posted Aug 15th, 2026 - It was not only British team SOAR’s Julia Swallow who combined indoor and outdoor championship titles in 2024, as the NSL News mentioned yesterday and in the article published on 17 November 2024. She won British indoor gold with NFTO three months after winning the outdoor title with SOAR. In fact, she successfully defended both titles in 2025 with the same two teams.

However, she was not alone in achieving this double in 2025. SOAR won the British outdoor championship with the same lineup as in 2024, while NFTO competed without Sian Stokes at the indoor championship in November. Her SOAR teammate Pete Allum filled the open tail slot that he also flies for SOAR, and together they won both British 4-way titles last year.

The 2025 season turned out to be a 4-way Open Class year for three members of the 4-way Women world champion team from Eloy 2022. NFTO members Anna Lea, Vana Parker, and Julia Swallow had already recruited Pete Allum for the 4-way Open Class competition at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025, where they finished in 5th place, tied with Amnesya FLY X. NFTO’s 26.1 average at Paraclete XP in April 2025 would have tied XP4 for 3rd place on the 4-way Women leaderboard, where China and Nephtys won gold and silver.

FAI Indoor World Championship 2025			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open/Women Combined		D,4,17		C,22,10		5,P,Q,18		1,M,J,O		16,6,19		H,8,21		12,13,A		L,G,K,9		15,F,7		E,2,N,B		Total	Avg
1	Aethers Medjay	FR	32		23	-1	35		41		28		27		29		45		32		37	-2	329	32.9
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	27	-2	24		31		34		26		26	-1	27		49		34		36		314	31.4
3	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	29	-1	22	-2	33		40	-1	24	-3	23	-4	26		43	-4	28	-3	38	-3	306	30.6
4	China	CN	28	-1	21	-2	29	-2	38	-3	24	-3	26	-1	24	-2	39	-6	27	-4	36	-1	292	29.2
5	Skywalkers Junior	CZ	28		22	-2	30		39		25		23	-4	25		38	-2	27	-3	33		290	29.0
6	Nephtys	FR	28		23		29	-2	36		25		24		24	-2	39		31	-2	30	-2	289	28.9
7	XPG4	US	24		19	-1	24	-3	35	-1	23		22		21	-1	38		24	-2	31	-1	261	26.1
7	NFTO	UK	24	-1	22		26	-1	28	-4	22	-1	22		22	-1	36		29		30		261	26.1
7	Fly X Amnesya	IT	26		19		25	-2	32	-1	23		22	-2	23		32	-5	27	-4	32		261	26.1
10	Qatar Lions	QA	26	-1	19	-3	28	-1	31	-5	24		21	-2	22	-1	34		24	-4	31		260	26.0
11	Echochamber	SE	23	-1	17	-2	27	-1	32	-2	22	-1	22		25	-1	34	-3	27	-2	28	-4	257	25.7
12	Papea	ES	26	-1	18	-3	25		35	-2	19	-2	21	-3	21	-2	33	-3	28	-2	29	-3	255	25.5
13	Out Of The Blue	NL	22		18		21	-3	29	-2	21		21	-1	20	-1	28	-3	25	-1	24	-2	229	22.9
14	Realfly Fire	CH	22		14	-3	23		31		19		18	-3	18	-1	26	-4	21	-3	25	-1	217	21.7
15	Airdrops	CH	16	-3	15	-2	18	-2	30		20		18		18		27	-1	20	-1	25	-1	207	20.7
16	Netunos	BR	20	-1	16		20	-3	26	-2	18		18	-1	18		27		21	-1	19	-3	203	20.3
17	Singapore	SG	17		10	-2	15	-2	21	-1	12	-2	16	-1	10	-5	14	-5	19		16	-3	150	15.0
18	Singapore	SG	16		10	-4	11	-4	17	-5	14	-1	15	-2	11	-4	15	-3	15	-2	19	-1	143	14.3
19	Thailand	TH	8	-1	7	-2	7		11	-5	7		7	-3	5	-3	8	-4	11		8	-3	79	7.9

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NFTO at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025

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NFTO and SOAR teammates Julia Swallow and Pete Allum went their separate ways again this year when NFTO entered the 4-way Women competition at the FAI Indoor World Cup in April. SOAR teammate Sarah Ashworth replaced Pete Allum in the NFTO lineup, who finished 4th behind two Chinese teams in 1st and 3rd and France’s Nephtys in 2nd. NFTO have not competed outdoors since the British Outdoor Nationals 2024, where they finished 3rd behind SOAR and Apex.

