posted Jan 16th, 2017 - The plans of a new 4-way team in DeLand were recently finalized. DeLand Fast4ward met in December to discuss the options and then set the 2017 schedule. The first training camp was scheduled for this weekend, and Fast4ward completed ten jumps.

Player coach Gilles Dutrisac said that his team is aiming at 200 training jumps this year, plus approx. ten hours of wind tunnel time. DeLand Fast4ward will jump from the DeLand planes and start each training weekend with indoor training at iFLY Tampa.

The team members are very familiar with indoor training and competition after years of participation at Indoor Cloud League and FSL Tunnel Kicker events at iFLY Orlando. The Florida Skydiving League has now added the same events for the 14+ flying chamber in Tampa to the indoor schedule.

DeLand Fast4ward will compete in the Advanced Class at the USPA Nationals 2017. Tail Jimmy Xu has to move up after winning the Intermediate Class gold medals with Z-Hills PreciZion at the USPA Nationals 2016. His new team is aiming at a medal position in the Advanced Class, as well.

James Hall competed with DeLand Momentum (Andrea Geering, Mariuschka Lovera, Hal Spence, Michael Baker on camera) in the Advanced Class competition of the USPA Nationals 2015 and missed last year's national championships. He and Andrea Greening still wanted to continue together with a new team and kept in shape until the next opportunity would come up.

They were rear piece partners with Momentum and will be separated in the new team.

USPA Nationals 2015		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	J,H,2,8	6,D,18	F,9,L,O	1,17,E	K,19,N,P	3,7,5	4,A,B,12	11,16,M	15,Q,22	20,14,10	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	27	24	43	23	26	25	25	23	21	19	256	25.6
2	SDC Rhythm XP	22	21	42	25	27	20	23	20	20	16	236	23.6
3	Golden Knights	23	19	37	22	24	19	23	21	19	17	224	22.4
4	Carolina Turbo XP	22	20	34	22	25	20	19	21	18	16	217	21.7
5	HG XP	15	18	30	18	22	19	18	15	14	12	181	18.1
6	Prestige Worldwide	18	16	27	15	16	16	14	16	14	13	165	16.5
7	EOS	17	14	26	16	15	15	15	17	13	13	161	16.1
8	Dallas 350	16	16	23	15	17	17	15	16	14	11	160	16.0
9	Verve XP	15	13	27	14	17	16	16	16	13	12	159	15.9
10	Spaceland Lite	16	14	23	13	17	13	13	13	14	10	146	14.6
11	Camdak.is	14	11	21	12	12	13	12	8	10	8	121	12.1

James Hall is moving to the Point slot, and he has been preparing himself for the new position for a while by learning the front piece work at the Indoor Cloud League and Tunnel Kicker events. His new piece partner is Gilles Dutrisac who has been in both front piece slots for a long time.

He started in Florida with FSC Wind Damaged in 2007 and continued with Sebastian Tempest in 2009, where he had Arizona Airspeed member Thiago Gomes as a team mate for a few years. After his time with Tempest Gilles Dutrisac kept himself busy as a player coach with Florida Skydiving League teams and Indoor Cloud League events before a full 1-year comeback with Mercury XP/Hg XP in 2015.

He used the 2016 season to get a necessary knee surgery behind and be physically ready for the next player coach team project. He was following James Klinge's guidance in 2015. This time, he is back in the player coaching slot on a higher level. Videographer Jens Esselstrom is committing to a 4-way team plan for the first time after filming at FSL meets randomly over the years. DeLand Fast4ward will post the first scores at the Shamrock Showdown 2017.