiving, a way to play in the sky with your friends. Like other disciplines of skydiving, there are rules for how to make it safe(ish), successful, and keep us coming back for more...
What is CRW?
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“Canopy Formation (CF) is the name of the competition discipline for the skydiving activity commonly called canopy relative work (CRW) or “crew.” Canopy formations are built by the intentional maneuvering of two or more open parachute canopies in close proximity to or in contact with one another during flight.
The most basic canopy formation is the joining of two canopies vertically during flight as a stack or plane (compressed stack). Canopy formations, both day and night, may be accomplished by experienced canopy formation specialists leading the dives.”
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Translation: we take our life saving devices (main parachutes) and smack each other with them, creating formations out of faith in each other and the ones who came before us.
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For lots of pictures of us looking really cool, check out the Photography page to see more examples of this silly business...
But what if I'm not a skydiver?
Every journey has to begin somewhere! If you're curious about CRW but still haven't made that first jump, today is the day to sign up!!
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The United States Parachute Association and has a lot of information about skydiving and can help you find a dropzone. USPA affiliated dropzones are located all around the world!​
How to Get Into CRW
So, you're down to get down? Here's a few things that are important if you're interested in this discipline of skydiving!
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Find Coaching!
There are many events available to learn CRW. Boogies, Camps and seeking out individual coaching. Reach out on any event to determine if it would make sense to try and learn at the event - boogies are not always putting on training for new people - or find a coach here...
I want CRW at MY Dropzone
We want this for you, too. But in our experience, it cannot be bought. Here are some thoughts on making this happen...
To make CRW Safe(ish) and successful, you'll need the proper gear and skills in order to plan, spot for, and execute a CRW jump. A pups camp will try to get you into your first 4 way, but is a ways off from preparing you to lead a CRW jump. So to have someone who is nearby that can lead CRW, you can:
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Find someone who is local. Check out our CRW Coaches Map to see if we know of anyone near you
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Grow someone local that can do this. Get out to CRW Events, learn everything you can about spotting, engineering smart dives, and get your hands on proper CRW gear. The whole CRW community will support you making this happen, but you'll have to want it
You may be able to hire someone to come in a coach CRW for a time - a weekend, maybe longer? - but in the long run, it will take someone local to keep CRW happening. Let us know if you have questions or if we can help in any way.
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If you have someone local and they need our support by putting on a camp, have them reach out and we can try to make that happen, but the first step is to have or create that leader for CRW.
