Did you know that AZ Defiance was the cleanest Advanced Class team at the USPA Nationals 2021? posted: Feb 8th, 2022 The USPA Nationals 2021 have been in the books for more than three months, and the NSL News still has several topics on the list for the aftermath. There are also other related topics, where the coverage has not been completed yet.
One of them is the history of the USPA Advanced Class competition. The series of NSL News stories came to a hold after the USPA Nationals 2011, and it will soon be resumed. However, the Advanced Class champions of the last two stories, Carolina Turbo XP in 2010 and Perris Air Rush in 2011, connected directly with last year's national championships.
In fact, both... (more)
Did you know that Craig Girard has never stopped training and competing? posted: Feb 7th, 2022 The last piece in the XP8 puzzle was an astonishing and somehow surprising move by the five returning 8-way team members (Jeana Billings, Michelle Karamon, John D'Annunzio, Kirk Verner, Brian Krause) and the previously recruited two new members (Matt Davidson, Andrew Happick) of the lineup for 2022, still with Elliot Byrd on camera, now in his 5th year with XP8.
Craig Girard was introduced as the newest XP8 member with the update on February 4th, after team captain Kirk Verner had shared the completion of the new lineup with the NSL News.
The AZXP8 lineup of 2020 and 2021 was already almost... (more)
Did you know that the Czech Indoor Cloud League team followed up with record participation? posted: Feb 6th, 2022 The Czech Indoor Open 2022 at the Hurricane Factory in Prague had record participation last month, as the NSL News reported on January 24th. A total of 19 teams competed at the event, with two of them visiting from Hungary (Bronteroc) and Italy (Synergy).
The 17 Czech 4-way teams alone were a new record number for the country's 4-way competition, which translated almost exactly into the Czech participation in the Indoor Cloud League for the same month.
Three of the four Czech AAA Class teams on the 10-round leaderboard took on the two ICL Open Class sequences (AAA/AA) for January, as well,... (more)
Did you know that Craig Girard completes the new XP8 lineup? posted: Feb 4th, 2022 It's been a while since Arizona Airspeed decided to focus only on 4-way competition in 2022. Niklas Hemlin, Mikhail Markine and Chris Kuhlmann still competed with XP8 at the USPA Nationals 2021 where they added the 8-way gold medals to last year's collection.
Niklas Hemlin and Mikhail Markine of the current Airspeed lineup, which was recruited at the end of the 2019 season, committed to 8-way training and competition after the 2nd place in 4-way behind SDC Rhythm XP at the USPA Nationals 2019. They replaced Rhythm members Steve Lefkowitz and Andrew Happick who decided to focus only on 4-way... (more)
Did you know that the Russian indoor delegation includes two promising 4-way Junior teams? posted: Feb 3rd, 2022 The recent NSL News updates from Russia introduced the teams that plan to attend the FAI Indoor World Cup in April. Four Russian teams are registered for the 4-way Open competition (Airborne VDV, IFS-Moscow, Quartet, DanDelion WN), as the NSL News reported yesterday, and Bubbles are the top contender in 4-way Women.
There are still two more 4-way teams who plan to travel to Charleroi in Belgium soon. In fact, the planning of the participation of the additional two teams will be done by parents and the managers of the Russian delegation, as the team members have to be younger than 18 years of... (more)
Did you know that Russia has a very strong 4-way delegation for the indoor world cup? posted: Feb 2nd, 2022 The NSL News reported on 27 December 2021 that the new 4-way Women outdoor world champions, Bubbles, won the national indoor championships, as well, and followed up with more details on January 11th.
The incredible plane crash and recovery story of Airborne VDV member Georgy Miroshnichenko included more information of Russia's top 4-way teams, and the impressive move by the Bubbles to the world's top position in 4-way Women was published just a few days ago.
The same three teams, Bubbles, Airborne VDV, IFS-Moscow, will also be a part of the Russia 4-way delegation at the FAI Indoor World... (more)