posted Dec 28th, 2021 - The indoor winter season is in full swing in most parts of the skydiving world. The most current leaderboards have been featuring indoor competition almost exclusively, which has become a consistent and reliable part of 4-way Formation Skydiving.

The corona virus crisis has been keeping many indoor and outdoor hosts from running their events as they did in the past before the pandemic.

The near future of all the events is still unknown and unpredictable, however, there have been several comebacks, and a new version of the SkyVenture New Hampshire Indoor Fest is one of them.

The windtunnel in Nashua, New Hampshire, launched the annual event in 2009 and welcomed a total of 29 teams at the inaugural event.

The participation has been larger than at any other indoor event in the United States and peaked at 42 teams in 2016.

The hosts, Laurie and Rob Greer, with Ben Liston and Jim Rees managing and organizing the event operation and judging procedures, invited 4-way teams last time in 2020, and 36 teams used the opportunity before the full impact of the pandemic. There was no Indoor Skyfest in January 2021.

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Total Compliance 2.0 - Connecticut Groundspeed - Lava Cat - Gen Z at the SkyVenture New Hampshire Indoor Fest 2020

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The situation has not changed much, however, as several other indoor and outdoor events, the SkyVenture New Hampshire Indoor Fest has its own comeback in January 2022. Registration of interested teams is already in full swing, as the preview leaderboard is showing.

In fact, Laurie Greer said that teams and competitors were asking her to bring back the popular event next month, and she finally agreed to make new plans for the January 22 weekend.

Several of the already registered teams have been on previous leaderboards of the same event in the past years, and they are ready to perform the ten sequences of the special dive pools that Ben Liston and Jim Rees created for the 12-foot flying chamber.

The Open Class (AAA) is the most challenging category, where the dive pool includes all random formations and blocks, except five (2,4,8,12,19) of the most space-consuming ones, with 5- or 6-point sequences. The event's Advanced Class resembles USPA's Intermediate Class (AA) with 4- to 5-point sequences and a limited number of blocks (1,6,7,9,14,15,21) which could all be drawn at Paraclete XP's national indoor championship, as well.

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Jan 22nd, 2022		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
-	SNE Fly Girls	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rank	AA Class	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
-	Snatch Force	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Not Current	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Fly Girls With Video	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Block Busters	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rank	A Class	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
-	Tunnel Meat	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Overconfident and Under Trained	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	It was good until it fell apart	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	H.W.A.M!	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Foxy & the Hounds	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	4 Short	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Rank	Rookie	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	Total	Avg
-	Tough Klitz	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Three Ladies and a Random	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Random Fliers	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Event Information and Registration

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The Intermediate Class competition at the SkyVenture New Hampshire Indoor Fest is very similar to the A Class of the National Skydiving League and USPA's 4-way Beginner category. All ten rounds have 3- to 4-point sequences, which will be drawn from all 16 random formations and three selected blocks (7,9,14) of the FAI dive pool. Rookie Class teams will also perform ten rounds, with three random formations per sequence. Only the Cataccord (G) is excluded from the Rookie Class draw.

The start of the working time is defined the same way for Advanced, Intermediate and Rookie. Teams build a Star (M) after entering the flying chamber, which does not count as a scoring formation. Working time begins when the star is first broken by any team member. Total separation is then required prior to building the first formation of the competition sequence.

Only the Open Class teams have a different procedure. The team members enter the flying chamber walking on the net. The working time begins when any member completely breaks contact with the net. Many prominent U.S. 4-way competitors have launched their 4-way careers at the SVNH event, including current Arizona Airspeed members Joey Marshall and Chris Kuhlmann, and XPG4 members Michelle Karamon and Brenn Richards. The event is also a timely warmup competition for the national indoor championships at Paraclete XP at the end of February.