Did you know that Yellow, Young and Beautiful competitors completed seven rounds in Germany? posted: Jun 4th, 2011 The first scores of this weekend's meets are from Germany where five teams compete in the AAA Class for the Northern German Championship 2011 title. Final Four DeLand is far ahead in 1st place, and the Usual Suspects own the 2nd place. Both teams have been on the NSL leaderboard in the past.
Meet Director Mathias "Mausi" Maushake reported that four of the five teams were dealing with injuries. Two Ususal Suspects have problems with their backs, another team member has a bad shoulder, and the last one jumps with a torn ligament in his foot. Only the Usual Suspect on camera is healthy.
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Did you know that Team Bodyflight Aerodyne consists of world champions and twin sisters? posted: Jun 3rd, 2011 The NSL News has introduced several national teams in the female category of 4-way competition after the last World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010 in Menzelinsk, Russia.
All three medal winners (France, United Kingdom, USA) had personnel changes at the end of the 2010 season. This counts actually for all teams in the female 4-way category, except Polaris from Norway. Several NSL News stories explained how the lineups have changed.
Today's first NSL-TV video goes back to the World Meet 2010 and features Round 9 and Round 10 of all female 4-way teams with the previous lineups. The... (more)
Did you know that NSL-TV features 85-year old John "Old Man" Browett in action? posted: Jun 2nd, 2011 The NSL News recently visited Homestead where Skydive Miami was hosting the first "FSL Going South" summer meet on May 21. The story on 22 May 2011 included an NSL Talk video clip with Fred Whitsitt and Pam Manos who are running the operation of the skydiving center.
The same story introduced John "Old Man" Browett, who is one of the oldest active skydivers in the world and from South Africa, as Fred Whitsitt is. Interview and story both also provided additional profile information of the South African 4-way bronze medalist at the World Meet in 1997.
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Did you know that Airfix Fehrbellin won the first 4-way meet this year in Germany? posted: Jun 1st, 2011 A recent update from Germany connects different events and teams with each other. The first part of the North Cup took place in Itzehoe at the YUU Skydiving Center last weekend. TAKE OFF in Fehrbellin will host the second event in September.
Airfix Fehrbellin opened up this year's North Cup series with a victory away from home. Wolfpack had won the meet in Itzehoe last year by one single point over Airfix and now lost by four points last weekend. Airfix has good chances to win both North Cup meets this year with the second meet on home turf in September.
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Did you know that Best of Relative is the TEAM of the WEEKEND? posted: May 31st, 2011 Last weekend's leaderboard is complete with the teams who applied the same competition draw at Skydive Perris, Skydive City and in the Czech Republic. The scores of the 14 teams at the Z-Scrambles in Zephyrhills will be added as soon as possible on a separate leaderboard.
Four of the five teams in the Czech Republic competed in the AAA Class, as a few moved up this year after competing in the AA Class last year. Czech League Director Jan Klapka reported that the weather did not allow any jumping on Saturday. However, five teams came back on Sunday and completed the six rounds.
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Did you know that Dutch 4-way Rookies of 2004 are national champions of 2010? posted: May 30th, 2011 Whooops and TGV were the first Dutch Rookie Class teams that were registered in May 2005 when the Netherlands introduced the new category at the Dutch Skydiving League meet, which was called Dutch Handicap Cup by then. The Netherlands were a part of the international NSL Network earlier and applied the AAA and A Class before the Rookie Class was added at the Tomscat Trophy in 2005.
Team Bijna joined the Dutch Rookies a few weeks later at another meet. Only Whooops came back to compete at the Tomscat Trophy in June 2005, as well, and the national championships did not offer a Rookie Class competition.
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