posted Apr 9th, 2021 - It was little over a month ago when NMP PCH HayaBusa was on NSL Live Talk last time. Before that, it was back in 2020 when team members were available for some online updates from Belgium. It was even longer ago when fresh freefall footage of the 4-way indoor and outdoor world champions was provided by new team videographer David Grauwels, former inside center for the Belgian team. In fact, it was the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 that generated the last freefall footage before HayaBusa's very long break from indoor and outdoor training and competition began.

The break is over, at least for now, and NMP PCH HayaBusa traveled to Spain at the end of March to resume 4-way training. Result of the training camp at Empuriabrava in Spain were 40 jumps from a Twin Otter.

However, the outdoor training came to an unexpected and unplanned early end. The NSL Live Talk video is showing only four of the five team members in the meeting room near the skydiving center in Spain. Outside center Andy Grauwels was missing. He had to quarantine a few days earlier and then terminate the participation in the training camp. He was already on the way home to Belgium when the NSL Live Talk conversation was recorded.

It was a false start of the HayaBusa comeback, even though the 40 training jumps since September 2020 were at least a new starting point and much better than the number of jumps and hours of indoor training time between September 2020 and March 2021.

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NSL Live Talk with NMP PCH HayaBusa on 8 April 2021

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The 5th person on the Zoom screen during the NSL Live Talk conversation was former HayaBusa member Luc Verstrepen, who was at the same place and at the same time for a training camp with the B-teams of Qatar's Formation Skydiving delegation.

HayaBusa and Qatar Tigers coach Gary Smith had left Spain when Andy Grauwels had to quit the training camp. Luc Verstrepen used to be inside center for NMP PCH HayaBusa, and he is following Michele Silvi's progression in the same slot carefully, together with David Grauwels, who won three FAI gold medals as HayaBusa's inside center.

The remaining HayaBusa 3-way were planning to finish the same camp with indoor training instead, under observation by the two former inside centers, and with their direct feedback from outside of the tunnel walls.

NMP PCH HayaBusa also had kind words for their U.S. opponents at the world meet, SDC Rhythm XP, at the end of the conversation. JaNette Lefkowitz is currently undergoing intensive medical treatment after doctors detected a cavernous malformation in her brain. JaNette and Steve Lefkowitz are updating the public information regularly.

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NMP PCH HayaBusa Training Jumps at the April Camp in Spain

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