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Did You Know...

... that XL had once again a special official training session?

Rotating XL Spider at the World Challenge 2012
posted Apr 6th, 2012 - Thursday at the World Challenge 2012 ended with the official training session for all teams. The three minutes of flying time, split into two session of 1.5 minutes, has the purpose to determine the specific air speed for each team.

Most of the teams, in fact all teams except one, use this flying time to get the last motivational warmup feeling by using easy competition sequences. 90 seconds is still a long flying time for a working time of 35 seconds in competition, and many teams stop earlier to practice an additional "exit" into the flying chamber.

XL followed the tradition of using the last practice session for some fun flying. Nobody ever knows what kind of mischievous plans the XL members have for the official training. They tried something new this year and went back to a popular 5way jump, the Rotating Spider, for the first 1.5 minutes and invited the NSL News reporter for the flying.

Live NSL Talk with ISB Air Remscheid
The second XL training session was much more serious. Well, not really, even though the 4way legends applied a 3-block sequence. None of the three blocks is in the current dive pool, however, they used to be a part of 4way competition years ago.

The latest NSL Reality TV clip also features the two French top teams with their official training session. They had the Thursday off and came to Bodyflight Bedford only for the training session in the evening.

The clip begins with the German 4way team in the female category, ISB Air Remscheid, who will show in this meet whether they are a top contender for medals this year or not. The NSL News had a conversation with all team members before the official training session began in the evening and also followed the team to and in the flying chamber.

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