Did you know that the complete AA Class field will only be known Saturday night? posted: Oct 20th, 2006 NSL-TV follows up with round five of the NSL Playoffs 2006 very quickly this time. This offers the valued audience one more opportunity to look at some of the teams, which will compete at the USPA Nationals 2006 beginning this weekend on Sunday. (more)
Did you know that Perris Fury and Elsinore Gravity will probably try to steal a round? posted: Oct 19th, 2006 Round four of the NSL Playoffs 2006 brought the same sequence (6-K-18) for all teams competing in the AAA Class and also in the AA Class. One of the interesting aspects of this round is the fact that none of the first five teams on the AA Class leaderboard was able to complete the second page and get to the highscore of 10 points.
Only the CSC Sirens (6th), CSC Rubicon (8th) and Air Force 7XY (12th) completed Block 18 (Zircon - Zircon) on the second page and were rewarded with the highscore of round four. Eleven teams came to the first Zircon and ran out of working time for the completion of... (more)
Did you know that DC3 won the VPC Championship 2006? posted: Oct 18th, 2006 Two more events wrapped up the regular 2006 season, one competition in Brazil, the other one in Virginia. The remaining two events on the NSL Calendar of Events are the USPA Nationals 2006 and the NSL Championship 2006. The event in Eloy will be brought to the audience under NSL News Special Events coverage, while the NSL Championship is a part of SkyQuest 2006.
The Virginia Parachute Council held its final competition of the 2006 season at Skydive Orange, Inc on Oct 8th. It was a weather shortened meet of only four rounds, but it was the biggest turnout of the year. Four teams participated... (more)
Did you know that the Golden Knights come back with a world class line-up? posted: Oct 17th, 2006 It has been a quiet and interesting competition season for the Golden Knights in 2006. The NSL News introduced the new line-up for the 2006 season with the story on January 2. The new line-up included a female Army member, Angela Nichols, for the first time in the Golden Knights history, and the training agenda included many competitions.
The plans were completely different than the outcome at the beginning of the year, as team captain Brian "BK" Krause explained in the NSL News story on February 21. Next he had to look back at changes of the original plan and problems for the Army team this... (more)
Did you know that Team Fastrax could be in the way of the complete Airspeed sweep? posted: Oct 16th, 2006 The NSL News has begun with the coverage of the USPA Nationals 2006. Several stories were already related to the competition that will start on Sunday in Eloy. The event pages have now been added, and more stories will follow very soon.
The USPA Nationals 2006 are not the qualification event for the next World Championship of Formation Skydiving, 2006 is a so-called "off-year" for the US teams. However, there is still enough meaning in the race for the top spots on the AAA/Open Class leaderboard. (more)
Did you know that Natasha Montgomery and Thomas Hughes re-build the front piece for Airspeed Velocity? posted: Oct 13th, 2006 The NSL News story on October 10 introduced a new world class line-up with three of the current 4-way world champions of DeLand Fire, Gary Smith, Shannon Pilcher and Ian Bobo. Solly Williams is the fourth member of this team. The same story mentioned that the NSL News will follow up with the plans of the remaining two former DeLand Fire members, Natasha Montgomery (Point) and Thomas Hughes (Alternate).
Actually, it did not take too much imagination to speculate successfully on the couple's plans. Thomas Hughes has trained and competed with Arizona Airspeed this year. The Airspeed focus was set... (more)