Did you know that the USPA Nationals feature re-matches of 2019 in 4-way Open? posted: Oct 14th, 2025 SDC Rhetirement Rhedux and XP Angels, who are also coming back from last year's USPA Nationals, have their own stories, as well. The NSL News has covered the road of XP Angels from the USPA Nationals 2024 to the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025 comprehensively, and the road does not end there. The U.S. team in 4-way Women enjoyed the international meet atmosphere at Skydive Teuge in the Netherlands and have the outdoor world championship as the next goal.
Rhetirement Rhedux was a new team name on last year's USPA leaderboard, and the team members in 2024 have the international meet experiences in... (more)
Did you know that the Shamrock Showdown order could be expected for the top of the USPA 2025 leaderboard? posted: Oct 14th, 2025 Round 1 of the 4-way competition at the USPA National Skydiving Championships 2025 is less than two weeks away, and registration is in full progress until the day before the competition begins. A total of 49 teams have already signed up for the four events in horizontal 4-way formation skydiving competition, ten of them for the 4-way Open Class event.
Five of the ten teams are back after competing at last year's event, as well. One of the medal winners in 2024 is missing, which opens a door for a new USPA medalist. XPG4 have discontinued, even though the team name still appeared on leaderboards... (more)
Did you know that Nephtys Maubeuge were the cleanest 4-way team at the outdoor world cup? posted: Oct 12th, 2025 The French national team in 4-way Open, Aethers Medjay, made the NSL News headline with a historic performance at the Shamrock Showdown 2025. The current indoor world champions had won their first FAI gold medals by 15 points over Arizona Airspeed after only three point deductions at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025. Arizona Airspeed's lineup at Paraclete XP in April (Niklas Hemlin, Joey Marshall, Chris Kuhlmann, Doug Handrix) was even cleaner with only two point deductions at the same event.
The same Aethers Lille lineup, still with David Ricard on camera, followed up with the historic... (more)
Did you know that 23 U.S. teams were on the shared NSL 4-way leaderboards in September? posted: Oct 10th, 2025 The September leaderboard of the NSL 4-way Network has taken a different dimension, which reminds the observer on times when horizontal 4-way training and competition was the dominating event in skydiving. Events took place at four different locations, including the BENELUX Championship in Europe, where Belgian and Dutch teams competed for their national championship titles and also welcomed a few guest teams.
The September leaderboard now features 45 teams in the four NSL categories (AAA - AA - A - RRR) who applied the same competition draw at the four different locations. Texas Skydiving League... (more)
Did you know that 4-way Women bronze medalists XP Angels never looked back after Round 4? posted: Oct 9th, 2025 The 4-way Women competition at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025 was the only event in horizontal formation skydiving where the NSL Power Rankings in the previews matched the final ranking results exactly. The most recent scores from France and Norway before the competition at Skydive Teuge had indicated well enough that Nephtys Maubeuge and Thyra would claim the FAI gold and silver medal positions. However, the NSL Power Rankings were showing a serious competition to come between the other three teams in this 4-way category.
U.S. team XP Angels seemed to be the strongest contender of the three... (more)
Did you know that Papea defended the national 4-way title successfully in Spain? posted: Oct 8th, 2025 Spain was the last one of the countries with teams competing at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2025 that held their national outdoor championships after the event at Skydive Teuge. Only the U.S. teams in the Netherlands are now left to post their last outdoor scores of the year at Skydive Arizona later this month. The Golden Knights still have the CISM World Championship ahead of them in November, as the NSL News reported on September 26th.
The Spanish national team in 4-way Open, Papea, have a very similar meet schedule. They competed at the outdoor world cup and defended their national outdoor... (more)