posted Nov 20th, 2021 - Switzerland had a comeback into Formation Skydiving competition this month, as well. The corona virus pandemic had brought training and competition for most of the teams to a complete halt. The strongest Swiss 4-way team, Airheads, did not even have any plans for a comeback and decided to join the small field of teams at the national indoor championships without much preparation.

Airheads have been the Swiss national indoor and outdoor team in the past years, and they competed for the Swiss Army at the military CISM world championships, as well. The new Swiss CISM team was on the same leaderboard with the Airheads this month, while the currently running CISM event in Qatar is attended by neither of the two teams.

Airheads still won the national indoor title at their reunion without too much trouble, even though the distance to the team in 2nd place has shrunken significantly. The same Airheads lineup had finished with a very impressive 29.2 average at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019, where they even challenged the Qatar Tigers for the 4th place.

The Swiss national team of the past years had also easily made the Top 10 at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018 in Australia, where they placed 7th with a 20.1 average.

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Swiss Indoor Nationals 2021		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	5,G,A,19	8,Q,7	O,10,H,D	13,9,M	17,B,3	15,4,P	21,L,18	J,14,N,C	2,6,1	F,22,16	Total	Avg
1	Airheads	24	25	27	30	25	22	24	25	22	23	247	24.7
2	Realfly Fire	25	22	25	29	26	15	21	29	22	21	235	23.5
3	CISM Motion Windwerk	19	22	27	26	22	20	19	28	18	20	221	22.1
4	EOS	16	19	22	22	20	16	18	25	16	18	192	19.2
5	Air-W	15	15	16	18	14	13	14	16	10	13	144	14.4

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Airheads - Realfly Fire - CISM Motion Windwerk at the Swiss Indoor Nationals 2021

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-------------------------------- The much closer distance to Realfly Fire in 2nd place this month was not only caused by the long time without training and competition for Airheads. The runner-up did their own share to get closer and increased their own performance and scoring level almost by the same margin as Airheads dropped theirs.

Airheads still won by 12 points, however, Realfly Fire won three rounds and tied another one. The new challenger had posted a 20.1 average at the Wind Games 2020, after launching the team project with a 2nd place in the AA Class competition of the ISR Grand Prix 2019. The 23.5 average this month is a statement in itself and a very encouraging result for the team.

Realfly Fire did not really train much more than Airheads. All 4-way activities in Switzerland stopped after the trip to Spain for the Wind Games. Realfly Fire resumed with indoor training in June 2021 to prepare for the indoor championship and the ISR Grand Prix in November.

They were planning to return to the same place where they started in 2019, this time on the AAA Class leaderboard, of course.

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FAI World Meet 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		M,K,D,14	Q,4,5	P,E,9,15	3,N,G,2	6,1,8	F,12,11	13,22,J	H,L,B,18	O,20,A,17	21,7,19	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	39	36	42	35	27	32	29	42	38	31	351	35.1
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	38	33	44	32	27	29	26	47	37	31	344	34.4
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	39	33	40	30	27	29	24	39	33	27	321	32.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	34	30	36	29	22	27	28	36	32	28	302	30.2
5	Airheads	CH	35	28	33	29	25	27	24	36	30	25	292	29.2
6	Black Cat	RU	34	29	39	29	25	22	25	36	26	22	287	28.7
7	Echochamber	SE	34	27	35	26	22	25	20	35	26	24	274	27.4
8	ACM Weembi	UK	32	28	32	26	20	24	19	35	26	25	267	26.7
9	Airfource	DE	33	22	33	25	22	23	20	35	25	24	262	26.2
10	HF Flying Circus	CZ	31	26	28	23	24	22	18	33	19	23	247	24.7

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Airheads at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019

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Unfortunately, this year's Grand Prix in Roosendaal fell victim to the pandemic, as well, and Realfly Fire could not show off their AAA Class competition skills on the 23+ level. The same scoring level would have been in medal contention on the AAA leaderboard at the last Grand Prix. Realfly Fire is now looking for new competition opportunities.

The Hurricane Factory is not too far from Switzerland, and Jan Klapka has just started the indoor winter season with monthly meets of the Czech Tunnel League. Some of the Czech teams are posting scores on a very similar level. In fact, the 4-way junior team HF Flying Rebels outscored Realfly Fire in Roosendaal 2019 by two points, and the HF Cubs just posted a 24.2 average in Poland. A trip from Switzerland to the Czech Republic would probably be a worthy opportunity.

Realfly Fire surprised themselves somehow by outscoring the CISM team Motion Windwerk, who came back on the same scoring level as in February 2020 when a different CISM lineup attended the last meet in Germany before the shutdown.

The 4-way Women team EOS had competed at the same event and finished with a significantly higher meet average, as well. Air-W, a frequent visitor at German outdoor events in Illertissen, posted their first indoor scores in the NSL News records.

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ISR Grand Prix 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		N,M,13	21,18	6,H,2	1,C,A	J,K,22	O,L,E,D	B,F,G,15	Q,7,9	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	26	14	17	25	17	33	23	25	180	22.5
2	Realfly Fire	CH	22	16	20	24	17	29	25	25	178	22.3
3	MAD Team	PL	20	15	19	23	15	31	27	24	174	21.8
4	Phoenix	BE	18	11	16	21	12	24	22	20	144	18.0
5	Invitro	BE	19	15	15	14	14	24	20	22	143	17.9
6	Phoenic4Namur	BE	19	12	13	17	10	29	18	24	142	17.8
7	Zero!	IT	19	7	15	17	13	17	20	19	127	15.9
8	Heartbeat Skydive Team	NL	15	9	14	14	13	20	14	17	116	14.5
9	Bad Habits	NL	11	11	13	15	12	21	16	16	115	14.4
10	Algoritmo	IT	17	6	11	12	11	16	17	17	107	13.4
11	Joulz	NL	12	9	10	13	11	14	13	12	94	11.8

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Realfly Fire at the ISR Grand Prix 2019

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