posted Apr 27th, 2020 - The NSL Live Talk series of online interviews continues with NFTO, the reigning British indoor and outdoor 4-way champions, who are also the reigning FAI/ISC silver medalists after the Outdoor World Meet 2018 and the Indoor World Meet 2019.

All current team members, including videographer Simon Brentford, attended the online conversation, which took place only three days after the International Skydiving Commission (ISC) of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) announced officially that the Mondial 2020 has been rescheduled.

The timing of the new NSL Live Talk with NFTO shortly after the announcement by FAI/ISC was pure coincidence. After several updates from different teams in different countries, the NSL News was also interested how NFTO is mastering the corona virus crisis. The team members joined the conversation from five different locations in Great Britain, including Twinwoods Adventure, host of the annual World Challenge, where Sian Stokes spent some of her time on the slides in the playhouse.

The British Parachute Association (BPA) has not reacted as quickly to the situation after the FAI/ISC decision as USPA did. NFTO said that a meeting is scheduled for the beginning of May, where the topic of the qualification for the next world meet will most likely be discussed.

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NSL Live Talk with NFTO: Recorded on 4 April 2020

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The qualification of the British Formation Skydiving teams for the Mondial 2020 next year is not really a pressing issue. NFTO compete for their country in 4-way Women at the FAI/ISC events, even though they are the national indoor and outdoor champions in the open category, as well. NFTO are also expecting Chimera to defend their qualification status for the 4-way Open event without too much competition, even though Eros were only two points behind at last year's national championships.

The new lineup with Julia Swallow, which the NSL News introduced on February 4th, have not won a national indoor or outdoor championship title together yet, even though they have collected several as individual competitors with NFTO and other teams. This year's Wind Games was the first competition with this lineup.

Julia Swallow had competed for NFTO at last year's Wind Games, as the NSL News reported on 5 February 2019. However, she was only substituting for Anna Hicks at that time and had no plans to continue.

This changed after this year's event. Julia Swallow was filling in for Kate Lindsley this time, as the NSL News mentioned in the preview on January 4th.

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FAI Mondial 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		12,A,16	18,15,O	1,F,E,C	17,B,14	10,2,20	21,11,G	J,5,19	L,M,K,7	D,8,4	3,13,Q	Total	Avg
1	NMP PCH HayaBusa	BE	24	25	35	26	19	22	27	39	23	22	262	26.2
2	Arizona Airspeed	US	21	23	31	26	18	22	27	40	23	23	254	25.4
3	France	FR	21	20	30	21	18	21	27	39	21	20	238	23.8
4	Black Cat	RU	22	20	30	24	17	21	24	33	21	19	231	23.1
5	Qatar Tigers	QA	21	20	30	24	17	20	23	36	17	18	226	22.6
6	Evolution	CA	20	18	29	24	16	18	23	32	18	16	214	21.4
7	Satori XL	UK	18	19	27	24	16	18	22	30	18	18	210	21.0
8	Airbus	DE	16	18	29	19	15	18	22	29	14	19	199	19.9
9	Savolo	ZA	15	15	25	19	14	15	16	28	17	15	179	17.9
10	Final Fire	AT	16	15	25	17	12	16	18	29	17	13	178	17.8
11	Ex3mo	IT	18	15	21	18	13	14	19	25	17	14	174	17.4
12	Rotor Out	AU	16	16	24	14	13	16	18	22	14	13	166	16.6
13	Pangaea	DK	15	16	24	19	11	13	16	25	12	13	164	16.4
14	China	CN	14	15	21	15	12	11	16	24	12	12	152	15.2
15	M4trix	NL	13	13	16	11	11	12	14	20	12	12	134	13.4
16	H4O	IE	13	13	17	8	9	12	9	15	10	10	116	11.6
17	MeXtreme	MX	8	8	13	8	9	9	9	12	8	7	91	9.1

Julia Swallow with Satori XL at the FAI World Meet 2016

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NFTO announced after the Wind Games 2020 that the team would continue with the same lineup, as the NSL News reported on February 4th, and nothing has changed ever since. NFTO would have two more 10-round meets with the new lineup in the team records by now without the corona virus crisis. They had planned to compete at the World Challenge and the FAI Indoor World Cup.

Both events were canceled before it was time for the Mondial 2020 to be rescheduled. The new situation caught the team somehow by surprise during the NSL Live Talk, as the discussion of the near team future began with the online conversation. The NSL News was assuming that Julia Swallow would continue with the team for another year until the Mondial 2020 in 2021.

This decision had not been made until the question came up. However, Julia Swallow was already prepared for an answer that her team mates greatly appreciated. She confirmed that she will add another year to her time with NFTO and compete with the team in Russia next year.

She also mentioned that she made her last outdoor jumps with Satori XL at the FAI World Meet 2016, more than three years ago. There she finished with a 21.0 average, a scoring level that NFTO have not posted yet. It will most likely happen this year - if outdoor competition will resume at some point...