Did you know that iFLY Dallas posted the highest Indoor Cloud League AAA/AA total in team history? posted: Jul 21st, 2025 The June leaderboard of the Indoor Cloud League is complete after Kyle Hermberg submitted the scores and videos of the iFLY Dallas team.
The total of 123 ICL points for June generated the closest distance that any team has come to the leader from the Czech Republic (128) this year. The iFLY Dallas team had a total of 127 points as the highest score in June and August last year, which even outscored the Hurricane Factory in the summer month of August when Czech teams and competitors prefer outdoor 4-way, and only 4-way juniors score for the ICL team, if they are not on summer vacation. The AAA/AA... (more)
Did you know that 4-way world champions have widened the scoring advantage over 8-way since 1999? posted: Jul 20th, 2025 The recent NSL News excursions into the history of formation skydiving competition eventually ended up at the very beginning of the FAI/ISC events, which may be defined with the introduction of the current format at the world championship in 1985. The review of the history was caused by the car crash death of Skydive DeLand's founder and owner Bob Hallet in May, whose original partner Tom Piras was a 4-way world champion with DeLand Air Bears in 1985 and died in 1992.
The most recent NSL News update included parts of a historic video production by freefall filming legend Norman Kent who featured... (more)
Did you know that formation skydiving competition has a 40-year anniversary in 2025? posted: Jul 18th, 2025 The NSL News reported on June 12th that Skydive DeLand founder and owner Bob Hallet lost his life in a car crash on May 13th. The update on July 6th provided more information of the partnership with Tom Piras, who was his co-owner of Skydive DeLand when they launched their business operation in DeLand.
Tom Piras started the 4-way team DeLand Air Bears shortly after settling in Florida (Guy Manos, Joe Nepute, John Robbins, Norman Kent on camera), and they won the first FAI World Championship of 4-way Formation Skydiving after the current competition format was introduced.
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Did you know that teams of the Northern California Skydiving League joined the July leaderboards? posted: Jul 16th, 2025 Four teams from Northern California joined the Czech and British teams on the July leaderboard. Lori Connor completed the second NCSL meet of the year successfully, after the first one was completely weathered out in June.
AA Class team Hair Speed, who plan to compete at the USPA Nationals this year, battled with the two Czech teams throughout the four completed rounds at Skydive California. British team Nakama was out of reach for all other teams on the AA Class leaderboard. British RRR Class team Tummy Lovin' had more work to finish in the top position after three synchronized rounds with... (more)
Did you know that the British A Class situation promises exciting competition? posted: Jul 14th, 2025 The NSL News covered the AAA/AA Class competition of the United Kingdom Skydiving League at the third meet of this year in Netheravon with the update on July 7th. British Army Volt4ge (AAA) and Nakama shared their respective leaderboards with 4-way teams from the Czech Republic that weekend.
The same update pointed out that the competition draw for participating leagues and teams in the NSL 4-way Network usually creates overlapping sequences between the traditional four different categories, after a random draw for the AAA Class competition trickles down.
Three of the ten sequences in Netheravon... (more)
Did you know that Chop Chop! cover the longest travel distance this time? posted: Jul 13th, 2025 Australian 4-way teams have been some of the most reliable and consistent participants in horizontal formation skydiving world championships since 1985. In fact, the Australian FAI/ISC delegation missed only the two events that were hosted by Russia, in Menzelinsk 2010 and Tanay 2021,
4-way teams from Down Under usually travel to the outdoor world cups, as well. It was last time in Banja Luka 2013 when no Australian teams appeared on any of the four formation skydiving leaderboards. However, a complete Australian formation skydiving delegation was back a year later in Prostejov 2014, and Impulse... (more)
Did you know that iFLY Dallas posted the highest Indoor Cloud League AAA/AA total in team history?
Did you know that 4-way world champions have widened the scoring advantage over 8-way since 1999?
Did you know that formation skydiving competition has a 40-year anniversary in 2025?
Did you know that teams of the Northern California Skydiving League joined the July leaderboards?
Did you know that the British A Class situation promises exciting competition?
Did you know that Chop Chop! cover the longest travel distance this time?