Did you know that Mathieu Bernier is back in action for the French national team? posted: Mar 12th, 2024 Round 1 of the Shamrock Showdown 2024 is only three days away, and the French national teams in 4-way Open (Aethers) and 4-way Women (Nephtys) are both in full training swing at Skydive DeLand, with supervision by their national coach Mathieu Bernier.
They had completed over 30 training jumps on their third day at Skydive DeLand and had two more days on the agenda before taking a break on Wednesday. The weather situation has been in support of the training efforts, and the forecast for the Shamrock Showdown competition days indicates a completion of the ten rounds on the scheduled meet days,... (more)
Did you know that Operation Adler won the next part of Germany's 8-way duel? posted: Mar 11th, 2024 The next part of the German 8-way story came to its conclusion last weekend when Operation Adler and Airbus Oceanside Illertissen were facing each other in competition for the second time. Operation Adler was formed for the German Outdoor Nationals 2023 and upset the former national 8-way team, Airbus, after the ten rounds at the Fallschirmsportzentrum Saar in August/September last year.
Originally, Operation Adler had no long-term plans to compete for Germany at the next outdoor world championship, however, they began to consider the options after winning the outdoor qualification. Eventually,... (more)
Did you know that two Indoor Cloud League teams from Dallas competed at Paraclete XP? posted: Mar 11th, 2024 The Indoor Cloud League team from iFLY Dallas was once again well represented at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2024. Kyle Hermberg brought two teams to Paraclete XP, which consisted of lineups with current and former ICL Dallas participants.
In fact, all team members of Aeroworx and Racoon Sky Pirates were in the iFLY Dallas team that posted the highscores for the January sequences of the Indoor Cloud League, with only one exception, and ICL organizer Kyle Hermberg competed with both teams at Paraclete XP.
Vanessa Shirazi was not in any of the lineups on the ICL January leaderboard,... (more)
Did you know that AerodynamiX defended the Austrian 4-way indoor title successfully? posted: Mar 8th, 2024 The indoor winter season in Europe continues with more national indoor championships. Switzerland and Germany are running their events this weekend, shortly after Norway and Austria completed their nationals. The competition in Berlin, Germany, features an international field in 4-way and in 8-way, and the visiting Qatar Lions are on the top of the leaderboard after eight rounds on Friday.
Operation Adler has an 11-point lead over Airbus in the teams' first showdown this year. One of the Veloce QRF lineups is in 1st place though as a guest team. German 4-way Women team Skynamite did not travel... (more)
Did you know that AA Class team 4Action perform AAA Class sequences every month? posted: Mar 7th, 2024 Marcella Rey has been organizing horizontal Formation Skydiving events in South Florida for a while, and soon she established an indoor community at iFLY Fort Lauderdale, together with Pam and Guy Manos. However, her passion for 4-way training and competition grew out of the ordinary once she joined forces with Felipe Della Giustina and Jake Perlman, her current 4Action team mates.
Felipe Della Giustina is a former Anion Flux XP member of 2022, who himself was infected by the 4-way virus at that time. Marcella Rey and Felipe Della Giustina together created more than enough motivation and energy... (more)
Did you know that Thyra meet Nephtys again at the Shamrock Showdown? posted: Mar 7th, 2024 Norway's national indoor championship last weekend brought the original lineup of the DeLand Norgies back together. It was in July 2017 when this happened the last time at the national outdoor championship, and they won without serious opposition. It was two years before original Norgies member Carl-Erik Tuv initiated a new team project that generated the current national teams, Agera in 4-way Open and Thyra in 4-way Women.
The Norgies continued their annual reunions after the pandemic and with different variations of the lineups. They defended the national 4-way outdoor title one more time... (more)