Did you know that Hayabusa challenges the defending champion in Belgium this year? posted: Feb 16th, 2004 Today is a good opportunity to finish the Belgian story before the scores of the season opener in Eloy will arrive at the NSL headquarters and keep the NSL News busy. The story of the tough Belgium 4-way competition to be expected this year still misses the introduction of the challenger.
The NSL News of February 9th covered the history of the Belgium 4-way competition and the situation of the defending champion, NMPV, the Belgium Army team. Team Hayabusa is getting ready to stop or at least interrupt the dominance of the current Belgian national team. The chances are better than ever before.
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Did you know that Denmark was aiming at 4-way gold medals in 2006? posted: Feb 11th, 2004 It happens once in a while that FAI medals don't go to the three mighty Formation Skydiving powerhouses (United States, France, Russia) at the FAI world meets. NMP PCH HayaBusa, who have been dominating the 4-way event since 2014, are the best current example that a small country like Belgium can create these exceptions.
Denmark did not win 4-way or 8-way gold, however, the national 4-way teams of 1993 (Team DK) and 1995 (Touché) won two sets of FAI bronze medals. Denmark's newly formed national team after the FAI World Meet 2003 had plans to copy the success, as Pete Allum explained in an... (more)
Did you know that HayaBusa defeated NMP at the Belgian qualification in 2004? posted: Feb 9th, 2004 HayaBusa and Airspeed are probably in another competition for the most popular words and names in the NSL News database. Both teams go farther back in time than the current NSL website, and Arizona Airspeed is even several years ahead of NMP PCH HayaBusa.
The NSL News has been publishing interviews with Formation Skydiving celebrities that were recorded before SKYLEAGUE.COM was launched in 2003. There were also a few NSL News updates of these earliest days of online event and news coverage that were added into the database, and there will be plenty of more to come after all the early interviews... (more)
Did you know that the European Skydiving League continues to grow? posted: Jan 30th, 2004 While the teams in the U.S.A. are only two weeks away from the first competition of the new year, the European Skydiving League will launch the 2004 season in April. NSL teams can already attend the Valentine's Meet 2004 at Skydive Arizona on February 14-15 that has now been included in the schedule of the Southwest Skydiving League.
The Florida Skydiving League will be next on March 12-14 with the third version of the FSL Shamrock Showdown at Skydive DeLand. SSL and FSL will then hold their second season meet in April before the European Skydiving League will run its first 2004 competition... (more)
Did you know that the Carolina Skydiving League is having a 2004 Planning Meeting? posted: Jan 27th, 2004 The Carolina Skydiving League will have a 2004 planning and scheduling meeting in Raeford, NC on Friday, January 30th at 8:00 PM. (more)
Did you know that Denmark has plans for a new pursuit of medals at the World Meet? posted: Jan 24th, 2004 The NSL News interviewed Sebastian XL member Pete Allum in November last year. The full-time coach and world class competitor had just moved to DeLand and was hired as the new national coach of the Danish 4-way team. Allum mentioned in the interview that "the team will make 800 – 1000 jumps each year, up to 2006." He added that the team has great plans: "The objective is to stand on the podium in 2006." The NSL News followed up on the interview with the Danish project manager, Flemming Nøddegaard and asked for more information. Nøddegaard provided the NSL News with a copy of the project documentation.
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Did you know that Denmark was aiming at 4-way gold medals in 2006?
Did you know that HayaBusa defeated NMP at the Belgian qualification in 2004?
Did you know that Denmark has plans for a new pursuit of medals at the World Meet?