Did you know that Solly Williams wrapped up the FAI World Meet 2001? posted: Jun 27th, 2001 Solly Williams was the 5th world-class competitor who provided his commentary of the FAI Word Meet 2001 for the NSL News. Carl-Erik Tuv had started with a preview in September 2000, followed by Craig Girard and his view in December and John Hoover just a few months before the competition in June 2001.
Shannon Har-Noy Pilcher then e-mailed updates from Spain during the competition to the NSL News and met for an interview back in DeLand. Solly Williams wrapped up the meet coverage with a summary on July 3rd. He was still in Spain and wrote the summary after the "dust had settled".
Only Carl-Erik... (more)
Did you know that Golden Knights team captain John Hoover provided an accurate preview in 2001? posted: Apr 20th, 2001 The NSL News continues to toggle back and forth between new NSL Live Talk and other interviews that were documented in the past. The first three ones with Carl-Erik Tuv, Chris Talbert and Craig Girard were all related to each other, as they were direct opponents in the same time period.
The new NSL News interview with Golden Knights team captain John Hoover took place on 20 April 2001. Craig Girard was preparing for 4-way and 8-way double-duties at the FAI World Meet 2001, where he would meet Carl-Erik Tuv in 4-way competition.
Chris Talbert and John Hoover had switched to 4-way with the... (more)
Did you know that Craig Girard reflected on Airspeed and the wind tunnel?? posted: Dec 21st, 2000 The NSL News continues with interviews that have not been published yet at SKYLEAGUE.COM. The series began with thoughts of DeLand Norgies member Carl-Erik Tuv, which were documented in September 2000. Golden Knights member Chris Talbert then explained in November 2000 how and why the U.S. Army team was switching the focus from 8-way to 4-way competition.
A month later, the NSL News met with Craig Girard at SkyVenture Orlando. He was in Florida for an indoor training camp with his 4-way team Airspeed Vertical. This new Arizona Airspeed lineup (Craig Girard, John Eagle, Neal Houston, Mark Kirkby,... (more)
Did you know that that Golden Knight Chris Talbert was explaining the future of the U.S. Army team?? posted: Nov 7th, 2000 The NSL News began last week to go back in time and publish information and interviews that could not be found at SKYLEAGUE.COM so far. The stories and the written interviews were published at the previous NSL website long ago and had not made it into the current NSL News database and archives.
The first interview featured DeLand Norgies member Carl-Erik Tuv shortly before the USPA Nationals 2000. The next one took place after the event. Chris Talbert explained the future of the Golden Knights on 7 November 2000. The U.S. Army's 8-way team had lost the battle with Arizona Airspeed again and... (more)
Did you know that if you do not compete enough you are only a training player? posted: Sep 27th, 2000 The NSL News mentioned with the most recent NSL Live Talk on March 30th (Gary Smith) that the current situation in the skydiving world will offer an opportunity to feed information into the SKYLEAGUE.COM website that cannot be found anywhere else:
"NSL Live Talk has been a regular part of SKYLEAGUE.COM coverage for a long time. It began as soon as the website was launched in its current form. In fact, interviews with teams, competitors, VIPs and officials in the sport were recorded even much earlier. They were not archived as video files at the beginning and appeared in writing on the website... (more)
Did you know that Impulse Rhode Island improved their average at Skydive New England? posted: Jul 25th, 2000 Robbie Spencer's team Impulse Rhode Island keeps charging toward the top of the leaderboard of the Eastern Skies. At last weekend's second season meet of the New England Skydiving League, Impulse won the Advanced Class with a 12.2 average. The new team's season average of 11.6 is tying the FSL team Zephyrhills Frost in 4th place of the Eastern Skies. With these results, Impulse are slowly putting themselves in a position of medal contention at this year's USPA Nationals.
Impulse team members are Robbie Spencer (Alternate), Dennis Rook (Point), Jim Rees (Tail), Tom Hendricks (Inside Center),... (more)
Did you know that Solly Williams wrapped up the FAI World Meet 2001?
Did you know that Golden Knights team captain John Hoover provided an accurate preview in 2001?
Did you know that Craig Girard reflected on Airspeed and the wind tunnel??
Did you know that that Golden Knight Chris Talbert was explaining the future of the U.S. Army team??
Did you know that if you do not compete enough you are only a training player?
Did you know that Impulse Rhode Island improved their average at Skydive New England?