Did you know that Sebastian Tempest has a new member in the Point slot? posted: Feb 28th, 2009 The best team of the Florida Skydiving League 2008 and winner of the NSL Championship 2008, Sebastian Tempest, recently reported a personnel change for the 2009 season, as well. Tempest's Center Outside of 2008, Ari Perelman, will not continue with the Sebastian team this year.
The team story of the Sebastian Tempest 2008 line-up began in August 2007 in Zephyrhills when the Teiwaz 4-way scramble with two line-ups brought Chris Ash, Thiago Murradas, Ari Perelman and Kris Byrne together in one of the two line-ups for the FSL meet. Ari Perelman also competed in the other Teiwaz line-up at the same... (more)
Did you know that Hayabusa Defence looks for more competition experience with the new lineup? posted: Feb 27th, 2009 It has been a while since the NSL News audience heard the last time from the Belgian national 4-way team, Hayabusa Defence, bronze medalist of the World Meet 2008 in France, Maubeuge.
The team name has been listed for quite a while on the event page of the World Challenge 2009. Other than that, the last update was posted on 4 October 2008 (Archives > 2008 > News > Search for "Hayabusa"). Hayabusa Defence had just won the CISM 2008 championship with a 30.5 average.
Hayabusa's personnel change after the World Meet 2008 was already covered comprehensively by the NSL News. Alternate Waedong So... (more)
Did you know that the CamScore 2009 season begins with the Shamrock Showdown? posted: Feb 26th, 2009 The actual CamScore success story began at the World Challenge indoor competition at Bodyflight Bedford in 2007. Computer wizzard Andrew Mansfield had taken on the challenge to computerize and digitalize DZ-TV and competition judging. Result was a software program that was applied at the World Challenge 2007 and worked flawlessly.
The program took a video feed from the windtunnel cameras through to the CamScore video recording software. The timing of the video footage was controlled by using a camcorder remote client. A video file was created for each competition round, processed via CamScore... (more)
Did you know that the World Air Games 2009 are canceled for the 4-way teams? posted: Feb 25th, 2009 Sad news for the fans of 4-way Formation Skydiving competition and Freestyle came from Italy this week. The organizers of the World Air Games 2009 in Turin informed teams and competitors of both events that 4-way Formation Skydiving and Freestyle competition have been removed from the event schedule.
The official website of the World Air Games 2009 still features 4-way competition on its front page. However, the bad news were delivered by e-mail to the participants in the meantime. The Italian organizers tried to explain the reasons for the cancellation: (more)
Did you know that the Carolina Skydiving league supported Jump for the Cause? posted: Feb 24th, 2009 For the past two years the Carolina Skydiving League has held its annual meeting in at the Paraclete-XP wind tunnel in Raeford NC. The highlight of the Carolina Skydiving League annual meeting is the tunnel meet. This year the league decided to team up with Paraclete-XP to raise money for Jump for the Cause. Jump for the Cause is a 501c3 corporation and the skydiving industry's premier fundraising Organization. JFTC is dedicated to raising money and awareness for Breast Cancer Research.
Money raised by Jump for the Cause goes for Breast cancer research and the City of Hope hospital. With the... (more)
Did you know that the Perris Fury videos of the Valentine's Meet raise a big question? posted: Feb 23rd, 2009 The scores of the Valentine's Meet 2009 on the front page have now been replaced by the indoor results of the tunnel competition in North Carolina. However, the coverage of the season opener on the west coast is far from over, as the NSL News had already promised earlier to follow up with more information and videos.
The NSL News covered the Valentine's Meet 2009, first with a few previews, and then with updates on the actual meet weekend. Airspeed Odyssey's Center Outside Craig Girard helped to keep the leaderboard up-to-date round by round, while he was competing with his team.
The story... (more)