Did you know that NFTO turned silver of Australia 2018 into gold in Eloy? posted: Oct 31st, 2022 Anna Hicks is one of the original NFTO members, when the team was founded in 2015. She was probably already dreaming of the world championship title in 4-way Women when she started training and competing with her previous team in 2013, Bodyflight Isis. Ten years later, she was finally on the top of the world meet podium with NFTO.
British 4-way Women teams have played a major role in this event since it was added to the FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving format in 2001. Three sets of FAI gold medals (2003, 2006, 2008) and silver medals in Menzelinsk 2010 had gone to Great Britain... (more)
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed and Paraclete XP8 together did not give away a single round? posted: Oct 29th, 2022 The top of the 8-way leaderboard looked exactly the same as it did in 4-way Open. The winning team, Paraclete XP8, did not allow any other team to get close. In fact, the 41-point difference to the Qatar Falcons was even larger than the 33 points that Arizona Airspeed was ahead of NMP PCH HayaBusa.
Until the FAI Outdoor World Meet 1999, the first places in 4-way Open and 8-way Open would have been defined as a completed FS Sweep. The U.S. delegations of 1985, 19995 and 1997 accomplished the 1st places in both events. Then the 4-way Women event was added to the FAI/ISC format in 2001, and the... (more)
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed plan to break up everything when they come back for the next team training? posted: Oct 28th, 2022 The expected battle for silver medals in 4-way Open between Belgium, Qatar and France at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022 was reduced more to a duel relatively early.
NMP PCH HayaBusa, the defending 4-way world champions, came well prepared to Eloy with their new Inside Center Neal Willems and David Grauwels on camera.
HayaBusa were six points ahead of France after Round 8, and they mastered the last two rounds with the fast sequences well enough to maintain the 2nd place by nine points over the Qatar Tigers. The Belgians did not even look up much, as they knew before the meet began that Arizona... (more)
Did you know that Gary Smith, Joey Jones and Solly Williams predicted the 2-round drama in 4-way Open? posted: Oct 26th, 2022 Arizona Airspeed dominated the 4-way Open Class competition just as much as Paraclete XP8 did in 8-way. Neither the Airspeed gold medals nor the 1st place for XP8 was a surprise, not even the winning margin. In fact, the results at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022 were more or less just a copy of the top of the leaderboard at the USPA Nationals 2022, where NMP PCH HayaBusa performed the same competition draw at the Belgian outdoor championships.
NMP PCH HayaBusa and Qatar Tigers now followed up with their next ten rounds, and the ranking order of the same three teams was the same. Even the distance... (more)
Did you know that Eliana Rodriguez and Tim D'Annunzio were the XP8 alternates? posted: Oct 26th, 2022 The 8-way competition was concluded first, while Gary Smith, Joey Jones and Solly Williams discussed the last two rounds of the 4-way competition. The 8-way competition was the easiest event to overview, as all five participating teams did not get too close to each other.
The closest distance between two 8-way teams next to each other on this leaderboard was the 12-point difference between MicroClim8 (Great Britain) and Mojo Annecy-Clermont (France). Paraclete XP8 did not give away a round and did not allow the Qatar Falcons to get closer than one point once in Round 4.
The 2nd place for... (more)
Did you know that the Majik Coaches Corner experts expected changes in the last two rounds? posted: Oct 25th, 2022 The same three 4-way experts came back together for a new Majik Coaches Corner on Tuesday, even though Solly Williams joined the conversation a little bit delayed. The previous NSL Live Talk with the three DeLand Majik 4-way world champions of 2004 took place after the completion of Round 4 on Saturday last week.
The last NSL News update after Round 8 was then the foundation for the three coaches on Tuesday morning to evaluate and explain the new situation before the last two 4-way rounds would be completed in the afternoon.
It was perfect weather again, and the 8-way teams concluded their... (more)
Did you know that NFTO turned silver of Australia 2018 into gold in Eloy?
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed and Paraclete XP8 together did not give away a single round?
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed plan to break up everything when they come back for the next team training?
Did you know that Gary Smith, Joey Jones and Solly Williams predicted the 2-round drama in 4-way Open?
Did you know that Eliana Rodriguez and Tim D'Annunzio were the XP8 alternates?
Did you know that the Majik Coaches Corner experts expected changes in the last two rounds?