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Did you know that how the Russian 8-way team qualified for this world meet?
posted: Sep 19th, 2004 The most exciting part of this year's national championship in Russia was the 8-way competition. Russia had only one very strong 8-way team in the last decade, which finally captured the 8-way sword Excalibur and the gold medals for Russia for the first time in 8-way history in 2001. The same team defended the gold medals in a nerve wrecking battle, including jump-off and tie-breaker, at the Mondial 2003 in France. However, there was already ain interesting story behind the Russian 8-way situation in 2003. The winning Russian 8-way team was disbandoned after the success at the world meet in... (more)

Did you know that the 8-way competition has begun in Croatia?
posted: Sep 19th, 2004 The NSL News reported earlier on the 8-way situation in France. The French 8-way teams completed only seven rounds at the 2004 championship. Similar to the current situation in Russia, France has now two 8-way teams on world class medal level. Hautes Alpes is not the national 8-way team. It was formed after the Mondial 2003 with former 8-way members of the 1995, 1999 and 2003 teams. They do not train a lot together and compete just for the fun of competition. All members (Ferre, Grisoni, Losantos, Zunino, Ars, Negrier, Vazille, Auvray) already retired after many years of training and competition... (more)

Did you know that Synchronicity brings a one-point lead into today's round three?
posted: Sep 19th, 2004 Rijeka woke up to perfect weather conditions on Sunday morning. The winds are calm, the sun is shining, morning chill was in the air. The only concern that remained at the end of a perfect first day of competition on Saturday was the aircraft situation on Sunday morning. The announced schedule included Accuracy, 4-way Women and 8-way. Each of these three events would need the MI-8 as the jump plane, according to the event rules. The difficulty was that the Accuracy event takes place at a stadium downtown Rijeka, while the Formation Skydiving events are being held at the airport. Rumors were... (more)

Did you know that round three in the 4-way Open went to Italy's Sinapsi PD?
posted: Sep 18th, 2004 DeLand Majik's streak of flawless performance ended in round three. The leader on the scoreboard in Rijeka completed 21 points within working time and received a score of 17 points for the same round. A rough finish of Block 19 (Ritz - Icepick) was not accepted by three of the five judges (2,3,4) and caused the first penalty. A different 3-2 combination of judges (1,2,4) also decided that the inter from the Icepick to the Hook was incorrect. Two judges called both infringements, two judges called only one of the two situations, and one judge did not see any infringements. (more)

Did you know that the 4-way Women's competition has now begun?
posted: Sep 18th, 2004 Round two of the 4-way Open event is complete, and DeLand Majik has increased the lead to two points. This time, the judges needed only one viewing for both of the top teams. However, Majik's jump was still cleaner and again a little bit quicker. Round three will be called later today. In the meantime, the teams of the 4-way Women's event have been called to the MI-8. Round one is on the agenda. The defending champion, UK's V-Max, is not present in Rijeka to defend the title. V-Max competed this year at the Malevsky World Cup 2004, however, the team has not trained ever since the Mondial 2003... (more)

Did you know that the logistics put teams and management to the test in Croatia?
posted: Sep 18th, 2004 Let's begin with the bad news. The last day before the start of the competition had most people shake their heads and wonder how this could all work. The weather had been so bad for the whole week prior to the meet that the highest number of training jumps for the teams on site in Rijeka was two. Many of the teams that arrived early enough to use the Friday for training jumps did not get in the air over Croatia at all. A strong wind had followed the bad-weather front and did not allow any jumping. Round one of the world meet would be the first jump for these teams. (more)