PAC.

PAC the French/European version of AFF is being added to our courses. This is due to us having more European students where PAC is the main course in their home countries. Being slightly cheaper and less jumps with instructors is appealing.

The PAC method provides a teaching, adapted to the individual. On the contrairy, the AFF method (Accelerated FreeFall) has a predefined program (7 levels which one has to pass or do again).

The student discovers new sensations on every jump. For each new jump, the instructor puts together an adapted exercise. There is no failure, but a series of experiences orresponding to the students' capacities and what he has understood and felt.

This way, some start with free exits and the games like sitting or being on the back from the first jumps on to feel the different sensations, while others start with the classical exercises as movements around the three axes. The jump program is put together based
on the dialogue between the instructor and the student.

Verbal communication is not possible in freefall. Therefore hand signs are used in order for the student to be able to correct his position during the jump. These signs have to be defined in advance.

Every instructor is free to use the signs he wants, but most of the time they are standard ones.C the French/European version of AFF is being added to our courses. This is due to us having more European students where PAC is the main course in their home countries. Being slightly cheaper and less jumps with instructors is appealing.

The PAC method provides a teaching, adapted to the individual. On the contrairy, the AFF method (Accelerated FreeFall) has a predefined program (7 levels which one has to pass or do again).

The student discovers new sensations on every jump. For each new jump, the instructor puts together an adapted exercise. There is no failure, but a series of experiences corresponding to the students' capacities and what he has understood and felt.

This way, some start with free exits and the games like sitting or being on the back from the first jumps on to feel the different sensations, while others start with the classical exercises as movements around the three axes. The jump program is put together based on the dialogue between the instructor and the student.

Verbal communication is not possible in freefall. Therefore hand signs are used in order for the student to be able to correct his position during the jump. These signs have to be defined in advance.

Every instructor is free to use the signs he wants, but most of the time they are standard ones.

Here are the principal signs which are used :

• hand strectched out, flat (hips down, arch)
• two fingers stretched out (stretch the legs, pushing on the air)
• index-finger and thumb narrowing (close up the legs)
• the two fingers bent (bend the legs a bit, too stretched)
• thumb and index finger make a circle (check altimeter, observation cycle)
• index finger pointing at the student (PULL ! imperious)
• closed fist (simulate the opening )

Here is a rough layout of the course.