Did you know that there were several more AAA Stars in Florida? posted: Jun 6th, 2005 The first part of the April 16 NSL-TV was posted with the NSL News on June 4th. The videos came from the Southwest Skydiving League event at Skydive Arizona in Eloy and included round four of Airspeed Odyssey and Velocity.
The new meet videos of the Florida Skydiving League meet in Lake Wales on the same weekend complete the coverage of round four. More 540 degree turns can be viewed in the AAA and AA Class, and more Stars at the end of the sequence in the AAA Class only. (more)
Did you know that Spa Hayabusa's 16-pointer highscore was real and correct? posted: May 31st, 2005 The NSL News apologizes to the Belgium national 4-way team Spa Hayabusa and event judge Richard Schachner for the related incorrect comments in the May 30 story. The NSL News did not consider the fact that a re-jump was granted to the Belgium team when round eight of the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005 was posted on NSL-TV.
The Hayabusa jump on NSL-TV until today was the first time the Belgian team was in the air for round eight. The meet management later granted a re-jump for Hayabusa. The repeater was judged while the other teams continued with the next round, and the correct score of 16 points... (more)
Did you know that Block 2 was the troublemaker of round eight? posted: May 30th, 2005 The new NSL-TV show features round eight of the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005. It was the last jump of the first meet day at Skydive DeLand on March 19, 2005. The sequence for this round (22-2-1) was one of the two slowest in the 10-round meet, and it gave teams and officials a hard time.
The top teams were apparently not on their peak performance level any longer, possible due to an extraordinary long day of 4-way competition. The NSL News cannot recall any 4-way competition where eight rounds were completed on the same day. However, the official IPC and USPA rules do not limit the number of rounds... (more)
Did you know that Teiwaz has many faces? posted: May 24th, 2005 The summer weather pattern has already taken control over skydiving competition in Florida. The complete scoreboard of the past weekend shows that 67 of the currently listed 77 teams completed six rounds. Six of the ten teams with a lower number of rounds competed at the third 2005 meet of the Florida Skydiving League.
The Saturday morning in DeLand offered the usual blue skies. However, the clouds began building up in the later morning, and a summer storm was finally ready to hit the event area when the fifth round of the competition was almost completed. Teams and competitors waited for the... (more)
Did you know that the first part of April's round three is now on NSL-TV? posted: May 18th, 2005 NSL-TV continues with the coverage of the April meet weekend where teams of the Florida and the Southwest Skydiving League competed in Lake Wales and Eloy. The NSL News story of May 11 covered the second round of the SSL meet and allowed the SSL-TV to catch up with the FSL-TV.
The coverage of the next and third round begins with the FSL teams, including the highscorer in Lake Wales, Norway's national 4-way team Arcteryx. The meet videos of the Southwest Skydiving League will be added to the NSL-TV coverage of round three later today. (more)
Did you know that the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005 included a German race for the top spot? posted: May 13th, 2005 DeLand Majik's infringement situation in round seven was not very difficult to find. It was quite obvious that the Icepick of Block 19 (Ritz - Icepick) on the fourth page was not complete when grips on the outside were dropped.
It did not take much time for Majik's Center Inside, Doug Park, to realize the damage, shake it off and move on. In fact, there was no Majik hesitation at all. Park tried for a moment to get to the missing grip and instantly continued to the first Bipole of Block 14 when he saw the other three Majik member move forward. It shows the great experience of the world champion... (more)