Did you know that teams from Czech Republic and Poland dueled twice at Flyspot Katovice? posted: Nov 12th, 2023 The AAA Class competition at this year's Flyspot Open in Katovice featured three duels with exciting competition through all ten rounds. Two of these three duels were special, as they both pitched teams from Poland and the Czech Republic directly against each other.
The first one took place on the very top of the leaderboard and engaged the national indoor and outdoor 4-way teams of both countries in a 10-round battle, Poland's home team Flyspot Sky4Four and Skywalkers Junior. This first duel was even more interesting due to very different history of the two teams.
Sky4Four have been on NSL... (more)
Did you know that Skydive Midwest NEXT continue unchanged? posted: Nov 11th, 2023 The ICL Midwest Team joined the Indoor Cloud League in August 2020 and started with the highest total of the month. It was the NEXT comeback lineup (Lauren Byrd, Megan George, Chris Haslam, Greg Oldendick, Elliot Byrd on camera) that managed the indoor events after a 2-year interruption.
It was an unfortunate timing for the new lineup, as the implications of the corona virus crisis made it next to impossible to run indoor and outdoor events. However, ICL Midwest and Paraclete XP managed their way through the major obstacle and posted scores and videos for each of the months in the second half... (more)
Did you know that Rippin Flatties had an 8-2 agreement for the ten rounds? posted: Nov 10th, 2023 The NSL News reported on October 25th that VFS world champion Jason Russell competed in vertical and horizontal events both at the USPA Nationals 2023. His horizontal 4-way team, Mustangs, finished in 16th place in the AA/Intermediate Class.
Jason Russell was not the only VFS competitor who participated in vertical and horizontal events both. There was another 4-way team with a combination of horizontal and vertical competitors who even signed up for the 4-way Open Class event, the Rippin Flatties.
Two of the team members (Carl Kallgren, Jason McClure) had won the 4-way Intermediate Class... (more)
Did you know that Steve "Scuba" Feldman offers NSL Live Talk with Ben Liston? posted: Nov 8th, 2023 The recent Indoor Cloud League update from iFLY Colorado Springs included a lot of connections between the indoor event and the USPA Nationals 2023. The NSL News pointed out that five of the Top 6 teams on the Advanced Class leaderboard had competitors in their lineups who would post Indoor Cloud League scores for iFLY Colorado Springs a month later.
CPI Chicken Bolts were the only exception, while they did their best to keep the Air Force teams from winning a second set of medals in this AAA Class category. AF Artemis eventually had a 4-point lead over the New England team after Round 10, where... (more)
Did you know that six Air Force teams were back for Indoor Cloud League action? posted: Nov 7th, 2023 Eric Daniel and Emily Bombardi launched the Indoor Cloud League team at iFLY Colorado Springs in May 2022 and posted scores and videos for six months last year. They were back with their Air Force 4-way teams and other participants after a 2-month winter break in November and December and posted new scores and videos for the early winter months of 2023.
Several of the participating teams and competitors used the summer months to get ready for the USPA Nationals 2023, and they brought back USPA medals in 4-way Advanced and 8-way Intermediate to Colorado. The iFLY Colorado Springs team then resumed... (more)
Did you know that the William H. Ottley 4-way Sword had only four plates in 1983? posted: Nov 7th, 2023 The NSL News coverage of Blue Magic's 40-year anniversary was not complete, even though the leaderboard of the FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving 1983 and also a freefall video of Blue Magic in action were a part of the update from long ago.
In fact, the video footage was not provided by the FAI/ISC authority. The judging and scoring was done in a very different way at that time, and some of the teams had their own unofficial team videographer whose footage could be used only for training purposes.
Formation Skydiving competition was in the middle of the transition from live judging... (more)