Did you know that the Skydive Chicago Furies offer an "Introduction to 4-way" this weekend? posted: May 18th, 2006 The Midwest Skydiving League is not yet launching the 2006 season. However, the teams of the league are busy preparing themselves and other skydivers for the first meet on June 3. MWSL Director Alan Butt mentioned that one of his teams, the Skydive Chicago Furies, organize an "Introduction to 4-way" this weekend at Skydive Chicago.
The Furies with Gosia Cienkosz, Lisa DeSimone, Sarah Lawrence, Shannon Sweet and Charles Lane (video) attended three meets of the MWSL 2005 season (7.2 - 10.5 - 10.6) and dominated the A Class competition of the Midwest Skydiving League last year. The great progression... (more)
Did you know that the 2006 season brings new leagues and teams? posted: May 17th, 2006 Several meets of the 2006 season have already taken place, including the SSL Valentine's Meet 2006 and the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2006, and some meet weekends had already different leagues competing at the same time.
However, it looks as if the upcoming weekend is the real start of the 2006 season. A total of ten different leagues have scheduled events for the same date, May 20-21, including three leagues in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Austria). The competition draw will be provided by the Deutsche Sky Liga in Germany and posted at the NSL website Friday evening, as usual. (more)
Did you know that last weekend's meet in Brazil was the only one producing scores? posted: May 16th, 2006 Jump plane maintenance was not a problem at the hosting skydiving center of the first Grand Prix 2006 meet in the United Kingdom, the Northwest Parachute Center Cark. However, the weather was not much better than it was in Iowa last weekend, and both events did not get started.
Andy Scott reported from overseas that 16 teams had entered across the board and were ready for the first round. The meet was provisionally re-scheduled for September 16-17 and now coincides with the date of the NSL Playoffs 2006. The new date still needs to be confirmed this week. (more)
Did you know that Spa Hayabusa's 45-pointer can now be viewed on NSL-TV? posted: May 15th, 2006 The NSL News story on May 1 reported that the Belgian national 4-way team, Spa Hayabusa, had scored a 45-pointer at the season opener of the Belgian Skydiving Trophy 2006. The same story mentioned the plans of meet management and team to request FAI recognition as a new official 4-way world record.
The NSL News story on May 5 followed up on the event with more information after all scores were posted. Spa Hayabusa member Roy Janssen had provided details of the whole competition and also mentioned that the video of the jump will soon be available for NSL-TV. (more)
Did you know that the NSL News interviewed the three PD Factory Team members of DeLand Fire? posted: May 14th, 2006 DeLand Fire and PD Factory Team members Shannon Pilcher and Ian Bobo were recently honored with Skydiving Magazine's "Skydiver of the Year" award for 2005. The NSL News was interested in the relationship between the athletes and their strongest supporter, Performance Designs, and interviewed PD's Marketing Director, Rob Wilson. The interview was posted with the NSL News story on February 24.
The topic of another interview with DeLand Fires's front piece, Natasha Montgomery and Gary Smith, was the challenge for the team to handle the two commitments of the rear piece members. This interview was... (more)
Did you know that the Australian 4-way team Airtite has new goals for the major 2006 events? posted: May 12th, 2006 The official registration of the national teams for the World Meet 2006 in Germany has slowly picked up the pace. Only Germany and Australia had all their teams signed up for quite a while, and Brazil's 4-way Open Class team CTR Optimum was one of the first registered teams, as well.
The Netherlands and Russia recently added teams to the line-up for the World Meet. The Netherlands registered one team each in the 4-way Open and Women's Class, while Russia will have teams competing in each of the eight disciplines of the World Meet, including 4-way Open, 4-way Women and 8-way. (more)