Did you know that the Polish Flyspot Open featured a very colorful leaderboard? posted: Nov 25th, 2024 The NSL News reported on November 8th how "fast and clean became a necessary combination in 2005". The article covered the change of judging rules that eliminated an additional 1-point penalty deduction for each infringement. The only impact of any rules violations after the rule change was not counting the infringed formation or maneuver as a scoring point.
Practically, the punishment for a "bust" was halved from two points to one, and the rule change had a significant impact on the performance strategies of the competitive teams. Correcting mistakes and infringements, which had created cleaner... (more)
Did you know that Kyle Hermberg is the Skydiver of the Year 2023? posted: Nov 24th, 2024 The Indoor Cloud League scores and videos from iFLY Dallas completed the October leaderboard, and last month's scoring numbers lifted Kyle Hermberg's ICL team up and above the 1000-point benchmark. In fact, the iFLY Dallas team has never finished below 1000 ICL points annually since joining the Indoor Cloud League events fully in 2015.
Only the corona virus crisis interrupted the participation enough, and iFLY Dallas did not have any scores for six months in 2020. Another longer break came earlier in 2018 when the change in leadership caused the interruption for six more months after the last... (more)
Did you know that Fall Fast Finish Last won British Indoor by 97 points? posted: Nov 23rd, 2024 Wavey Wackers (AA), Bootie Call (A) and Fall Fast Finish Last (RRR) won the other three categories at the British Indoor Nationals 2024. The growing difference between 4-way indoor and outdoor competition was showing especially on the AA and A Class leaderboards.
Wavey Wackers (4th) and Bootie Call (3rd) both were not even close to the top of the leaderboards at the British Outdoor Nationals in August. Two months later, they won their respective categories at the national indoor championship.
Wavey Wackers had placed 2nd in the A Class at last year's event and decided to step up to the AA... (more)
Did you know that the Norgies traveled from Norway to France for the British Indoor Nationals? posted: Nov 21st, 2024 The NSL News follows up on the British Indoor Nationals 2024 with the competition videos of the event at Weembi Lille in France. Brian Cumming, who is operating and hosting the Radio Skydive UK, helped to make the footage and photos available after the conclusion of the event.
Julia Swallow can now be seen in action as she is winning her second national 4-way championship title, as the NSL News reported on November 17th. She had once again the NFTO 3-way by her side who have been training and competing together since 2018 (Anna Lea, Vana Parker, Sian Stokes).
The 4th NFTO slot has been shared... (more)
Did you know that you don't get what you deserve but what you produce? posted: Nov 20th, 2024 Arizona Airspeed's recruiting story continues with new NSL Live Talk. Niklas Hemlin is one of the many celebrities of the Airspeed alumni in the last 30 years since Skydive Arizona owner Larry Hill launched the project with Jack Jefferies, Mark Kirkby, Dan BC and Kirk Verner in 1994, with John Lemming on camera for the first six years (1994 - 1999).
Niklas Hemlin has always made himself available when there was a request for NSL Live Talk, either together with the whole team, with only some of his team mates or all by himself. He likes to share his experiences and thoughts with the Formation... (more)
Did you know that Cirkus 2.0 are challenging Skywalkers Junior at indoor competition? posted: Nov 19th, 2024 The indoor winter season of the Czech Tunnel League began this month with the first of six events that Jan Klapka has scheduled for his Czech 4-way teams and any other participants. A total of 14 teams launched this year's indoor winter season, which is almost exactly the same number as at in November 2023 (15).
The AAA Class leaderboard featured an exciting competition and the same duel between the reigning Czech national indoor and outdoor champions, Skywalkers Junior, and the new version of the former national team, HF Flying Cirkus. Cirkus 2.0 is a combination of former Bad Boys Marian... (more)