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Dynamic · Relative · The brief

Dynamic 202

Fly a near-vertical belly angle and transition to back

The belly slot, and the transition to back that recovers everything above it.

What this unit covers

This unit completes the Dynamic 200 tier: the flyer holds the belly slot on a near-vertical angle through the dive and the pull-out, then transitions belly→back in slot in the second half of the jump as the line flattens out again.
The transition serves a plain safety purpose: it is the recovery skill for the belly-flyer-low-without-visual scenario on a flock and roll.
The rest of it
A belly flyer who goes low, classically trapped on the inside or outside of the turn, loses sight of the diving near-vertical group and can float up through it; transitioning to back regains the visual (the project's coaching doctrine, 2026-08-05 dynamic track redesign).
This unit formalises the track's bail-out standard: the flyer demonstrates the belly→back transition to the coach here, and every later Dynamic unit relies on it.
The centrepiece and unit assessment is the evaluation jump: exit on belly, follow the leader onto a near-vertical angle through the dive and the pull-out, then transition to back in slot on the briefed key as the line flattens (the project's coaching doctrine, the pre-dynamic evaluation jump of Part 1, re-founded at near-vertical pitch by the 2026-08-05 redesign).
The belly side of the tier also carries the track's most important basic-dynamic skill: advanced belly angles at high speed, because the classic cork point on a pass-through is a flyer comfortable on back who transitions to belly at speed and corks (the project's coaching doctrine, The Freefly Project 2026-07-27).
Completing FFP-DY201 and FFP-DY202 completes the tier: a flyer who can hold both belly and back on a near-vertical jump, with the bail-out standard demonstrated, holds the tier standard.
Leadership doctrine for through-vertical jumps lives in FFP-DY303 and FFP-DY304. Mastery track, no sign-off. Completion of this unit is a milestone, not a permission: it completes the Dynamic 200 tier and admits the flyer to the track's 300-tier units within this curriculum, and nothing more.
The unit's entry standards are course-internal safety standards, prerequisites to participate in these jumps, not jump permissions, licences, crests or endorsements of any kind. Any drop zone may adopt them as local policy; this curriculum only recommends them.
No jump in this unit passes through vertical: the group steepens toward vertical and shallows back onto the same line, pulling out the way it came in, and the transition happens in the second half as the line flattens.
The track's through-vertical standard, head-down competence at crest standard for every participant, because everyone on a through-vertical jump is momentarily flying head-down, applies from FFP-DY303 onward, where it is verified (the project's coaching doctrine, standard scope clarified by The Freefly Project 2026-07-26). Environment: sky, with tunnel drills (belly↔back flips and layouts, belly and back carving) as preparation. Supervision: the coach leads a 2–3-way from the belly, dynamic jumps are led on belly, and the belly leader holds full ground visual through the dive, the pull-out and the group's transition.
Group size guide: 2–3 plus the coach-leader, and the coach designs every jump around the least experienced flyer (USPA SIM 5-10.E; Spaceland movement policy).

What comes before it

Screen 2 · What to watch

What to watch

The same short list the flyer sees on their card, in the same words.

3.2
Hold the belly slot with continuous visual on the leader as the group steepens toward vertical and pulls back out, staying on level and in slot throughout. The coach judges slot competence as a whole, approaching from within your quadrant and holding position, rather than against a measured distance.

Can you hold a belly slot on level with continuous sight of the leader as the group steepens and pulls back out?

3.3 Safety critical
Clear own airspace visually before every transition, no blind transitions.

Do you clear your own airspace visually before every transition, with no blind transitions?

3.4
Transition belly→back in slot on the briefed key as the line flattens, driving the formation-side shoulder up and over the body, never dropping a shoulder under, re-establishing level and slot promptly.

Can you transition belly to back in slot on the key, driving the formation-side shoulder up and over rather than dropping it underneath?

Screen 3 · What blocks a sign-off

What blocks a sign-off

A safety-critical criterion marked not yet stops the sign-off, however good the rest of the flying was. There is no averaging across this line, and no trading a good jump against it.

Safety-critical criteria on the short list

3.3
Clear own airspace visually before every transition, no blind transitions.

Do you clear your own airspace visually before every transition, with no blind transitions?

Everything this unit says about breakoff and deployment

1.4
State breakoff (guide: 5,000 ft for groups up to a 4-way, 5,500 ft for a 5-way or larger; set at least 1,000 ft above the highest planned deployment) and deployment altitudes, and the lost-leader protocol (transition to back, turn onto a back angle, and follow the group from below).
4.1
Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft).
4.4
Deploy at the planned altitude after clearing airspace.

Recording a sign-off says what you saw on one jump. It is not a rating, it is not a permission to jump, and it does not replace anything the drop zone requires.

Screen 4 · Conditions

Conditions

Where the evidence is allowed to come from, and how much of it there needs to be.

Assessment conditions

Sky jumps from a recommended 10,000 ft minimum exit (APF006 §3.2), with a real group of 2–3 plus the coach-leader. Video of assessment jumps is required for a valid assessment (leader-, outside- or helmet-mounted; candidate identifiable).
Required equipment: visual altimeter, functioning audible (two recommended for mixed-orientation work), AAD recommended, freefly-suitable gear. Conditions within the candidate's cleared limits, with calm-to-mild upper winds recommended for evaluation jumps.
Assessor: a freefly coach current in both angle and vertical coaching and approved to lead movement jumps at the host drop zone, using the published FFP-DY202 checklist, each criterion marked Satisfactory / Not Yet Satisfactory, unit judgement Competent / Not Yet Competent.
The judgement is course-internal: it completes the Dynamic 200 tier within this curriculum and confers no licence, crest, endorsement or jump permission.

Performance evidence

Ability evidenced across at least 4 coached group jumps in the near-vertical belly-angle format. The jump counts are a guide to how long this typically takes, not a quota, competency is the standard, not the numbers:
At least 2 evaluation jumps meeting all criteria, including two consecutive evaluation jumps meeting all criteria without coach assistance or prompts.
Belly slot through the dive and the pull-out, transition to back in slot as the line flattens.
The bail-out transition demonstrated live to the coach before the group's first jump in this format (criterion 2.2).
Across at least two different days/conditions.
Tunnel time may substitute for up to one of the skill-development jumps (belly↔back flips and layouts, belly and back carving), never for the evaluation jumps.
All within a recommended 6-month currency window.

Screen 5 · Debrief

Debrief

Safety first, then fun, then learning. In that order, every time.

Coaching priorities

Deliver in the project's priority order: Safety → Fun → Learning (curriculum Part A0). Safety criteria are non-compensable, and the coach holds the entry-standard conversation openly before money is spent.
The coach explains the belly-flyer-low scenario before the first jump, so the flyer knows the reason for the bail-out standard they are demonstrating, and explains weakest-orientation-first up front as a safety decision.
The coach offers a candidate below the entry standards the belly/back angle development path instead, never just a "no". End each debrief on a win with one improvement focus, and frame the evaluation jump as the completion of the tier and the door into through-vertical flying.

One fault, one correction

Ask for their read before you give yours. Then leave them with one fault and one correction, in their words if you can get them. Six points is six points forgotten by the next load.

A jump marked not yet is a jump to re-fly, not a failure, and saying so out loud is part of the debrief.

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