Did you know that the 4-way competitors were landing beautifully at SkyQuest 2004? posted: Jan 5th, 2005 The NSL News reported earlier this week that Ron Hill wrote a great story of SkyQuest 2004 for USPA's Parachutist. The other major skydiving publication in the U.S.A., Michael F. Truffer's Skydiving, a Parachuting Newsmagazine, covered SkyQuest 2004 with three full pages of beautiful pictures in the January 2005 issue, as well. The photos were taken by Gustavo Cabana, Andrey Veselov and the magazine's staff.
Owner and editor Michael F. Truffer also dedicated his regular "Editorial" of the same month to SkyQuest 2004. Truffer is a very experienced skydiver and mostly participates in medium and... (more)
Did you know that round six of the NSL Championship 2004 is now on NSL-TV? posted: Jan 4th, 2005 The next round of NSL-TV can now be viewed on NSL-TV. It takes a few more clicks to find the whole coverage. The event took place in 2004. Any coverage of 2004 events is already in the archives, including the NSL-TV pages for 2004 events. The new round of NSL-TV can be found by switching to the NSL 2004 Archives with the navigation bar on the left side. The remaining clicks are the same as they used to be. The links to the video files are also still set in the scoring table at the event page of the NSL Championship 2004. Enjoy the new show. (more)
Did you know that round six of the NSL Championship 2004 is now on NSL-TV? posted: Jan 4th, 2005 The next round of NSL-TV can now be viewed on NSL-TV. It takes a few more clicks to find the whole coverage. The event took place in 2004. Any coverage of 2004 events is already in the archives, including the NSL-TV pages for 2004 events. The new round of NSL-TV can be found by switching to the NSL 2004 Archives with the navigation bar on the left side. The remaining clicks are the same as they used to be. The links to the video files are also still set in the scoring table at the event page of the NSL Championship 2004. Enjoy the new show. (more)
Did you know that Ron Hill and Chris Hayes wrote a great SkyQuest story for the Parachutist? posted: Jan 3rd, 2005 The NSL headquarters wishes a happy and successful new year with lots of blue skies for all league events in 2005. NSL webmaster Craig Buxton used the holiday season to prepare the NSL website for the change of the year. Goal was to keep all previous information available and still be up-to-date for the new NSL competition season.
2004 was the first year for the new data based NSL website design that Buxton created and customized for the NSL needs. He now added an archive to the website, which will contain the 2004 information. Visitors can switch back and forth between these two years of NSL... (more)
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)