posted Aug 16th, 2014 - The July competition of the Indoor Cloud League was the tightest one for the Top 3 positions this year, and it seems like it will continue like that in August.

iFLY Dallas turned in the next scores and videos after SkyVenture New Hampshire opened the competition for this month, with Florida following up quickly, and it is a 1-point race at the moment. In fact, SkyVenture New Hampshire will probably be in contention for the current top spots, as well, as soon as Brian Touhey submits videos and scores for the two missing categories.

iFLY Dallas joined the Indoor Skydiving League in March this year, and Amanda Lampton, Dallas Khaos Black member, started with four 5th place finishes until June. Her Texas group then moved up to the 4th place in July and has started early in August to hold the 2nd place one single point behind Florida for now.

August 2014		AAA Class	AA Class	A Class	Rookie AAA	Rookie AA	Rookie A	Total
Rank	Teams	N,7,E,11	N,7,15	N,E,7	N,E,A	M,N,E	M,N	Total
1	iFLY Orlando (US)	11	12	16	16	23	5	83
2	iFLY Dallas (US)	18	19	13(-1)	12	10	10	82
3	SkyVenture New Hampshire (US)	14	11	15	21	-	-	61

Amanda Lampton said that once again new flyers joined her group at her first Tunnel Kicker at iFLY Dallas this month. Her Rookie A Class lineup included Eliel Rodriguez who had just obtained his USPA A license. Coaches Scott Latinis and Karen Bilder guided him and Lauren Gilbert to the posted 10-pointer in the category for the beginners in the sport.

Amanda Lampton said that it was not only his first 4-way experience: "Eliel probably touched more people than he ever had whilst flying before..." She added that other new participants of earlier Indoor Cloud League events, such as Becca Land and Rob Parker, keep looking better every month.

Eight coaches were helping Amanda Lampton to provide coaching and guidance for the participants and to compete for iFLY Dallas in the AAA and AA categories. She said that the coaches decided to shake up their lineups that they train and compete with at outdoor events:

"We split up the front and back piece of Dallas 350. The back piece, the Scotts, flew with the front piece of Dallas Khaos Black, Eric and myself. The front piece, Ron and Lucas, flew with Todd and Karen. Then we let Scott Latinis, Ron, and Todd have another go of it with Mike filling out the final coaches team." Todd Hawkins is a former Arizona Airspeed member who has helped Amanda Lampton at the Tunnel Kicker events at iFLY Dallas.

The coaches lineup with Eric Soden, Amanda Lampton, Scott Levy, Scott Latinis turned out to be the strongest one that night and provided both scores for the AAA and AA Class sequences after a close race with the other coaches.

The coaches are usually very busy helping the participants to get ready for the ICL sequences and don't have much time at all to prepare for their own performance. Amanda Lampton hopes that this will change one day: "One of these months, we'll actually walk/prep the AA and AAA sequences before throwing random groupings together into the tunnel..."