HayaBusa Defence 2008

Looking back to our first season as a professional team I guess we can say that it was
even better then what we had expected. With having a new lineup and try to get used to
the new way of training and solving problems, we learned quickly and became a strong
team. We're still learning, trying to get better and pushing our limits jump after jump.
Our highlights of 2007 will be for sure winning the World Cup and European Championship
in Russia, where we had a thrilling final against the French National team.  And some
months later we became the new Military World Champions in India where we had another
breath taking race against the American Golden Knights. We also set 2 new Military World
records for highest score (41) and highest average (31,5)  over eight rounds.

This year the FAI World Championship will be held in Maubeuge, France. Winning this Meet
is in our opinion the highest achievement you can earn in Formation Skydiving. We will
give our very best to score as high as we possibly can!  One of the biggest challenges
for us is to overcome the exits out of the Pilatus Porter, flying more cleaner and making
less mistakes. If we succeed in this then we have a good prospect for the World
Championship!

Through this way we want to thank again all our friends, fans and sponsors that helped us
achieving our goals and that share our passion!! It's a great support for us to know that
you guys back us up!!

Well... 2008 HERE WE COME!!!!!
Hayabusa Defence! Stronger and Faster than ever!!

HayaBusa Defence 2007

Time is flying by when you’re having fun!
And for sure 2006 was again a year full of great skydives, lots of fun and good competitions! We managed  to score 45 points in a single random jump during a Belgium Skydive Trophy, wich is a new official Belgium record and a World class performance. Later during the season we set ourselfs a new highest team average over ten rounds 20,5 during the ESL Finals. We competed at the FAI World Championship in Germany and became 6th.  With that we were the Worlds best amateur team. But to all good things comes an end. Sven and Bruno deceided to stop with Hayabusa because of personel reasons. It’s a big lost to the team after training for many years together but they are still in the background.

So a new year brings new challenges!!
The biggest challenge for 2007 was finding  new qualified team members and making a choice of becoming a professional skydiving team. And so we did! In January we joined the Belgium Militairy service and became part of the professional Militairy Skydiving Team. We joined forces with Luc Verstrepen (inside center) and Danny Jacobs (video flyer). Both are multiple Militairy World Champions in FS. As always we upgrated our goals and will work our ass of to achieve them!!!

We also want to thank all our fans and sponsors that supported us during all those years!  And especially Skydive Center Spa, they have been a huge support to us!

Stay tuned for another great Ballistic adventure!!!
“HayaBusa, stronger and faster than ever”!!

Some vids from the Past

2004 WC Round 10
2005 Malevsky Cup Round1 Round3 Round4 Round5 Round6 Round7 Round8 Round9 Round10
2006 WC Round1 Round3 Round4

Spa HayaBusa 2006

Well once again we had a great season in 2005!
It was a very successful year. We learned so many new things; we improve our skills as individuals as well as a team. By doing many competitions we trained ourselves also in this aspect. For sure our highlight was at the Malevsky cup in Russia! Winning the European Championship was fantastic. Jumping a thrilling finale against the strong Russian team was for us something new that we never experienced before. Besides this we won all Belgian Skydive Trophy’s, National Championship and the Aerokart Indoor Challenge in France. We set a new Belgium record at the ESL Finales in Spa, 20.0 average. This was our goal for 2005 and by reaching it at our last competition from the season; we could feel satisfied and look back with a big smile! Besides all the good things we also had some bad luck. We planned to do 400 jumps but we just past the 250. This has mainly to do with bad weather on our first camp and the weather in Belgium. But this means that we still have plenty of room to make progression!

Our plans for the 2006 season are ambitious!
Again we will try to do 400 jumps before the World Meet in Germany.
We would like to bring the average up towards 21.0 and we want to be in the run for a medal during the World Meet! Even if we know that this will be very hard to achieve, we believe in it, and for sure we’ll be giving 100% jump after jump. We already did one camp in January in Eloy. Our level is already higher now then at the end of the 2005 season. This is for us a big motivation! Knowing that we still are climbing even if we are an amateur team doing not many jumps, comparing to the professional teams. But there is a long way ahead of us before reaching our destination, but we are coming!

