posted Feb 27th, 2023 - One of the most impressive performances at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship was delivered by SDC Rhythm XP. It was once again a new Rhythm lineup that competed at this year's national indoor championship. The NSL News had introduced it with a live interview at Skydive Sebastian on 19 November 2022.

The time together for the lineups in the first 13 years of SDC Rhythm XP (2007 - 2019) increased lineup by lineup and was most successful at the end of the 4-year commitment between 2016 and 2019 (JaNette and Steve Lefkowitz, Doug Barron, Andrew Happick).

Christy Frikken replaced JaNette Lefkowitz for the time period between the 1st place at the USPA Nationals 2019 and the FAI Tanay Mondial and the USPA Nationals later the same year, before Doug Barron, Rhythm member since 2016, continued with three new team mates in 2022.

The complete makeover at the end of the 2021 season introduced Keith Connor, Chris Webb and Carl Kallgren to the full-time 4-way community, with Charlie Mcgee on camera. The youngest Rhythm member, Carl Kallgren, completed one Rhythm year with a USPA bronze medal in 2022 and did not continue. Steve Loufek took the open slot, and this year's Paraclete XP Indoor Championship became the first competition for the new Rhythm lineup.

SDC Rhythm XP's lineup continuity since 2007

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It became a very promising start for SDC Rhythm XP with Steve Loufek. The 27.6 average at this year's indoor championship is four average points higher than the 23.6 a year ago, and it was not only the Super Sequence in Round 4 that helped all attending teams to boost their meet averages.

Most of the teams were able to lift their scoring level roughly by an average point. Only the Golden Knights even outscored SDC Rhythm XP as the most improved team, after 23.2 last year and now 29.6 with a different lineup, which includes three XPGK8 members (Andrew Starr, Jeshua Stahler, Mike Connors) and 8-way alternate Nick Birkner.

The Golden Knights left even the Qatar Tigers behind, while SDC Rhythm XP's new lineup had to beat Paraclete XP4 to win the indoor bronze medals. The XP4 lineup consisted of four reigning 8-way world champions (Jeana Billings, Kirk Verner, John D'Annunzio, Matt Davidson). Doug Barron had spent the complete 2022 season with Keith Connor and Chris Webb, and the combination of the well trained 3-way and three months with Steve Loufek were showing great results at the end of the ten indoor rounds at Paraclete XP.

Paraclete XP Indoor 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA/4-way Open/Women		15,14,5	19,9,1	10,J,17	M,B,G,E,F	3,18,4	Q,6,C,D	11,7,8	16,H,2	K,N,L,13	A,20,P,O	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	26	28	31	60	25	42	25	29	37	37	340	34.0
2	Golden Knights	US	20	27	30	58	20	34	23	26	30	28	296	29.6
G	Qatar Tigers	QA	21	26	26	58	22	34	21	24	29	31	292	29.2
3	SDC Rhythm XP	US	20	23	25	52	19	32	23	25	30	27	276	27.6
4	Paraclete XP4	US	21	25	24	43	21	30	21	24	28	26	263	26.3
5	XPG4	US	18	23	24	48	18	29	20	23	25	26	254	25.4
6	Skydive Midwest NEXT	US	19	20	19	45	18	32	19	18	26	24	240	24.0
6	Lightspeed XP	US	19	23	23	38	17	31	19	20	23	27	240	24.0
8	Greenlight	US	18	19	20	45	19	25	18	18	27	26	235	23.5
G	Qatar White	QA	16	23	19	39	17	27	20	20	28	25	234	23.4
G	Qatar Maroon	QA	15	20	21	37	18	23	20	20	23	20	217	21.7
9	Figjam	US	12	14	15	37	11	23	15	17	20	19	183	18.3
10	SNE Fly Girls	US	10	15	16	36	12	17	15	14	20	14	169	16.9

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SDC Rhythm XP - Paraclete XP4 at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2023 - Video footage courtesy of Paraclete XP

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John D'Annunzio and Matt Davidson competed only with XP4 and XPGK8 this year, while Kirk Verner added one more lineup to his 2023 agenda, Blackjack, together with Jeana Billings, Oksana Golubtsova and Jack Ronalter.

Jeana Billings is used to multi-teaming at Paraclete XP and double-duties in 4-way/8-way at world championships. She was also competing with Greenlight and Lightspeed XP in 4-way Open. The two 8-way Open Class teams (XPGK8, Hell's Angels) gave her still enough to think about when the 4-way teams had their breaks. The total of six teams added up to 60 competition rounds for Jeana Billings in the two meet days.

SDC Rhythm XP will now join Arizona Airspeed and Qatar Tigers when switching to outdoor competition in a few weeks. The previous lineup with Carl Kallgren had posted their one and only set of outdoor scores at the USPA Nationals 2022, the first time below the 20-average benchmark since March 2013 at the Shamrock Showdown that year.

Arizona Airspeed won in 2013 with a 22.9 average. SDC Rhythm XP and Airspeed both will probably be on a significantly higher scoring level in DeLand. Airspeed will try to impress the world's 4-way opposition from Belgium, Qatar and France with more highscores. Rhythm will have NMP PCH HayaBusa, Qatar Tigers and France just as much in their minds, round by round, with their scores as close as possible to the best 4-way teams in the world at this point in time.

Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2022		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open	F,9,4	G,8,A,C	22,10,J	11,D,6	N,3,M,H	20,P,Q,L	12,17,B	18,2,13	E,7,14	5,19,K	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	39	37	26	29	40	37	31	25	33	33	330	33.0
2	XPG4	30	25	16	24	32	28	20	20	26	25	246	24.6
3	Skydive Midwest NEXT	27	27	18	24	32	29	18	20	24	22	241	24.1
4	Bobba Fat XP	28	24	19	23	31	24	21	19	25	23	237	23.7
5	SDC Rhythm XP	27	27	19	21	28	28	20	19	27	20	236	23.6
6	Golden Knights	33	27	16	21	26	29	22	18	21	19	232	23.2
7	Lucky Chris Take 2	24	22	15	18	22	21	14	15	19	18	188	18.8
8	Sloppy Seconds	23	17	10	16	18	15	14	12	18	15	158	15.8
9	Three Men and a Katie	19	18	13	14	17	16	14	12	18	15	156	15.6
10	Platinum XP	14	15	11	14	15	13	12	10	14	12	130	13.0

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Bobba Fat XP - SDC Rhythm XP at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2022 - Video footage courtesy of Paraclete XP

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