Did you know that the U.S. delegation left without any FAI gold only twice since 1985? posted: Jan 6th, 2025 The NSL News update of the recent U.S. Sweep in all four Formation Skydiving competition events at Crystal Coast included a chart with an overview of the winning national teams since 1985. The story pointed out the other five world championships of Formation Skydiving competition when the delegation of one and the same country won all FAI gold medals.
Only two sets of gold medals were on stake between 1985 and 1999. The U.S. delegation won 4-way and 8-way both three times (1985, 1995, 1997) in this time period. One FS Sweep took place after the 4-way Women category was added to FAI events in... (more)
Did you know that Kyle Hermberg welcomed 19 participants at iFLY Dallas for the ICL December sequences? posted: Jan 6th, 2025 The Indoor Cloud League 2024 duel between Kyle Hermberg's iFLY Dallas team and Jan Klapka's Hurricane 4-way team Factory in the Czech Republic has come to its conclusion before all data for the last year has been processed and posted. The Czech ICL team took ten of the twelve monthly highscores, and iFLY Dallas won the August competition. The ICL Midwest team posted the highest July total.
The comeback of the Indoor Cloud League after the especially tough indoor restrictions throughout the corona virus crisis, and its related changes and difficulties afterwards, began in 2022, even though the... (more)
Did you know that the Airbus 4-way team launches the 2025 season with a new lineup? posted: Jan 4th, 2025 The NSL News continues with updates from Germany, which are related to 4-way this time. Germany has always been a relevant player in Formation Skydiving competition, with regular participation at the international events. The two third places in 8-way at the previous two outdoor world championships in 2022 and 2024 has naturally initiated an increased NSL News coverage of the development in Germany.
The national 4-way teams of the country, Airbus Oceanside Illertissen and Meltemi Oceanside Illertissen, have not won FAI medals yet, while they are still heavily involved in the competition for... (more)
Did you know that Czech 4-way senior teams try to hold off the 4-way juniors? posted: Jan 2nd, 2025 The NSL News updated Jan Klapka's NSL Profile with additional information on 28 December 2024. It took only two days until he followed up with the Indoor Cloud League information for the last month of the year 2024, as he has done every month for many years by now.
The most recent internal ICL leaderboard of the participating teams and competitors at the Hurricane Factory is showing once again the impact that his work has had on 4-way Formation Skydiving competition in the Czech Republic. Nine teams performed the December sequences and competed for the highest scores in each of the six NSL/ICL... (more)
Did you know that Germany has personnel options for the 8-way bronze medal defense? posted: Dec 31st, 2024 The NSL News has followed the development of 8-way competition in Germany carefully in the past years. Two different teams have won the 8-way bronze medals at the two previous outdoor world championships, Airbus Oceanside Illertissen in Eloy 2022, Operation Adler at Crystal Coast 2024.
The update on December 24th covered the next 8-way step in Germany, as members of the two opposing teams of the past two years are working on plans how to defend the FAI bronze medals successfully one more time in 2026.
The closer look at the different lineups since 2004 is showing that Airbus and Operation... (more)
Did you know that the NSL Profile of the Skydiver Of The Year 2015 was updated? posted: Dec 28th, 2024 The story of Niklas Hemlin's NSL Profile was recently updated with links to NSL News and NSL Live Talk. The content was mostly related to the athletic part of the sport and Niklas Hemlin's impressive career as a Formation Skydiving competitor.
Jan Klapka's NSL Profile story begins with a paragraph that is pointing out the actual meaning of the NSL Profiles: "The special people who get their place on the NSL Profiles pages are not only world champions, even though there are many of them, who surely deserve the attention and the credit. There are many passionate skydivers who have dedicated almost... (more)
Did you know that the U.S. delegation left without any FAI gold only twice since 1985?
Did you know that Kyle Hermberg welcomed 19 participants at iFLY Dallas for the ICL December sequences?
Did you know that the Airbus 4-way team launches the 2025 season with a new lineup?
Did you know that Czech 4-way senior teams try to hold off the 4-way juniors?
Did you know that Germany has personnel options for the 8-way bronze medal defense?
Did you know that the NSL Profile of the Skydiver Of The Year 2015 was updated?