Did you know that Mark Kirkby was impressed with the Dubai scores? posted: Jan 17th, 2011 The most recent journalistic rollercoaster of the NSL News continues. Today's story goes back to the very top level and the events at the Dubai Championship 2011. Tomorrow the NSL News will report an SDC Rhythm XP training day live from Sebastian, which also leads back to the grassroot level at the same time. Rob Radez offers his free coaching at the next NSL Networking Day this Saturday in Sebastian. An NSL News trip to Paraclete in Raeford follows on Thursday where XP4 is training. The NSL News has a few questions for John Eagle after coming back from Dubai...
The NSL News got a hold of Arizona... (more)
Did you know that NSL-TV presents the Shamrock Showdown 2010 Show? posted: Aug 30th, 2010 The NSL News mentioned a few times this year that a real NSL-TV show was in the works. It would cover the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2010.
Joey Jones was anchoring the show, which was produced live on competition site at Skydive DeLand during the event.
Editing the footage and getting it ready for airing it for the first time on the Brighthouse Sports Network, a regional cable channel in Florida and a few other states, took a while.
Executive producer John Dunn eventually finalized the show for NSL-TV before it was sent off to the network.
It was aired several times in the meantime, and... (more)
Did you know that DeLand Dunamis and Miami Reyand took on the AA Class dive pool for the first time? posted: Jun 22nd, 2010 Last weekend's leaderboard is still not complete yet, as some of the scores from the Midwest and all scores from the Northern Plains have not been posted yet. They will be added as soon as they are availabale.
One competition of the multi-event weekend took place at Skydive DeLand where four teams of the Florida Skydiving League braved the hot summer weather. All six rounds were almost completed in DeLand before a summer storm interfered with the Teiwaz attempt to re-jump Round 5 after a video failure.
The summer storm brought hail and rain for Teiwaz right after the exit, and the new lineup... (more)
Did you know that 22 teams attended the 7th Annual Z-Scramble? posted: Jun 2nd, 2010 The NSL News made a roadtrip to Zephyrhills last weekend. Skydive City was hosting the 7th Annual 4-way Scramble, organized by Oren Kalb and Laura Song. The NSL News had heard about the event and the impressive participation year by year. It was time to check out live on site what is going on at this event.
Event organizer Oren Kalb had mentioned earlier this year that he was once again expecting a great turnout. He had 12 teams lined up several weeks ago, and this surely caught the NSL News attention.
It turned out to be a new record participation. 22 lineups were competing on Sunday just... (more)
Did you know that Teiwaz had a Rookie Class lineup at Skydive City? posted: May 18th, 2010 The weather played a role at all meets last weekend. It was too cold and miserable in Norway and too hot in Florida for the teams to come out in flocks.
The teams in Denmark were limited to five rounds at the popular DFU Cup.
The new Norwegian national 4-way team X3M4s was actually ready to put the first scores of 2010 on the board. It turned out to be only one single round in challenging weather conditions, while Denmark's national team Bodyflight Voluntas completed five rounds.
The May meet of the Florida Skydiving League was also the smallest one in a long time, although the weather... (more)
Did you know that the Falcon lineup added two new members to the Teiwaz Club? posted: Apr 20th, 2010 The April meet of the Florida Skydiving League produced a few new Teiwaz members. The NSL News story on 17 April 2010 mentioned that Steve Hamilton, also known as Stefano Hamiltoni, filled a slot for the Teiwaz Eagle lineup while he was coaching the Norwegian national 4-way team in the female category, Polaris.
Teiwaz Eagle competed in the AAA Class competition and is the lineup that experiments with new techniques and procedures for jump preparations and meet performance. The Eagle lineup in Sebastian was trying to research the difference between using creepers - or not.
In addition, the... (more)