posted Jun 18th, 2025 - The NSL News is on a field trip in North Carolina where Paraclete XP's annual Summer Classic competition is scheduled for the coming weekend. Arizona Airspeed and Golden Knights have the event on their schedule and will continue to measure up each other and their own progress after the previous confrontation at the Shamrock Showdown 2025.

There has been another visiting team in North Carolina last week and this week. The NSL News reported earlier that NMP PCH HayaBusa, who represent the Belgian military forces, were invited by the U.S. Army for a two-week long joint training venture together with the Golden Knights 4-way team.

This training camp takes place not far from Skydive Paraclete XP at a public airport in Laurinburg, which has been the training center for the Golden Knights competition teams for a while. It is also the place where the team members help to train potential future candidates. Golden Knights and NMP PCH HayaBusa have spent a whole week together in training, and the camp concludes at the end of this week, right before the start of the Summer Classic on the weekend. NMP PCH HayaBusa did not have the event on their schedule when the plans with the Golden Knights were made and will not attend the competition.

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Passing the Baton - Friendship Jump of Golden Knights and NMP PCH HayaBusa

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Former Arizona Airspeed member Niklas Hemlin is coaching the Golden Knights and arrived for the second week of the training camp. His former world champion team mates Joey Marshall, Chris Kuhlmann and Alex Swindle will bring their new team mates Alisson de Vargas and Doug Hendrix to Skydive Paraclete XP for the Summer Classic and challenge the Golden Knights and their former team mate on their North Carolina home turf this time.

The NSL News will cover the competition live from the event site and also visited the training of Golden Knights and NMP PCH HayaBusa in Laurinburg. The U.S. Army team were not in outdoor training on Tuesday morning and met with coach Niklas Hemlin at Paraclete XP in the afternoon for indoor training. NMP PCH HayaBusa shared the Twin Otter with Golden Knights members Mitch Stockenberg and Nick Birkner and U.S. Army students in training.

However, the training of both teams on the previous days included a friendship jump that HayaBusa's team videographer David Grauwels was filming, as well. Both teams built a few 8-way formations together before setting up in front of the camera for a special procedure. The passing of a baton in freefall is a historic event that goes back to the times when formation skydiving was still very new. It was evidence before camera recordings that it was possible to build a formation in freefall, and it has become an honorable tradition for the Golden Knights. Golden Knights team captain Jesse Stahler passed the baton to HayaBusa captain Dennis Praet, who brought it back to the ground. They promised to explain the details later during NSL Live Talk.

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NMP PCH HayaBusa Training with Golden Knights in Laurinburg, North Carolina

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