Have you heard that CTR Optimum won the new lineup's first indoor meet with 23.8? posted: Jun 2nd, 2021 The Brazil Tunnel League had a very strong comeback last weekend. The total of 16 teams generated new record participation since the league was launched in December 2018. 13 teams had competed in September 2020, which was the previous record number.
The September meet last year was also the last time that 4-way teams in Brazil got together at iFLY Sao Paulo for a comeback attempt of the indoor league. CTR Optimum and BTL founder André Ferraz had hosted four meets until November 2019, after launching the league project in December 2018. The participation at last weekend's event was showing how... (more)
Have you heard that Optimum CTR posted a new 25.1 team record average in Brazil? posted: Sep 27th, 2020 Formation Skydiving training and competition activities are resuming in Brazil, as well. It was in November 2019 when André Ferraz, organizer of Brazil's part of the World Tunnel League, hosted the last indoor competition at iFLY Sao Paulo, a few months after the Brazilian Outdoor Nationals.
This weekend he was back with indoor competition, and the teams were very eager to put some scores on a 4-way leaderboard. In fact, the total number of 13 teams at iFLY Sao Paulo was a new record for participation at an indoor competition in Brazil.
It was the first time that André Ferraz offered the... (more)
Have you heard that So Pressao has a fascinating comeback story? posted: Dec 9th, 2019 The NSL News reported on November 29th how the Brazilian 4-way team So Pressao peaked at the November meet of the World Tunnel League and won for the first time at iFLY Sao Paulo. The story provided the details of the competition in Brazil.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the competition was the fact that So Pressao competed with exactly the same lineup as at the very beginning of the team's history. Felipe Braga de Almeida, Frederico Augusto Cardoso Martin, Marconi Medeiros Marques de Oliveira and Manoel Medeiros Damaceno posted their first scores on an NSL leaderboard in April 2005... (more)
Have you heard that Brazil's So Pressao peaked with 20+ after their 14-year comeback? posted: Nov 29th, 2019 The third 2019 meet of the World Tunnel League this month at iFLY Sao Paulo in Brazil ended with an upset for the country's top team in the past decade, CTR Optimum. The two challengers, So Pressao and Go Fly, used the opportunity when CTR Optimum could not attend with the complete lineup.
Andre Ferraz and Juliana Sé were not available for the November meet, and CTR Optimum needed two substitutes. George Narita and Daiton Ribeiro recruited Beatriz Ohno and Deborah Schroder for the competition, who train and compete with CTR Storm. Their own team had attended the first two WTL meets this year... (more)
Have you heard that CTR Optimum and Pro Team shared a leaderboard for the first time? posted: Jul 4th, 2019 The June meet of the World Tunnel League offered interesting international leaderboards, with teams from Finland, Brazil and the United States.
The rankings were set after the completion of Round 8, even though the Finnish and U.S. teams added two more rounds. The teams of the Brazilian Tunnel League were scheduled for only eight rounds for their competition at iFLY Sao Paulo.
The meet in Sao Paulo attracted eleven of the 23 teams who posted scores on the June leaderboards. The field of AAA Class teams in Sao Paulo included a guest team from neighboring Paraguay, the Adventure Flyers, at... (more)
Have you heard that the new Brazilian Tunnel League launched its 2019 season last week? posted: Apr 28th, 2019 Teams from Brazil did not make it to the FAI Indoor World Meet that ended last weekend at Weembi Lille. They competed in Brazil almost at the same time for the opening event of the new Brazilian Tunnel League, the "Circuito Brasileiro de Paraquedismo Indoor".
Seven of the eight AAA Class teams that had competed at last year's Brazilian Indoor Nationals in December were back for the first of three meets of the new indoor league.
The Brazilian national 4-way team CTR Optimum won the 8-round competition in iFLY Sao Paulo's 12-foot flying chamber with exactly the same meet average (22.8) as in... (more)
Have you heard that CTR Optimum won the new lineup's first indoor meet with 23.8?
Have you heard that Optimum CTR posted a new 25.1 team record average in Brazil?
Have you heard that So Pressao has a fascinating comeback story?
Have you heard that Brazil's So Pressao peaked with 20+ after their 14-year comeback?
Have you heard that CTR Optimum and Pro Team shared a leaderboard for the first time?
Have you heard that the new Brazilian Tunnel League launched its 2019 season last week?