posted Aug 28th, 2020 - The next new update from Skydive Paraclete XP covers the current situation of Arizona Airspeed. The 4-day training camp began on Thursday, the day after Airspeed XP8 completed their own outdoor training.

Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine switched gear and transitioned into a totally different 4-way world. They are used to it, as they are full members of both teams. Christopher Kuhlmann, Joy Marshall and team videographer Taylor Buffington came well refreshed and fully charged to the dropzone.

It's the last training at Paraclete XP for Arizona Airspeed. The team will be moving back to Arizona at the end of the weekend and continue with team training in Eloy. There will still be some traveling necessary for Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine, as Airspeed XP8 has scheduled one more training camp in Raeford for September. The 8-way team will then train at Skydive Arizona in October, as well.

It's the whole Airspeed lineup moving to Eloy for the winter season. Videographer Taylor Buffington, who lives and works in Eloy, did not go back in the summer and found work at Paraclete while the team's headquarters were in North Carolina for the summer.

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Arizona Airspeed Training Jump at Skydive Paraclete XP

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Arizona Airspeed completed 14 training jumps on the first day of the running camp, the day after the completion of the 8-way training. The NSL-TV camera recorded one of the training jumps with some video footage from the level perspective. Airspeed will provide additional footage of the recent outdoor training later.

The audience will see a different Airspeed flying style, even though the difference it is not dramatic enough to detect it easily. However, there are changes, which have come with the two new team members, as Niklas Hemlin explained in one of the earlier NSL Live Talk conversations with the new lineup.

Christopher Kuhlmann and Joey Marshall have brought their own style, thoughts and ideas to the new Airspeed lineup, and Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine were open to listen and try different techniques and experiments, despite their own wealth of 4-way experiences.

The current Airspeed lineup is a 2-2 combination of the two former Ranch 2nd Generation members and the two Airspeed members of the last five years.

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NSL Live Talk with Arizona Airspeed

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All Airspeed members took the time for a new NSL Live Talk at the end of a long training day. The NSL News had spent the two hours before the interview in the team room to listen in on the debriefing session of the whole day's training jumps.

It was a new experience of team debriefing for the NSL News. Debriefing is not really a well fitting word for the two hours of extra time after the 14 training jumps. It was more like a dissection of what happened in freefall, piece by piece and detail by detail. It took place in the format of a casual conversation that apparently did not really have a defined structure.

Fact is that the results of the flying style and the dynamics in the team room are showing results. The Airspeed members agreed during the conversation that the definition of the new Airspeed style came from Christopher Kuhlmann: "Let's just do us."

This US does not stand for United States, even though Airspeed is aiming at winning back the U.S. 4-way top spot at some time in the future. The Airspeed "US" is a combination of the ideas and thoughts that were thrown together by all team members and then sorted in freefall and with productive dissections in the team room. It's time-consuming, but it seems to work...