Did you know that Arizona Airspeed won the second half of the indoor world championship? posted: Apr 17th, 2025 NSL Live Talk with Arizona Airspeed concluded the NSL News coverage of the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 live from Paraclete XP. It was the complete combination of the previous and the current Airspeed lineups who took the time to evaluate their meet experiences after the completion of all rounds and before the award ceremony on Saturday.
Three reigning 4-way world champions (Niklas Hemlin, Joey Marshall, Chris Kuhlmann) and new tail Doug Hendrix had taken the 2nd place, after a 10-round battle with NMP PCH HayaBusa. New outside center Alisson de Vargas had competed for Airspeed at the... (more)
Did you know that Tom Mattoni celebrated his first FAI gold medal with his family on NSL Live Talk? posted: Apr 16th, 2025 The four Skywalkers Junior members, with an average age below 18, were actually not the youngest competitors at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025. The NSL News mentioned on February 28th that the whole French Mattoni family will be back at Paraclete XP in April, father Stephane in the audience, older son Tom in the Aethers Medjay lineup, younger son Noe with the French D'Arc8 team in 8-way Open.
Tom Mattoni is now one of the youngest 4-way world champions in the history of formation skydiving competition with his 21 years of age. However, his brother Noe is even five years younger with... (more)
Did you know that the three 4-way Open medal winners never tied a score at Paraclete XP? posted: Apr 15th, 2025 The third day of the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 began with 8-way and VFS competition, after two days of 4-way in the early morning. The last two rounds were on the competition agenda, and the flying order was now adjusted, according to the current rankings after Round 8.
The biggest move waited for Skywalkers Junior who started in the first group of four teams in the flying chamber on Thursday and Friday. The Czech team was in 4th place after Round 8, and only Aethers Medjay, Arizona Airspeed and NMP PCH HayaBusa performed after them.
The 4-way Open Class competition turned out to... (more)
Did you know that the same three "Olden Knights" posted a new historic 8-way average? posted: Apr 14th, 2025 The NSL News had covered the 1-point miss of a new 8-way outdoor record average by GKXP8 after Round 10 of the 26th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships at Crystal Coast in October last year. The three "Olden Knights" (Matt Davidson, Jeshua Stahler, Andrew Starr) discussed the competition and the 8-way history with the NSL News on 9 October 2024.
The same GKXP lineup were then called back to action when France seemed to visit the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 with a formidable team and one of the most experienced 8-way competitors in the world, Martial Ferre, as the NSL News reported... (more)
Did you know that NMP PCH HayaBusa sent a strong message in Round 10? posted: Apr 14th, 2025 The medal positions in 4-way Open and the race for the unofficial amateur world championship title did not change at all in the remaining two rounds of the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025. Arizona Airspeed even increased the lead over NMP PCH HayaBusa, and the Belgians finally had enough of this and put everything they currently have to offer into Round 10.
Result was HayaBusa's first sole highscore in the whole competition with a clear message to their opponents in the coming two years. They outscored Aethers Medjay and Arizona Airspeed both, even after three point deductions. SkyWalkers... (more)
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed breaks back into the European top positions? posted: Apr 11th, 2025 Eight rounds are complete in all four formation skydiving events at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025, and the event is moving forward to the last two rounds on Saturday morning, beginning with 8-way Open and 4-way VFS. These are also the categories where no surprises can be expected. The teams in the medal positions are well settled and secure, and they will not hurt each other much at all in the remaining two rounds.
As usual, the situation is very different in the horizontal 4-way events, where only Aethers Medjay have been confirming their current top position in the world. They gave... (more)