Local skydiving teams win national championships slots on U.S. Team

Elsinore Too Wrapped Up won gold in four-way rotations at the U.S. Parachute Association National Parachuting Championships. USPA/David Wybenga photo
Two local skydiving teams, based at Skydive Elsinore, won gold medals Saturday, Sept. 14, in the canopy formation events at the U.S. Parachute Association National Parachuting Championships at Skydive Paraclete XP in Raeford, North Carolina. Elsinore Too Wrapped Up won gold in four-way rotations, and Elsinore Revolution won gold in the four-way sequential event.Their wins earn them slots on the U.S. Parachute Team, the nation’s most elite aerial athletes who will compete at the 2020 World Parachuting Championships in Russia.In canopy formation skydiving, teams of either two or four skydivers deploy their parachutes immediately after jumping from the plane and build formations as quickly as possible while holding on
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