Did you know that Airspeed Velocity and Norway Arcteryx tied the highest score for round one? posted: Apr 19th, 2005 The new round of NSL-TV features the meet opener of the FSL competition in Lake Wales last weekend. The NSL-TV fans can expect a lot of footage to come in the upcoming weeks. Hopefully, the NSL headquarters will be able to keep up with the incoming footage despite the time consuming process of editing and uploading the video files.
The FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005 has only been covered until round four at this point, with six more rounds of world class 4-way competition still to come. The first round of last weekend's second FSL meet in Lake Wales hast just been uploaded, while new footage from... (more)
Did you know that Norway's Arcteryx joined the 20+ club in Lake Wales? posted: Apr 18th, 2005 The NSL News story of April 13 had just covered the performance of the Norwegian national 4-way team Arcteryx at the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005. It took only one weekend until Arcteryx would catch the attention of the NSL News once again.
Arcteryx Point Ditta Valsdottir mentioned that her team was looking for more competition practise and also for the opportunity to build confidence by posting higher scores. The second meet of the Florida Skydiving League last weekend in Lake Wales gave the Norwegian team to chance to achieve both goals. (more)
Did you know that Norway's national team Arcteryx moved up quietly at the Shamrock Showdown? posted: Apr 13th, 2005 Round four of the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005 was also the meet's best round for the Norwegian national 4-way team Arcteryx. The Norwegian score of 20 points tied Belgium's national team Spa Hayabusa's result for this round. This means more to the Arcteryx members as it might indicate on the first view. (more)
Did you know that DeLand Majik won the first prize of the Shamrock's Skins Game? posted: Apr 13th, 2005 Round four of the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005 was the first round of the Skins Game. The first three rounds were used to determine the handicaps for each team, the first prizes were given to the winner of round four after handicap. (more)
Did you know that the Fastrax judging call offered four different options? posted: Apr 12th, 2005 The last on-line judging quiz of yesterday's NSL News story surely was a difficult one. Once again and as difficult as it was to find the Majik infringement in round two, it required a sharp eye to detect the Fastrax infringement in round four. The low resolution and small NSL-TV screen does not make it much easier to be a good and sharp judge.
The first comment by a guest in the according topic of the NSL Forum found the right spot: "It's hard to tell. One adder looked keyed a bit fast (3rd page). Two of the stardians (3rd and 4th page) the flash was hidden behind a knee - you could see he... (more)
Did you know that there were six different ways for Block 5 in round four? posted: Apr 11th, 2005 Round four of the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2005 finally brought the new Block 5 (Opal - Opal) into the 4-way game. Block 12 (Bundy - Bundy) was already drawn for the first competition of the 2005 season, the SSL Valentine's Meet 2005 at Skydive Arizona in February, as well as the Star (M) as a new Random Formation.
Block 5 missed its chance in Eloy and was actually hiding again in Richard Schachner's draw box, even after ten rounds were already drawn. The Shamrock management decided to make an adjustment of the competition draw to give teams and judges the opportunity to learn more about the overhauled... (more)
Did you know that Airspeed Velocity and Norway Arcteryx tied the highest score for round one?
Did you know that Norway's Arcteryx joined the 20+ club in Lake Wales?
Did you know that Norway's national team Arcteryx moved up quietly at the Shamrock Showdown?
Did you know that DeLand Majik won the first prize of the Shamrock's Skins Game?
Did you know that the Fastrax judging call offered four different options?
Did you know that there were six different ways for Block 5 in round four?