posted May 28th, 2022 - It was in March this year when Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel began hosting monthly 4-way tunnel events at the new iFly Colorado Springs location. Emily Bombardi was a regular participant at events of Florida's Indoor Cloud League teams at iFLY Tampa and iFLY Orlando since 2016.

Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel both are also outdoor competitors. Emily Bombardi trained and competed with Hands Full in 2016/2017, and she attended her first USPA Nationals in the AA/Intermediate Class at the national championships in 2017. She was back at the USPA Nationals 2019 with Florida team SCZ ZEUS before she eventually left the state.

Eric Daniel caught the NSL News attention when his Colorado AA Class team Orange Rush visited Skydive Arizona in 2019 for a training camp with Arizona Airspeed's Niklas Hemlin. Orange Rush won the A Class competition at the May meet of the Arizona Skydiving League and won five jump tickets, sponsored by Skydive Arizona.

ASL directors Eliana Rodriguez and Michelle Karamon also announced Eric Daniel as the winner of a meet raffle, and he received an additional VISOII by Larsen & Brusgaard on top of the jump tickets for his team. One of his team mates was Tamara Bartlett who joined XPG4 in 2020.

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iFLY Colorado Springs - May	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	F,4,D,5	H,4,6	G,Q,6	G,Q,H	M,F,D	M,A	Total
We Got Tail (Emily Bombardi, Amanda Lampton, Eric Daniel, Steve Pisano)	12	13	-	-	-	-	25
Altitude Junkies (Yaseen Alqallaf, Kumar Rai, Jim Williams, Markus Bohunovsky)	-	6	4	-	-	-	-
Funnel in the Tunnel (Jennifer Wrynn, Kevin Chapman, Jeff York, Jon Eisele)	-	-	8	-	-	-	8
Dooorrrks (Jesse Ubele, Jon Christensen, Brian Tichy, Chris Davis)	-	-	-	3	-	6	3
Personal Space (Becky Soper, Scott McArthur, Kris Fisher, Kevin Snow)	-	-	-	-	-	7	7
iFLY Colorado Springs Best of May	12	13	8	3	-	7	43

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Indoor Cloud League May 2022: iFLY Colorado Springs

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Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel eventually joined forces even before they started to run the indoor events at iFLY Colorado Springs. They visited Skydive Arizona together in April 2021, when a 4-way team from Guatemala, La Playa, attended the ASL April meet in Eloy and then traveled to Paraclete XP for the USPA Nationals 2021.

The delegation from Guatemala in April 2021 consisted of two 4-way teams. The training camp at Skydive Arizona was organized with the help of Eric Daniels and Emily Bombardi, as Michelle Karamon explained by then:

"They planned their trip to Skydive Arizona specifically to compete at the ASL meet, with 90 minutes of tunnel time each day and then the competition. In fact, even after the competition, they went to the tunnel to do more training. They had an awesome time and learned a lot."

That was last year, and Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel continued to work together with their indoor events at the new 14-foot flying chamber of iFLY Colorado Springs. Eric Daniel said that the first event sold out within 45 minutes of posting it online.

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FAI World Meet 2018			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		21,L,B,G		22,18,17		19,7,O		J,16,12		10,A,D,15		Q,M,F,C,N		H,20,P,13		6,14,11		E,2,5		4,1,3		Total	Avg
1	Aerodyne Weembi Girls	FR	29	-1	20		24		22		25		56	-1	23		18	-2	22		18	-1	257	25.7
2	NFTO	UK	20	-3	15		22	-1	19		18		38	-2	18		17		19		16		202	20.2
3	Team X	SE	17	-3	10	-3	18		16		14		36	-3	15	-3	13		18		12	-1	169	16.9
4	Phoenix XP	US	17	-2	12		17		14		15	-1	37		16	-1	12	-2	14	-2	13		167	16.7
4	Boomerang Betty	AU	19	-1	11	-1	18		14		15		32	-2	15		13		17		13		167	16.7
6	Fuzion Voltige	CA	17	-1	9	-2	18		14		15	-1	34	-2	14	-2	13	-2	14	-2	13		161	16.1
7	Skynamite	DE	19		12		16	-1	14		14	-1	27	-1	13	-3	12	-1	15		12	-1	154	15.4

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Amanda Lampton with Phoenix at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018

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Next step for Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel was the introduction of the monthly Indoor Cloud League events to their following in Colorado. They took on five of the six sequences with five teams at the first event. Four of the five lineups ended up with scores on the May leaderboard, including Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel in the AAA/AA team (We Got Tail).

They had a very experienced 4-way competitor and Indoor Cloud League organizer in their lineup. Amanda Lampton was successfully managing the Indoor Cloud League team at iFLY Dallas for several years, before Kyle Hermberg continued after a very smooth transition.

Following her time with Perris Wicked, Amanda Lampton competed with the U.S. 4-way Women team at the 5th Dubai International Parachuting Championship in December 2014 and placed 2nd before joining Dallas 350 for two years. She had a very busy schedule at that time, as the NSL News explained on 17 June 2017. She competed at her first FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving in Australia 2018 with Phoenix and experienced a 10-round battle with several teams for the bronze medals.

Together with Amanda Lampton and 4-way key organizer Jon Eisele from Mile Hi Skydiving in Longmont, Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel are now taking their combined 4-way and FS coaching knowledge to the Colorado skydiving community, and it is generating a lot of "buzz and enthusiasm around 4-way", as Eric Daniel mentioned: "We expect to see many more people participating in these events over the coming months, and for the performance level to improve throughout the year."