Did you know that the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 could become the tie-breaker between Kirk Verner and Mathieu Bernier? posted: Apr 22nd, 2021 The Shamrock Showdown Cloud 2021 is only a few days away from adding more scores and videos to the leaderboard. Especially the 8-way competition is showing an extremely interesting situation. All four 8-way medal contenders for the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 in August have performed the ten Shamrock rounds, and the results will offer a preview of the world meet, little over three months before Round 1 at the live event in Russia.
The scores and videos for the first four rounds have been available for a while. Russia's Tanay 8-way team is finishing up the meet rounds this week in Dubai, together... (more)
Did you know that Kirk Verner and Steve Hubbard tested the A Class together at Paraclete XP? posted: Apr 21st, 2021 The month of April is not over yet, and the first scores and videos for the leaderboard of the Indoor Cloud League have already been posted.
XPG4 members Morgan Womble, Jeana Billings and Brenn Richards organized the April event at Paraclete XP once again, and they were also back with Kirk Verner in their lineup to perform the two Open Class sequences (AAA/AA). The same lineup with inside center Kirk Verner had also performed the two sequences in March.
Doug Barron had filled Michelle Karamon's XPG4 inside center slot in February. Michelle Karamon still lives in Arizona and is usually not... (more)
Did you know that AZ Aardvark brought their team mascot to Paraclete XP? posted: Apr 20th, 2021 Three more sets of the meet rounds are completing the video coverage of the 4-way competition in the AA/Intermediate Class at the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2021. The videos of Bolting-batch of Beastliness, AZ Aardvark and Suprise! are now available for reviews, as well.
The lineups of Bolting-batch of Beastliness and Suprise! both were formed for the event. The Beastliness members had their additional teams on the 8-way Intermediate Class leaderboard, as well. Carin Liljedahl, Chris Diomantes and Steve Loufek completed ten more rounds with Beastly Dynasty in 8-way and went through a 1-point... (more)
Did you know that the Qatar Tigers included Shamrock Showdown rounds in their restart? posted: Apr 18th, 2021 The Shamrock Showdown 2021 turned into an extended hybrid cloud event when the weather in Florida did not allow the completion of the ten rounds in March at Skydive City.
The plan to include international teams via the internet was developed when travel restrictions and other implications of the corona virus crisis made it impossible for teams from overseas to visit the event site of the Shamrock Showdown. As a result, the format of the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 became the template for the Shamrock Showdown Cloud.
The extension of the time-frame for the completion of all ten rounds was added... (more)
Did you know that online/virtual/cloud events are only emergency measures for the NSL? posted: Apr 15th, 2021 The corona virus crisis had a significant impact on Formation Skydiving competition, which is nothing new. The implications have been covered numerous times by the NSL News. The same implications naturally impacted on the baseline of the National Skydiving League, which was exclusively built on the idea of advancing the young sport and offer more opportunities to meet other teams and competitors with the same passion. Unfortunately, bringing people together at live events has not been highly recommended these days.
The last complete and unharmed calendar of events was the 2019 season, when a... (more)
Did you know that Kinetix defended their 4-way title successfully in Australia? posted: Apr 14th, 2021 The NSL News reported the results of New Zealand's national 4-way championships on April 1st and mentioned that an update from Australia would follow soon. This year's national championships of New Zealand was the first time since 2017 that the teams did not have to travel to Australia for their own competition.
Australia, on the other side of the Tasman Sea, did not even run a live competition this year. The Australian Parachute Federation decided to host a virtual national championship, the same way how the NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 united teams on the same leaderboard, due to the limitations... (more)