posted Feb 7th, 2016 - Once again, the first Indoor Cloud League scores and videos have been posted earlier than usual. Hurricane Factory and iFLY Virginia Beach had opened the January leaderboard in the middle of the month. This time, Lori Connor's ICL team at iFLY SF Bay is the first one with scores and videos for the February sequences.

iFLY SF Bay had finished in 3rd place of the Indoor Cloud League 2015 season, behind Hurricane Factory and iFLY Orlando. The Northern California team then outscored Florida's ICL team in January 2016, while iFLY Dallas and iFLY Seattle finished in 2nd and 3rd places last month.

The total of 122 points for February are significantly higher than in January (109) and a great challenge for the other participating wind tunnels.

February 2016		AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Rank	Teams	E,14,O,16	P,21,14	E,O,6	J,N,L	M,E,O	M,P	Total
1	iFLY SF Bay (US)	18	14	15	21(-1)	28	26	122

The videos of the iFLY SF Bay's February performances feature one of Lori Connor's coaches in a special way, as she explained the unique situation to the Sun Path Products NSL News: "You'll note that Rob (Radez) is in many of the pics! He was being silly, but in reality, he did fly with several teams and ground coached just as many."

Her other ICL coaches (Julius Frank, Deanna Frank, Don Burnette, Samer Haija, Keith Fennech) were not available, and Rob Radez was helping out with coaching for all lineups that evening. He was also flying as the player coach for three lineups (AAA - AA - RR).

Rob Radez is a former SDC Rhythm XP member. He joined the team for the 2009 season and continued for two more years when Thiago Gomes became the newest Rhythm member in 2010. He left Rhythm at the end of the 2011 season, and Chris Farina took his slot.

USPA Nationals 2011		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	M,5,13	21,14,22	12,20,D	11,Q,16	O,C,10,K	P,L,19,8	18,6,2	15,9,G	7,F,17	A,B,N,J,3	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	25	19	19	22	26	24	21	26	31	30	243	24.3
2	Golden Knights Gold	18	17	18	21	24	23	19	21	29	28	218	21.8
3	Perris Fury	20	17	16	21	26	22	15	21	29	29	216	21.6
4	SDC Rhythm XP	22	17	18	21	24	20	19	22	26	26	215	21.5
5	Paraclete XP4	21	16	16	20	23	19	17	22	26	28	208	20.8

The Rhythm period with Inside Center Rob Radez was a significant one in the team history. Rhythm began to move closer to the U.S. top level in 4-way and left the 20-average benchmark behind.

Rob Radez did not continue when the Rhythm schedule became very busy with the agenda of a full time team project, and he did not join any other team on the top level.

However, the reason that he did not continue was not the lack of passion for 4-way competition at all.

It was no surprise that he eventually joined Lori Connor's Indoor Cloud League team at iFLY SF Bay here and there and has become a regular as a player coach in the past years. The Indoor Cloud League event in January was the peak of his engagement as a coach and player coach, and Lori Connor was very happy to have him available for the NCSL group: "He's terrific, such a great coach." Rob Radez and Lori Connor set a high starting point for the February sequences with 122 points...