We want to thank all our supporters and the people that believe in us!!!
You’re giving us strength and motivation during competitions and training.
Big thanks also to our sponsors!!! Without them we couldn’t achieve our dreams.
And especially for our home Drop zone, Skydive Center Spa!!

By settings these new goals, the HayaBusa crew will push them selves as far as they can get, never let go of the team spirits!!

“Spa HayaBusa, stronger and faster than ever”

Team Spa Hayabusa 2005

Looking back at our last season of 2004, we can only say that it was once again a great season!
This year we achieved all our goals, that we made in the beginning of the year.
We competed in the Belgian Skydiving League, Europian Skydiving League, National Championship, World Meet and the Aérokart Indoor Challenge. Our team average went from 15.5 to 19.3 during the ESL meet, and this with only 250 training jumps. We also found ourselves a new home Dropzone at Skydivecenter Spa.

We will bridge winter with organising tunnelcamps and team training mainly at the Aérokart windtunnel in Paris, France.
For upcoming year 2005, we planned to do about 400 training jumps, including two trainingcamps with our coach, Doug Park from DeLand Majik. The first trainingcamp will start in March, from then on we’ll be training until the end of the season.

The most important competitions for us will be; National Championship, Malevskicup (Russia), World Air Games (germany) and the Worldcup (usa). Like previous years, Hayabusa will be organising coaching weekends, at Skydivecenter Spa,
mainly in the beginning and the end of the season. But in between we will also do team coaching.

As always the Hayabusa crew, will be giving more then100% jump after jump.
Believing in ourself and in our teammates!

2005 will be once again a very exciting year for us and we did set new goals to get us were we need to go, and that’s on the podium!!

Last but not least…..
We like to thank all the sponsors and supporters for believing in us!
Keep it up!!!

Spa Hayabusa “stronger and faster then ever”.

Team HayaBusa 2004

After, what we consider, a very successful maiden season for the team, we all felt eager to continue and we are convinced that we still have great potential growth ahead of us.

Wintertime was, again, bridged with some 7 or 8 hours of windtunnel in Paris, which enabled us to work on some of our block techniques and our random work. Also, we acted as tunnelcoaches during 4 tunnelcamps that were organized by Tom and Johan of 4XtremeTime.

The 2004 season started pretty good for us. First of all, we completed a training camp in Deland, Florida together with Doug Park of the US national team Majik. Under his guidance, we made 50 skydives and flew 5.5 hours in the Orlando Skyventure windtunnel. We received some very good information and exactly know what we should be working on. We feel very confident and we will certainly be training with Doug later on. Secondly, we already competed in one competition :
The Aerokart International Challenge, Europe’s only indoor competition. And we won it…

Stay tuned for what promises to be a very exciting HAYABUSA year !!

Lastly, we would like to thank everybody for supporting us and for believing in us ! Thank you !

Team Hayabusa 2003

HayaBusa is a relatively new and young Belgian FS4 team. It is also the name of a bird of prey that is considered as one of the fastest birds in the world, able of reaching speeds of over 200 miles/hour.

The team was formed after the Belgian nationals of 2002 when two members of the runner up team "Roeiers" decided to quit the team. The two remaining members : David Grauwels (outside center) and Sven Ibens (inside center) decided to continue with FS4 competition and asked Roy Janssen (tail), Andy Grauwels (point and brother of David) and Bruno Van Den Eede (video) to join them and they accepted. Ludo Havelaerts (one of the former "Roeiers" members) is helping the team a great deal in coaching them.

HayaBusa set a goal of winning the Belgian Skydiving Trophy (the Belgian counterpart of the NSL) in 2003 and keeping the gap between NMPV (the Belgian national army team) at the 2003 nationals as small as possible. At the same time HayaBusa will aim at being selected for the 2004 WAG in Croatia.

The HayaBusa team members believe they stand a chance against NMPV for the selection for Croatia in 2004, since the latter will most likely be changing two of their team members after this year's worldmeet in Gap, France. If NMPV indeed decides to switch two members, selections for Croatia will be held next March or April and then it promises to be a tight race...
To be continued.