Did you know that MidAtlantic Skydiving League team Cross Keys O2 Project completed the line-up? posted: Jul 28th, 2004 The NSL News reported on July 13th that MASL team Cross Keys O2 Project had bad luck when the Center Inside of the team, Tom Petzold, broke his wrist, caused by a bad landing under his reserve. Petzold was in good shape, however, the season was over for him. O2 Project was looking for a replacement.
The MASL team decided after much discussion among the remaining teamates to extend coach Brian Johnson's role and use him as the team's player coach for the remainder of the 2004 season. Johnson is also a member of the new 4-way team DeLand Scape, together with Pete Allum, Michael Biederman, Rusty... (more)
Did you know that last weekend's events included a high-profile international competition in Europe? posted: Jul 27th, 2004 The current overview of last weekend's scores offers a colorful mixture of teams that competed at the Texas Skydiving League event in Dallas and at three different locations in Germany. The overview is not even complete yet since the scores from Belgium are still missing.
One of Germany's Deutsche Sky Liga events, the "Nuggets Cup" attracted additional teams, which are not regulars at the DSL competitions. In fact, three national teams from Europe used last weekend's opportunity to test their skills at the Leutkirch drop zone in the southern part of Germany. Each of the events applied the same... (more)
Did you know that the Northwest Skydiving League adds the latest NWSLmeet story? posted: Jul 26th, 2004 The Texas Skydiving League was the first one to publish and provide scores of last weekend's competition. While more information, including scores from Europe, are coming in, the Northwest Skydiving League added the meet story of the July 17 event to the NWSL scores.
Saturday July 17 started out with very blue skies. Five teams were on site and eager to jump. Getting Skydive Oregon's Twinotter off the ground at 9:00 a.m. was, perhaps, the earliest take-off this season. Unfortunately, the weather did not hold for the whole day. As a result, the video was a bit unusual in rounds two and three... (more)
Did you know that 50 teams were in the race for free SkyVenture tunnel time on the July 17 weekend? posted: Jul 24th, 2004 This weekend's competition is already on the way, while the results of the last NSL SkyVenture Competition are now posted below. It took longer than usual since it was a very busy weekend with a total of 50 teams competing at the same time at several locations in the USA, and also at additional skydiving centers in Europe. (more)
Did you know that the faster engineering might have won the gold medal at the Malevsky Cup 2004? posted: Jul 23rd, 2004 How much closer could it be? DeLand Majik was one point behind France Maubeuge going into round ten. It was already exciting enough to watch how the US team reduced the French three-point lead to one point, frame by frame in the first two rounds of the last meet day. The teams have been so close to each other in rounds eight and nine that it was difficult to imagine a difference of more than one point in a round. (more)
Did you know that a new round of the Southwest Skydiving League is now on NSL-TV? posted: Jul 22nd, 2004 The recent NSL-TV coverage of the Malevsky Cup 2004 took away a lot of attention from the usual NSL-TV coverage of the NSL meets. After a little reminder from the audience, it is now time to continue with meets that have been on a hold for a while. The Malevsky Cup coverage is almost at the end anyway, only round ten is missing, which will be added later today. (more)