Did you know that the Midwest Skydiving League Rookies Class teams had a sensational competition at the playoffs? posted: Sep 15th, 2004 The fifth and final MWSL meet of the 2004 season took place last weekend under perfect skydiving conditions at Chicagoland Skydiving Center in Hinckley, IL. Six teams, five of whom had attended every MWSL meet this season, competed for off-season bragging rights, prizes and the opportunity to compete in the NSL Championships at SkyQuest 2004. In a format new for 2004, this event was a “meet within a meet”. Through the first six rounds, the teams were not only putting up scores for MWSL meet 5, but also for the NSL Playoffs 2004. Thus MWSL Meet 5 was completed Saturday evening and the final... (more)
Did you know that a new round of NSL-TV has been uploaded? posted: Sep 13th, 2004 The newest footage for NSL-TV of the NSL Playoffs 2004 will not be available for a while. The NSL office will be vacated until well after the end of the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2004 in Croatia. The NSL News will travel to the event site in Europe and try to provide as much information and stories as possible. (more)
Did you know that Hayabusa's 19.3 average helped Belgium to win The Spirit? posted: Sep 13th, 2004 While the scores of the NSL Playoffs 2004 trickle in, an update on the European Skydiving League Championship 2004 is overdue. The event was concluded on September 4th after ten rounds of great 4-way competition in Spa, Belgium. The meet story with several pictures is posted at the ESL website. (more)
Did you know that the NSL Playoffs 2004 are coming up - with or without Florida? posted: Sep 10th, 2004 While Florida is still cleaning up after Hurricane Frances, leagues and teams in the rest of the country prepare for the NSL Playoffs 2004. The NSL operation was slowed down once again since it was just as much involved and troubled with the aftermath of Frances as everybody else. In fact, DeLand looked and still looks like a battlefield.
The NSL office was secured and pepared by the building's owner before Frances visited the area. The landlord and NSL decided to keep the barricades and sandbags where they are until Hurricane Ivan will have left Florida next week. Floridians still hope that... (more)
Did you know that Hurricane Ivan might be too slow to mess around with the NSL Playoffs 2004? posted: Sep 7th, 2004 The NSL News has to report another outage for a few days. Hurricane Frances hammered DeLand and most of Florida this time. The NSL operation has been "outsourced" for and since the past weekend as most of DeLand still has no electricity. This story comes from somewhere in North Carolina...
The 2004 hurricane season still does not let go. The next storm Ivan is already on the way with a similar heading and path as Frances. However, Ivan might and will probably be a little bit too slow and too late to mess around with the NSL Playoffs 2004, which are coming up this weekend. One of the playoff... (more)
Did you know that the European Skydiving League competes for "The Spirit" this weekend? posted: Sep 2nd, 2004 The hurricane season causes more trouble for skydiving this year than ususal. Florida still recovers from hurricane Charley who recently devastated the Florida Skydiving Center in Lake Wales and did not allow the last meet of the Florida Skydiving League to take place under normal conditions.
The new hurricane Frances, who approaches Florida on a much too consistent path, is even stronger and bigger than Charley. There is no meet scheduled in Florida for the upcoming weekend. The only NSL competition will take place in the Northern Plains. That is far enough and out of reach for Frances.
However,... (more)