{"id":22401,"date":"2018-11-22T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T10:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/?p=22401"},"modified":"2018-11-22T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T10:47:52","slug":"world-parachuting-championships-gold-coast-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/world-parachuting-championships-gold-coast-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Goskydive’s Max Hurd wins bronze at the World Parachuting Championships!"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Parachuting Championships, Gold Coast, Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the big one, the competition that everything this year has been leading up to. After last year\u2019s Silver medal, GoSkydive tandem instructor<\/a> Max Hurd <\/strong>is aiming for Gold this time around. Max arrived in Australia a week ahead of time to get acclimatised and make sure he\u2019s match ready. The competition field is larger than at any other World Championship with all the usual suspects plus several unknowns from Australia and the USA so it\u2019s not going to be easy! On Max\u2019s side was preparation. His training has come together nicely, Max had his aerodynamic helmet sussed out and was feeling confident.<\/p>\n

How did it go? Max said:
\n\u201cI\u2019ve got to admit it\u2019s been a difficult year and I\u2019ve been struggling to find my form after last year\u2019s performance at the Nationals. I\u2019ve put everything into it for this WPC though and although some of my competition results weren\u2019t what I hoped for I was still at my fastest this year by the time the World Chamionships rolled around.<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n

Unfortunately it wasn\u2019t enough. Despite being the most consistently smooth & clean competitor Max wasn\u2019t putting the fastest jumps on the score board. That may have paid off as both the first (Moritz Friess \u2013 Germany) and second place (Shane Turner \u2013 Australia) had been going hard. They had some fast jumps but both had OB\u2019d three times by round 7 which meant that another OB in round 8 would knock them out of the running completely. Max was not able to go any faster in this comp so how would they play it? Would they respond to the threat of the other and go hard but risk another OB or would they play it safe and maintain the current standings? It wasn\u2019t great to be at the mercy of their performances but Max had to just wait and see. In the end though, they both played it safe and Max came home with the Bronze after all. Well done Max!<\/p>\n

Max said:
\n\u201cDisappointing and frustrating, but when all is said and done I played by the rules and gave it my best shot. What does the future hold? Big changes are afoot in Speed Skydiving as it looks like we will be moving from barometric speed measuring devices to GPS.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The competitors meeting after the WPC had plenty of discussion about how they wanted the sport to grow. Two possible rule changes were favoured by the competitors, firstly making the scoring your peak speed on a jump (not the average) and also removing the \u2018throw away\u2019 rounds to make all eight jumps count. Furthermore, the OB rule may well become redundant when using GPS. We\u2019ll have to wait until next year until we see how the rules read but exciting times to be speeding as the sport develops.<\/p>\n

What next for Max? \u201cWell, I\u2019m not sure, as there\u2019s no Category One event scheduled for 2019 yet, so we\u2019ll see how it looks in the New Year. I still want to get that World Championship Gold though\u2026<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World Parachuting Championships, Gold Coast, Australia This is the big one, the competition that everything this year has been leading up to. After last year\u2019s Silver medal, GoSkydive tandem instructor Max Hurd is aiming for Gold this time around. Max arrived in Australia a week ahead of time to get acclimatised and make sure he\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goskydive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}