Did you know that Craig Girard's April vision materialized already in Russia? posted: Jul 25th, 2007 The NSL News had promised a live interview with Airspeed Odyssey after the Malevsky Cup 2007. This interview has now been uploaded and can be viewed by clicking here.
The interview was recorded a few hours after Airspeed Odyssey had completed the ten rounds of the competition in Russia with a new 26.0 record meet average.
The video of the interview comes along with the videos of Round 2 at Bodyflight Bedford's World Challenge 2007. Airspeed Odyssey had won the tunnel competition with a 28.0 average after ten rounds. (more)
Did you know that teams from Sweden had the top spots in two classes last weekend? posted: Jul 25th, 2007 Last weekend's leaderboard is almost complete, only the scores from Virginia are still missing. The Northwest Skydiving League had bad weather luck once again. The first NWSL meet of the 2007 season in June was already weathered out, and it wasn't much different last weekend in Oregon.
NWSL Director Harry Waller has learned to take it easy over the years: "Sorry, no scores and meet pictures from here, unfortunately everyone has seen rain before and once again last weekend."
He reported that there were beautiful blue skies on the Friday before the meet and began with the last preparations... (more)
Did you know that Teiwaz scrambled the two line-ups together Saturday morning? posted: Jul 24th, 2007 The July meet of the Florida Skydiving League was the 5th competition for the FSL teams so far this year, and it attracted once again six teams to Skydive DeLand on a hot summer day. Even the same two line-ups from Skydive Miami in Homestead, which both competed in June in DeLand, made the same trip last weekend.
ZT Mal4mations has attended each FSL meet this year and copied the 5.7 average of the June meet, while their Miami Vice friends improved the meet average from 3.2 to 3.6 in the Rookie Class. Javier Aguerrevere (Tail), Shiva Krovi (Point) and Pedro Diaz Pow Sang (Center Outside) seem... (more)
Did you know that more freeflyers joined the 4-way meet at Cross Keys' Karp Cup 2007? posted: Jul 24th, 2007 Skydive Cross Keys in New Jersey hosted the 5th annual Karp Cup 4-way meet last weekend honoring the life of Seth Karp, team member and Point of the former MASL team Jetstream.
The turnout for the meet was the largest yet with two Rookie Class teams, four teams in the A Class and two teams in the AA Class. In addition to the eight 4-way teams Skydive Cross Keys had over 200 tandems scheduled due to a police tandem charity event for Special Olympics and an unusually large volume of spectators. Fortunately for all, the weather was spectacular.
The two teams competing in the AA Class, Controlled... (more)
Did you know that the first video of last weekend's meet in Elsinore is now on NSL-TV? posted: Jul 20th, 2007 The NSL News services were grounded for a few days due to computer problems. The recovery went quicker and better than expected, and the on-line operation should be back in full swing early enough for the upcoming busy meet weekend.
NSL-TV quickly uploaded a new meet video as soon as the main computer had recovered from a virus attack. It is Perris Storm's Round 1 of last weekend's exciting competition in Elsinore. (more)
Did you know that the new French B-teams posted their first scores last weekend? posted: Jul 18th, 2007 Last weekend's 4-way competition calendar also included the second event of the Coupe de France 2007. Unfortunately, a communication error did not allow the synchronization of the competition draw in France with the other events that took place within the NSL network.
However, the scores from France have now been posted, and the competition draw of the second Coupe de France event in Maubeuge was heavily loaded with blocks. The eight completed rounds in the AAA Class included 17 of the 22 blocks and only nine of the 16 random formations. Only the first round of the meet (7-K-E-P) allowed the... (more)