Did you know that Solly Williams covered Airbus, Airspeed and Dive Pool? posted: Jan 22nd, 2025 The NSL News reported on January 4th that the German national team in 4-way Open, Airbus Illertissen, continue with a new lineup. The update included NSL Live Talk with team member Thomas Mack, his son Tim Mack, who competed with Teiwaz at the German Outdoor Nationals 2024, and coach Solly Williams.
The follow-up story on January 16th introduced the new Airbus lineup with more details of the new team members, Claire Rebhahn and Tim Mack, who will work together with his father in the front piece. Claire Rebhahn will take the tail position.
Solly Williams has been coaching the Airbus 4-way... (more)
Did you know that the Czech teams had opponents from Florida? posted: Jan 21st, 2025 The AAA Class competition of the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025 last weekend caught naturally a lot of attention, as the Czech Republic has consistently risen to become one of the 4-way powerhouses in the world's formation skydiving competition, as an event host as much as in the athletic field.
Jan Klapka's 4-way junior school has generated indoor world champions in 4-way Women and 4-way Junior, and the Skywalkers Junior team are on their way to challenge teams in 4-way Open Class medal positions indoors and outdoors in the near future. The AAA Class leaderboard deserves even more attention... (more)
Did you know that dive pool changers still ignore 95% of 4-way teams and competitors? posted: Jan 20th, 2025 The dive pool is not a new topic for the NSL News, as it has been covered several times in the past, including the TURNING POINTS column in the discontinued BLUE SKIES MAG. The last changes in the dive pool were announced in 2018 to be applied in 2019, the previous ones in 2010 for 2011. The current 4-way dive pool had its adjustments at the beginning of the 2019 season when two of the 22 blocks were fine-tuned (Block 1) or replaced (Block 13) with the purpose of synchronizing indoor and outdoor dive pools.
There has always been opposition to changes of the dive pool when there was no need for... (more)
Did you know that missions were accomplished at the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025? posted: Jan 19th, 2025 The Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025 was successfully completed on Saturday. Skywalkers Junior received their first national indoor gold medals, as it was expected. The NSL News mentioned in the preview last week that the team's goal would be higher than just winning the competition.
They accomplished the goal of posting a new team record average with the 25.9 which improves the scoring level of last year's winner, HF Chameleons, by three points. Next target is the 27.0 average of the HF Cubs, which is still the highest average that any Czech 4-way team has posted in the country's formation... (more)
Did you know that Arcteryx members Ditta Valsdottir and Mattias Nord met at Crystal Coast? posted: Jan 17th, 2025 The NSL News coverage of the 26th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships at Crystal Coast included the unfortunate situation of the Norwegian national team in 4-way Women, Thyra. Silvana Disch, the youngest team member, got sick in the last days of the training camp in DeLand and had to withdraw from training, competition and the road trip to North Carolina.
National coach and DeLand Norgies FAI bronze medalist of 1999, 2001 and 2003, Carl-Erik Tuv, was at least lucky enough to fill the open slot on a very short call. His former team mate Lise Aune/Nansen was able to make herself available... (more)
Did you know that the new and promising Airbus 4-way lineup compete at the Shamrock Showdown? posted: Jan 16th, 2025 The NSL News recently covered the new lineup of the German national team in 4-way Open, Airbus 4 Illertissen. The first update on January 4th of the new year included the official team announcement and the personnel changes. The story on January 7th followed up with a related topic, as the German 4-way team has been a part of the competition for the unofficial title of the world's amateur champion in the past decade.
German 4-way teams have made the Top 10 at FAI Outdoor World Championships each time since 1989, including two 5th places in 1991 and 2004. The Airbus lineup of the last five years... (more)
Did you know that Solly Williams covered Airbus, Airspeed and Dive Pool?
Did you know that the Czech teams had opponents from Florida?
Did you know that dive pool changers still ignore 95% of 4-way teams and competitors?
Did you know that missions were accomplished at the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025?
Did you know that Arcteryx members Ditta Valsdottir and Mattias Nord met at Crystal Coast?
Did you know that the new and promising Airbus 4-way lineup compete at the Shamrock Showdown?