The upper limit on distances for swooping now is record that was set by Shannon Pilcher. He managed to swoop an entire 418 feet, or about 125 meters. When you consider that a football field is 300 ft, that's a long way!

In order to swoop that far, swoopers have to be going pretty fast before they hit ground - at least a little bit faster than they would be if they were just sky diving normally. Swoopers usually pick up speed again near ground by making a few turns near ground. Going long distances is pretty difficult, since these last turns are hardest part of sky diving.

It might be possible that there is a limit as to how far people can swoop. However, until that limit is reached, swoopers will continue to swoop farther and farther. As it is, however, distance you can count on somebody being able to swoop depends a lot on their experience and type of equipment that they're using.

Swooping competitions also generally consist of several different rounds. This way, more than one skill is being tested through competition. Also, in this way, best overall swooper wins - and a single bad jump may average out in end.

Before competing in swooping competitions, you may want to try competing in regular sky diving competitions for practice. Some of skills that you will use in order to do well in these competitions should help you as a sky diver - and you will be able to get used to stress of sky diving competitions before you find yourself getting ready to swoop competitively.