Did you know that Evolution won the national championship with a new Canadian record average? posted: Aug 5th, 2007 The World Cup 2007 competition in Stupino, Russia, home of the annual Malevsky Cup, begins on Monday morning. No scores have been posted so far. However, other events have happened in the meantime, including the Canadian Naionals 2007.
Skydive Burnaby was the host for the event, and most of the teams that attended the official national championship had already competed at any of the CanAm 2007 events or other 4-way meets before.
Winning the Canadian championship title was only a formality for Team Evolution. The four LeMay members (father Michel with his three sons Matin, Vincent and Benoit)... (more)
Did you know that that the SCSL July meet in Elsinore had many interesting aspects? posted: Aug 3rd, 2007 The short break between the major events offers an opportunity for the NSL News to go back to previous events that have not been covered accordingly yet. The July meet of the California Skydiving League had a world-class field in the AAA Class, and one meet video of Perris Storm's Round 1 was already shown on NSL-TV earlier.
Several additional videos have now been uploaded and feature the SCSL teams of all three different competition classes with either Round 1 or Round 2. (more)
Did you know that the next major event is the upcoming World Cup 2007? posted: Aug 2nd, 2007 The last major event, the Paraclete XP Money Meet 2007, has just been completed last weekend, and the next big Formation Skydiving competition is already coming up this weekend.
The meet in Raeford featured once again two of the US top teams in the AAA Class, Airspeed Odyssey and the Golden Knights Black. It was obviously a most exciting race, which was decided by one single point on a world-class performance and scoring level.
The meet in Raeford was still only one part of last weekend's events. The current leaderboard actually shows a total of 47 teams in the AAA Class, five teams in the... (more)
Did you know that the Monkey Magic members are UK vagrants? posted: Aug 1st, 2007 The British A Class team Monkey Magic is the next team in the series of UK Grand Prix team profiles. Monkey Magic is an all-female line-up with Rai Ahmed, Viki Bingham, Jo Hawley and Zuz Tillner. Billy Payne and Yo Lee are filming the team.
The A Class team won the June meet (9.5) by one single point over team Qi and was a contender for silver medals at the July meet (8.3) where Sonic V took the first place. (more)
Did you know that Ritz - Icepick can be painful? posted: Jul 31st, 2007 The NSL News goes back to the July 21 meet weekend. One of the eleven events that weekend was the Danish Nationals 2007. The situation in Denmark had an interesting aspect since the new official national 4-way team, Danish Blaze, had to take on the former national team, the DaneZ.
Rene Andreasen, Jesper Rasmussen, Jess Romer and Mikael Toft had represented Denmark until the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2006 in Germany, where this line-up finished with an 18.0 average. The DaneZ had set new highscore records for Denmark during the team's competition career.
The DaneZ retired as... (more)
Did you know that Airspeed Odyssey's Raeford story had a happy end? posted: Jul 29th, 2007 The Grande Finale at the Paraclete XP Money Meet 2007 was just as exciting as the situation after Round 9 promised. In short words: Airspeed Odyssey gave Craig Girard the birthday gift he was hoping for. (more)