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Did You Know...

... that SDC Rhythm XP was the most improved team behind Golden Knights at Paraclete XP?

4-way Open bronze medals for SDC Rhythm XP
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
Golden Knights delegation at Paraclete XP 2023
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

SDC Rhythm XP - Paraclete XP4 at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2023 - Video footage courtesy of Paraclete XP
Multi-tasking and double-duties: Jeana Billings (right) with Hell's Angels
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

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