At that time, the Australian Parachute Championships was made up of State teams with two teams from each State. The strong States were: New South Wales, dominated by Newcastle Sport Parachute Club, Queensland with most members coming from Queensland Parachute Club then later from Ramblers, and Victoria with Commando Skydivers, Southern Cross Skydivers and Labertrouche Skydivers making up the Victorian teams.

There was some criticism of the State Teams system by those jumpers in the more populous States who thought that although they did not make the top six to be in the State Teams, they were better performers than some of those from weaker States who got to jump and they were probably right.

State Teams came about because the only requirement to participate was to hold an APF Parachutist Certificate "C" and so there was no need to hold a State competition to qualify for the Nationals.    The worst case scenario would have meant that the Nationals would be the only competition held each year.

Should that have happened, it would have restricted the amount of experience for judges, competition organisers and competitors to only once a year and would have had a negative effect on the development of competition parachuting,

Once the holding of State Championships became accepted practice, the APF returned to Open Championships.