posted Feb 20th, 2021 - The most recent NSL Live Talk, which had the 4-way Women event as the main topic on February 17th, featured once again Joey Jones as the anchor of the show. Joey Jones has provided plenty of commentary and insights over the years for the NSL News and with interviews at events.

His biggest accomplishment as a 4-way competitor was the world championship title that he won with DeLand Majik (Gary Smith, Solly Williams, Doug Park) at the FAI World Meet 2004 in Rijeka. The NSL News has mentioned the DeLand Majik story many times in the past.

However, Joey Jones was an accomplished competitor before he joined DeLand Majik and became a 4-way world champion, even though the world championship title and his coaching career have been the most frequently covered topics.

In fact, his NSL Profile story covered mostly the time before he joined DeLand Majik in 2002 when it was published. The recent NSL Live Talk with Eliana Rodriguez, Lena and Joey Jones was bringing back memories of the FAI World Cup 1998 in Portugal, which was also the beginning of the road to the official 4-way Women event and Joey Jones' biggest accomplishment before he would win the world meet in 2004.

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USPA Nationals 2003		1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	8,A,Q,F		15,3,G		4,N,22		J,7,B,H		O,13,17		16,K,1		21,D,L,14		6,5,2		12,P,11		10,19,18		Total	Avg
1	DeLand Majik	26		19		17		32		23		20		21		19		19		17		213	21.3
2	Golden Knights Gold	26		18		19	-2	32		23		21		19		17	-2	19		17		211	21.1
3	Airspeed Vertical	27		18		17	-2	34		18	-5	19		21		19		18		19		210	21.0
4	Airspeed Dragon	19	-2	15		17		30		20		14	-2	18		17		15		14		179	17.9
5	Golden Knights Black	20		15		16		27		15	-2	17		17		16		16		14		173	17.3
6	Perris School Boys	21		15		14		25		18		13	-2	16		14		12		12		160	16.0
7	DeLand Synchronicity	18		15		14		23		15	-2	14		15		15		14		12		155	15.5
8	The Ranch Team	17		14		13	-1	22		15		16		12		14		13		12		148	14.8
9	Teiwaz	17		13		13		17	-2	15		14		15		13		11		11		139	13.9
10	DeLand Chikara	16		12		11		19		14		12		13		13		13		9	-2	132	13.2
11	Optik Kurves	16		11		11		22		12		12		14		10		11		9		128	12.8
12	Elsinore Illusion	16		6	-4	12		22		14		9	-2	14		13		12		9	-2	127	12.7
13	4 Something	14		9		9		16		7	-2	9		11		8	-3	9		9		101	10.1
14	Wingspan	11		10		7	-2	14		9	-2	10		9		7	-2	7	-2	8		92	9.2
15	Guy Chuck JP Billy Mike	7	-4	7		8		9	-2	8	-1	4	-2	0		7	-1	3	-1	6	-1	59	5.9

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Joey Jones' NSL Profile story actually ends when the DeLand Majik story begins, as does his former team mate's, Dawn English. Both joined forces in 1995 (Arizona Air FX) before the 1998 lineup (Doug Park, Christopher Irwin) began with training and competition in 1998 at the Skydive Space Center in Titusville.

Dawn English came back for another FX year in 2000, after winning the FAI World Cup in 1998 and then taking a break. Doug Park eventually joined DeLand Majik together with Joey Jones, after a few more years with different FX lineups.

Space Center FX was one of several other U.S. world class 4-way teams who did not manage to leave Arizona Airspeed behind while creating future world champions at the same time. Only the Golden Knights (2002), DeLand Majik (2003), DeLand Fire (2005) and SDC Rhythm XP (2019) defeated the different Airspeed lineups after Skydive Arizona's 4-way project was launched in 1994.

The Golden Knights did not turn their USPA gold medals of 2002 into world meet gold a year later in Gap, France, which DeLand Majik and DeLand Fire did in 2004 and 2006. SDC Rhythm XP have the 4-way giants from Belgium as a major obstacle on their way to the next set of FAI world meet gold medals for a U.S. team.

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USPA Nationals 2005		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	2,A,19	F,20,D,9	C,21,N,11	15,M,8	4,6,P	5,1,H	22,7,12	3,K,16	E,17,14	13,18,J	O,G,B,L,Q	Total	Avg
1	DeLand Fire	22	27	22	20	18	21	17	21	22	20	36	210	21.0
2	Golden Knights	21	27	21	20	22	22	17	19	23	18	34	210	21.0
3	Airspeed Odyssey	21	26	20	19	20	20	17	20	22	18	-	203	20.3
4	DeLand Majik	20	25	19	19	17	20	16	20	18	18	-	192	19.2
5	Fastrax	20	26	20	19	18	18	15	19	19	17	-	191	19.1
6	Airspeed Velocity	21	23	21	16	17	17	15	18	22	18	-	188	18.8
7	Phugoid	18	20	12	15	16	16	12	16	17	15	-	157	15.7
8	Perris Fury	17	19	17	15	13	14	14	15	17	15	-	156	15.6
9	Perris Synchronicity	16	19	17	15	15	15	12	15	17	13	-	154	15.4
10	Spaceland Thunder	15	19	15	16	15	15	13	15	16	13	-	152	15.2
11	Fastrax Select	16	17	15	15	15	15	11	14	14	13	-	145	14.5
12	Spark	14	18	13	15	14	16	13	13	14	14	-	144	14.4
12	GKOG	16	18	13	16	16	10	12	15	16	12	-	144	14.4
14	Arizona Directe	14	17	15	14	15	13	11	16	14	13	-	142	14.2
15	Aerodyne Mamba	14	14	12	13	11	13	12	11	13	12	-	125	12.5
16	Dallas Mojo	12	15	13	10	13	13	11	13	14	10	-	124	12.4
17	Element Perris	14	14	13	11	12	12	10	13	12	10	-	121	12.1
18	Kachina	10	14	10	11	11	12	9	10	13	10	-	110	11.0

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DeLand Fire and Golden Knights in Round 10 at the USPA Nationals 2005

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Two east coast (Kirk Verner, Jack Jefferies) and two west coast competitors (Mark Kirkby, Dan BC) trained and competed with other U.S. teams before they joined forces for the original Arizona Airspeed lineup and won FAI world meet gold in 1995 and 1997.

Neal Houston, Airspeed 4-way world champion of 2001, came out of the Space Center FX school of 1999. Arizona Blade was Natasha Montgomery's training ground before she formed DeLand Fire and won a 4-way gold medal in 2006.

Her world-champion team mates Shannon Pilcher and Ian Bobo launched their 4-way careers and challenged the U.S. top teams with DeLand Genesis/DeLand PD Blue. All following Airspeed lineups and USPA champions since 2007 recruited their team members from other U.S. top teams and produced more 4-way world champions in 2008 (Eliana Rodriguez, Mark Kirkby, Craig Girard, Andy Delk) and 2012 (Mark Kirkby, Thomas Hughes, Niklas Hemlin, Josh Hall).

SDC Rhythm XP, with former Carolina Turbo members Andrew Happick and Doug Barron, still have to compete for their world championship title at the FAI Tanay Mondial, while the new and current Airspeed members are aiming at the next world meet - with former R2G members Chris Kuhlmann and Joey Marshall in the lineup.