Did you know that Valkyrie are aiming at the indoor world cup next year? posted: Dec 9th, 2025 The NSL News covered Italy’s national indoor championship in its update on November 11th. It was one of Europe’s earliest indoor events following the outdoor season and even took place before the completion of the USPA Nationals 2025. The Flyspot Open 2025 was held the same weekend, where two of the top contenders for next year’s indoor world cup—Skywalkers Most and Fly X Amnesya—posted their first indoor scores of the new winter season.
Both teams represented their countries, the Czech Republic and Italy, at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 in April and are expected to do so... (more)
Did you know that Papea had the shortest transition time from outdoor to indoor? posted: Dec 8th, 2025 The dramatic and unfortunate Papea story at the CISM World Championship was covered earlier by the NSL News, most recently on November 28th. The last three rounds of the meet were canceled due to the weather conditions in Qatar, which halted Spain’s national team’s strong recovery after the first two rounds in 4-way Male. Competition stopped after Round 5 of the scheduled eight rounds, leaving Papea just outside the medals in 4th place.
Among all military teams competing in Qatar, Papea and NMP PCH HayaBusa were likely in the greatest hurry to return home, with indoor events on their schedules... (more)
Did you know that 4-way juniors clash once again with 4-way seniors in the Czech Republic? posted: Dec 6th, 2025 The Czech Indoor Cloud League team at the Hurricane Factory in Prague was again the first to submit scores and videos for the November sequences—despite Jan Klapka's ongoing challenge of motivating Czech 4-way teams and competitors for the indoor winter season. Even so, he fielded five different teams competing for top results across the six November sequences.
There is currently no domestic rival for Skywalkers Most, who have developed into one of the world’s strongest 4-way teams. They continue to contribute significantly to the Czech Republic’s monthly totals on the Indoor Cloud League... (more)
Did you know that FS Nuts and Magic 4 represent Lithuania successfully? posted: Dec 5th, 2025 The AA Class competition at the ISR Grand Prix 2025 was almost as exciting and dramatic as the AAA Class duel between NMP PCH HayaBusa members Neal Willems and Ray Lodens, which even required an extra round to break their tie. The NSL News covered their internal showdown in an update on December 2nd.
AA Class winners FS Nuts from Lithuania and the Dutch 4-way team FS 4 The Occasion came within a single point of needing their own tie-break at the end of the 8-round meet. The Lithuanian guests claimed victory with a new team record average (16.0), a significant improvement over their previous... (more)
Did you know that five Weembinamic 8-way teams featured U.S. competitors? posted: Dec 4th, 2025 The NSL News covered the 8-way competition at the Weembinamic 2025 in its November 26th update. A major focus was the new Paraclete XP8 lineup, as reigning 8-way indoor and outdoor world champions Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner have been leading five new team members—along with 8-way and 4-way Women’s world champion Jennifer Davidson—to the highest level of international 8-way performance.
Jeana Billings and Kirk Verner also player-coached a second U.S. 8-way team, XP2 (Marion Baggio, Alison Bawden, Keith Fay, Rob Jonson, Joe Nicholson, Pete Scharrer), throughout the French version of... (more)
Did you know that Pete Allum updates his NSL Profile story in a new NSL Live Talk conversation? posted: Dec 3rd, 2025 British skydiving legend Pete Allum recently visited Skydive DeLand in Florida, where he spent many years of his skydiving career. His visit reminded the NSL News team that his NSL Profile was overdue for an update. The previous update had been published in November 2013, more than a decade after the original profile in 2002.
The earlier years of his career were well covered in the original story, including the intense 4-way rivalry between Sebastian XL and the DeLand Norgies, which spanned from 1995 to 2003. Much of that competition took place in Florida and played a major role in the creation... (more)