posted May 12th, 2016 - A small 4-way competition was a part of the recent IBA Indoor Competition Series event at iFLY Rosemont in Chicago.

One of the Midwest Skydiving League teams used the indoor competition to get some meet practice before the start of the MWSL 2016 outdoor season. SDC EXtreme came back with three original team members of 2014 and 2015 (Stanley Bukala, Gene Keturakis, Vince Kramolinski) and new EXtremist Andrzej Nycz.

It was the first indoor competition for SDC EXtreme, after six MWSL outdoor meets in the last two years, three in the A Class of 2014 and three in the AA Class of 2015. EXtreme competed again in the AA Class, together with two junior teams from Canada.

IBA Indoor			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		7,M,2	D,11,19	21,P,K	B,E,A,J	A,N,6	Q,18,9	O,13,15	14,F,G	H,C,L,7	Q,N,C,F	Total	Avg
1	Tunnel Vision	CA	14	9	13	20	13	12	8	14	12	19	134	13.4
2	SDC eXtreme	US	9	9	13	22	11	12	10	12	11	22	131	13.1
3	AirDevils	CA	12	9	10	19	12	12	10	12	16	18	130	13.0

It was challenging for SDC EXtreme to keep up with the 4-way indoor experts. Tunnel Vision and AirDevils are both 4-way junior teams, and the youngsters are very familiar with tunnel flying. It is their only playground, as they cannot jump from air planes.

SkyVenture Montreal and iFLY Toronto started early with their training programs for juniors, and both teams had attended indoor meets before they made the trip to Chicago last weekend. Their training began with the A Class dive pool, and they competed at the Canadian Indoor Nationals 2016 in this category.

The iFLY Rosemont competition was the first time in the AA Class for both Canadian junior teams, and they mastered the ten longer sequences with more block techniques just as well as the Midwest Skydiving League team.

Canadian Indoor Nationals		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class	G,M,7	9,N	J,Q,D	F,H,4	C,P,E	L,K,O	6,21	A,B,F	Total	Avg
1	Tunnel Vision	21	22	19	17	18	18	15	29	159	19.9
2	Ouranos	16	18	18	18	18	16	13	26	143	17.9
3	Confusion	18	17	18	17	16	16	13	27	142	17.8
4	Air Devils	20	22	15	15	16	12	15	23	138	17.3
5	Rebels	17	18	19	14	9	12	10	19	118	14.8
6	Beta	14	16	14	10	15	8	10	12	99	12.4

In fact, it was an exciting race for the top spot between all three teams, who were separated by only four points after ten rounds.

The AirDevils have moved much closer to the Tunnel Vision juniors. Both teams were still separated by 21 points (19.9 - 17.3) after eight rounds at the Canadian Indoor Nationals in March this year.

Two Tunnel Vision members

(Malachi DeAth, Hope Hadfield) were actually in the original lineup of the AirDevils last year. For the start of the second junior lineup they joined forces with Morgan Fenton and Ethan Kinnear, while the new AirDevils have sisters Allegra and Laura Rosic in the lineup. AirDevil Donavan Fenton's brother Morgan competed with the opposing team and won by four points...