posted Dec 25th, 2019 - The NSL News reported on October 27th that Paul Hofstee joined the German national team in 4-way Open, Oceanside AtomiX. He has been training and competing with the Belgian 4-way team Falco this year, and his new plans for 2020 required Falco to recruit a new team member.

Paul Hofstee still completed his Falco commitment with two more scheduled indoor meets, the ISR Grand Prix and the Belgian Indoor Nationals. At the same time, he has already been in training with the German team.

Falco did not wait until Paul Hofstee would have left. They started their recruiting campaign as soon as they knew that Paul Hofstee would not come back for Falco in 2020, and it did not take too long until Valerie Van Daele, Maarten Coenen and Hans Van der Avert found their 4th team member for next year.

Two ISR FireFlash members were helping Falco in their recruiting campaign. Sven Ibens has been coaching Falco, and his team mate Glenn Straeluyc knew one of the candidates very well. The cooperation between Falco, Sven Ibens and Glenn Straeluyc was successful and rewarded with only a short time period until Falco had a new and complete lineup.

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Belgian Indoor Nationals 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		15,16,18	F,2,11	K,14,21	7,E,O,N	H,1,B,M	L,A,C,4	17,22,8	D,12,19	6,5,13	9,G,10	Total	Avg
1	Weembi Unicorns	FR	19	24	22	39	36	31	22	26	25	28	272	27.2
2	Out of the Blue	NL	17	22	18	31	32	25	17	17	20	22	221	22.1
3	Falco	BE	17	21	17	28	28	22	16	19	19	21	208	20.8
4	Synergy	IT	13	18	17	26	26	18	13	18	13	19	181	18.1
5	Ayro	BE	16	18	13	27	27	16	13	16	16	17	179	17.9
6	JETMAX	BE	15	16	16	23	27	20	10	14	17	18	176	17.6
7	Stardust	BE	11	15	15	22	22	19	12	14	13	17	160	16.0
8	Trance-Ition	NL	12	17	15	21	17	17	11	14	14	17	155	15.5
9	Black Devils	BE	11	14	10	19	18	13	10	12	14	11	132	13.2
10	Gravity Abuse	BE	10	14	12	19	17	12	8	13	10	15	130	13.0
11	Vortex	UK	10	10	12	16	19	13	10	10	12	12	124	12.4

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Glenn Straeluyc has been coaching a Belgian 4-way team that consisted mostly of his friends. FS One is a Belgian AA Class team of 2018 that has not been active after competing at the Czech Open Indoor Nationals in January this year, and the lineup includes another connection between the new Falco member and ISR FireFlash. Grim Swinnen has been on camera for ISR FireFlash since the team was formed, and he also flies the point slot for FS One. His team mate Neal Willems is the new Falco member.

Glenn Straeluyc has known the FS One team members not only since they formed the team. The story begins at AFF Level 1 when he and Grim Swinnen were Neal Willems' AFF instructors. Glenn Straeluyc remembers his AFF experience with the new Falco member: "He was such a student where you fly next to him in AFF and think 'What am I doing here, I don't need to help him'. At AFF Level 7 he was probably better than me..."

Nick Mathe, Glenn Straeluyc's best friend, who is also AFF instructor, noticed Neal Willems' talent later in this course, as well, and they kept an eye on him.

After a few months of skydiving at Skydive Flanders, Neal Willems kept showing a lot of interest in 4-way training and competition. He was motivated to learn more about 4-way when he was watching newly formed Belgian teams doing their business (Stardust, Ayro). That's when Nick Mathe came up with the idea of starting a new 4-way team with Neal Willems. They asked Grim Swinnen to join, Glenn Straeluyc became the player-coach for FS One, and former Les Stunts videographer Svekke Hassewer was filming the new team.

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Czech Open Indoor Nationals 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		3,7,22	15,4,5	N,14,10	13,20,E	O,L,C,11	18,A,19	21,17,K	Q,2,G,1	P,H,B,J,16	F,8,M,9	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Circus	CZ	21	19	21	20	29	21	23	22	37	29	242	24.2
2	HF Bad Boys	CZ	19	20	19	18	28	19	22	20	34	32	231	23.1
3	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	17	16	17	18	24	19	18	20	27	26	202	20.2
4	KA	HU	17	17	17	15	24	18	20	18	29	26	201	20.1
5	Sky....	CZ	13	15	14	13	20	13	15	17	24	20	164	16.4
6	M Team	CZ	13	11	12	13	18	11	12	15	17	21	143	14.3
7	Accord	CZ	9	8	11	12	15	11	13	13	17	18	127	12.7
Rank	AA Class		20,11	Q,9,1	22,L,N	6,F,B	D,7,14	C,15,A	8,J,P	M,18,O	13,21	2,G,4	Total	Avg
1	Flyspot One2Three	PL	16	24	18	26	22	16	21	23	17	19	202	20.2
2	FS ONE	BE	13	22	17	22	17	19	17	22	15	15	179	17.9
3	HF Cubs	CZ	14	16	16	25	17	17	17	19	14	11	166	16.6
4	HF Dragonflies	CZ	12	17	13	21	17	15	17	18	10	13	153	15.3
5	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	13	15	13	21	16	18	14	13	16	10	149	14.9
6	Mimozemky	CZ	9	14	11	18	14	9	12	13	10	11	121	12.1
7	HF Chameleons	CZ	7	9	7	9	7	6	7	10	9	7	78	7.8
Rank	A Class		19,P	G,B,L	A,H,7	E,8	2,Q	C,D,6	4,21	N,J,F	M,O,K	9,J	Total	Avg
1	MAD Team	PL	18	19	29	19	20	23	17	38	47	31	261	26.1
2	Ladies Power	PL	19	28	27	20	17	23	17	39	39	30	259	25.9
3	High Five	CZ	13	21	21	10	11	16	12	23	31	18	176	17.6

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Glenn Straeluyc's double duties with ISR FireFlash became an obstacle after a while, and he began to share the FS One slot with Out of the Blue member Mandy Feijen. It became even more difficult for FS One after Glenn Straeluyc's work accident at the end of 2018. Mandy Feijen was limited with her extra time, as well, and the FS One team project eventually came to a halt after the last meet with her in January this year.

However, the friendship between the FS One members even strengthened while Glenn Straeluyc was hospitalized: "I think Neal and Grim visited me in the hospital almost every day. And they had to drive two hours each day to do this. Once they entered the hospital, completely dressed in jumpsuits, to get some tunnel briefing before a training session that evening. They even practiced an exit entering the elevator of the hospital..."

Glenn Straeluyc had to focus mostly on his comeback with ISR FireFlash, while Falco began to look for a new team member and asked Neal Willems to join. All FS One members supported him to use this great opportunity and step up in the 4-way world. In fact, Glenn Straeluyc thinks that Falco will soon be on the same level where they were before Paul Hofstee left. Sven Ibens will continue to work with Falco, which guarantees ongoing progress, Glenn Straeluyc believes: "In my opinion, Sven Ibens is one of the world's best coaches, so they are learning from the best."

Sven Ibens is looking forward to working with the new lineup: "Neal Willems is a young guy, a great team player and has promising talent. Last week, we finalized the Falco team plans for 2020, and all looks very nice with a great plan..."