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Did you know that good celebration compensated for bad weather in DeLand?
posted: Oct 29th, 2007 No scores of the NSL Championship 2007 were posted on Friday or Saturday, and the weather forecast for Sunday was not very promising. However, there were enough other events in DeLand last weekend that made it easier to stand the weather pain. In fact, the combination of not much hope for jumping on Sunday and a great crowd on site to celebrate Skydive DeLand's 25-year anniversary and Norman Kent's filming achievements was not the greatest foundation for an early start on Sunday morning. 8:00 am was the official take-off time for the first competition load on Sunday, even though nobody really... (more)

Did you know that Perris Momentum had bad luck with weather in California and Florida?
posted: Oct 27th, 2007 The teams at the NSL Championship 2007 have not had much luck with the weather yet. Friday afternoon and Saturday went by without any skydiving activities in DeLand so far. One of the three teams from California, Perris Momentum, was troubled by bad weather conditions even twice. Two of the original team members, Tom Brotherton and Nate Halprin, were already on the way to Florida when the wild fires in California threatened their homes, and they had to cancel the trip to the east coast. (more)

Did you know that Mattias Nord is the new Center Inside for Arcteryx?
posted: Oct 25th, 2007 Norway's national 4-way team, Arcteryx, has been covered by the NSL News many times ever since the team was founded in 2004. It was already a challenging task for the original Arcteryx line-up (Ditta Valsdottir, Ole Petter Hjelle, Oyvind Buer, Tore Buer) to fill the space of the retired DeLand Norgies (Lise Aune, Carl-Erik Tuv, Torstein Valen, Pal Kolbenstvedt). The DeLand Norgies were a world-class team and challenged the very top positions at each international meet between 1998 and 2003. They consecutively won bronze medals for Norway at three World Championships of Formation Skydiving (Australia... (more)

Did you know that HayaBusa Defence has room for improvements?
posted: Oct 24th, 2007 HayaBusa Defence's Outside Center, David Grauwels, filled the team's website with information throughout the 4th CISM Military World Games in India, and the NSL News used some of his commentary for the daily updates. Tail Roy Janssen is usually the team speaker who provides the NSL News with information about the team's activities. He is now wrapping up the NSL News coverage of the event with his own summary. (more)

Did you know that Mr. Pink had a re-union this month?
posted: Oct 23rd, 2007 It has been quite a while since Mr. Pink, a 4-way team from Georgia, was mentioned the last time by the NSL News. The story on January 18 did not even cover any team activities this year. It just provided a review of the history of the Georgia Skydiving League. Mr. Pink is a part of the GSL history, as the story explains. However, the last time that Mr. Pink competed with a complete line-up was at the NSL Championship 2003. GSL co-founder Glen Hauenstein, Mike Gruwell, Jennifer Gruwell and Robert May won the NSL bronze medals at SkyQuest 2003 with a 12.2 average. DeLand Majik won the NSL Shugar... (more)

Did you know that Sean Sweeney gets his chance in 8-way?
posted: Oct 22nd, 2007 The line-up of the new US national 8-way team, Knight Trax, has a new member. The combination of Team Fastrax Red (John Hart, Thomas Hughes, Doug Park), the Golden Knights (Matt Davidsen, Kurt Isenbarger, John Hoover, Brian Krause) and Solly Williams placed 2nd at the USPA Nationals 2007 and became the new US 8-way team when Arizona Airspeed decided not to compete at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2008 in France. Former 4-way world champion with DeLand Majik, Solly Williams, had filled the open slot for Fastrax member Niklas Hemlin who decided not to compete in 8-way at the USPA... (more)