Did you know that everybody was a winner in the Northwest Skydiving League? posted: Aug 4th, 2005 With beautiful blue skies, views of snow capped mountain tops, the Puget Sound, and competitors eager to jump, the Northwest Skydiving League held its second meet of the 2005 season in Snohomish, Washington. Three teams competed with the local Washington and traveling Oregon mixture.
Elsinore Vengeance has been training since February with the newest team member filling the Point position, Lisa Albrecht. Vengeance also has a new team videographer who joined the team this year, Luke Nevin. Deb and Dave Correia have switched their slots of Inside Center and Tail. Jeff Smith returned as the Outside... (more)
Did you know that Elsinore Equinox leaped to a whole new scoring level last weekend? posted: Aug 3rd, 2005 Hot off the 18-team showing for the June meet of the Southwest Skydiving League at the host of the USPA Championship 2005, Perris Valley, 14 teams arrived at Skydive Elsinore for the final meet of the regular SSL 2005 season. With record breaking heat well into the 100's expected for the day and thunderheads in the distance, wheels were up early at 8:15 a.m.
With the June meet winner Perris Fury absent due to a scheduling conflict, the AAA Class looked to be the best competition of the day, and it did not disappoint. With eight teams in attendance, including Fastrax Select visiting from their... (more)
Did you know that meet traveling brings fun and experiences? posted: Aug 2nd, 2005 Several teams have already used the opportunity of combining winter training camps in the southern parts of the country with attendance at earlier NSL meets in Florida, Arizona or California. That is nothing very new. It has also become normal operation that team members travel to locations far away to attend team training camps and competitions.
It is more unusual when teams decide to compete at different locations, which are outside of the geographical area of the "home league". Other reasons for a longer road or air trip, beside the winter or spring training locations, can be that the team's... (more)
Did you know that the results of the NSL SkyVenture Orlando Competition on June 18 are now posted? posted: Aug 1st, 2005 The NSL headquarters has still not been able to fix the flaw that has been bothering the calculation of the handicap for the NSL SkyVenture Orlando Competition. However, the flaw does not interfere with the scores of all meet weekends. It is in the way whenever teams compete that have attended meet in different leagues.
Some meet weekends still have to wait for the final calculations, while others can already be processed at this point in time. The NSL now took on the meet weekend of June 18 and added the scores after handicap to the previous results of the NSL SkyVenture Orlando Competition.... (more)
Did you know that 4-way records tumbled in Canada and the UK? posted: Aug 1st, 2005 CanAm Skydiving League Director Scott Anderson surprised the NSL News last week, exactly on July 27, with a message that was related to the Canadian Championship 2005. He forwarded a note that he received through the CSPA (Canadian Sport Parachuting Association) chat list:
"This morning at 08:39 a Twin Otter took off from the Canadian Nationals in Farnham. Team Stratosphere exited and set a new Canadian Record for 4-way Formation Skydiving with 26 points. At 09:15 am, the Twin Otter took off again, and team Evolution broke that record by scoring 32 points. Both these jumps were round two of... (more)
Did you know that the Fastrax website offers sophisticated free features for 4-way teams and competitors? posted: Jul 31st, 2005 The Fastrax banner on the NSL website has made room for an advertisement promoting a service that is related to the activities of the whole Team Fastrax staff, as well. John Hart's brother David is heading a special consulting service with a vision that reaches out to the corporate business world, the "Jump Institute":
"We offer learning opportunities and services that educate and inspire people to action. Based on powerful skydiving-related metaphors, our insightful seminars, in-depth training sessions and comprehensive supporting material will stimulate organizations to action, and ultimately... (more)