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Did you know that Spa Hayabusa's 45-pointer can now be viewed on NSL-TV?
posted: May 15th, 2006 The NSL News story on May 1 reported that the Belgian national 4-way team, Spa Hayabusa, had scored a 45-pointer at the season opener of the Belgian Skydiving Trophy 2006. The same story mentioned the plans of meet management and team to request FAI recognition as a new official 4-way world record. The NSL News story on May 5 followed up on the event with more information after all scores were posted. Spa Hayabusa member Roy Janssen had provided details of the whole competition and also mentioned that the video of the jump will soon be available for NSL-TV. (more)

Did you know that the NSL News interviewed the three PD Factory Team members of DeLand Fire?
posted: May 14th, 2006 DeLand Fire and PD Factory Team members Shannon Pilcher and Ian Bobo were recently honored with Skydiving Magazine's "Skydiver of the Year" award for 2005. The NSL News was interested in the relationship between the athletes and their strongest supporter, Performance Designs, and interviewed PD's Marketing Director, Rob Wilson. The interview was posted with the NSL News story on February 24. The topic of another interview with DeLand Fires's front piece, Natasha Montgomery and Gary Smith, was the challenge for the team to handle the two commitments of the rear piece members. This interview was... (more)

Did you know that the Australian 4-way team Airtite has new goals for the major 2006 events?
posted: May 12th, 2006 The official registration of the national teams for the World Meet 2006 in Germany has slowly picked up the pace. Only Germany and Australia had all their teams signed up for quite a while, and Brazil's 4-way Open Class team CTR Optimum was one of the first registered teams, as well. The Netherlands and Russia recently added teams to the line-up for the World Meet. The Netherlands registered one team each in the 4-way Open and Women's Class, while Russia will have teams competing in each of the eight disciplines of the World Meet, including 4-way Open, 4-way Women and 8-way. (more)

Did you know that the Northern Plains Skydiving League had to cancel the 2006 season opener?
posted: May 11th, 2006 Bad news came in from the Northern Plains Skydiving League yesterday. NPSL Director Sandy Grillet had to inform his teams and competitors that the meet this weekend at Skydive Iowa had to be canceled: "It pains me to inform you that the Skydive Chicago Otter has a maintenance problem that can not be fixed before next week due to missing parts. Bruce and I have spent the last five hours scouring the country for a replacement with no success. Therefore we have no choice but to postpone the Skydive Iowa Jumpstart 2006 boogie and NPSL 4-way meet scheduled for this weekend." The problem with the... (more)

Did you know that FAI rules define how a world record can be set?
posted: May 10th, 2006 The Belgium national 4-way team Spa Hayabusa scored an unofficial 4-way world record at the season opener of the Belgian Skydiving Trophy on April 29. The NSL News posted the news story of the 45-pointer on May 1 and followed up with more meet information on May 5. The stories included the plan of the Belgian meet organizers and team Spa Hayabusa to ask the International Parachuting Commission (IPC) for recognition of the jump as an official world record. The NSL News followed up by studying the rules more carefully to find out what it takes to score an official world record. (more)

Did you know that four Air Force teams competed in Colorado last weekend?
posted: May 9th, 2006 Two teams of the Air Force Academy, BOS and 7XY, came back for the second meet of the Colorado Skydiving League 2006 after competing at the season opener in April. Air Force CAD also attended the team's second meet after competing at the SSL Valentine's Meet 2006 in February. The Air Force Academy sent a new fourth line-up into the race last weekend, the Air Force Shockwave. The AA/Intermediate Class competition draw at the second COSL meet was slower compared to the SSL meet in February and also slower than the one at the COSL April meet. However, Air Force CAD still managed to slightly improve... (more)