posted Jul 15th, 2010 - The NSL News story on 8 July 2010 featured the meet videos of the Canadian Lemay family team Evolution at Skydive Chicago's Midway Battle 2010. The same story mentioned that the NSL News would visit the Lemay family in Canada and follow up with a report.

The Road to Russia included a stop in Canada for the NSL News. The visit at NouvelAir and Parachute Montreal, both run by Evolution member Michel Lemay and his partners, explained even more why the Canadian national team has become one of the best 4-way teams in the world.

First of all, the team brought up a flaw on the NSL leaderboard of the Midway Battle. The NSL News had switched the scores for Round 3 between Perris Fury and Evolution. The leaderboard has been corrected, and the new numbers brought the Canadian team even closer to the best teams in the world.

June 12th,2010		Round1	Round2	Round3	Round4	Round5	Total	Avg
Rank	AAAClass	B,9,21	J,P,E,10	G,M,7,L	4,Q,14	22,6,19	Total	Avg
1	USA Arizona Airspeed	29	28(-1)	33	23	19	132(133)	26.4
2	Perris Fury	27(-1)	23(-4)	29	21	19(-1)	119(125)	23.8
3	Canada Evolution	24	26(-2)	30	20(-1)	17(-1)	117(121)	23.4
4	SDC Rhythm XP	23(-1)	23(-1)	27(-1)	18(-1)	17	108(112)	21.6
5	Skydive Chicago Furies	12(-1)	12(-2)	14(-1)	10	9	57(61)	11.4

The Road to Russia

The NSL News spent a whole day with Evolution at NouvelAir and Parachute Montreal. The earlier story mentioned that the Canadian team gets ready for the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010 by training every morning on three days per week.

The NSL-TV camera captured the activities of a whole day for a NSL Reality TV clip. It begins at NouvelAir early in the morning. Father Michel Lemay (52) and son Vincent Lemay (22) work the daily skydiving operation at NouvelAir, together with team videographer and co-owner Daniel Paquette. They live around the corner in Farnham.

Martin Lemay (25) and Benoit Lemay (19) work at Parachute Montreal, together with CanAm Director Donald Poulin, who co-owns and manages the DZ operation. They live near the brandnew dropzone in the northern area of Montreal.

Just Another Day at the DZ - Canada's Lemay family team Evolution

The team training took place at Parachute Montreal where the Twinotter was stationed when the NSL News visited. This situation required Daniel Paquette, Michel and Vincent Lemay to transfer from Nouvelair to Parachute Montreal early in the morning.

The Montreal traffic in the morning does not invite any car travel into and around the big city. All three team members are pilots, and Daniel Paquette's family, including his dog, likes to spend the day together. Two small planes eventually moved the whole group from one place to the other within 30 minutes, including the NSL News.

Vincent Lemay was piloting a small vintage Piper with his father Michel on the passenger seat, plus a lot of skydiving gear for the luggage. The whole Paquette family and the NSL News used a Cessna 172, with Daniel Paquette as the pilot and his dog under the seat.

Upon arrival at Parachute Montreal, Donald Poulin provided a DZ-Tour for the NSL News, while Evolution prepared for the training day. The schedule for the day included five back-to-back jumps, a break for debriefing and another set of five jumps.

The NouvelAir group had to be back by 1:00 PM as this is the time when the dropzone gets busy. There was a lot of work waiting at both places. However, the NSL News managed to squeeze in a quick NSL Talk session with the whole team after the second debriefing at noon. The video of this NSL Talk will be uploaded later.

Today's video features a whole day in the life of a Lemay family member prior to the upcoming World Championship, mostly from the perspective of the NouvelAir group. The NSL News witnessed impressive and unique efforts and a very long work day for the team members. Enjoy the new NSL Reality TV video.