As Speed Skydiving grows in popularity, training and judging tools have become a must-have in every competitor’s arsenal. The general-purpose FlySightViewer is adequate and does a great job but it’s too cumbersome and requires too much user interaction to extract actionable trainng data. Enter SSScoring 2.0.
I’ve been using the FlySightViewer to figure my flight performance since I began competing in 2018. I felt it was too cumbersome to use on a day-to-day basis. It’s a great general-purpose tool for analyzing speed, wingsuit, canopy piloting, etc. Several speed skydivers felt a dedicated tool should tell us what we need to know about a jump in as few steps as possible. That’s how the SSScoring (Speed Skydiving Scoring) API came about. It’s been used for training and competition since 2023 as a set of Jupyter notebooks. The need for a GUI interface became pressing as we readied SSScoring for ISC approval. The ISC approval process assumes the availability of a general-purpose user interface to evaluate its effectiveness, resulting in the SSScore 2.0 web app, available to everyone from Streamlit.io after the webcast.
This is an open invitation to the SSScore intro webcast via Zoom on 03.Feb.2025, in two live, 30-minute sessions:
- 19:00 CET in Europe (iCal invitation with web link)
- 18:00 PST in the Americas (iCal invitation with web link)
Take a look at the GitHub SSScore repository if you’d like to look at the code, fork it, request new features, or satisfy your curiosity. Looking forward to seeing you. Until then, blue skies and #gofast