Did you know that Ben Liston has known new Airspeed member Doug Hendrix for many years? posted: Nov 27th, 2024 The recent NSL News coverage of the new Arizona Airspeed lineup began with the official announcement of Joey Marshall's, Christopher Kuhlmann's and Alex Swindle's selected two team mates, Alisson De Vargas and Doug Hendrix. The NSL News update included a brief overview of their 4-way career before joining Arizona Airspeed.
The follow-up story a day later provided an overview of all Airspeed lineups and their changes since 1994. Arizona Airspeed's returning member Joey Marshall explained the details and criteria of the selection process during NSL Live Talk on November 15th, and Gary Smith evaluated... (more)
Did you know that the Weembinamic created once again interesting lineups? posted: Nov 26th, 2024 British 4-way and 8-way competitors could have extended their visit at Weembi Lille by two weeks or return to the same place two weeks later to attend the next indoor competition after the British Indoor Nationals 2024. Weembi Lille hosted once again the annual Weembinamic with the event's special elimination format.
All teams first perform four rounds to establish a leaderboard that is the foundation for the next three sets of two rounds (5-6, 7-8, 9-10). Then two or three teams are pitched directly against each other for the elimination rounds. However, it is not really an elimination, as... (more)
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 Ben Liston has known new Airspeed member Doug Hendrix for many years?
Did you know that the Weembinamic created once again interesting lineups?
Did you know that the Polish Flyspot Open featured a very colorful leaderboard?
Did you know that Kyle Hermberg is the Skydiver of the Year 2023?
Did you know that Fall Fast Finish Last won British Indoor by 97 points?
Did you know that the Norgies traveled from Norway to France for the British Indoor Nationals?