Have you heard that the Florida Skydiving League had a successful comeback last weekend? posted: Feb 12th, 2024 The NSL News reported on 22 December 2023 that the Florida Skydiving League was planning a comeback after a long break with no or very little participation. The first meet was scheduled for January 13th at Skydive Sebastian. The update on January 17th did not include scores and videos, as the event had to be canceled due to inclement weather. The Florida Skydiving League will return to Sebastian in April instead.
Three Florida teams then visited Skydive City last weekend to launch the 2024 outdoor season, and they were compensated for the miss in January with perfect weather. They needed only... (more)
Have you heard that registration is open for the Shamrock Showdown 2024? posted: Feb 7th, 2024 Arizona Airspeed and the French national team in 4-way Open started last year's outdoor competition season at the Shamrock Showdown in March, where France confirmed that they had taken away the 2nd place in the 4-way world from NMP PCH HayaBusa. The Belgian team had still won the silver medals at the 25th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships 2022, where France finished in 4th place behind the Qatar Tigers.
In fact, the placing order in Norway in August was exactly the same as it was at Skydive DeLand in March. Arizona Airspeed and France will copy their schedule of 2023 and launch their... (more)
Have you heard that the Golden Knights are on track back to the top of 4-way leaderboards? posted: Feb 6th, 2024 The NSL News visited the Golden Knights 4-way team during the winter training at Skydive City, and the update on January 28th included NSL Live Talk with the complete lineup and coach Niklas Hemlin.
The conversation included the introduction of new team videographer Skyler Romberg. He has replaced Andy Sippl, who was filming the team throughout the 2023 season and has moved to different assignments for the U.S. Army.
Skyler Romberg was filming the team for the first time at Skydive City and provided impressive video footage from the beginning. The Golden Knights followed up on the NSL Live... (more)
Have you heard that the Golden Knights 4-way team is currently training in Florida? posted: Jan 28th, 2024 The Golden Knights 4-way and 8-way teams have traditionally conducted their outdoor winter camps in Florida, sometimes in South Florida, sometimes in Central Florida. The current agenda of the U.S. Army's Competition Team, now supported again by command and management, resumed the tradition, and the 4-way team traveled to Skydive City, where they are in the middle of their winter camp.
They brought their coach, Arizona Airspeed's Niklas Hemlin, to Florida to continue the work that he has started with the new lineup. It was coincidence that GKXP8 members Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner happened... (more)
Have you heard that the Florida Skydiving League has a comeback in January? posted: Dec 22nd, 2023 The NSL News goes back in time until 1998, the year after the Florida Skydiving League initiated the start of the National Skydiving League. Several short articles and paragraphs of events in 1998 were recovered from other archives and copied into the NSL News database at SKYLEAGUE.COM. The currently oldest NSL News update covered 4-way activities in Florida and preparations of other new leagues joining the NSL Network.
Two of the early NSL News updates on 19 December 1998 reported the important athletic role that 4-way teams from Florida played in U.S. competition. One result of the popular... (more)
Have you heard that the Synchronicity story continued until 2006? posted: Feb 23rd, 2021 The most recent NSL Live Talk conversation, anchored by Joey Jones and posted on February 17th, covered the beginnings of the 4-way Women category at FAI/ISC events. The first separate 4-way Women leaderboard at a World Championship of Formation Skydiving was added in Spain 2001.
The guests at the NSL Live Talk, Eliana Rodriguez and Lena Jones, both competed at the first test events and at the first world meet. Eliana Rodriguez won the first FAI gold medals with Synchronicity, Lena Jones was the alternate for the bronze medal winner from Sweden, 4 Pleasure.
NSL Live Talk anchor Joey Jones... (more)