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Kirk Verner actually won his 5th FAI gold medal at the FAI Indoor World Meet in April this year. He took his first FAI 4-way gold medal with Arizona Airspeed in 1995 and has been performing on the world's top level ever since. That will make for a 25-year period in Tanay 2020, where he will try to add another 8-way gold medal to his collection, this time with Paraclete XP8.
He has been in the sport for 36 years, and his skydiving career began on the east coast. He moved to the west coast and made Skydive Arizona his home when Larry Hill offered the original Airspeed lineup the best support for their goal to become 4-way world champions. The try-out for the last Airspeed slot was still taking place at Skydive DeLand before the complete original lineup re-located and settled in Eloy.
There are probably not many Formation Skydiving competitors who are looking back at a total of over 30,000 jumps. If there are any, then they will not be able to match the uncountable hours of flying time that Kirk Verner added to the jump number after he moved back to the east coast and joined the Paraclete XP staff.
FAI World Meet 1995 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Avg | ||
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Rank | 4-way Open | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | Total | Avg | |
1 | Arizona Airspeed | US | 16 | 26 | 26 | 20 | 18 | 23 | 21 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 207 | 20.7 |
2 | France | FR | 16 | 25 | 26 | 18 | 17 | 21 | 23 | 17 | 21 | 21 | 205 | 20.5 |
3 | Touche | DK | 15 | 21 | 22 | 18 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 18 | 17 | 179 | 17.9 |
The indoor flying time will continue to grow, as well, with Paraclete's 16-foot flying chamber always available as a training tool, and also as the perfect weather alternative within just a 5-minute driving distance.
There seem to be no limits for Kirk Verner, even though he is hoping "to be on a boat with Jeana sailing around the world" in ten years. Jeana Billings is his team mate in the Paraclete XP8 lineup, and she is still young as a competitor in the sport. She will probably and hopefully still keep him on his toes and in 4-way and 8-way competition for a while.
Kirk Verner's NSL Profile brings back long-forgotten names in the Formation Skydiving competition world. He remembers late Tom Piras as his mentor, who was "larger than life". He also likes to remember his funniest experience with his original team mate Jack Jefferies, who will be up soon for another NSL Profile...
FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Avg | ||
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Rank | 8-way Open | L,17,4 | A,F,3,13 | 15,18,6 | D,8,O,N | P,E,11,9 | M,Q,J,16 | C,K,19,22 | 10,1,7 | 5,G,B,2 | H,21,12 | Total | Avg | |
1 | Paraclete XP8 | US | 38 | 34 | 33 | 27 | 29 | 43 | 29 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 316 | 31.6 |
2 | France | FR | 37 | 33 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 44 | 26 | 30 | 27 | 29 | 309 | 30.9 |
3 | Tanay | RU | 31 | 32 | 29 | 27 | 29 | 42 | 27 | 28 | 25 | 27 | 297 | 29.7 |
4 | Qatar Falcons | QA | 32 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 30 | 40 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 287 | 28.7 |
5 | MicroClim8 | UK | 25 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 20 | 31 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 212 | 21.2 |
6 | Why Not? | PL | 23 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 26 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 207 | 20.7 |