01 / The Problem
Most people learn positions. Few learn the wind.
Body positions are only the visible part of flight. Beneath every movement are pressure, presentation, balanced lift, participation, counter pressure, and timing. Understanding those relationships helps flyers stop fighting the air and begin working with it.
pressure / presentation / timing
02 / Who It Is For
Built for Flyers Who Want to Understand
The LaFrance Paradigm is designed for the journey from first-flight awareness toward highly capable freeflying. It focuses primarily on helping flyers progress through the broad 0–100 range of recreational skill, freedom, flow, control, and enjoyment. Competitive specialization may begin beyond that range, but it is not required to benefit from the system.
Skydiving and Wind Tunnel Students
Tunnel Flyers Who Like to Jam
Coaches
Skydivers Wanting to Understand Balancing and Control
03 / Freedom Scale
0–100 is the expedition.
You do not need to become a world champion to become an exceptional flyer. Learn to jam with friends, move confidently, understand the air, and enjoy greater freedom in every orientation.
0 — First Flight
100 — Freeflying Freedom
120 — Competitive Specialization
04 / Inside the Field Guide
Field Guide No. 1 — Understanding the Wind
An art-forward field manual for seeing the relationships beneath every movement: pressure, presentation, balanced lift, participation, and control.
Relative Wind
Presentation
Balanced Lift
Participation
Counter Pressure
The Sail Principle
Incremental Inputs
Whole-Body Inputs
Driving While Drifting
Practical Flight Challenges
The LaFrance Coaching Language
A Lifelong Study of Movement
My understanding of bodyflight began with a connection I already knew from the water.
As a former Navy Diver, I recognized that moving through the wind could feel remarkably similar to swimming through water. Both environments surround the body. Both create pressure. Both respond to every surface you present.
I believed the best flyers in the world must eventually learn to fly every square inch of their bodies. So I began exploring how to fly through my slip-ups instead of stopping every time something went wrong. I worked to bridge the gaps between movements until I could remain present through every orientation, looking where I wanted to go while allowing the wind to carry more of the workload.
Early in that journey, people called me “the drunken master.” My body did not always look the way people expected it to look, yet I kept finding ways to fly through the movement.
That process shaped the philosophy behind The LaFrance Paradigm:
Lay on the wind.
Participate with it.
Explore the pressure.
Use the whole body.
Let the wind do the work.
Navy Diver • Master Training Specialist • Wind Tunnel Instructor • Bodyflight and Skydiving Coach
06 / Core Philosophy
Understanding Creates Freedom
Short principles for changing the way you listen to the air.
07 / How It Works
Read. Explore. Fly.
A simple progression from concept to embodied freedom.
1. Read
Learn the principles behind pressure, presentation, and balanced lift.
2. Explore
Take the exercises and coaching language into your next tunnel session or skydive.
3. Fly
Develop greater freedom, confidence, control, and awareness.
08 / Product Offer
Begin With Field Guide No. 1
Start with the foundational language and principles for understanding what the wind is asking from your body.
Field Guide No. 1
The LaFrance Paradigm — Understanding the Wind
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09 / Coaching
Take the Ideas Into the Wind
The guide introduces the philosophy. Personalized coaching helps you apply it to your body, your goals, and your current range of motion.
Ready to Fly Differently?
Stop memorizing isolated movements. Begin understanding what the wind is asking from you.