posted Jan 13th, 2021 - Gary Smith, Joey Jones and David Grauwels discussed the results of the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 in detail last year in the Coaches Corner of NSL Live Talk. Then the NSL News update on January 11th mentioned that the discussion of a specific topic will be continued as soon as possible.

It was the thesis that more flexible engineering options could explain the scoring progression between 2010 and now, more than other factors that play a role in 4-way Formation Skydiving competition. The same NSL News update included some competition videos of the top performances at the FAI World Meet 2010 in Menzelinsk, Russia, which could be compared to videos of the top teams at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018 in Australia.

Next the NSL News invited the same panel to a new NSL Live Talk in the Coaches Corner, and it took Gary Smith, Joey Jones and David Grauwels only little time to coordinate their life agendas and volunteer their wealth of knowledge and experiences once again for the NSL News audience.

Even though they needed little time to get together for a new online Coaches Corner on Zoom, it was still the most challenging logistical situation in the history of this NSL News feature. The locations and time zones could not be much more different than they were on January 13th.

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FAI World Cup 2002			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		6,13,14	G,C,7,5	21,P,20	D,3,4	K,A,E,H,8	11,9,12	19,O,1	22,L,B,18	16,Q,2	N,J,10,F	Total	Avg
1	DeLand Majik	US	19	24	21	23	29	19	21	21	22	25	224	22.4
2	Airspeed Vertical	US	19	27	19	21	28	17	21	20	22	28	222	22.2
3	Perris Maubeuge	FR	17	26	23	20	26	19	21	21	23	25	221	22.1
4	DeLand Norgies	NO	19	26	20	19	29	19	19	20	20	25	216	21.6
5	Golden Knights Gold	US	18	26	20	20	27	17	19	19	21	-	187	20.8

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NSL Live Talk in the Coaches Corner with Joey Jones, David Grauwels, Gary Smith

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The NSL News recorded the conversation in the home office in DeLand, Florida, while Joey Jones was one hour behind in his current location in Texas. David Grauwels, father of 2021 baby girl Maxine, took a break from home chores in Belgium, seven hours ahead of Joey Jones in Texas.

Gary Smith had just arrived a few days ago in Qatar where he is coaching the Tigers through a military CISM competition. He was still in quarantine after arrival and before he will be able to meet with the team. He was another two hours ahead of David Grauwels. NMP PCH HayaBusa cannot train or travel to a training or competition site until all corona virus restrictions are lifted.

However, Gary Smith, Joey Jones and David Grauwels have become familiar with NSL Live Talk in the Coaches Corner online, and the logistical challenges did not hold them back from accepting the invitation and mastering schedule and time differences quickly.

David Grauwels will be back online this weekend with a related agenda, when the FAI/ISC annual meeting takes place without traveling to Bucharest in Rumania, where it was originally scheduled for. The complete competition schedule of FAI/ISC world meets and world cups for the coming years will be the main topic.

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USPA Nationals 2002		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	B,12,2	K,6,4	20,5,13	D,Q,11,18	N,3,9	A,21,16	22,H,L,J	G,C,7,15	E,19,17	10,P,M,8	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	19	21	19	21	29	22	23	23	22	19	218	21.8
2	Arizona Airspeed	19	22	18	21	26	22	22	21	23	21	215	21.5
3	DeLand Majik	19	19	20	20	24	22	23	24	22	19	212	21.2
4	Golden Knights Black	15	17	16	17	20	17	20	20	19	16	177	17.7
5	Airspeed Zulu	17	18	14	17	22	15	18	17	17	16	171	17.1

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The main topics for the new NSL Live Talk in the Coaches Corner were continuity plans and engineering between 2010 and 2020. However, yesterday's NSL News update from the archives brought Joey Jones and Gary Smith first back to a time when they were competing with Space Center FX (Joey Jones) and Optic Nerve (Gary Smith).

Space Center FX had won the FAI World Cup 1998, and both teams competed at the NSL Championship in December. The memories of the 1998 events still connected with the actual topic, while they also related to the time when Joey Jones and Gary Smith were team mates with DeLand Majik, FAI 4-way world champions of 2004.

It was the sequence for Round 10 of the NSL Cloud Mondial January 2021 that connected with the 2002 events. Block 3 offers different engineering options that Joey Jones and Gary Smith applied with DeLand Majik in 2002 and that they discussed with David Grauwels.

DeLand Majik were facing Block 3 several times in 2002 and remembered the most significant advantage for their different engineering in Round 4 of the FAI World Cup 2004. The highscore for the round was a significant factor in the battle for gold medals with Arizona Airspeed Vertical. Eventually, Gary Smith, Joey Jones and David Grauwels arrived together at discussing the complete engineering for the eleven rounds of the NSL Cloud Mondial January 2021...

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Malevsky Memorial 2002			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		4,11,F	J,H,20,15	6,7,2	C,O,5,8	1,12,9	B,E,18,10	P,D,K,N,14	M,22,G,3	13,L,21	Q,19,17	Total	Avg
1	DeLand Majik	US	21	25	21	23	20	22	29	21	24	25	231	23.1
2	Airspeed Vertical	US	23	22	22	24	19	23	26	22	19	21	221	22.1
3	Russia	RU	20	19	19	21	18	18	24	17	19	18	193	19.3
4	Endeavor	CH	13	16	17	17	15	16	21	11	15	-	141	15.7
5	Japan	JP	13	15	15	11	10	10	15	12	12	-	113	12.6
6	Denmark	DK	11	12	14	14	11	9	17	12	12	-	112	12.4
7	Netherlands	NL	10	9	12	13	12	10	14	9	-	-	89	11.1

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DeLand Majik at the Malevsky Memorial Cup 2002

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