posted Nov 20th, 2017 - The FAI/IPC adoption of indoor competition in 2014 has also created a new set of world records that the world's governing skydiving federation is keeping track of.

The outdoor records of 2010 are still standing. The competition draw for the FAI World Meet in Menzelinsk 2010 had generated a Super Sequence with five random formations in Round 3 (J,M,Q,P,L) and two teams took advantage of the new world record opportunity.

The French 4-way world champions of 2010 (Jeremie Rollett, Julien Degen, Mathieu and Guillaume Bernier, with Olivier Henaff on camera) and the Sky Panthers (Michail Kuznetsov, Vladimir Pavlenko, Oleg Shalamikhin, with Andrey Seliverstov on camera) both posted 56-pointers that replaced the two 44-pointers at the Malevsky Cup 2006 (Black Cat, Extreme.RU) and the 45-pointer by Spaceland Force XP at the USPA Nationals 2009. The 2006 and 2009 records were also scored for Super Sequences with only random formations.

The 4-way Women world record (47) was posted at the same world meet in Menzlinsk 2010 for the same sequence in Round 3 by the French national team Deep Blue (Sophie Deremaux-Boulogne, Berangere Duplouy, Francoise Simons-Hamouchi, Amelie Tirman, with Stephane Mistrot Di Pachet on camera).

History of FAI/IPC indoor world records in 4-way Open

No Super Sequences have been drawn ever since at FAI/IPC sanctioned events, and the new indoor data had a fresh start with lower numbers at the first FAI/IPC event in 2014.

The first official indoor world record in 4-way Open was the 23-pointer in Round 7 (N,7,H,K) by Spaceland Lite at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2014. The official winner in this category, the Bad Boys, scored higher in the same round and also in Round 8 (28 for P,17,B,A) and may have forgotten to file for FAI/IPC recognition.

The same might count for the French winner in 4-way Women. A different Deep Blue lineup (Sophie Deremaux-Boulogne, Francoise Simons-Hamouchi, Amelie Tirman, Clementine Le Bohec) scored a 37-pointer in Round 8 that did not make it to the FAI/IPC records.

However, the same event still generated the first indoor world record ever in the new 4-way Junior event. The two Aerokart Ak'demie teams did not have their own leaderboard by then and performed the AAA Class sequences. Ak'demie Team 1's 17-pointer in Round 7 is in fact still the official world record, as two higher scores are not officially confirmed at this point in time.

History of FAI/IPC indoor world records in 4-way Women

Spaceland Lite's 23-pointer lasted only until the next FAI/IPC indoor event, the World Meet in 2015.

NMP PCH HayaBusa replaced it with a 43-pointer in Round 4 (L,K,7,C) and the Golden Knights took care of 4-way Women business in the same round with a 41-pointer that was the first and is the still the standing indoor world record in 4-way Women.

The 4-way Junior teams still did not have their own official category in 2015, and the two Czech demo teams (HF Cubs and HF Flies) were not able to beat the Ak'demie's 17 pointer with the AAA Class sequences of 2015 at the Hurricane Factory in Prague.

The competition draw at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016 did not offer the opportunity for any team in 4-way Open or 4-way Women to beat HayaBusa's 43-pointer of 2015.

However, the 4-way Junior teams now had their own leaderboard and did not perform the AAA Class sequences any longer. They applied the AA Class dive pool and sequences for the first time, and Aerokart Ak'demie Team 2 posted the new record number of 24 points (21,P,B) in Round 2.

History of FAI/IPC indoor world records in 4-way Junior

Two of the three previous FAI/IPC indoor records did not survive this year's competition draw for the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 in Montreal, even though there was once again no Super Sequence in the 10-round meet. HayaBusa stunned the competition with the 47-pointer for the sequence of Round 5 (A,J,6,L) and the same Ak'demie team posted the 36-pointer (F,7,L) in the opening round.

HayaBusa's new 43-pointer world record did not last very long. The fastest sequence of the same meet (F,O,9,E) was drawn for the 11th round, and only two teams had the opportunity to perform it.

HayaBusa and Weembi High Rollers had already left the rest of the field in the dust and were also too far away from each other for a tie-breaking extra round.

Only Arizona Airspeed and Black Cat had the privilege to use the Super Sequence, and both teams shattered HayaBusa's 47-pointer of an hour ago with their own new scores (58 - 59) for the 11th round. Only Airspeed's 59-pointer will be recorded as the new world record though, and all other teams will have to wait for the next Super Sequence opportunity, and this could take a while.

The FAI/IPC record numbers are not the highest scores in the history of indoor competition. The best 4-way teams in the world have scored even higher at events that are not sanctioned by FAI/IPC. NMP PCH HayaBusa has a 65-pointer in the books for the Super Sequence (H,M,Q,K,A) at the World Challenge 2011, Airspeed a 60-pointer at the same event. The French 2010 lineup posted a 63-pointer (J,M,E,D,L) in Bedford 2010.

The highest score ever was posted neither by HayaBusa, Airspeed nor France. Perris Fury (Christy Frikken, Chris Farina, Josh Hall, Uli Stuwe) own the 66-pointer for the Super Sequence at the World Challenge 2010...