posted Jan 18th, 2011 - The NSL News mentioned yesterday that a trip to Skydive Sebastian and a training day with SDC Rhythm XP was on the agenda for today. The schedule worked out perfectly in many ways.

Morning fog after a very rainy Monday in Florida kept the plane and the team on the ground just long enough for the NSL News to complete an NSL Talk session at an interesting point in time. Rhythm had completed copying Rounds 1 to 3 of the Dubai Championship 2011 and provided the videos for the NSL News.

The first session of NSL Talk covered the competition in Dubai, and the Rhythm members provided their feedback. The same conversation also included a preview of more upcoming grassroot events with Rhythm members. Center Inside Rob Radez will be available this Saturday in Sebastian for everybody who wants to learn more about Formation Skydiving and have fun. Another Team-4-A-Day event is coming up in February, as well as Becca's Boogie Boogie.

The Rhythm videos of the first three rounds in Dubai show that the youngest US top team was able to keep up with the Russian top team Gradient Alpha. In fact, Rhythm was up by one point after Round 3 (19 - 29 - 29) and in 4th place.

There is still some distance to the Top 3 of the Dubai leaderboard. However, Rhythm is at the beginning of the 2011 training, while Aerodyne Aerokart and NMP-PCH Hayabusa were much better prepared for the first competition of the 2011 season.

Arizona Airspeed had only a few training jumps with John Eagle, but the experience of many years on the top level in the world allow the Airspeed members to be competitive at any time without much training.

The sun began to break through almost as soon as the first NSL Talk session was completed, and SDC Rhythm XP got ready for Round 4 of the Dubai draw. More rounds will follow later today.

The NSL-TV camera followed Rhythm around during jump preparations, after landing from Round 4 and for debriefing sessions. Those video clips will follow later today, together with more videos of the Dubai competition jumps.

Plan is to wrap up the NSL News coverage of the Rhythm-4-A-Day with another NSL Talk session at the end of the training day. It is beautiful weather now, and the plane is busy. Rhythm started with a normal rotation in the morning, and the first back-to-back loads are happening now. Stay tuned, or come back later for the next update.