posted Apr 14th, 2020 - The NSL News is coming back again from the trip into the past that featured the NSL News interview with former Golden Knights team captain John Hoover.

The transition into the past came after the NSL Live Talk on ZOOM with the British national team in 4-way Open, Chimera. Just a day after the conversation with the British team, the new German national team in the same category, Oceanside AtomiX, was available for the next online conversation.

The German team even outscored Chimera with the number of online participants in the conversation. The NSL News mentioned during the interview with Chimera that six, including the NSL News anchor, was the highest number so far. The almost complete Oceanside AtomiX lineup, including team videographer Lars Naeve, was connected with the NSL News in Florida via ZOOM in the northern part of Germany.

They also brought in coach Luc Verstrepen, who has been working with AtomiX for several years. Luc Verstrepen connected to the same conversation from Belgium, which tied the previous record number of six participants. This was still not the end, as new AtomiX member Paul Hofstee tuned in after resolving technical problems. It was now the first record-breaking NSL Live Talk 7-way.

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Top: Peter Ingenhaag - NSL News - Andrea Kleinschmidt, Middle: Lars Naeve - Holger Sass - Luc Verstrepen - Bottom: Paul Hofstee

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It was not the first NSL Live Talk with Oceanside AtomiX. The NSL News had connected with the team after Round 10 at the German Nationals 2019. The new German 4-way champions were getting ready to receive their first gold medals and celebrate the accomplishment of their biggest goal.

Team captain Peter Ingenhaag announced during the NSL Live Talk last year that inside center Mark Zimmermann would not continue, and Oceanside AtomiX needed a new team member for the world meet year. It took the German national team in 4-way Open less than two months to find the best replacement, and Paul Hofstee was welcome to the team, as the NSL News reported on 27 October 2019.

The new NSL Live Talk was the first interview with the new lineup, after Paul Hofstee had competed for Oceanside AtomiX in his new slot at the Wind Games in January. The new lineup scored exactly on the same level (24.3) where the previous one was at the German Indoor Nationals last year.

Oceanside AtomiX were ready to increase the meet average significantly after more indoor training for the German Indoor Nationals at the beginning of March. Then the meet in Berlin was canceled ten minutes before the start of Round 1, due to the implications of the corona virus crisis.

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German Nationals 2019		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	E,G,M,2		B,4,1		9,K,L,O		13,15,14		22,16,3		21,6,D		5,J,12		P,17,7		10,H,C,11		8,F,19		Total	Avg
1	Oceanside AtomiX	26		19		26	-1	15	-1	15		17		19		24		18		16		195	19.5
2	Airbus	22		18	-1	28		15		14	-1	15	-2	18		21		16	-1	19		186	18.6
3	Dark Energy	18	-2	14		20		11		13		16		14		17		13		14		150	15.0
4	Bardarbunga 2.0	20		14		22		13		8	-5	11	-2	14		17		13		16		148	14.8
5	Skynamite	18		14		17		11		11		14		12	-1	17		12	-1	14		140	14.0
6	NeVa FSZ Saar	19		14		15	-2	10		11		13		13		15		11		14		135	13.5
7	HorschD FSZ Saar	18		12		14		10		10		12		10		9	-2	11		11		117	11.7
8	Join Up	13	-1	13		15	-1	11		7	-2	12		10	-1	14		10	-1	11		116	11.6
9	Airgrips	10	-1	9		13		5	-1	7		10		8		9	-1	10		9	-1	90	9.0
10	4Motion	10		9		13		8		7		8		3	-1	9		6	-1	9		82	8.2

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Oceanside AtomiX did not only have the extremely short cancellation of their events in common with the British team. Chimera had explained how their trip to Spain for indoor training with Andy Grauwels ended up with two jumps and no wind tunnel time. The Germans could at least cancel their flights to California where they had scheduled an outdoor training camp in March. Chimera had planned to train at Skydive Arizona with coach Niklas Hemlin at about the same time.

Both teams are also planning for their first competition at a FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving, and both teams have worked their ways over several years to accomplish their matching goals. Most likely, they will also be direct opponents for Top 10 positions on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard in Tanay, Russia - if the meet will take place.

Chimera and Oceanside AtomiX both also have new team members who have already competed at a world championship, Paul Hofstee with the Dutch national 4-way team Dynamic Fource in Menzlinsk 2010, Will Cooke with the British national 4-way indoor team ACM Weembi at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019. Paul Hofstee will travel again to Russia ten years after his previous world meet.

However, both teams also share with all other 4-way and 8-way national teams that they are on a hold at the moment, and that they will have to adjust their schedules and training agendas, according to what FAI and governments will decide to do at the end of May.

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