Did you know that windtunnel training helped the MASL Rookie Class winners? posted: Jun 29th, 2011 The MidAtlantic Skydiving League called the Cross Keys rookies to action once again last weekend. Experienced player coaches helped to form four lineups who completed between four and six rounds.
The strongest MASL Rookie Class team, Dirty Slots, with player coach and former Air Pollution member Rob Fields, even made it to the 2nd place on last weekend's overall Rookie Class leaderboard with a 6.8 average after six rounds. Only the Czech team Hvezdy scored higher in its second Rookie Class year.
MASL Director Dennis Miller reported that the weather at Cross Keys once again just barely held... (more)
Did you know that the Bad Boyz enjoy the 4-way road with a new team member? posted: Jun 28th, 2011 Last weekend's leaderboard includes six teams from the Czech Republic who all completed the 6-round meet.
League Director Jan Klapka reported that there would have been two more teams if some competitors did not have to cancel due to health problems.
The Czech Republic Skydiving League produced a new Rookie Class team with new 4-way competiors last year.
Hvezdy came back in the Rookie Class at the seond meet in the Czech Republic this year and once again posted some impressive Rookie Class scores. Hvezdy is still on top of the overall Rookie Class leaderboard at the moment.
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Did you know that the SDC Furies XP tied the team's highest meet average last weekend? posted: Jun 27th, 2011 Last weekend's season opener of the Midwest Skydiving League was the second competition for the SDC Furies XP on home turf at Skydive Chicago. The Furies launched their 2011 season at the Shamrock Showdown 2011 and posted the next scores at the Midway Battle in Ottawa.
The scores at the MWSL June meet last weekend brought the Furies back to the highest scoring level that the team has shown in its 9-year history. They finished the 6-round meet with a 15.5 average, which ties the 15.5 average that the Furies had posted at the MWSL September meet in 2009.
The scoring progression of the 2011... (more)
Did you know that the Final Four rear piece won a 2-way competition in Germany? posted: Jun 26th, 2011 The first scores this weekend are not coming from one of the five 4-way meets across the globe. Germany is hosting the nationwide annual 2-way competition. National coach Mathias Maushake collects all information at his own Aerosport Fallschirmsport GmbH skydiving center in Kassel where nine 2-way teams were posting scores for the 3-round meet.
This event was introduced in 2007 and is open for everybody. German top competitors compete together with participants from the grassroot level in all kind of different combinations.
One of the defending 2-way champions is Olaf Biedermann who has been... (more)
Did you know that the Satori Academy is coaching six farm teams? posted: Jun 25th, 2011 The NSL News recently reported how former Satori member Katie Woods had a busy weekend in DeLand. She is also traveling back and forth between Florida and Europe for her coaching jobs.
In the meantime, her former team Satori, UK 4-way champion of the past years, has moved on. Satori with the new lineup competed at the World Challenge 2011. UK's national team did not attend the first two 2011 meets of the United Kingdom Skydiving League. However, Center Outside Julia Foxwell helped the other teams with engineering and coaching.
Satori also has another personnel change. Dave Head is now on... (more)
Did you know that Murphy Mania and Pari-Passu are last weekend's TEAMS OF THE MEET? posted: Jun 24th, 2011 The new meet weekend is coming up, and teams will compete at five different locations if the weather cooperates everywhere. It is time to look one more time at last weekend's leaderboard and find out which team deserves the unofficial title of the "Team of the Weekend".
The teams that have moved up into the next higher competition class are often in the center of the NSL News attention. One of those teams is Murphy Mania from the Netherlands who competed at the Tomscat Trophy 2011 last weekend.
Murphy Mania actually moved up for the second time in three years. The Dutch team started with... (more)