Nationals Completed

It has been another fantastic Nationals and all the competitions have completed in beautiful sunshine. So, to sumarise in the 8-way Intermediate - team 8 A Cake won with a massive 24 point lead over scratch team Reprob8s who suffered a rare 20% penalty after they had a camera mal. Another scratch team, St8 Of Confusion took 3rd place with 15 points.

The senior 8-way has had the biggest attendance in years with 8 teams and finally Microclim8 had a battle on their hands with Brit Chicks. Microclim8 won it with a 13.1 average and only trained for a single exit (When they were VNE, they had 3 different exits). Brit Chicks took the Silver with a very respectable 11.9 average. This is also an on year, so the question is will Microclim8 take their position to go to Dubai in 2012 or will they let Brit Chicks go? In 3rd place were SuperSonic (no guesses who their teams mates are made up of then!) with a distant 72 points.

Again, a word of thanks must be given to Texas team SPX8 who travelled a long way to come and compete with us. They and a few other teams have just gone up to do a 40-way.

Freefly was also well attended with 4 in the senior A class and 5 teams in the B class. Even though Kinetic were the highest World Cup ranked British team, they took a 2nd place behind full time freefly coaches Volare who took Gold with 57.1 points. Euphoria were in Bronze position with 49.6 points.

Last but not least, special mention must go to Larsen & Brusgaard who sponsored the Speed Skydiving with a fantastic set of 3 audible altimeters going to the 3 medal positions. Next year, it is hoped that there will be more Speed Awareness Roadshows promoting the fun and exciting discipline.

Next weekend, we have the Headdown Freefly UK Record attempts and also the Fly Hard II 40-way formations.