Did you know that the Russian Nationals 2008 have begun in Puschino? posted: Jun 17th, 2008 The NSL News has mentioned the Russian Nationals 2008 several times this year, as it is the qualification event for this year's World Championship of Formation Skydiving. It was scheduled for this week to give the winning team enough time to prepare for the World Meet in France.
The competition began today, and a total of 13 teams have signed up for the AAA/Open Class, including all the teams that are aiming at the Russian tickets to France. This race has been mostly a duel between the Sky Panthers and Black Cat in the past. However, other Russian top teams, as Crossroads and Sky Tech BBC, have... (more)
Did you know that a hybrid meet in Eloy included a family affair? posted: Jun 17th, 2008 The Arizona Skydiving League, run by the AZ Divewerkz members, had to improvise last weekend to get the six rounds of the meet in Eloy completed. Annie Peterson reported that the participants had a good meet despite some initial delays and issues:
"First, one participant had a reserve after a nasty opening in Round 1. We weren't able to continue right away with the next round. Then, halfway through Round 2, we missed a videographer. Since we had only two videographers for the four teams there was no way for us to continue with three teams and only one video! So, we decided to move the competition... (more)
Did you know that Dennis Rook has joined Mass Defiance for the 2008 season? posted: Jun 16th, 2008 The Paraclete XP Money Meet 2008, coming up this weekend in Raeford, brings back together the best 4-way teams of the country and has an international flair this year, as well. The NSL News story on 16 May 2008 had already provided an overview of the field.
The meet will also feature a reunion of the New England Skydiving League team Mass Defiance. Team speaker Ben Liston recently updated the NSL News on the team's activities this year.
Mass Defiance trained and competed intensively between 2004 and 2007 and almost made it to the 20-point average level last year. The 2007 season was already... (more)
Did you know that UK team Wingnutz entered the third competition class in three years? posted: Jun 13th, 2008 The NSL News story on 9 June 2008 covered last weekend's competition of the United Kingdom Skydiving League (UKSL) in Netheravon. The first part of the story provided an update of Satori's current situation before additional information of the meet was provided by Chris Hollis, Formation Skydiving representative for the British Parachute Association (BPA).
Videos of the UKSL competition followed the meet information, kindly provided by CamScore, the DZ-TV and judging system that has also covered the World Challenge 2008.
The CamScore system has already made it to several skydiving centers... (more)
Did you know that Zero Tolerance Miami has a long team history? posted: Jun 12th, 2008 NSL-TV moves on with another round of meet videos. Round 3 of the FSL May meet has now been uploaded. FSC Wind Damaged features the AA Class sequence (Q-P-F-13) with two completely different pages at the top of the competition jump. Confusion whether the first formation of the sequence was correctly presented or not held the team from Lake Wales back for a while.
The whole first page was seriously hurt by the flaw at the very beginning and costly as of working time. However, FSC Wind Damaged left the first page behind and followed up with a perfect second page, which was probably one of the... (more)
Did you know that Christy Frikken is filling Fastrax Blue's Point slot? posted: Jun 11th, 2008 The NSL News story on 21 May 2008 brought the sad news that Fastrax Blue member Kelley Frederickson had died in her sleep at night in the middle of a training camp in Perris. Fastrax founder John Hart wrote "A tribute to our friend" that was posted with the same story.
Kelley's three Fastrax Blue team mates, Becky Broccato (Tail), Erin Murphy (Outside Center) and Brianne Thompson (Inside Center) took some time off and then decided recently to continue the team project with a new member in the Point position. Perris Fury's Center Outside Christy Frikken agreed to fill the slot until the conclusion... (more)
Did you know that the Russian Nationals 2008 have begun in Puschino?
Did you know that a hybrid meet in Eloy included a family affair?
Did you know that Dennis Rook has joined Mass Defiance for the 2008 season?
Did you know that UK team Wingnutz entered the third competition class in three years?
Did you know that Zero Tolerance Miami has a long team history?
Did you know that Christy Frikken is filling Fastrax Blue's Point slot?