Did you know that two USPA medalists of 2011 battled with each other last weekend in Texas? posted: May 21st, 2012 The NSL News reported on 16 May 2012 that the Northwest Skydiving League is resuming the 4way activities this year. The Texas Skydiving League is also back in the NSL Network with four separate meets scheduled for the 2012 season. The first competition took place in Spaceland last weekend, and the scores from Texas are part of a leaderboard with multiple events (Florida, Germany, Lithuania, Northern Plains, Texas).
It is no big surprise that Spaceland Lite is on the top of the AAA Class rankings. Katrina Shows, Richard Rothery, Devon Shows and Christina West, with Cory Kossan on camera, won... (more)
Did you know that Perris Fury has video trouble in Texas? posted: Sep 20th, 2009 One of this year's top contenders for gold medals at the USPA Nationals 2009 made a great effort to get ready for the championship and is out of luck at Spaceland in Texas, host of the competition in October.
Perris Fury has had serious video trouble at this weekend's September meet of the Texas Skydiving League, and in addition Fury did not get the competition they were looking for.
The Perris team started the 2009 season on a busy meet schedule, with the Valentine's Meet in February, the FSL Shamrock Showdown in March and the World Challenge in April. Fury met Arizona Airspeed at each of... (more)
Did you know that the top contenders are observing each other carefully? posted: Jul 30th, 2009 The NSL News reported on 5 April 2009 that Arizona Airspeed extended the team's undefeated winning streak to 17 - 0 at the World Challenge 2009. It has already been extended to 18 - 0 after the dominating performance at the World Games 2009.
Two Airspeed members, Andy Delk and Mark Kirkby, also competed at the Paraclete XP Indoor Skydiving Championship 2009, where Eliana Rodriguez and Craig Girard could not join the lineup.
Perris Fury won the indoor competition over Arizona Speed where Thomas Hughes and John Eagle filled the open slots. However, this competition cannot really be counted... (more)
Did you know that Hot Flash gave Funnel Approach a hot competition in Texas? posted: Jul 3rd, 2009 Seven teams attended the second meet of the Texas Skydiving League 2009 season at Skydive Dallas last weekend and almost matched the attendance of the season opener at Skydive Spaceland. Two teams from Spaceland (BS5, Funnel Approach) visited Skydive Dallas after a season start with only home teams from Spaceland at the May meet, except Hot Flash.
All home teams from Dallas attended their first competition this year, while BS5, Funnel Approach and Hot Flash posted their second set of meet scores. Both visiting teams from Spaceland took the first places in their categories, BS5 in the AA Class... (more)
Did you know that Texas is back with Havoc? posted: Jun 6th, 2009 Last weekend's scores are still on the leaderboard, while teams in Austria and Germany are working on new numbers this weekend.
It was a very interesting coincidence that last weekend's events were hosted by the longest standing leagues in the country. The NSL News reported yesterday that the Georgia Skydiving League had a comeback after two years of hibernation and mentioned the oldest league, the Virginia Parachute Council, which had its season opener last weekend, as well.
The third US league that launched the 2009 season last weekend had also joined forces with Georgia and Florida in... (more)
Did you know that Skydive Dallas sponsors a new 8-way project? posted: May 2nd, 2009 The NSL News story on 3 April 2009 mentioned that the Texas Skydiving League is back in the NSL Network. Texas is the only league that includes 8-way competition at the meets of the regular season and has its own separate 8-way championship event.
Skydive Dallas has an 8-way tradition, and top competitors from different parts of the USA have now joined forces to form a new 8-way lineup for the 2009 season. Team member Ron Hill provided more details of the 8-way project.
When John Kuczaj took over as the new Manager of Skydive Dallas, he wanted to continue Skydive Dallas’s history of supporting... (more)