posted Feb 24th, 2021 - The NSL News attention is shifting to more indoor competition and to North Carolina this week. The annual Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021 is coming up, with Round 1 scheduled for Saturday morning. It is one of the few events that did not become a victim of the corona virus crisis last year, as it was held prior to the full impact of the pandemic.

Paraclete XP launched their indoor competition with a test event in June 2009 and established it in the annual event calendar in 2011. It included the first 8-way meet in a wind-tunnel. The 16-foot flying chamber allows 8-way teams to perform almost the complete FAI/ISC dive pool.

The event has been the unofficial U.S. qualification ever since FAI/ISC began sanctioning indoor world meets and world cups. It has now become the official national indoor championship in the United States, with USIS (United States Indoor Skydiving) sanctioning the competition and the qualification for international FAI/ISC events.

Arizona Airspeed has won the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship seven times, including the inaugural event in 2011 and last year's 4-way Open Class competition. However, Airspeed has not been undefeated at Paraclete since 2011. Three other 4-way teams won the event in different years.

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Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2009			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		9,K,P,C	6,2,3	21,N,4	13,8,14	19,1,D	15,F,Q,17	G,L,18,J	11,B,16	22,E,A,7	20,M,O,H	Total	Avg
1	Perris Fury	US	52	22	24	23	23	32	33	25	28	36	298	29.8
2	Airspeed Odyssey	US	47	24	22	23	23	31	29	26	28	36	289	28.9
3	Golden Knights Gold	US	32	19	22	20	22	28	22	23	23	31	242	24.2
4	SDC Rhythm XP	US	27	19	20	19	22	24	23	21	23	33	231	23.1
5	Black	AU	24	15	15	17	14	20	19	16	18	26	184	18.4
6	Golden Knights Black	US	23	14	16	14	15	18	16	16	16	17	165	16.5
7	Hangover	US	25	15	15	12	14	15	15	16	16	21	164	16.4
8	Paraclete XP	US	20	15	15	13	16	13	17	12	14	18	153	15.3
Rank	Rookie		M,J,H	K,Q,N	E,A,P	D,L,B	G,F,M	O,C,J	H,Q,B	N,K,E	F,A,D	C,P,L	Total	Avg
1	VTSD	US	35	28	25	27	31	30	-	-	-	-	176	29.3
2	Carolina Windfall	US	25	14	16	16	25	16	-	-	-	-	112	18.7
3	Just In Time	US	17	6	9	4	16	8	-	-	-	-	60	10.0

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Perris Fury and Arizona Airspeed at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2009

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Perris Fury were the first Paraclete indoor champions in June 2009. It was the same event where Christy Frikken's current team mates Andrew Happick and Doug Barron competed with their first team, VTSD. NMP PCH HayaBusa became the first team to take the Paraclete XP indoor title away from Arizona Airspeed in the event's history since 2011.

The Belgian indoor and outdoor world champions started their first world championship season with a February visit at Paraclete and left Airspeed more than 20 points behind. They concluded the 2014 season in August with the first 4-way gold medals for Belgium in Prostejov, Czech Republic.

Airspeed were back with a new lineup in February 2015 and walked away with a 21-point lead over SDC Rhythm XP, who had Christy Frikken in their lineup at that time. She is now back in the Rhythm 2020/2021 lineup.

The Golden Knights Gold team (Matt Davidson, Kurt Isenbarger, Jeshua Stahler, Sean Sweeney) won the next Paraclete XP Indoor Championship in 2016, when Airspeed was not present. The U.S. Army's 4-way Women lineup took the 2nd place in 4-way Open, ahead of SDC Rhythm XP. They won the first 4-way Women gold medals at the FAI Outdoor World Meet later the same year, with JaNette Lefkowitz in the lineup for Angela Nichols.

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Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2020			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		21,15,10	7,5,G	13,L,11	3,K,B,6	19,8,9	M,P,14,C	N,A,17,1	20,16,Q	F,22,D,H	O,2,4	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	22	34	27	27	27	32	35	27	37	27	295	29.5
2	SDC Rhythm XP	US	23	35	26	25	26	34	31	25	35	27	287	28.7
3	Golden Knights Gold	US	21	28	24	24	25	28	29	22	29	24	254	25.4
4	Skydive Midwest NEXT	US	17	24	20	23	21	29	24	20	27	19	224	22.4
5	Befokte Dose	ZA	15	24	20	24	19	28	23	20	27	19	219	21.9
6	XPG4	US	16	24	21	23	19	30	20	18	24	20	215	21.5
7	Aviatrixx	US	16	22	18	21	20	23	20	18	24	19	201	20.1
8	Golden Knights Black	US	16	20	18	17	18	22	20	14	22	18	185	18.5
9	Air Force Apollo	US	15	18	14	17	17	20	18	14	22	14	169	16.9
10	Air Force Angels	US	13	18	16	15	15	22	17	15	19	15	165	16.5

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Arizona Airspeed and SDC Rhythm XP at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2020

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Arizona Airspeed was competing at Paraclete in February 2017 with new member Ari Perelman in the lineup. It became the last time that Airspeed did not win the event. SDC Rhythm XP finished two points ahead of a very strong XP4 lineup (John D'Annunzio, Thomas Hughes, Brian Krause, Kirk Verner) and another point ahead of Airspeed. It was the closest race in the history of the event.

The same Airspeed lineup then won without much opposition in 2018 (315 - 288) and 2019 (317 - 306), even though Rhythm finished with their first 30+ average. Last year's indoor championship was the first visit of Airspeed's new and current lineup, while it was the last Rhythm competition with JaNette Lefkowitz.

Airspeed won by 12 points and widened the gap at the 4-Way FS Skydiving Championships in November last year. This weekend's Paraclete XP Indoor Championship is the qualification for the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022 in Belgium.

Airspeed XP8 will try to break their own 31.6 record average in 8-way, which they posted at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019, with exactly the same lineup that finished with 31.3 last year at Paraclete. The upcoming competition is also the first meet for the new XPG4 lineup and Brenn Richards in the tail slot.