Did you know that a competition draw of the A Class is block-heavy for a good reason? posted: Nov 6th, 2003 The NSL News reported on March 13th that USPA introduces the A Class category at the national championships as a test event this year. The update from Arizona after the March meet of the Arizona Skydiving League explained more of the A Class history in the United States.
The NSL 4-way category was adopted early by other countries, and the A Class competition was just recently the most popular event of the Virtual Australian Outdoor Nationals 2021, behind the Rookie Class, which has been one of the NSL competition categories since 2002, as well.
The roots of the A Class grew in the early 4-way... (more)
Did you know that Solly Williams opens the Majik door for the NSL News audience? posted: Oct 30th, 2003 Last time the NSL News spoke with DeLand Majik member Solly Williams he was evaluating the situation at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving for the NSL audience. The interview took place in September in Gap, France, the event site of the Mondial 2003.
Six weeks later, Solly Williams is back home in DeLand with a 4-way gold medal that he just won with Majik at the USPA Nationals 2003, which also earned his team the trip to the next World Meet in Croatia.
The interview with Solly Williams looks back at the events in Lake Wales today and covers some of the Majik future. (more)
Did you know that the German team EADS competed and also pursued corporate sponsorship? posted: Oct 29th, 2003 The recent update from Germany related to the new Airbus 4-way lineup, and it connects with a new NSL News interview from the archives. It was first published in the German skydiving magazine Freifall Xpress, and EADS founder Jens Gönnemann answered the interesting questions. The NSL News translated it to English, and editor Peter Schäfer, who conducted and recorded the original interview, gave permission to make it available for the NSL News audience.
Peter Schäfer was interested in the financial operation of the 4-way national team EADS that competed for Germany at the world meets in 2003,... (more)
Did you know that DeLand Norgies' Lise Nansen-Aune was pregnant at two major events in 2003? posted: Oct 20th, 2003 Lise Nansen-Aune is one of the original DeLand Norgies members, and she was also a player-coach for Punky Fish, as the NSL News recently reported. The preview of the Norwegian Nationals 2020 on June 16th introduced this year's Punky Fish lineup, followed by the meet summary on August 4th.
She was a popular coach and had another player-coach team in 2003 that she competed with at the USPA Nationals the same year. Late Dr. Joel Shugar's team Optic Kurves also included Sinapsi PD member Arianna de Benedetti, who won her own FAI bronze medal at the FAI World Meet 2006. Optic Kurves continued with... (more)
Did you know that awards ceremony and party completed a great event? posted: Sep 13th, 2003 The award ceremony and the closing ceremony on Saturday afternoon wrapped up an extraordinary event in many ways. Mondial 2003 offered exciting competition in all events. The event management was near to perfect. And the competition was very entertaining for the public audience, the media and last not least also for the athletes. Even though the weather was not perfect all the time, Mondial 2003 Director, Patrice Girardin, managed to complete all the events within the planned time frame. (more)
Did you know that there was still no winner after 11 rounds? posted: Sep 13th, 2003 Russia was still in the defensive mode in round eleven, the jump-off that was supposed to be the tie-breaker. However, the defending world champion managed to pick up the speed enough to finish with the same score as Airspeed after a slow start. The crowd knew instantly what another tied round would mean for the World Championship. Russia had successfully defended the 8-way Excalibur. The rule book says that the highest score of the competition determines the winner if a jump-off does not break the tied situation. And Russia had the highest score of the meet with their 26 points in round five. (more)
Did you know that a competition draw of the A Class is block-heavy for a good reason?
Did you know that Solly Williams opens the Majik door for the NSL News audience?
Did you know that the German team EADS competed and also pursued corporate sponsorship?
Did you know that DeLand Norgies' Lise Nansen-Aune was pregnant at two major events in 2003?
Did you know that awards ceremony and party completed a great event?
Did you know that there was still no winner after 11 rounds?