Did you know that a Rookie Class race concluded the British Grand Prix 2006 season? posted: Sep 29th, 2006 The 4-way Grand Prix series in Great Britain came to the end of the 2006 season on the same weekend when the NSL Playoffs 2006 took place. The 5th Grand Prix competition completed a very successful year with many new teams, great competition and competitive scores.
The British Grand Prix joined the European Skydiving League on a full scale this year and included all four competition classes throughout the five meets of the 2006 season. Eight British teams also competed at the ESL Championship 2006 in Belgium and together collected points for the cumulative Spirit scoring. Great Britain as a... (more)
Did you know that Tim Wagner and Tim Stevens cover the next phase of the Fun Flag history? posted: Sep 28th, 2006 The ominous Fun Flag has made the NSL News several times in the past years, mostly when international Formation Skydiving competitions were on the agenda. The NSL News story on September 13 was an effort to go back to the very beginnings of the Fun Flag history. Former 8-way world champion, Golden Knight Chris Wagner, was around at that time, and he had posted his story at the Omniskore website long ago.
Omniskore's T2, Tim Wagner, followed up at the same location of Omniskore's website with his own story. He is Chris Wagner's brother and used to compete with the Golden Knights, as well. Tim... (more)
Did you know that two FSL teams attended seven meets of the 2006 season so far? posted: Sep 27th, 2006 NSL-TV began the coverage of the NSL Playoffs 2006 weekend with all competition jumps of the event in Colorado. The competition jumps of the Florida Skydiving League event have now been added to the NSL-TV page. Round one is currently featured, and links to all other meet jumps are already set, as well.
Three teams competed at the Florida Skydiving Center in Lake Wales and represented the Florida Skydiving Lague in three of the four competition classes. (more)
Did you know that Italy's Arianna de Benedetti provides her memories of the World Meet 2006? posted: Sep 25th, 2006 Arianna de Benedetti's NSL Profile was recently updated. Sinapsi PD's Center Outside of the past three World Meets in France 2003, Croatia 2004 and Germany 2006 has been in pursuit of a place on the winners' podium ever since she joined the team. Her profile story has shown how eager she was to win a medal.
She finally succeeded in her third attempt, together with her Sinapsi PD members Pete Allum, Luca Marchioro, Livio Piccolo and Luca Poretti, and joined Natasha Montgomery and Lise Aune as the only female medal winners at world championships in the history of 4-way Formation Skydiving competition.... (more)
Did you know that new NSL-TV of the NSL Playoffs 2006 comes from Colorado? posted: Sep 22nd, 2006 The Colorado Skydiving League takes care of this weekend's on-line entertainment for everybody who is not skydiving and/or might have to wait out any weather situation. COSL Director Travis Roth provided the meet videos of each jump that was made at the NSL Playoffs 2006 weekend, and they are all posted at the separate NSL-TV event page already. (more)
Did you know that Lisa Albrecht is ready for her comeback with Vengeance? posted: Sep 21st, 2006 The next meet report of the NSL Playoffs 2006 weekend came in from the Northwest Skydiving League. NWSL Director Harry Waller wrote the story for the NSL News.
The last meet of the NWSL 2006 season got a slow start, with a typical September day in the Northwest: low clouds - and lots of them! While the jumpers were ready to go by the planned 9:00 am wheels up, the huge early morning hole over the DZ closed at about 8:50 am. It was many hours later before we got in the air, and we had to exit early several times.
Three teams participated, two in the AA Class and one pick-up Rookie Class team... (more)