Did you know that France has a new indoor and outdoor lineup in 4-way Women? posted: Jan 23rd, 2022 The NSL News continues with the topic of 4-way Women competition, where the most recent updates covered the change in the lineup of XPG4, the U.S. national team in this FAI/ISC category.
Any U.S. team in any of the three traditional Formation Skydiving events since 2001 (4-way Open, 4-way Women, 8-way) is naturally a medal contender at world meets and world cups, even though the U.S. delegation missed medals in 4-way Women by a hair and after a rules drama at the last two world meets in Australia 2018 and Tanay 2021. Elsinore Select was the third U.S. team missing the bronze medals after a jump-off... (more)
Did you know that XPG4 mastered team tryouts, Indoor Cloud League and 3-Way Tunnel Throwdown at the same time? posted: Jan 22nd, 2022 Yesterday's NSL News update that introduced original Kaos Theory XP member Anna Brunner as the new XPG4 member was also the transition to another topic that connects the previous ones related to SDC Rhythm XP, Kaos Theory XP and XPG4 with Paraclete XP's Indoor Cloud League events and XPG4's newly introduced "3-Way Tunnel Throwdown" event.
The weekend of January 8th at Paraclete XP was actually a combination of the events that recently received a lot of attention. Paraclete XP's Indoor Cloud League event of January took place on the Friday evening before the start of the 3-way competition on... (more)
Did you know that Anna Brunner leaves Kaos Theory XP for XPG4? posted: Jan 21st, 2022 Kaos Theory XP, Intermediate Class winner of the USPA Nationals 2021, has recently been in the NSL News headlines for other reasons, as well. The selection of the new SDC Rhythm XP lineup connected Kaos members with the topic.
The update on 4 December 2021 introduced the first three new Rhythm members, including Kaos videographer Charlie McGee, who continues on camera for SDC Rhythm XP. A month later, the NSL News connected more dots of former Kaos Theory and future Rhythm members.
Finally, Kaos Theory's outside center Carl Kallgren was selected for the new Rhythm lineup, as well, as the... (more)
Did you know that SDC Rhythm XP has new slot assignments for the new lineup? posted: Jan 20th, 2022 The NSL News update on January 17th introduced former Kaos Theory XP member Carl Kallgren as the latest addition to the new SDC Rhythm XP lineup. Doug Barron, Keith Conner, Chris Webb, Carl Kallgren and Charlie McGee on camera are ready to go and have started with indoor and outdoor training.
The slot assignment of the new lineup is an interesting topic, as none of the Rhythm members find themselves in the same slot where they were with previous teams, except for videographer Charlie McGee, who is back on camera after his time with Kaos Theory XP.
His Kaos team mate Carl Kallgren had the... (more)
Did you know that the Shamrock Showdown has its 20-year anniversary in March? posted: Jan 19th, 2022 NMP PCH HayaBusa and Arizona Airspeed have finalized their travel plans for the world's most anticipated new duel at the Shamrock Showdown 2022. Both teams have not met each other at a dropzone since the Belgian 4-way world champions visited the United States for the USPA Nationals 2019.
HayaBusa and Airspeed have been battling with each other at each world meet since 2008, even though other U.S. teams (DeLand Majik, DeLand Fire) outscored the original HayaBusa lineup in 2004 and 2006. Airspeed won the duel in 2008, 2010 and 2012 before HayaBusa took the indoor and outdoor top spot in 2014 and... (more)
Did you know that two Bad Boys joined forces with two Flying Rebels? posted: Jan 18th, 2022 Jan Klapka's Czech part of the World Tunnel League has been back on track since November last year, even though indoor and outdoor Formation Skydiving competition is still heavily impacted by the ongoing corona virus crisis.
The founder and organizer of the Czech Tunnel League and of the 4-way junior project at the Hurricane Factory used to divide the Czech 4-way year in two parts. The indoor season begins in November when the weather does not allow much jumping from planes any longer in Central Europe, and the last indoor meet is usually scheduled for April. Then the Czech teams turn back to... (more)