posted May 26th, 2018 - Florida's Indoor Cloud League team had opened the May competition with the first scores from iFLY Orlando on the 12+ leaderboard and followed up a few weeks later at iFLY Tampa with a set of six scores and videos for the 14+ leaderboard.

The total for the new month is only three points short of the 111 points for April, and both Florida teams are now waiting for the results of the other teams on the two Indoor Cloud League leaderboards.

The May team finished up the FSL Tunnel Kicker on the 18th once again with a special greeting to SDC Rhythm XP member Doug Barron, who was injured in a low-altitude landing accident last month during the team training. An equipment malfunction occurred in 25-30 feet, and he fell onto asphalt surface causing several broken bones and requiring surgery.

Doung Barron is in the recovery process, and the Florida team greeted him once again. He had been a guest coach at several Florida Skydiving League events in Orlando and Tampa in the past.

Florida Skydiving League 2018	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
May 14+ Leaderboard	Q,7,N,12	A,7,8	C,Q,4	Q,A,N	M,C,Q	M,A	Total
Leslie Eggenberger, Jimmy Xu, Sebastian Jimenez, Kurt Gaebel	18	18(-1)	-	-	-	-	36
Emily Bombardi, Sally Craig-Hathaway, Amer Kassas, Jimmy Xu	17	17(-2)	-	-	-	-	-
Sally Craig-Hathaway, Kanishka Perera, Bob Byrne, Kurt Gaebel	-	15	19	-	-	-	19
Kanishka Perera, Bob Byrne, Phil Curtis, Sebastian Jimenez	-	-	-	18	-	-	18
Kim Lewis, Shanise Dietels, Matt O'Gwynn, Sebastian Jimenez	-	-	-	-	16	19	35
iFLY Tampa - Best of February	18	18	19	18	16	19	108

Doug Barron will not be able to recover quickly enough for a comeback in 2018 with his team, and SDC Rhythm XP had to look for options how to continue with training and competition.

Rhythm have found a good solution with a very adequate substitute in the tail slot until Doug Barron will be ready to come back. Rob Radez has committed to take the tail slot throughout the 2018 season, including the national championships.

Rob Radez is a former Rhythm member, who trained and competed with the team for three years (2009 - 2011). He was the inside center for the rear piece that he shared with Laurent Beaudouin in 2009 and then with current Arizona Airspeed member Thiago Gomes for two more years (2010 - 2011).

Thiago Gomes has now switched to the inside center slot for Airspeed, while Rob Radez is doing it the opposite way this year and moves from inside center to tail.

Both can use their previous rear piece experiences well for the second slot. JaNette and Steve Lefkowitz were in Rhythm's front piece together in the three years that Rob Radez was in the lineup. JaNette Lefkowitz took the inside center slot when Andrew Happick and Doug Barron joined the team in 2016, and she will Rob Radez' rear piece partner this year.

USPA Nationals 2011		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	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
6	Throw Down	18	14	14	18	22	21	17	19	22	25	190	19.0
7	Black Cat	19	15	16	19	20	18	15	19	16	26	183	18.3
8	Oldspeed	16	11	15	18	21	16	16	21	21	26	181	18.1
9	DNR	19	14	16	14	18	16	15	20	24	23	179	17.9
10	Golden Knights	18	12	15	18	19	18	16	14	21	23	174	17.4
11	Golden Knights Black	18	14	15	16	16	18	16	17	21	20	171	17.1
12	Carolina Turbo XP	14	10	13	15	17	14	13	16	18	20	150	15.0
13	Team Captain	14	13	11	15	12	14	13	16	18	19	145	14.5
14	Animal Unleashed	14	11	12	11	15	16	11	15	18	21	144	14.4
15	SDC Furies XP	13	11	12	16	7	15	13	16	19	18	140	14.0
16	Supersonic	14	12	8	14	16	15	11	11	18	20	139	13.9

Rob Radez left the team at the end of the 2011 season when SDC Rhythm XP increased the team efforts into a professional full-time agenda after a promising performance at the USPA Nationals.

Chris Farina was looking for exactly for such an opportunity when Perris Fury slowed down at the same time and replaced Rob Radez.

Doug Barron and Andrew Happick had just won the USPA Advanced Class competition with Carolina Turbo in 2010 and competed for the first time in 4-way Open at the USPA Nationals 2011.

SDC Rhythm XP have worked their way up the leaderboards ever since and have become one of the best 4-way teams in the world with the current lineup.

Rob Radez comes back into the lineup almost seven years after his last competition with SDC Rhythm XP. He has still been active in 4-way at several Indoor Cloud League and other events of the Northern California Skydiving League, and he was in Arizona Airspeed's 16-way lineup at the USPA Nationals 2017.

He will also help Rhythm to continue with the team's coaching projects, together with Doug Barron, who will still be fully involved with the team work from the ground.