posted Mar 2nd, 2021 - The aftermath of the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021 begins with a very interesting topic. It is related to the last round of the competition, which the old and new U.S. indoor champions mastered with another sole highscore.

The conversation with Chris Kuhlmann and Joey Marshall after the first six rounds on Saturday touched the same topic already without the latest video evidence of Round 10. It was related to the engineering of Arizona Airspeed's broadening continuity plan.

Chris Kuhlmann and Joey Marshall explained how the current lineup has become very creative with finding new and different ways how to find the most efficient transitions for any sequence.

Arizona Airspeed was advocating the most consistent continuity plans for many years after the first and original lineup of 1994 (Mark Kirkby, Jack Jefferies, Dan BC, Kirk Verner) won two world championships in 4-way Open in 1995 and 1997 with a very well defined and consistent continuity plan. The next Airspeed generations followed the same idea before especially the current lineup of the 12th Airspeed generation became more flexible with efficient engineering.

---

Paraclete XP Indoor 2021		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	19,13,O		21,12,16		A,B,D,11		4,15,C		17,3,E		Q,G,18,22		6,7,14		9,10,2		1,P,20		L,K,H,5		Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	28		27		42	-2	29		34		29		28		26	-1	29		43	-2	315	31.5
2	SDC Rhythm XP	25		25		37		27		32		29		26		27		25		41		294	29.4
3	Golden Knights Gold	27		23		40		26		28		19		25		23		26		35		272	27.2
4	XP4	25		19		34		23		28		20		21		21		23		32		246	24.6
5	XPG4	22		20		29		21		23		20		23		19		20		30		227	22.7
6	Skydive Midwest NEXT	21		16		30		22		23		20		20		19		21		28		220	22.0
7	Lightspeed	20		18		28		21		23		19		20		16		19		28		212	21.2
8	Air Force OBYC	18		17		27		17		21		17		19		15		18		19		188	18.8
9	Aviatrixx	18		17		23		15		19		17		16		17		16		25		183	18.3
10	Vega XP	15		17		24		14		18		17		17		16		18		22		178	17.8
11	Golden Knights Black	17		16		22		16		17		16		18		16		16		20		174	17.4

---

NSL Live Talk with Arizona Airspeed after Round 10 - Competition rounds at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021

---

Niklas Hemlin has seen many different sides of the Airspeed tactics in the past, and he explained how the reigning NMP PCH HayaBusa 4-way world champions encouraged himself and his Airspeed lineups to look at different ways how to catch up with the Belgians.

He said that the engineering power of the multiple indoor and outdoor 4-way world champions since 2014 and their coach Gary Smith has been a part of their success, especially when it comes to fast sequences. It was not only the Belgian love of speedy sequences that gave them the advantage in this part of 4-way competition. The efficient and flexible engineering added to the successful execution of fast sequences.

Niklas Hemlin pointed out one of the many HayaBusa examples that motivated him and his current lineup to take a closer look at their own engineering. It was the opening round of the World Challenge 2019 that impressed the Niklas Hemlin and his 2019 team mate Mikhail Markine.

They were used to giving away the fast rounds to the Belgians, and they had just experienced the last example at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018 in Australia, where NMP PCH HayaBusa won Round 6 with a new 62-point world record score.

---

---

NMP PCH HayaBusa rounds with Block 5 and three random formations

---

NMP PCH HayaBusa won the fast Round 1 of the World Challenge 2019 again by four points (52 - 48), and a very similar sequence was also a part of the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020. The new and current lineup ended up just as far behind HayaBusa at the outdoor competition (40 - 36) as over a year ago in Bedford with the previous lineup.

That was apparently enough for the new Airspeed lineup, and they became more and very serious about their engineering options. They set their focus on the fast sequences and began looking for options how to match the Belgian speed.

The work and the motivation to be more experimental seem to begin paying back. The NSL Live Talk with Arizona Airspeed after the just completed Round 10 was showing satisfied 4-way competitors, who liked what they were showing.

They said that they tried out a totally new engineering in Round 10, which turned out to be the highscore despite two point deductions.They confirmed the experiment as a step in the right direction, and there will most likely be more coming, maybe already at the next outdoor competition, the Shamrock Showdown 2021...