Did you know that French teams will join the 4-way network for the 2006 season? posted: May 3rd, 2006 The NSL News story on March 8 mentioned that France was planning to join the 4-way league network this year. The NSL has discussed a possible cooperation with the French national coach, Jerome David, for quite a while, while European Skydiving League manager Willy Boeykens and other ESL organizers prepared the first ESL season in France with the French Parachute Federation.
The NSL News met with Gillian Winter, French IPC Delegate and President of the French Sporting Commission, at the World Cup 2005 in Eloy. Gillian Winter is also the Chair of the IPC's Technical & Safety Committee and Advisor... (more)
Did you know that the SSL tie-breaker in round six is now on NSL-TV? posted: May 1st, 2006 Round six of the Southwest Skydiving League's April meet concludes the NSL-TV coverage of this event.
The 4-team competition in the AAA/Open Class ended with a "tie-breaker" between Elsinore Gravity and Thunder. The battle between both teams had gone back and forth throughout the first five rounds and was tied before going into round six. The slow and technical sequence (19-11-18) was not really perfectly suited to break a tie. (more)
Did you know that Spa Hayabusa scored a 45-pointer at the BST meet last weekend? posted: May 1st, 2006 The NSL News story on March 1 covered the current situation of the Belgium national 4-way team Spa Hayabusa. David Grauwels, Andy Grauwels, Sven Ibens and Roy Janssen had just won the annual wind tunnel competition in Paris, France, with impressive scores. (more)
Did you know that round five of the FSL April meet is now on NSL-TV? posted: Apr 29th, 2006 The Florida Skydiving League has now caught up on NSL-TV with round five of the April meet in Lake Wales. The video files have been uploded and are available for reviews.
The competition in the AAA/Open Class had settled at that time of the 6-round meet. The DeLand Brits, the British Army team, had created a comfortable lead over Teiwaz Lake Wales. However, the FSL team offered UK's national team for 2006 enough competition to keep the visitors from the United Kingdom alert, while they were heading toward a new team record average. (more)
Did you know that Elsinore Gravity and Thunder were tied again after round five? posted: Apr 28th, 2006 NSL-TV is back after a short break and resumes with round five of the Southwest Skydiving League's April meet. The horse race between Elsinore Gravity and Thunder in the AAA/Open Class continued as seen before. This time, Thunder was one point behind after round four and managed to eliminate the deficit in round five.
The sequence was again on the faster side (J-P-C-3), however, these two AAA/Open Class teams were locked into each other and did not let go. As in the faster round three, none of the teams could gain more than a 1-point advantage. Thunder won round five by this one point, and the... (more)
Did you know that skydivers will "Jump for Children" in Germany this June? posted: Apr 27th, 2006 The management of the World Meet 2006 this summer in Germany has already started a PR campaign that will direct public attention to the event in Gera. The NSL News story on April 1 mentioned that the first efforts were on the way, supervised by a professional PR agency.
"Jump for Children 2006" is one part of this PR campaign and was initiated to use the momentum of the World Meet's media activities for a good purpose. The event management provided the NSL News with an official press release, which introduces the event. (more)