posted May 8th, 2008 - The next series of NSL-TV videos has been uploaded, and it features Round 4 of the FSL April meet. Once again, these videos include the four national teams (Norway Arcteryx, Canada Evolution, Danish Blaze, USA Fastrax Blue) from the Pilatus Porter. It is also the third consecutive round of 22-pointers between Evolution and Arcteryx.

The four national teams were all clean in Rounds 3 and 4. Denmark's second project team Sequence, Orange Blue from the Netherlands and FSC Wind Damaged each lost one penalty point in Round 4.

The April meet of the Florida Skydiving League was already the third competition for the two teams from Denmark, the national 4-way team Danish Blaze and Sequence. Both teams started the 2008 season at the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2008 and competed two weeks later at the World Challenge 2008.

The Danish competitors were back in Florida for the next training camp and the FSL April meet. Blaze and Sequence then set new 2008 participation records when they attended the DFU Cup in Denmark last weekend. Both teams have now attended four meets, three outdoor and one indoor competitions, more than any other 4-way team to date.

The NSL News covered Denmark's 4-way project with a story on 3 April 2007 (Archives > 2007 > News > search for "Denmark") and followed up on 23 May 2007. Team members of both lineups, Vibeke Birk for Sequence and Torben Tidemand for Blaze, had explained details of the project at a live interview on NSL-TV.

Both teams are obviously still fully engaged in the project, and the situation has become even more interesting. The official Danish national team Blaze had to switch to the right-hand door of the Pilatus Porter, while Sequence continued with the team's training program from the Twinotter.

Result of the additional challenge for Blaze and the easier continuity for Sequence is the fact that the distance between the two Danish teams has become shorter meet by meet. Finally, both teams exited from the same plane for the first time this year at last weekend's DFU Cup in Denmark, and Sequence finished closer to Blaze (120 - 127) than ever before.

It is an exciting situation for both teams, and it will probably help them to push each other eventually to new performance levels. The current scoring averages at the meets are still significantly hurt by exit problems, which seem to occur on a regular basis, as the NSL-TV videos show. Once this obstacle, which is similar for both teams, will be overcome the scores from Denmark will look differently.