posted Nov 13th, 2011 - It's a very large list of names that has now been added to the Kaleidoscope Dives home page of SkyQuest 2011. World Team leader BJ Worth has finalized and published the roster of his two big-way groups who will begin with their 2011 quest for challenging big-way sequences on Thursday.

BJ Worth and his group group of team captains (Tom Claeys, Lesley Gale, Mike Johnston, Dieter Kirsch, Victor Kravtsov, Rob Laidlaw, Herman Landsman, Patrick Passe, Roger Ponce de Leon, Lou Tommaso, Alia Veselova) will organize the biggest NSL event of the year at Skydive DeLand. Andrey Veselov, Craig O'Brien, Henny Wiggers and George Katsoulis are filming the big-ways and will provide the footage for the usual NSL News coverage.

There are many familiar names from the Formation Skydiving competition community on the roster, as participants have been competing in the past or are still doing it and entertain themselves with the big-ways for a change. The Kaleidoscope Divers of SkyQuest 2011 are coming from any parts of the world, as the roster shows.

Wladimir Abad, Maxim Abaev, Jean Aitken, Alberto Alibrandi, Caroline Allen, Vitaly Antoshin, Dmitri Aristov , Becky Austin, Darby Avant, Jarle Bakk, Illya Balashov, Andrey Barabash, Mauro Barman, Bob Barnes, Vladimir Barsukov, Dmitry Belousov, Betty Bennett, Denis Bérat , Marina Beretta, Kari Berg, Alessandra Bertozzi, Antoine Bich, Fiona Birnie, Amelia Bobowska, Ulrike Brorngröber, Jose Brouwers, François Burgaud , Patricia Cacheux, Pelao Calisto, Rambo Calledare, Francisco Caserio, Jim Chamouard, Alexey Chertov, Barbie Cleino, David Coin, Pierre Collet, François Colombi, Julien Darré , Carl Daugherty, Chris Davies, Egor Davydkin, Yves de Burbure, Rich Delgado, Marty Diller, Bob Domeier, Mike Donlon, Alain Dony, Isabelle Dreyssé, Larry Elmore, Eduard Enotov, Leigh Estabrook, Gérard Felin, Franco Ferraro, Val Filatov, Dafi Filliposwki , Chuck Finley, Sally Finley, Chad Follis, Louis French, Dmitry Friedman, Rafael Fuentes, Nick Furchner, Sabine Gijzen, Gulcin Gilbert, Vitaliy Giniyatov, Herbert Gölss, Elena Goncharova, German Gorn, Jim Graham, Mike Granims, Valery Gredasov, Ruth Green, Andrea Greening, Thi Bich Van Ha, Dave Harper, Nancy Helsly, Luis Herrera, T.J. Hine, Sophie Hingant, Al Hively, Ronny Holen, Laurent Hubert, Sven Ibens, Tomaszek Ignaczuk, Sergey Italyantsev, Kostiantyn Iuriev, Marc Jacobs, Jacek Jedrych, Bob Johns , Jupp Kampmann, Alexey Kastornov, Caty Katz, Ilya Katz, Kevin Keenan, Sergey Khomuk, Andrey Khvostov, Ilona Kireenok, Nail Kiyamov, Dr. Dick Klimas, Natalia Kokareva, Maria Kononova, Dmitry Kontcevoy, Evgeniya Korzhova, Olga Koshkina, Alexander Kruglov, Sergey Krylov, Valery Kryshevich, Scott Kucel, Boris Kuptsov, Sergey Kurokhtin, Nancy LaRiviere, Paul Leslie-Smith, Scott Levy, Brian Lippert, Alexey Lobanov, Anastasia Lyashchuk, Tim Mace, Yulay Magadeev, Luc Maison, Russ Manhold, Marcelo Marapodi, Paul Marcellin, Stephane Mattoni, Hedi Mauchle, Shell Meakins, Truett Miley, Greg Mirkin, Jakob Mo, Larry Moore, Denis Myachenkov, Mike Nestor, Mike (&Wendy) Oolman, Gunter Otté, Dawn Pavlu, Billy Payn, Carey Peck, Lucas Peri Brusa, Evgeniy Petrov, Alexey Plotnikov, Raffi Poplawski, Alexander Potapov, Raider Ramstad, Antje Rau, Mark Rejhon, Andy Reyling, Klaus Rheinwald, Bobby Richards, Bruce Robertson, Alex Rojas, Jan Rojek, Dan Rosenthal, Marie-Anne Rouche, Christian Roy, Jean-Jacques Roy, Fortson Rumble, Petro Ryzhilo, Alexey Samoylov, Juarez Tirelli Santos, Vlad Saveliev, Jeff Saxton, Bert Schäfer, Pete Scharrer, Bernd Schmehl, Bill Schmitt, Isabelle Schoonbroodt, Eduardo Scola, Claudio Serafini, Paul Seymour, Franzesco Sforza, Slava Shalygin , Oleg Shapovalov, Alexey Shatilov, Maryvonne Simon , Jimbob Slocum, Phil Smith, Hal Spence, Tatiana Strelnikova, Bob Stumm, Eduard Suslov, Mats Svensson, Larisa Sverdlenko, Jeffrey Taffet, Val Thal-Slocum, Larry Thomas, Jack Tolmachev, Lev Tremasov, Rossella Tura, Klaus Unterhofer, Anatoliy Usun, Didier Valin, Alain Vejux , Ute Vetter, Shaun Vineyard, Christine Wadel, John Walrond, Tom Wieser, Xavier Wilmet, Markus Wolf, Kelly Woods, Mike Woods, Patty Woods, Bob Wright, Mary Wright, Ronald Zuijdendorp

There is a POPS big-way event in its final stages this weekend, and the DeLand citizens have had the opportunity to get familiar with the formation of jump planes flying across the area in beautiful formations under clear blues skies. There will be a short break after the weekend before the five planes will get busy again on Thursday morning.

In the meantime, the Norwegian 4way team Polaris, bronze medal winner at the World Cup 2011, has arrived with coach Gary Smith for a quick 1-week training camp at this busy time in DeLand.

Polaris completed 12 training jumps on the day after the Thursday arrival and added 13 jumps on Saturday while the POPS jumpers did their big-ways. It has been a good test for the multi-task situation that SkyQuest brings to DeLand every year. The NSL News plans to meet with Polaris and coach Gary Smith for a new NSL Talk session. The Norwegian team is the only medal winner of the World Cup who continues with exactly the same lineup and an intensive training plan. Once again, Norway has produced a new world class contender, and the NSL News will follow up with more information very soon.