posted Nov 7th, 2019 - The NSL News reported on October 26th that NMP PCH HayaBusa won their 13th consecutive CISM 4-way title at the military world championships in China and unified once again the three 4-way world titles, FAI indoor, FAI outdoor and CISM.

Team videographer Luc Van Britsom now provided the competition videos of the eight rounds, which are showing the Belgian world champions performing the CISM specific sequences of the military 4-way format.

NMP PCH HayaBusa are a full-time military team, similar to the Golden Knights situation and the Qatar national teams, and they have to attend the annual CISM world championships as a part of their military services. Next year's event is scheduled for June and will be hosted by Austria. It will be one of the few competitions that HayaBusa will attend before trying to defend their FAI world championship title and win their 4th consecutive 4-way gold medals. There will not be much time next year to switch from the CISM to the FAI format.

However, the Belgians don't seem to be facing extremely challenging opposition in the 4-way world at the moment, and they have been able to master the combination of both outdoor events very successfully since 2014. In fact, they have also switched back and forth between indoor and outdoor competition without too much trouble and own the FAI indoor world championship title, as well.

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CISM 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Men		M,P,11,G	M,A,F,22	M,21,C,E	M,H,R,10	M,K,N,4	M,Q,D,17	M,19,O,L	M,14,B,J	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	33	34(-2)	37	32(-1)	35	40	36(-1)	37	284	35.5
2	Qatar Tigers	QA	29	33(-1)	34	30	30	34(-2)	32	34	256	32.0
3	Airheads	CH	28	29	30(-2)	27(-1)	31	35(-1)	31	26(-5)	237	29.6
4	Germany	DE	28	30	32	28(-1)	30	31(-1)	31	25(-5)	235	29.4
5	Papea Masculino	BE	28	28(-1)	31	25(-1)	26(-2)	29(-3)	27(-2)	31	225	28.1

Video footage provided by team videographer Luc Van Britsom

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The currently dominating position in the 4-way world even allows HayaBusa to spend once again some extra time in 8-way with their Belgian 4-way friends of ISR FireFlash. They have scheduled several hours of 8-way training in Liege for the coming weeks before traveling to Florida at the end of November and the next 4-way outdoor training in Zephyrhills.

HayaBusa's 8-way adventures are not new. Dennis Praet, David and Andy Grauwels had joined the 8-way competition at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2014 with Voltevobusa for the last four rounds. The complete 2015 lineup then competed with Thund8rbirds at the Belgian Nationals the same year, and later at the Clash of Champions.

The Thund8rbirds, with the Dutch/Belgian Thunder ISR lineup as the other half, came back a year later and won the Weembinamic 2016 with a 27.1 indoor average.

HayaBusa's excursion into 8-way training and competition was obviously not a one-time event, and it continued after Thunder ISR was done. ISR FireFlash became the other half of the new Fly-In Machine 44, and the new team had now turned into an eligible Belgian 8-way lineup.

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USPA Nationals 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	8-way Open		G,22,1	9,6,2	D,7,17	8,J,C,K	Q,B,14,20	19,15,4	A,10,13	12,M,N,P	H,O,3,16	5,21,11	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	22	17	16	19	21	22	19	21	28	17	202	20.2
G	Fly-In Machine 44	BE	23	16	17	16	15	21	16	20	26	15	185	18.5
G	Qatar Falcons	QA	16	12	15	12	15	16	13	17	20	13	149	14.9
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	17	14	11	15	15	17	14	13	18	13	147	14.7
G	Amphibious Attack Tigers	US	18	12	13	10	13	18	14	16	15	11	140	14.0
6	SDC Rhythm XP8	US	12	11	12	13	11	15	12	15	14	12	127	12.7
7	Paraclete XP8	US	13	11	10	11	12	14	12	11	14	10	118	11.8
8	Spaceland Gummies 8	US	11	11	8	7	10	12	9	10	10	9	97	9.7
G	Perris Spider Pigs	US	5	7	4	5	6	5	7	5	4	7	55	5.5

Video Footage Courtesy of FAI/IPC/OmniSkore!HD

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The Fly-In Machine 44 shocked the 8-way world first by winning the 8-way competition at the French Indoor Nationals 2017 with a 29.4 average. Then the Belgians followed up with an 18.5 average and the 2nd place behind the Golden Knights as a guest team at the USPA Nationals 2017.

The Fly-In Machine 44 had even won an 8-way bronze medal for Belgium at the FAI World Cup 2017 before traveling to the United States a month later.

The HayaBusa/FireFlash joint venture came to a halt when the 4-way world champions had to focus on their title defense in Australia 2018. Then ISR FireFlash had to take a long break due to Glenn Straeluyc's work accident and injury.

Glenn Straeluyc is now ready again for 4-way and 8-way action, after the first comeback attempt at the World Challenge 2019.

The Fly-In Machine 44 is back in 8-way action and without any serious plans for the near future yet. However, it will probably not take too much training for the Belgians to get back to 8-way medal level...