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Two Airspeed members, Andy Delk and Mark Kirkby, also competed at the Paraclete XP Indoor Skydiving Championship 2009, where Eliana Rodriguez and Craig Girard could not join the lineup.
Perris Fury won the indoor competition over Arizona Speed where Thomas Hughes and John Eagle filled the open slots. However, this competition cannot really be counted for Airspeed's winning streak, as it was not the original lineup at Paraclete.
Many teams that don't have a meet scheduled for the upcoming weekend use the most recent competition draw to test their own meet skills by copying the sequences in training. Especially the major events are even more interesting to be copied by teams that cannot participate.
The sequence of random formations in Round 5 of the World Games 2009 has probably already been copied many times by many teams. It is very tempting for teams to compare their own skills indirectly with the best teams in the world.
Katie Woods added that her team seems to be well prepared for the UK Nationals 2009. Satori copied the whole World Games draw in training and ended up with a 23.0 average after five rounds. Then the team used up the rest of the whole dive pool and ended up with a 20.8 average.
Satori is aiming at the 20-point average since former XL member John McIver has joined the lineup this year. Point Katie Woods and Tail Aaron Faith are also aiming at their first national 4-way title, which Julia Foxwell and John McIver already have under their belt.
At least the French national 4-way team will have a new opportunity to challenge Airspeed at the USPA Nationals 2009. Once again, France has a delegation that will make the trip to Texas this year. Hayabusa will compete at the FAI World Cup 2009, which will take place without participation of any of the three US top teams. The Sky Panthers might compete at the World Cup 2009, as well.
The same counts for last weekend's competition draw, which included six rounds at Skydive Houston where the Texas Skydiving League held its third meet of the 2009 season. Spaceland Force XP attended the team's second meet this year. The new lineup was formed this year and competed without much previous training at the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2009 in March. The performance in DeLand was impressive and made the team instantly one of the top contenders this year.
However, last weekend's scores were still meaningful and interesting for Spaceland Force XP and the rest of the 4-way community. Perris Fury and Arizona Airspeed will not be the only teams evaluating the scores very carefully and probably copying the sequences in training.
It was a much slower 6-round draw compared to the five rounds at the World Games in Taiwan, and it will be difficult to campare the scores with each other. Only jumping the sequences in training will provide harder data. And then it is just training...