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Did you know that Thomas Hughes' story completes the NSL case studies?
posted: Dec 31st, 2004 The NSL News covered the details of Pete Allum's eligibility status with the news story on December 24. Thomas Hughes' situation with Arizona Blade and the new DeLand team (Montgomery, Smith, Pilcher, Bobo) actually initiated the discussion and coverage of the rule situation. Hughes has British citizenship, and he has a U.S. passport, as well. He already won USPA gold medals with DeLand Tunnel Rage in the Intermediate Class competition of the USPA Championship 2000 in Perris. Then he competed together with Pete Allum as members of the British national 4-way team "XL" at the World Championship... (more)

Did you know that a new round of NSL-TV shows more skydiving of the recent "NSL case studies"?
posted: Dec 26th, 2004 Round five of the NSL Championship 2004 can now be viewed on NSL-TV. It offers the next opportunity to study Arizona Blade with Thomas Hughes in the Center Outside position and Point Natasha Montgomery. The recent NSL News stories covered Montgomery's and Hughes' new team plans with Gary Smith, Shannon Pilcher and Ian Bobo in the 2005 line-up. The news initiated an interesting discussion at the NSL Forum, which mostly gives Montgomery credit for her efforts to put the new team together. By the way: the NSL Forum was down for a little while due to attacks on the sophisticated program set up by... (more)

Did you know that Thomas Hughes and Pete Allum had to study the FAI rules?
posted: Dec 24th, 2004 NSL fans were interested in the details of the eligibility status for the former XL members Thomas Hughes and Pete Allum. Both world class competitors competed for the United Kingdom at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2003 in Gap, France. XL with Thomas Hughes, Pete Allum, Steve Hamilton, John McIver and Rob Stevenson on video missed the bronze medal by one single point at the Mondial 2003. Then the team discontinued and none of the team members competed at any IPC sanctioned international meet in 2004 (Malevsky World Cup in Russia, World Championship in Croatia). Both Allum and... (more)

Did you know that the IPC prepares for rule changes at the February meeting in Poland?
posted: Dec 23rd, 2004 Sharp observers of the recent NSL News noticed that the eligibility situation for Pete Allum with the Italian team Sinapsi PD and for Thomas Hughes as the videographer for the new team with Natasha Montgomery, Gary Smith, Shannon Pilcher and Ian Bobo is quite interesting. Allum and Hughes were team mates when they both competed with the British national 4-way team XL at the Mondial 2003 in France. The NSL News will soon follow up with more information and a closer look at the specific rules. The NSL News stories of these international competitors coincide with a recent update of the international... (more)

Did you know that Arizona Blade members have new plans for the 2005 season?
posted: Dec 22nd, 2004 The NSL News recently posted an interview with the NSL 2004 champions of Arizona Blade, Natasha Montgomery and Thomas Hughes. Both were not ready to elaborate on their plans for the future by then (December 9). However, it took only two more weeks for Montgomery and Hughes to prepare and finalize the plans for the new season. Arizona Blade had only plans for the 2004 season and will not continue as a team. Montgomery and Hughes explained to the NSL News that the 2004 season was a wonderful and very successful season for the team. However, new goals and several different reasons were leading... (more)

Did you know that the Danez and coach Pete Allum have separated?
posted: Dec 20th, 2004 Round four of the NSL Championship 2004 is now on NSL-TV. The Danez, national 4-way team of Denmark, present the sequence of this round. The Danish champion combined a November training camp in DeLand with the attendance at the 4-way competition of SkyQuest 2004. It was another stop on the Danish schedule to win world meet medals at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving in 2006. The NSL News had introduced the Danish 4-way project with previous articles. (more)