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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)

Did you know that David Grauwels got everything that he wanted?
posted: Oct 20th, 2007 "We want that gold, it's out there, in reach. And we want that world record on our name." HayaBusa Defence's Center Outside, David Grauwels, had made the above statement after Round 5 when his team had just lost a comfortable 3-point lead to the Golden Knights. He eventually got everything that he wanted, but it didn't come easily. The Belgian team won the next round by one point and posted a new CISM world record with the 41-pointer in Round 7. However, even the new world record was not enough to shake off the Golden Knights. The meet was not over yet. The US Army team scored a 40-pointer... (more)

Did you know that HayaBusa Defence added energy in Round 6?
posted: Oct 19th, 2007 The NSL News continues with the coverage of the 4th CISM Military World Games in India before moving on to other interesting topics. The duel between Hayabusa Defence and the Golden Knights is exciting enough for an ongoing coverage, and Danny Jacobs continues to send the latest meet videos of the Belgian team. This time, the HayaBusa video of Round 6 is available, and David Grauwels also knew the score of the Golden Knights (31) after watching the jump. However, the official website of the event is very late with posting the scores and currently shows only the leaderboard after Round 4. (more)

Did you know that the Golden Knights's caught up with speed in Round 5?
posted: Oct 18th, 2007 HayaBusa Defence's 3-point lead in India lasted only for one jump and one day. It was not only reduced to a lower number, it melted away in Round 5. HayaBusa's Center Outside, David Grauwels, explained what happened: "We had a glitch. It started in the Star. We built a mis-shaped Meeker, followed by a mis-shaped Stairstep Diamond. This resulted that the start of Block 10 (Diamond - Bunyip) cost us a moment and points." (more)