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Did you know that DeLand Equanimity and Sebastian XL tested the league format already in 1997?
posted: Dec 8th, 2006 The NSL News recently explored the very beginnings of the National Skydiving League and found very interesting material, including videos of the top teams by then. Two articles covered two of the busiest competition teams in 4-way history (November 14 on DeLand Genesis, December 2 on Z-Spot) and the first two years of the NSL in 1998 and 1999. Today's story goes even a little bit further back in time. The project of the National Skydiving League was actually prepared with a test run beginning in November 1996 in Florida. The first season of the Florida Skydiving League was publicly announced... (more)

Did you know that the Shamrock Showdown 2007 is already in the works?
posted: Dec 7th, 2006 The 2006 competition season has just been completed in the USA, while one more event is still on the NSL News agenda. Brazil holds its national championship this weekend. The event management in the South American country, which also runs an affiliated 4-way league, has asked the NSL to post the competition draw and the scores on the NSL website. The NSL News will follow up with the meet story as soon as the information is available. (more)

Did you know that Fast + Furious competed at SkyQuest 2003 and 2006?
posted: Dec 6th, 2006 The first meet videos of the NSL Championship at SkyQuest 2006 have been uploaded and are now available. The footage includes the jumps of Fast + Furious, Optic Nerve, Teiwaz Lake Wales and Air Force CAD, and the first round of the competition can now be viewed on NSL-TV. (more)

Did you know that Perris Fury is looking for a committed 2007 videographer?
posted: Dec 5th, 2006 The new NSL-TV videos feature round six of the USPA Nationals 2006. Unfortunately, the DeLand Groove video of this round is the only one missing of the provided original footage. The valued NSL-TV audience will miss the moving pictures of the round where the new USPA champion finally broke the tie with Team Fastrax and increased the lead over all other contenders by at least two points. DeLand Groove will be back on NSL-TV when it's time for round seven. NSL-TV has made an effort to compensate for the missing video by creating a page with links to all previously shown videos of the USPA Nationals... (more)

Did you know that Z-Spot attended 24 meets in 1998 and 1999?
posted: Dec 2nd, 2006 The NSL News story on November 14 went back to the beginning stages of the National Skydiving League and the first championship event in 1998. The same story discovered that DeLand Genesis attended 11 meets in 1998 and 16 meets in 1999. Team members Shannon Pilcher and Ian Bobo confirmed in a recent interview that this competition practice was very beneficial for their skydiving career. The NSL News became even more interested in this part of the NSL history after the championship and Genesis story. The NSL archives provided additional information about other teams with a busy competition schedule... (more)

Did you know that a team order of NSL Gloves brings an update from Sweden?
posted: Dec 1st, 2006 The recent news stories covered mostly events in the USA. A current order of NSL Gloves directed the NSL News back to the international Formation Skydiving competition community. It was a team order from Sweden and obviously related to the latest sales special for NSL Gloves in the NSL Shop. The Swedish 4-way Team Spaï made the NSL News several times this year, due to a very exciting race for the honors to become the national team for Sweden at the World Meet 2006. The last story on July 30 was a summary of the 2006 season and included the sad news for Team Spaï that the team finally missed... (more)