Did you know that Airbus 8-way is the top contender for European 8-way gold medals? posted: Jul 25th, 2025 The situation in 8-way Open and 4-way Women of the FAI European Championship 2025 is not as competitive as it is in 4-way Open for the bronze medal position.
Two 8-way teams from Great Britain are registered for the event. The first one, Cark8, will probably take the 2nd place and the FAI silver medals behind the German Airbus 8-way team who seem to be out of reach, even after a recent change in the lineup. Germany did not send an 8-way team to Norway in 2023, after winning FAI bronze medals at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022, then again last year at Crystal Coast. However, the Airbus... (more)
Did you know that Echochamber could win their first FAI outdoor medals? posted: Jul 24th, 2025 The FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025 includes once again the FAI European Formation Skydiving Championships, which is the 16th edition of the event, this year at Skydive Teuge in the Netherlands.
The previous one was integrated in the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2023 at Skydive Voss in Norway. Aethers (FR), NMP PCH HayaBusa (BE) and Airbus (DE) took the medal positions on the European 4-way Open Class podium. The German national team and Italy's Amnesya battled throughout all ten rounds, and Airbus' previous lineup eventually won the bronze medals by two points.
Eleven European teams were eligible for... (more)
Did you know that Arizona and Florida teams generated the first female 4-way Open Class world champions? posted: Jul 23rd, 2025 The first part of another closer look at formation skydiving competition and the history of the sport since 1985 exposed another interesting aspect in the 4-way Open Class category.
The recent reviews were initiated by the tragic loss of Skydive DeLand founder and owner Bob Hallet that was brought to the public attention by the NSL News on June 12th. The partnership between Bob Hallet and Tom Piras at Skydive DeLand became the topic of the update on July 6th, which included information of 4-way competition in the earliest years.
Eventually, the unexpected and sad storyline found its highlight... (more)
Did you know that 8-way teams are much closer to 4-way scores at indoor competition? posted: Jul 23rd, 2025 The relationship between 4-way and 8-way indoor scores is a very different one, compared to outdoor competition. It is also a very young one, as 4-way and 8-way competition happened to take place at the same indoor world championships only twice, due to the necessary additional space in the flying chamber. There are more than enough other factors that do not allow a direct comparison with the scoring numbers between 4-way and 8-way competition, indoors and outdoors. However, the records and statistics still tell a story in different areas than the actual scoring numbers.
The most basic difference... (more)
Did you know that iFLY Dallas posted the highest Indoor Cloud League AAA/AA total in team history? posted: Jul 21st, 2025 The June leaderboard of the Indoor Cloud League is complete after Kyle Hermberg submitted the scores and videos of the iFLY Dallas team.
The total of 123 ICL points for June generated the closest distance that any team has come to the leader from the Czech Republic (128) this year. The iFLY Dallas team had a total of 127 points as the highest score in June and August last year, which even outscored the Hurricane Factory in the summer month of August when Czech teams and competitors prefer outdoor 4-way, and only 4-way juniors score for the ICL team, if they are not on summer vacation. The AAA/AA... (more)
Did you know that 4-way world champions have widened the scoring advantage over 8-way since 1999? posted: Jul 20th, 2025 The recent NSL News excursions into the history of formation skydiving competition eventually ended up at the very beginning of the FAI/ISC events, which may be defined with the introduction of the current format at the world championship in 1985. The review of the history was caused by the car crash death of Skydive DeLand's founder and owner Bob Hallet in May, whose original partner Tom Piras was a 4-way world champion with DeLand Air Bears in 1985 and died in 1992.
The most recent NSL News update included parts of a historic video production by freefall filming legend Norman Kent who featured... (more)
Did you know that Airbus 8-way is the top contender for European 8-way gold medals?
Did you know that Echochamber could win their first FAI outdoor medals?
Did you know that Arizona and Florida teams generated the first female 4-way Open Class world champions?
Did you know that 8-way teams are much closer to 4-way scores at indoor competition?
Did you know that iFLY Dallas posted the highest Indoor Cloud League AAA/AA total in team history?
Did you know that 4-way world champions have widened the scoring advantage over 8-way since 1999?