Did you know that the outdoor world cup at Skydive Teuge is also a 10-year anniversary? posted: Jun 24th, 2025 The FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025 has been a topic in discussions and NSL News updates for a while. It is the major international Formation Skydiving competition of the year and brings more teams together than a world championship. Up to four teams can compete in each event for the countries' delegations.
The preview leaderboard with the NSL Power Rankings is showing that the U.S. delegation is using the whole contingent in 4-way Open with four registered teams (Golden Knights, SDC Rhythm XP, XPG4, RhEvolution XP), which does not even include Arizona Airspeed, who could not win FAI/ISC medals at... (more)
Did you know that the Golden Knights excel with a more spiritual approach? posted: Jun 23rd, 2025 The second day of the Summer Classic 2025 brought even more smiles to the faces of the Golden Knights 4-way team, even though the day of the last three rounds did not start the best way from the perspective of the U.S. Army team.
In fact, it seemed like Arizona Airspeed would do on Sunday what the world's formation skydiving community has been used to in 4-way history. The still reigning 4-way world champion team won Round 8 with a great performance and cut the distance to the Golden Knights by two points, after two point deductions for the leader by judges Kirk Verner and Brian Krause. It was... (more)
Did you know that "smiles don't lie" after landing from a competition jump? posted: Jun 22nd, 2025 As every competition, the Summer Classic 2025 began with the famous Round 1. It was a delayed start, as an unexpected layer of fog was in the way of the Twin Otter taking off at the scheduled time. This gave the six teams at Skydive Paraclete XP some extra time for the preparations.
Round 1 of any competition is usually the one that is better prepared than any other round. The competition draw is known the night before the beginning of a competition, and the teams have much more time to get ready for Round 1. It was different this time in Raeford, as the draw was published on Saturday morning.... (more)
Did you know that the Golden Knights transition from Laurinburg to Skydive Paraclete for the XP Summer Classic? posted: Jun 20th, 2025 The joint venture training camp of Golden Knights and NMP PCH HayaBusa at the Golden Knights headquarters in Laurinburg concluded with another friendship ceremony that took place after the last training jump on Thursday. The teams came together in the hangar after jumping and debriefing, where Dennis Praet presented a framed picture with a friendship address dedicated to the U.S. Army team.
Lieutenant Colonel Alan Wilson, new commander of the U.S. Army Parachute Team, returned the gift with a special medal that he handed out to each HayaBusa member at the end of the day. Both teams continued... (more)
Did you know that four Indoor Cloud League teams tied the maximum score in May? posted: Jun 20th, 2025 Kyle Hermberg's Indoor Cloud League team at iFLY Dallas caught up on the annual leaderboard with the scores and videos for the month of May. He reported from Texas that a new 4-way team has been launched out of the group of his participants.
The Spaceland Dallas Pajama Party lineup consists of Beth Victor, Brenn Saxton, Deanna Anderson and Shawn Henry. The new team did not have a scoring history on traditional leaderboards before finishing with an 8.0 average for the ten online rounds of the Cloud Games earlier this month. They performed two of the three ICL Rookie Class sequences (RRR/RR) for... (more)
Did you know that NMP PCH HayaBusa had boot camp duties in the North Carolina swamps? posted: Jun 18th, 2025 The previous NSL News update featured the two-week long joint training venture of the Golden Knights 4-way team and their Belgian guests, NMP PCH HayaBusa. It included a video that HayaBusa videographer David Grauwels recorded of a special 8-way jump earlier in the training camp.
A day later after the first visit of the NSL News at the Golden Knights headquarters David Grauwels was filming a very different situation from the Twin Otter. HayaBusa tail Jeroen Nollet had a cutaway after the completion of four training jumps, and his main parachute could not be recovered easily.
NMP PCH HayaBusa... (more)
Did you know that the outdoor world cup at Skydive Teuge is also a 10-year anniversary?
Did you know that the Golden Knights excel with a more spiritual approach?
Did you know that "smiles don't lie" after landing from a competition jump?
Did you know that the Golden Knights transition from Laurinburg to Skydive Paraclete for the XP Summer Classic?
Did you know that NMP PCH HayaBusa had boot camp duties in the North Carolina swamps?