posted May 15th, 2009 - Plenty of video footage is available of the World Challenge 2009 on NSL YouTube TV. All ten rounds of the Top 12 have already been uploaded, plus the meet videos of a few other teams when a new NSL News story related to them. Videos of live interviews from Bedford and clips of any interesting action on site helped to cover the event, and there is still more to come.

This time, NSL YouTube TV offers a video more on the entertaining end of the most popular indoor competition at Bodyflight Bedford. It invites the on-line audience to experience the exciting and fun atmosphere at the very end of the competition.

The NSL-TV camera moved quickly from the flying chamber to the viewing hangar when the last teams completed their Round 10. The NSL News story on 12 May 2009 had offered the up close videos of the last flying sessions from inside the tunnel chamber and mentioned that the next stop would be the viewing hangar.

There the excited crowd was already watching the judging of Round 10. CamScore presented the videos in reverse ranking order and sometimes split the screen when two of the top teams were close enough to add some drama.

The awards ceremony followed the last viewings, and the hangar was packed when Bodyflight owner Paul Mayer greeted the teams and competitors for the last time at the 2009 event. However, the awards ceremony did not start right after Airspeed's Round 10. Paul Mayer had a very entertaining surprise in store for the crowd in the hangar.

All teams and competitors at this year's event had already met Ged Parker at least ten times on their way into the flying chamber. He was the guard of the entrance into the flying chamber and was in charge to keep the teams in order.

It was a challenging job in the beginning, as this year's total of 47 teams, plus nine Freeflying teams, had to be at the right place at the right time to keep the tunnel running efficiently. Ged Parker, the "Tunnel Guard", had a long list and had it all under control.

In fact, he was so familiar with the procedure after a while that he had enough spare time for his own little games, which helped to keep the waiting teams and competitors entertained and killed the waiting time. Checking off the list was the beginning of it all and the actual chore. Soon he added cheers for and High 5's with the teams that entered the chamber, and then also when they came back after a round.

It became wilder when his hands must have been sore from all the High 5's. He eventually decided to protect himself and used a sparring shield and a boxing glove for the same High 5 procedure. Of course, this got out of control here and there, as some of the competitors needed some real workout after bad rounds...

The funnest part was still to come, and Paul Mayer finally introduced the entertaining Tunnel Guard in his real element - the stage.

He had found a video where Ged Parker introduces himself as a real entertainer, dancing and showing off on TV in night shows on stage. The crowd in the viewing hangar went wild when Paul Mayer played the video, while Ged Parker watched in horror what was going on.

He finally accepted the little extra show when he had to realize that the crowd loved this part. It surely was a great start of the actual awards ceremony, which followed the presentation of Ged Parker on stage. The rest was business as usual: first place and £5,000 cash for Airspeed... Enjoy the show.