Did you know that Sweden's Echochamber is ready to re-claim the unofficial amateur world champion title? posted: Oct 2nd, 2024 Six national 4-way teams visited Skydive DeLand in the run-up to the FAI Outdoor World Championships 2024, and the last training before the major event began with Thyra's arrival last weekend. The Norwegian 4-way team in 4-way Women brought their coach and mentor, Carl-Erika Tuv, who will guide the team through their first outdoor world championship at Crystal Coast in North Carolina.
Their 4-way Women opponent from Germany, Meltemi Illertissen Oceanside, arrived shortly later and changed plans when Skydive DeLand's Twin Otter broke unexpectedly. There was a Cessna Caravan available as an instant... (more)
Did you know that Skywalkers Junior are moving on an 18-average pace level? posted: Oct 1st, 2024 The Indoor Cloud League team of the Hurricane Factory in Prague continued limping through the Czech Republic's outdoor summer season in August, as well. The July total of 82 ICL points was the lowest score in a long time, and the 91 points for August were not much more. The iFLY Dallas team in 2nd place was able to reduce the difference by 39 points in the same two months.
August was still a better month for Jan Klapka's team than July, as he was at least able to recruit enough teams to perform all six monthly ICL sequences. He had submitted scores and videos for only four categories in July.
Jan... (more)
Did you know that Sven Ibens has concluded his competitive 4-way career? posted: Sep 29th, 2024 The NSL News mentioned in the preview of the ESL Championship 2024 on September 21st that Belgian 4-way legend Sven Ibens would attend his last competition with a well trained team at the Fallschirmsportzentrum Saar in Germany.
His amazing 4-way career began even before he became one of the original NMP PCH HayaBusa members, and his journey of over three decades was documented as well as possible in his NSL Profile that was published in 2016. Links to related updates were added later, as he continued with his competitive 4-way career for another eight years.
His name is mostly linked to the... (more)
Did you know that 4Action and Volaticus represented iFLY Fort Lauderdale at the USPA Nationals? posted: Sep 27th, 2024 The Indoor Cloud League team at iFLY Fort Lauderdale has not only generated 4Action, who competed for USPA Intermediate Class medals at the USPA National Championship 2024 earlier this month, as the NSL News reported on September 23rd.
Marcella Rey and Jake Pearlman, who joined the Indoor Cloud League with their group of Formation Skydiving fans at iFLY Fort Lauderdale in South Florida, met their current team mates at the indoor events and have now completed their second year of 4-way training and competition together.
Their Indoor Cloud League group of regular competitors has not missed... (more)
Did you know that Gary Smith and Luc Vertrepen discussed Lions, Cheetahs and Power Rankings? posted: Sep 26th, 2024 Gary Smith and Luc Verstrepen have updated the NSL News on a regular basis in the Coaches Corner regarding the progression of Qatar's Formation Skydiving competition project, last time on April 30th, after the completion of the FAI Indoor World Cup 2024 in China, where Tigers, Lions and Cheetahs all competed at the same place and the same time.
The Tigers, Qatar's national team in 4-way Open, had finished in 3rd place, Lions 8th, Cheetahs 13th. They separated again after the event, and Gary Smith and Luc Verstrepen continued their work with outdoor training for Lions and Cheetahs, while the... (more)
Did you know that SOAR won British Nationals with 80 training jumps? posted: Sep 26th, 2024 The NSL Power Rankings in the previews of the FAI Outdoor World Championships 2024 needed adjustments when new and more current results of national championship and other events became available. The latest update on the 4-way Open leaderboard was posted on September 9th, after the completion of the British and the German national outdoor championships.
Not much had changed for the German team, Airbus Oceanside Illertissen, who confirmed their strong position in the race for the unofficial amateur world championship title behind the four medal contenders from the United States (Arizona Airspeed),... (more)
Did you know that Sweden's Echochamber is ready to re-claim the unofficial amateur world champion title?
Did you know that Skywalkers Junior are moving on an 18-average pace level?
Did you know that Sven Ibens has concluded his competitive 4-way career?
Did you know that 4Action and Volaticus represented iFLY Fort Lauderdale at the USPA Nationals?
Did you know that Gary Smith and Luc Vertrepen discussed Lions, Cheetahs and Power Rankings?
Did you know that SOAR won British Nationals with 80 training jumps?