posted Jul 26th, 2019 - The NSL News had pointed out the athletic relationship between the national 4-way Open Class teams from the Czech Republic (HF Flying Circus) and the Netherlands (Out of the Blue) in the middle of the Tomscat Trophy on July 6th. HF Flying Circus had completed their ten rounds on the same weekend with a new team record average, while Out of the Blue were on the way to to do the same in Hoogeveen after Round 5.

The story on July 8th followed up with more details and a brief explanation how both teams came to the same point in time in very different ways. HF Flying Circus had the same lineup in the same three years that Out of the Blue used to find the right combination with three different lineups.

The results were the same for both teams, as they posted their highest meet averages last month.

Out of the Blue finished ahead of HF Flying Circus on the combined leaderboard of both events that they shared for the first time at an outdoor competition. They had met each other earlier this year at the FAI Indoor World Meet, where HF Flying Circus had the upper hand.

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July 6th, 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		H,P,4,C	22,18,16	15,M,20	E,14,O,7	G,6,1	A,9,5	10,K,B,Q	13,8,2	11,L,F,D	J,21,12	Total	Avg
1	Out of the Blue	NL	21	12	14	19	16	18	13	14	21	14	162	16.2
2	HF Flying Circus	CZ	19	10	14	17	15	15	18	11	17	14	150	15.0
3	Falco	BE	16	10	14	14	12	11	14	11	18	12	132	13.2
4	Chaotic Motion	NL	15	9	10	12	12	16	14	11	16	13	128	12.8
5	Ayro	BE	14	9	12	13	12	14	12	13	13	9	121	12.1
6	Stardust	BE	14	8	10	10	10	13	11	7	11	7	101	10.1
6	Shinobi and Friends	NL	13	8	9	12	9	12	9	9	10	10	101	10.1
8	Gravity Abuse	BE	11	7	10	11	7	11	12	10	13	8	100	10.0
9	Hvezdy	CZ	9	8	7	10	9	11	10	10	11	10	95	9.5
10	M Team	CZ	9	7	8	9	9	11	11	8	9	3	84	8.4
11	Animals	NL	8	1	7	7	7	7	10	6	7	7	67	6.7

Out of the Blue and HF Flying Circus on the same meet weekend in June

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Out of the Blue's first year, the 2017 season, was also the time when HF Flying Circus stepped up from AA Class competition into the AAA/4-way Open Class world.

Out of the Blue started with a mixture of experienced 4-way competitors (Mechie Voermans, Leon van Leeuwen), who had competed at FAI events before, and new talent (Mandy Feijen, Danny Dorfel).

The first Out of the Blue lineup was a part of the Dutch 20+ Project, which supported the participating teams financially, as well.

HF Flying Circus started the AAA Class journey on a significantly lower level and have moved closer every year, even though Out of the Blue have consistently increased their own performance level.

HF Flying Circus have collected a lot of indoor meet experiences in the Czech World Tunnel League meets at the Hurricane Factory. It was no big surprise that the Czech team was even ahead of the Dutch team at Weembi Lille in April.

The charts are only showing the outdoor results in the three years that the teams have had together.

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FAI World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		M,K,D,14	Q,4,5	P,E,9,15	3,N,G,2	6,1,8	F,12,11	13,22,J	H,L,B,18	O,20,A,17	21,7,19	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	39	36	42	35	27	32	29	42	38	31	351	35.1
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	38	33	44	32	27	29	26	47	37	31	344	34.4
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	39	33	40	30	27	29	24	39	33	27	321	32.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	34	30	36	29	22	27	28	36	32	28	302	30.2
5	Airheads	CH	35	28	33	29	25	27	24	36	30	25	292	29.2
6	Black Cat	RU	34	29	39	29	25	22	25	36	26	22	287	28.7
7	Echochamber	SE	34	27	35	26	22	25	20	35	26	24	274	27.4
8	ACM Weembi	UK	32	28	32	26	20	24	19	35	26	25	267	26.7
9	Airfource	DE	33	22	33	25	22	23	20	35	25	24	262	26.2
10	HF Flying Circus	CZ	31	26	28	23	24	22	18	33	19	23	247	24.7
11	Pro Team	FI	27	24	30	23	23	22	22	30	23	22	246	24.6
12	Monaco Indoor Skydive Team	MC	27	21	27	23	20	22	21	29	21	21	232	23.2
13	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	27	23	28	23	19	20	20	29	21	21	231	23.1
14	Papea Masculino	ES	28	23	26	16	21	20	21	30	23	22	230	23.0
15	Out of the Blue	NL	24	22	27	19	19	19	18	27	24	20	219	21.9
16	H40	IE	22	19	23	17	18	17	17	24	20	19	196	19.6
17	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	23	19	23	17	18	17	14	22	19	17	189	18.9
18	Lithuania	LT	26	15	19	15	17	16	17	21	-	-	146	18.3

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Out of the Blue were happy with the first outdoor scores of the year at the Tomscat Trophy. The team had completed 85 training jumps after the conclusion of the indoor season at Weembi Lille.

Team member Mandy Feijen said that there is still so much room for improvements, especially with exits, even though her team "managed pretty well at the competition". Exits and sub-terminal pages are naturally the most challenging parts of 4-way training and competition, especially during the transition from the indoor to the outdoor season. NMP PCH HayaBusa member Dennis Praet has been working with the Dutch team.

The financial support by the Dutch 20+ Project has faded, and the Dutch skydiving federation does not support the national team either. However, Out of the Blue is determined to continue, even though the smaller budget requires tough choices, and the Dutch team will not be able to compete at the FAI World Cup this year, not even at the ESL Championship in Belgium.

Goal is winning the Dutch Nationals again at the end of August and make more training jumps in 2019/2020, with the FAI Mondial 2020 in Tanay as the main goal. Out of the Blue plan for 180 - 200 training jumps this year. The world meet in 2020 might be the first time when Out of the Blue and HF Flying Circus meet at an outdoor competition...