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Did you know that new videos show the Russian Top 3 teams in action?
posted: May 12th, 2010 The NSL News story on 3 May 2010 reported the scores and some background information of the first outdoor competition in Russia this year, a warmup meet in Kolomna. NSL-TV can follow up now with videos of the Top 3 teams. Russia is the host of the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010, and the Top 3 teams of the competition at the beginning of this month, Ocean of Bees, Kaktus Hunter and Gradient Alpha, aka Krystal, are hoping to qualify as the official Russian 4-way team at the national championship in June and then represent Russia in 4-way on home turf. (more)

Did you know that the Aerodyne Cypres Maubeuge members joined forces in 2001?
posted: May 11th, 2010 The NSL News dedicated the story on 1 April 2010 to the French national 4-way team in the Open Class, Aerodyne Cypres Maubeuge, after a very impressive performance at the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2010. The story explained some of the reasons why the French team has been performing so strongly in 2009 and 2010. The same story mentioned that France and Arizona Airspeed had not competed directly with the original lineups since the World Challenge 2009: "It is coincidence that only Airspeed has not met this new French 4-way power directly so far." The NSL News went a step further and forecasted... (more)

Did you know that NSL-TV features the unofficial female 4-way competition in Bedford?
posted: May 10th, 2010 The story on 6 May 2010 was the second part of a closer look at the situation in the female category of 4-way competition after the completion of the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2010 and the World Challenge 2010. The first two stories focused mostly on the three top contenders for the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010, who are also the defending medalists of the World Meet 2008 in France: United Kingdom (Team Bodyflight), USA (Spaceland Blue), France (Aerokart Deep Blue). This time, the NSL News adds to the new review the other teams in the female 4-way category that competed at the... (more)

Did you know that Voluntas will be a part of a few races in Russia?
posted: May 8th, 2010 The unofficial Scandinavian championship was a topic when the NSL News covered the Finnish national team, the Pro Team, with the story on 3 May 2010. The same topic came up when the NSL News met with two teams from Denmark, Voluntas and Altius, and their coach Solly Williams for a new live NSL Talk at the end of a recent training camp in DeLand. It was interesting to hear from the Danish competitors that the internal competition between the teams from Scandinavia really has a meaning. There is no official Scandinavian championship so far, and the teams are just watching each other at the... (more)

Did you know that Elena Vertiprakhova won the first Open Class gold medal in 2003?
posted: May 7th, 2010 The NSL News has to go back to the story on 4 May 2010, which covered Arizona Airspeed's Eliana Rodriguez' competition career between 1999 and 2010, including a video with several competition jumps of the earlier days. The story mentioned that Eliana Rodriguez was the first female 8-way world champion. A message from an attentive visitor brought to the NSL News attention that this is not really correct. According to the rules, and also very practically, the team videographer is a team member and receives the same honors and medals as the competitors that the videographer focuses on. There... (more)

Did you know that Team Bodyflight was closer to Aerokart Deep Blue than the leaderboard shows?
posted: May 6th, 2010 The NSL News now goes back to the third and youngest category of IPC Formation Skydiving competition, the female 4-way event. The story on 23 March 2010 had covered the situation in this category after the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2010. The US national team Spaceland Blue, silver medalist of the World Meet 2008 in France, and the French bronze medalist of 2008, Aerokart Deep Blue, competed directly with each other in DeLand in March. France won this duel with a 20.1 average, Spaceland Blue finished with a 16.7 average. It was the start of the 2010 season for the US Blue with a new lineup, while... (more)