Did you know that there were several more AAA Stars in Florida? posted: Jun 6th, 2005 The first part of the April 16 NSL-TV was posted with the NSL News on June 4th. The videos came from the Southwest Skydiving League event at Skydive Arizona in Eloy and included round four of Airspeed Odyssey and Velocity.
The new meet videos of the Florida Skydiving League meet in Lake Wales on the same weekend complete the coverage of round four. More 540 degree turns can be viewed in the AAA and AA Class, and more Stars at the end of the sequence in the AAA Class only. (more)
Did you know that the NSL SkyVenture Competition results of the May 28 weekend are posted? posted: Jun 5th, 2005 The results of NSL SkyVenture Competition on the May 28 weekend are now available. The handicapped scores of the May 21 weekend are still on a hold due to a little flaw in the program that calculates the handicapped results for the NSL SkyVenture Competition. This flaw relates only to meets where teams competed at earlier meets of a different league.
The results of the May 28 weekend were calculated after four rounds in the AAA Class and also the AA Class, after three rounds in the A Class. The Southwest Skydiving League completed all six rounds, while the Georgia Skydiving League competition... (more)
Did you know that the Star was only for the AAA Class teams in April? posted: Jun 4th, 2005 The new round of NSL-TV goes back to the April 16 meet weekend when the Southwest and the Florida Skydiving Leagues teams competed in Eloy and Lake Wales. The first part covers round four of the SSL meet, and the meet videos of the FSL teams will follow very soon. (more)
Did you know that the omission of a whole block costs a team a 6-point deduction? posted: Jun 3rd, 2005 NST-TV regularly includes several different penalty situations and has initiated many different discussions of the rules in the past. Recently, and shortly after the last NSL-TV videos were uploaded, the omission came up once again. A Canadian visitor of the NSL Forum created a penalty situation:
"So as we all know busts now equal a -1 point deduction. Omission are substracted -3 points. So lets say i skip a random formation Unipod, that equals -3, easy for now. What if a block is being completely omitted, how many points are taken away? -3 or -6 or even -9??? Example photon/photon, the team... (more)
Did you know that the Malevsky World Cup 2005 offers more excitement than ever before? posted: Jun 1st, 2005 The next big 4-way meet is just around the corner. The registration deadline for the 3rd FAI Anton Malevsky Memorial World Cup 2005 has passed, and the field of teams traveling to Russia in July is beyond all expectations.
The leaderboard of last year's World Championship of Formation Skydiving in Croatia is great evidence for the top quality of the teams at the Malevsky Cup 2005. Eight of the top ten nations in Croatia are registered for the meet in Stupino, Russia, on July 4-9, 2005, including USA, France, Russia, Italy, Germany, Norway, Belgium and Spain. Only Switzerland and Denmark will... (more)
Did you know that the Georgia Skydiving League teams and management relocated on a short notice? posted: May 31st, 2005 The second meet of the Georgia Skydiving League 2005 season was held Saturday, May 28, at Skydive Atlanta in Thomaston, GA. First of all, the GSL would like to extend a big thanks to Skydive Atlanta and Skydive Monroe for being able to work with the GSL and be willing to switch meet locations on short notice. Also, many thanks to the competitors for helping to spread the word of the change and for coming down to SDA on such short notice!
GSL Meet 2 saw a great turnout with six teams showing up to compete. Unfortunately, due to two fifteen-minute weather holds and eventual rain at 7 pm, we were... (more)