skysurfing

Skysurfing reached its peak in popularity in the late 1990s.

Skysurfing is a skill requiring considerable practice.

The rise of skysurfing coincided with other new-age disciplines in skydiving, such as freestyle and freeflying.

Men's Intermediate Skysurfing: A2B.

U.S. Freestyle Skydiving, Skysurfing and Freeflying Men's Open Freestyle: Nitro.

He and Mr. Boschi have hopes of winning a medal - perhaps even a gold one - in next week's competition, the first United States National Championships of Skysurfing.

The winners, Dave Briegs, of Woodbridge, and Andy Boschi, of New Providence, will represent the United States at the World Skysurfing Championships in Australia next fall.

TaleSpin: The character Kit Cloudkicker uses a non-powered airfoil to "cloud surf", or "cloud ski" when towed by an aircraft, but unlike skysurfing is in a sustained horizontal motion and not a controlled descent.

Men's Open Skysurfing: Cross Keys Inferno, N.J. Women's Open Skysurfing: Perris Valley Firestarter, Calif.

A series of mishaps caused Mr. Loftis's main chute to fail to deploy, and his reserve chute was just opening "at impact," said Norman McDonald, a freeflyer who runs a web page devoted to New Jersey skysurfing (http://members.aol.com/skysurfnj/menu.html).