posted Oct 2nd, 2018 - The first meet of the Finnish Tunnel League eventually attracted more teams to the Fööni wind tunnel in Helsinki than to the Finnish Indoor Nationals 2018 in February at the other wind tunnel in Finland, Sirius in Pyhtää.

Seven of the eight teams at the national championships were back in Helsinki last weekend, and four additional teams made it an 11-team field stretched out over all four NSL categories.

Tempo and Tahma moved up into the AAA Class and joined the Pro Team, Blackjack and Telakka in this category. It was the first indoor competition in the AAA Class for both teams, and Tempo managed to outscore Telakka in a 3-team battle for the FITL bronze medals.

The Pro Team was back with the same lineup that completed the two previous meets this year, the Finnish Indoor Nationals in February and the Finnish Outdoor Nationals in August. This means that young Kalle Pohjola is now training and competing fully in both environments, as the NSL News reported on 5 August 2018. He is the reigning national indoor and outdoor champion with the Pro Team who posted a new team record average at the World Tunnel League September meet. His mother, former Pro Team member Outi Pohjola, has stepped back and left the slot for her son.

Finnish Indoor Nationals 2018		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	22,D,7	14,5,H	E,3,K,20	10,O,15	C,B,L,16	18,F,12	17,9,J	19,8,Q	A,M,4,6	P,2,G,21	Total	Avg
1	Pro Team	20	22	20	20	28	20	31	21	23	23	228	22.8
2	Telakka	15	15	16	15	18	13	23	15	17	15	162	16.2
3	Blackjack	13	12	11	15	19	13	18	13	18	13	145	14.5
Rank	AA Class	22,D,7	14,H,Q	E,K,20	O,15,6	C,B,L,21	18,F,N	9,J,11	19,8	A,M,4	P,2,G	Total	Avg
1	Tempo	16	18	19	18	17	18	18	15	24	19	182	18.2
2	Tahma	12	15	13	13	16	11	14	11	18	11	134	13.4
Rank	A Class	D,7	H,Q,21	E,K,G	O,6	C,B,L	F,N,P	9,J	19,8	A,M,4	P,2	Total	Avg
1	Flailing Sirkus	15	13	12	10	15	21	17	8	14	10	135	13.5
2	4K	13	11	14	9	16	19	15	8	10	9	124	12.4
3	EFOU	11	11	13	10	12	15	12	6	8	9	107	10.7

Kalle Pohjola has 220 jumps at this point in time, and he likes jumping from planes even better than training and competing in a flying chamber, which he has done for six years.

Pro Team and Tempo were actually the only two teams who competed at this year's national outdoor championships, as well, and the Pro Team has plans for more. In fact, father Kimmi Pohjola said that his son will compete at the FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving in two years.

The Finnish national 4-way champions are not competing in Australia next week. They have a plan for the next world meet in 2020 in Tanay, Russia.

Kalle Pohjola will collect his international outdoor meet experiences at the FAI World Cup 2019 in Eloy before aiming at the main target in Russia a year later.

The Pro Team has good memories of a world meet in Russia, where Eija Suvala and Kimmo Pohjola placed 10th with a 20.4 average in Menzelinsk 2010, with mother Outi Pohjola and Laura Miettinen in the lineup and Mikko Kajala on camera.

WTL September 2018 - Helsinki, Finland		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	O,18,17		6,L,14		D,7,3		5,21,A		M,16,F,Q		P,G,K,9		22,12,H		20,10,4		N,8,2		E,19,B,J		Total	Avg
1	Pro Team	22	-1	23	-1	23	-1	24		32		39		18		14	-3	19	-1	30	-3	244	24.4
2	Blackjack	17		16	-1	17		17	-1	27	-1	25	-1	11	-2	13		13	-2	27		183	18.3
3	Tempo	16		12	-4	15	-2	19		27		23	-2	12	-2	13		17		24	-2	178	17.8
4	Telakka	16	-1	18	-1	19		17	-1	25	-2	20	-6	13	-1	12	-1	14		19	-3	173	17.3
5	Tahma	7	-1	14		13		10	-2	16	-1	19		10		8	-1	11	-1	17	-2	125	12.5

Kalle Pohjola was already packing for the team by then, even though he was not in Menzelinsk for the world meet. He joined the active lineup for the first time at the World Challenge 2013 when he was 12 years of age.

Pro Team Extended with Kalle Pohjola won the Rookie Class competition in Bedford in 2013 with a 39.1 average, then the A Class competition three years later with 30.5 after ten rounds.

He skipped the AA Class and was ready for the AAA Class dive pool this year, indoor and outdoor, after just turning 18.

The Pro Team has two years to get ready for the main goal in Tanay and leave the 20.4 team record average behind. The team's current outdoor performance is already on a similar level as in 2010.

Only one Super Sequence and a second very fast sequence allowed all teams in Menzelinsk to finish with record averages. The new Pro Team lineup will most likely get to the same average without any help by a fast competition draw...