posted Jan 19th, 2010 - The Dutch national 4-way team, Dynamic Fource, held a winter training camp in DeLand a few weeks ago, and the NSL News used the opportunity to get an update from the team. This update includes a video clip of the team training on a very cold day in January and a live interview in the NSL office.

Dynamic Fource was formed in 2007 after the previous national team, Punky Fish, had disbanded at the end of the 2006 season. Punky Fish had finished in 14th place at the World Meet in Germany 2006 with a 15.8 average.

Punky Fish co-founder Paul Hofstee then moved on with a new 4-way lineup, Dynamic Fource. The new team was just as much a weekend amateur team as Punky Fish had been. The Dynamic Fource project began with a relatively slow season, as the first serious goal was the World Meet 2008 in France.

Paul Hofstee (Center Outside), Erwin van den Braak (Center Inside), Meüs van der Poel (Tail), Koen van der Venne (Point) and Arie de Jong (Camera) competed together for the first time at the Tomscat Trophy in 2007 and posted a 17.2 average at this event and then a 17.4 average at the national championships.

Dynamic Fource trained and competed more in 2008. The highlight was the performance at the event that was the team's main goal, the World Meet 2008. Dynamic Fource had a fierce battle with the Italian Spin Team for the unofficial title of the amateur world champion and lost by two points. The Dutch team finished in 8th place with an 18.4 average in Maubeuge. The first place at the ESL Championship 2008 on home turf in Texel concluded a very successful 2008 season.

Dynamic Fource decided to continue with a new 2-year plan, and the 2009 season would once again be a slower year for the same lineup. The World Meet 2010 in Russia was set as the new main goal. However, Dynamic still managed to bring up the best meet average to 18.8 at the national championships of the Netherlands last year.

The 2010 season will be a busier one, as the World Meet in Russia is coming up first week in August. Dynamic had already completed ten hours of wind tunnel training in Rosendaal, where Center Inside Erwin van den Braak is working full time, before the first outdoor training in DeLand.

The goal for the 2010 season is the 20.0 average benchmark and the unofficial title of the amateur world champion. Dynamic will try to complete 250 jumps and has added another ten hours of wind tunnel training to the training plan. The Dynamic members expect the teams from Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and Norway in the race for this year's unofficial amateur title.

The indoor training schedule includes a camp at Bodyflight Bedford in March. Dynamic Fource has already signed up for the World Challenge 2010. It will be the first time that a team from the Netherlands will compete in Bedford. The other training camps will be held on weekends on the island of Texel, new home of coach Gary Smith who continues to work with the Dutch team, beginning in April.

The training camp in DeLand included a few very cold days, which reminded the team members on the spring weather situation at their home. However, they explained that is is easier to keep warm when the back-to-back jumps and busy training agenda forces them to move around a lot. The NSL-TV camera captured some scenes of the Dynamic training in DeLand.

The footage includes preparations for a training jump where the Dutch team takes turns with two 4-way teams from China. The visitors from China have spent a long time in DeLand, and the NSL News will soon follow up with an introduction of the lineups, videos and more information of skydiving in China.

The video clip that shows Dynamic Fource in action includes footage of a few training jumps filmed in the team room and original freefall footage.

It also shows how Dynamic Tail Meüs van der Poel kept in touch with his family during the camp. His wife and baby boy were both live on Skype between two rounds of back-to-back loads.

The live interview took place at the very end of the training camp. It concludes with an invitation to international 4-way teams by Paul Hofstee to visit Texel in September for the ESL Championship 2010. He said that is has always been a very competitive and fun event that has its own special format. The delegation of the Netherlands is the defending champion of 2009.