posted Apr 17th, 2020 - The NSL News continues with the series of feedback from different countries with NSL Live Talk sessions on ZOOM. This time, the corona virus situation in Belgium is a part of the conversation.

It is usually NMP PCH HayaBusa who catch the attention of the NSL News and provide information in many different ways, especially and increasingly since the Belgians became the 4-way world champions in 2014 and maintained the world's top spot ever since.

Belgium yet has another world-class 4-way team, and the NSL News audience is well familiar with the team name ISR FireFlash. Competition videos from many events have been available on NSL TV, and the NSL News has published updates whenever the Belgian team required their own attention or had interesting information to share.

The newest NSL Live Talk episode comes shortly after ISR FireFlash published a very special and creative online dirtdive, which they called the "ISR FireFlash Quarantine Challenge". The video was more than enough reason for the NSL News to contact the team with the request for an online interview with the whole lineup. Sven Ibens organized the logistics, and the first NSL Live Talk with all team members materialized a few days later. The conversation was recorded on Friday, April 17th.

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The NSL News had to catch up with ISR FireFlash after the Belgian team's trip to Spain for the Wind Games in January. The World Challenge at Twinwoods Adventure in Bedford would have been the perfect opportunity for a live meeting with the team, which could not happen due to the cancellation of the event.

NSL TV is now following up late with ISR FireFlash's competition videos from the Wind Games, where the Belgians finished with a new 28.1 team record average. It was also the highest meet average for all team members in a 10-round meet.

Sven Ibens and Wesley Claessens had posted 28.4 and 29.3 averages with ISR Thunder (Paul Hofstee, Jacco van Eerden) at the ISR Grand Prix meets of 2014 and 2016. However, the annual event has a smaller dive pool and is only an 8-round competition. Thunder ISR did not get to a 28+ average in a 10-round meet in their seven years of training and competition.

The Dutch-Belgian Thunder ISR combination discontinued at the end of the 2016 season with the 29.3 average at the ISR Grand Prix, and Sven Ibens and Wesley Claessens launched a new Belgian 4-way project with Maya Van Campenhout and Glenn Straeluyc, plus former Thunder ISR videographer Grim Swinnen.

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Wind Games 2020			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class - Top 10		Q,F,6,14		1,13,4		8,J,15		O,9,D,5		21,A,P,H		N,C,20,12		7,G,K,19		10,16,22		17,E,11		M,B,3,L		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	32	-1	29		28	-1	44	-3	45		29		35		25		34		47		348	34.8
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	34		24	-1	29		45	-2	41		29		34	-1	23		34		39	-1	332	33.2
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	33		25		27	-1	44	-1	41		26		30	-3	23		30	-2	41	-2	320	32.0
4	IFS-Moscow	RU	27	-3	20	-3	25	-2	45	-2	36	-1	25	-1	30	-1	23		29	-2	33	-5	293	29.3
5	ISR FireFlash	BE	30		23		26		39		36		22	-1	27	-2	20		29		29	-4	281	28.1
6	Weembi Unicorns	IT	28		23		26		42		36		23		29		20		22	-4	26	-3	275	27.5
7	NFTO	UK	28		21		22		38		36		21		27	-1	18		24	-3	32	-1	267	26.7
8	Echochamber	SE	28		21		22		37		35		21	-1	23	-2	19		26		29	-4	261	26.1
9	Nephtys Weembi	FR	26		19	-1	20	-1	35		32		22		26	-1	19		22	-2	32	-1	253	25.3
10	Oceanside AtomiX	DE	25	-2	21		19	-2	31	-1	31		19		27		17	-1	22	-1	31		243	24.3

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Thunder ISR were also battling for years with the Russian team SportLoto at several 4-way meets. Both teams had to find indoor and outdoor events that were open for everybody, as they were not the national teams of their respective countries. There they battled for the world's top spot of the unofficial "amateur teams".

SportLoto's team members Egor Gusev and Dmity Samokhval also formed a new team a year after their last competition with SportLoto at the World Challenge 2015, where Thunder ISR had won this duel by three points (254 - 250).

Egor Gusev and Dmity Samokhval were back with IFS-Moscow (Yury Drozdov, Dmitry Komkov) at the Wind Games this year, where Sven Ibens and Wesley Claessens competed with their new ISR FireFlash lineup.

Sven Ibens said that they celebrated their latest duel with a bottle of Russian adult beverage that IFS-Moscow brought as a gift from Moscow. The NSL News will follow up with more details of this exciting amateur duel right behind the top spots.

Original NMP PCH HayaBusa member Sven Ibens is still as passionate about Formation Skydiving competition as he has been since his early days between 2004 and 2006 with the reigning Belgian world champions, and he has been his country's delegate at the FAI Skydiving Commission (ISC) for years. HayaBusa and FireFlash placed 1st and 5th at the Wind Games in January, and the Belgians still have an open account with their Russian friends...