Did you know that the Russian team Crystal has a busy 2009 schedule? posted: Mar 4th, 2009 A team from Russia has joined Airspeed's and Fury's busy odyssey at the beginning of the 2009 season. Team Crystal already competed at the Valentine's Meet 2009, has signed up for the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2009 and will then travel back to Europe and attend the World Challenge 2009 at Bodyflight Bedford.
Andrey Kalugin and Valery Kryshevich trained and competed with Crystal already throughout the 2008 season. Andrey Baldin and Sergey Romanuk completed last year's lineup. Sergey Romanuk used to be a team member of the Russian 8-way team Evolution Pro and competed at this year's world meet in... (more)
Did you know that Sebastian Tempest has a new member in the Point slot? posted: Feb 28th, 2009 The best team of the Florida Skydiving League 2008 and winner of the NSL Championship 2008, Sebastian Tempest, recently reported a personnel change for the 2009 season, as well. Tempest's Center Outside of 2008, Ari Perelman, will not continue with the Sebastian team this year.
The team story of the Sebastian Tempest 2008 line-up began in August 2007 in Zephyrhills when the Teiwaz 4-way scramble with two line-ups brought Chris Ash, Thiago Murradas, Ari Perelman and Kris Byrne together in one of the two line-ups for the FSL meet. Ari Perelman also competed in the other Teiwaz line-up at the same... (more)
Did you know that the CamScore 2009 season begins with the Shamrock Showdown? posted: Feb 26th, 2009 The actual CamScore success story began at the World Challenge indoor competition at Bodyflight Bedford in 2007. Computer wizzard Andrew Mansfield had taken on the challenge to computerize and digitalize DZ-TV and competition judging. Result was a software program that was applied at the World Challenge 2007 and worked flawlessly.
The program took a video feed from the windtunnel cameras through to the CamScore video recording software. The timing of the video footage was controlled by using a camcorder remote client. A video file was created for each competition round, processed via CamScore... (more)
Did you know that a new world class team has entered the 4-way stage? posted: Feb 20th, 2009 There have been rumors in the skydiving community that a new top team will enter the race for this year's 4-way top spot in the USA. These rumors seem to have become reality, as some of the team members recently confirmed.
The lineup consists of Shannon Pilcher, Ian Bobo, Thomas Hughes and Gary Beyer. (more)
Did you know that Miami Synergy will compete in the AA Class? posted: Feb 19th, 2009 The NSL News has covered the A Class team from Skydive Miami in Homestead, Zero Tolerance Miami, several times last year and many times ever since the team was founded in January 2001. The Center Inside of Zero Tolerance 2008, Guido Marti, is a founding member of the original 2001 lineup and took a longer break before he came back with the 2008 lineup. The NSL News brought the complete team history to the attention of the audience on 12 June 2008 (Archives > 2008 > News > Search for "Zero Tolerance").
The last update came with the NSL News coverage of the NSL Championship 2008 where Zero Tolerance... (more)
Did you know that Airspeed Odyssey and Perris Fury both have good reasons to be happy? posted: Feb 18th, 2009 The dust of the Valentine's Meet 2009 has settled, and there are five weeks until the next sand will be stirred up again. How is the situation between Airspeed Odyssey and Perris Fury after the first showdown of the 2009 season? Airspeed's Craig Girard was very happy with his team's performance, and Christy Frikken said that Perris Fury had a good meet, too: (more)