Did you know that it's been 13 long years for the Golden Knights? posted: Oct 29th, 2009 Today's video uploads complete the coverage of the Top 3 in the 8-way competition at the 2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships. The packages of the first five rounds of Arizona Airspeed, Golden Knights and Paraclete XP are now complete with Paraclete's first half of the 8-way competition. Rounds six and seven were uploaded with all three teams in the final ranking order. Today's second video presents rounds eight, nine and ten of the same teams in the same order.
The previous 8-way story ended when Paraclete XP had just lost four points in Round 7. It was a bad situation for one of the... (more)
Did you know that Brazil's national championship was shortened by bad weather? posted: Oct 28th, 2009 Some missing scores of another 4-way competition in October have now been added to the leaderboard of October 10. Brazil held her national 4-way championships earlier this month, and bad weather allowed only the completion of two rounds for all teams. Three AAA Class teams completed Round 3.
The NSL News had reported on 12 February 2009 that the Brazilian national 4-way team of the past years, CTR Optimum, had a personnel change at the beginning of the 2009 season. Optimum's videographer since 2003, Renato "Chubby" Gordinho, took the Center Inside slot, and Daiton Ribeiro became the new Tail.... (more)
Did you know that Sergey Yalpaev lost his 44-point world record at the USPA Nationals 2009? posted: Oct 27th, 2009 Three guest teams from Denmark, Russia and Australia competed at the 2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships. The Russian 4-way team Crystal, a.k.a. Gradient Alpha, has been one of the busiest competitors of the 2009 season.
Vladimir Arutyunov (Center Outside), Andrey Kalugin (Point), Valery Kryshevich (Tail) and Sergey Yalpaev (Center Inside), with Andrey Tretyakov on camera at the USPA Nationals 2009, have attended six 4-way meets this year. In addition, they also competed for Russia in 8-way at the FAI World Cup 2009. The pickup 8-way team of the two 4-way lineups, Crystal Contour, had... (more)
Did you know that new NSL-TV videos show more of the 8-way drama? posted: Oct 26th, 2009 It's time to move on with the 8-way Open story of the 2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships. The previous review of this exciting race and the dramatic ending during the award ceremony was posted on 22 October 2009. The story included a clip of the Golden Knights and the US Army team's first five competition jumps at Spaceland.
This time, NSL-TV presents all three top teams with their rounds six and seven. Arizona Airspeed was already in first place at that point time (100), with a 4-point lead over the Golden Knights (96). The US Army team was only one single point ahead of the Paraclete... (more)
Did you know that Perris Fury finished with a new 10-round record average? posted: Oct 25th, 2009 Arizona Airspeed's triple victory (4-way, 8-way, 16-way) at the 2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships, the team's continued status as the US national 4-way team and Spaceland Fource XP's new 4-way world record in Round 6 caught a lot of attention by the audience and by the NSL News.
The battle for the 8-way slot in the US delegation for 2010 has also been a big topic and involved some of the Force members, as well. It went almost unnoticed that there was another top contender in 4-way who ended up in 3rd place with a 24.3 average, only one single point behind the new world record holders... (more)
Did you know that Spaceland Blue was missing on stage? posted: Oct 24th, 2009 The award ceremony of the 8-way competition ended with the presentation of the US Formation Skydiving delegation for next year's World Championship in Russia, as the NSL-TV clip with the story on 21 October 2009 was showing.
USPA Meet Director Scott Smith had the members of the 4-way and 8-way lineups already on the stage, as Arizona Airspeed's 4-way world champions competed and won in 8-way, as well, and then forwarded the 8-way slot to the Golden Knights. Intuitively, Scott Smith called the winner of the Vertical 4-way Formation Skydiving competition, Arizona Arsenal, back on the stage, who... (more)
Did you know that it's been 13 long years for the Golden Knights?
Did you know that Brazil's national championship was shortened by bad weather?
Did you know that Sergey Yalpaev lost his 44-point world record at the USPA Nationals 2009?
Did you know that new NSL-TV videos show more of the 8-way drama?
Did you know that Perris Fury finished with a new 10-round record average?
Did you know that Spaceland Blue was missing on stage?