Pete Allum spent the 2025 season competing with both NFTO and SOAR and trains and competes only with SOAR in 2026. Meanwhile, his SOAR teammates Sarah Ashworth and Julia Swallow joined NFTO’s Anna Lea and Vana Parker for the indoor world cup at Weembi Lille. The focus is now back on outdoor training and competition with SOAR, with the British Outdoor Nationals at the end of the month and, ultimately, the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2026 in October approaching. The British Indoor Nationals in November could provide an opportunity for further lineup changes, although the complete SOAR lineup has yet to compete together at an indoor event.

Pete Allum will compete at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2026 as the longest-standing active formation skydiving competitor, and he may set a new record for the longest active career at FAI World Championships in Eloy. His most recent FAI outdoor world championship appearance was a decade ago, at Skydive Chicago 2016, where he competed with Satori XL and finished 7th with a 21.0 average.

FAI Outdoor World Championship 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		12,A,16	18,15,O	1,F,E,C	17,B,14	10,2,20	21,11,G	J,5,19	L,M,K,7	D,8,4	3,13,Q	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	24	25	35	26	19	22	27	39	23	22	262	26.2
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	23	31	26	18	22	27	40	23	23	254	25.4
3	France	FR	21	20	30	21	18	21	27	39	21	20	238	23.8
4	Black Cat	RU	22	20	30	24	17	21	24	33	21	19	231	23.1
5	Qatar Tigers	QA	21	20	30	24	17	20	23	36	17	18	226	22.6
6	Evolution	CA	20	18	29	24	16	18	23	32	18	16	214	21.4
7	Satori XL	UK	18	19	27	24	16	18	22	30	18	18	210	21.0
8	Airbus	DE	16	18	29	19	15	18	22	29	14	19	199	19.9
9	Savolo	ZA	15	15	25	19	14	15	16	28	17	15	179	17.9
10	Final Fire	AT	16	15	25	17	12	16	18	29	17	13	178	17.8
11	Ex3mo	IT	18	15	21	18	13	14	19	25	17	14	174	17.4
12	Rotor Out	AU	16	16	24	14	13	16	18	22	14	13	166	16.6
13	Pangaea	DK	15	16	24	19	11	13	16	25	12	13	164	16.4
14	China	CN	14	15	21	15	12	11	16	24	12	12	152	15.2
15	M4trix	NL	13	13	16	11	11	12	14	20	12	12	134	13.4
16	H4O	IE	13	13	17	8	9	12	9	15	10	10	116	11.6
17	MeXtreme	MX	8	8	13	8	9	9	9	12	8	7	91	9.1

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Satori XL at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2016

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Julia Swallow was his teammate in 2016 as well. She flew the point slot at the time, with Pete Allum in outside center. John McIver flew inside center and Ian Hodgkinson was in the tail, completing the 2016 lineup, with Gary Wainwright on camera.

Pete Allum started competing in 8-way in 1985, at the first outdoor world championship of modern formation skydiving held under the current format. This year, 41 years after his first world championship appearance in Mali Lošinj, Yugoslavia, he will compete once again in 4-way. He was 21 years old at his first outdoor world championship in 1985. The British 8-way team went on to compete at the next two world meets, achieving their best result at Empuriabrava 1989, where they finished 4th.

The British 8-way team finished 7th in 1985 with a 6.4 average. Now, Pete Allum will return to Eloy for another 4-way outdoor world championship, with his team expected to be one of the top contenders for the unofficial amateur world championship title and potentially a 20-point average or higher. At least Pete Allum and Julia Swallow are likely aiming for the 21.0 average level that Satori XL achieved ten years ago. There is a very good reason why the International Skydiving Museum welcomed him into its Hall of Fame in 2022, 20 years after the first edition of his NSL Profile was published on SKYLEAGUE.COM.