Did you know that Founding Fathers and Teiwaz synchronized their jump preparations? posted: Jul 4th, 2010 The NSL News mentioned a special technique of the Founding Fathers' jump preparation in the story on 23 June 2010. It was actually an observation by meet judge Steve Miller who provided the meet story for the SCSL June meet:
"Founding Fathers John Hamilton and Dan BC recruited Todd Hawkins from Eloy/Paraclete and 2008 world champion in the female category, Hanna Betts, with a promise of no creeping for the day."
It was obviously coincidence that the same meet weekend featured two teams with the same technique for jump preparations, Founding Fathers on the west coast, Teiwaz on the east coast.... (more)
Did you know that the Czech Republic Skydiving League keeps growing? posted: Jul 3rd, 2010 The new meet weekend is already in full swing while the NSL News wraps up the past weekend with the latest report from the Czech Republic.
The same three A Class teams and the same three Rookie Class teams of the season opener in May attended the second meet of the 2010 season in Príbram. In addition, there was a new Rookie Class lineup, Hvezdy, that joined Jan Klapka's 4-way community in the Czech Republic.
The new Hvezdy lineup also included the competitor with the lowest jump number. Bednár Radek had a total of 109 jumps when he showed up for his first meet last weekend. Pinkava Luboš... (more)
Did you know that Carolina Turbo XP continued with the scoring progression? posted: Jul 2nd, 2010 The NSL News goes back to the June meet of the Carolina Skydiving League. CASL Director Dan Winkelstein has published all competition jumps on YouTube where they are ready for reviews.
The videos include the six rounds of Carolina Turbo XP, the youngest AAA Class team in the country. The NSL News has followed Turbo ever since the team was founded, as the team seems to have the potential to make it to the very top in the world. In fact, that's exactly what the team members have set as a goal.
Turbo started the 2010 season at the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2010, and the video of the ten Turbo competition... (more)
Did you know that Sweden's national team Bardagi does not only think of Russia? posted: Jul 1st, 2010 The NSL News reported the exciting race for the slot as Sweden's national 4-way team at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010 with the story on 7 June 2010.
Team Bardagi won after a dramatic showdown in Round 10 and is now preparing for the trip to Menzelinsk in Russia. Blue Spirits' player coach Joey Jones told the NSL News shortly after the meet how he felt about this exciting race:
"Bardagi looked great and skydived consistently throughout the meet. You could tell that they have been working hard and had just finished a 50-jump camp. They looked confident, trained and ready... (more)
Did you know that coach Gary Smith had a special job at the Tomscat Trophy? posted: Jun 30th, 2010 Another NSL News update goes back to the 19 June meet weekend, which featured the record leaderboard of the 2010 season. A total of 55 teams competed at the same time and used the same competition draw.
The Netherlands had the highest number of teams at the 16th annual Tomscat Trophy, as 22 of the 55 teams competed on the Dutch island of Texel. Dynamic Fource, the Dutch national 4-way team, finished on the top of the AAA Class leaderboard. The NSL News story on 21 June 2010 had provided more details.
The NSL News took another look at the numbers of that weekend, which included the impressive... (more)
Did you know that the NSL News added penalty information of the Midway Battle? posted: Jun 29th, 2010 The NSL News is following up on the most recent meets with additional information. The first update provides penalty information of the Midway Battle at Skydive Chicago.
The NSL News received the official Camscore scoresheet, which provides the details of the posted scores. The NSL News added the number of penalties in parenthesis behind the official score, round by round.
In addition, the total now also shows (in parenthesis) the number of points within working time and before penalties. The average is only related to the official scores and the official total. The new data allows a closer... (more)
Did you know that Founding Fathers and Teiwaz synchronized their jump preparations?
Did you know that the Czech Republic Skydiving League keeps growing?
Did you know that Carolina Turbo XP continued with the scoring progression?
Did you know that Sweden's national team Bardagi does not only think of Russia?
Did you know that coach Gary Smith had a special job at the Tomscat Trophy?
Did you know that the NSL News added penalty information of the Midway Battle?