Did you know that Paraclete XP opens the Indoor Cloud League 2023 leaderboard with 126? posted: Jan 26th, 2023 Paraclete XP's Indoor Cloud League team opened the 2023 leaderboard with scores and videos for January after a busy event weekend that included the Indoor Cloud League sequences and the 3-way Throwdown competition.
Several participants attended both events and finished in top positions of the 3-way Throwdown. Platinum XP members Don Hurd, Matthias Kaminski and Dan Keystone performed the three technical January sequences of the Indoor Cloud League (AAA - AA - A) with XPG4 member Brenn Richards and posted the highscore for the A Class sequence. Then they won the Advanced Class competition of the... (more)
Did you know that Chimera will not come back as a 4-way team? posted: Jan 24th, 2023 The AAA Class leaderboard of the British Indoor Nationals 2022 offered a surprise of a different kind. Scores and positions turned out to be mostly as expected, with NFTO once again in the top spot of the AAA Class leaderboard.
However, the strongest NFTO opponent of the past seven years, Chimera, were not present to defend the indoor title that the British national team in 4-way Open won for the first time in February 2022. Chimera have been so much a consistent and competitive factor on British and international leaderboards since 2016 that the team's absence at the British Indoor Nationals... (more)
Did you know that Gary Smith and Luc Verstrepen explained Qatar's new 4-way plans? posted: Jan 24th, 2023 The NSL News has followed the 4-way and 8-way teams from Qatar from the time when they entered the world of Formation Skydiving competition at the Dubai Championship 2011. The first members of the Qatar delegation were done with their AFF training at Skydive DeLand. Head coach Solly Williams and his assistant Katie Woods were working with the first 4-way lineups, on the ground and in freefall. There was a team from Qatar on the Dubai leaderboard a year earlier, which was not a part of the new program that generated the current Formation Skydiving delegation.
Qatar coach Luc Verstrepen was done... (more)
Did you know that Airbus have a new 8-way lineup for the next two years? posted: Jan 23rd, 2023 The NSL News covered the first FAI medals for Germany at world meets of formation skydiving competition since 1985 during the aftermath of the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022. The story on 9 November 2022 featured the competition for the 3rd place in Eloy and Germany's 8-way history.
The success of an accomplishment like that has two sides. On one hand, it motivates competitors to continue and do even better in the future. On the other hand, it is a great opportunity to step back and finish an intensive career at a peak point.
The German Airbus 8-way team came to that point of crossroads... (more)
Did you know that the Czech Indoor Open had record participation and 5 guest teams? posted: Jan 20th, 2023 The Czech Indoor Open 2023 did not only feature the country's three national 4-way indoor teams for the upcoming FAI Indoor World Championship 2023, HF Flying Circus in 4-way Open, HF Cubs in 4-way Women, HF Flying Rebels in 4-way Junior, as the NSL News reported on January 18th. The same event also had new record participation with a total of 22 teams at the Hurricane Factory in Prague.
Five guest teams from four different countries joined the 17 Czech teams on their home turf for the national indoor championship. The two guest teams in the AAA Class competition, Bronteroc from Hungary and... (more)
Did you know that the German Airfource may challenge Airbus for the German outdoor title? posted: Jan 20th, 2023 EADS/Airbus lineups have been competing for Germany at all FAI outdoor world championships between 2003 and 2006, and then again since 2016. Thomas Mack, member of the current lineup, competed at the three FAI outdoor world championships in 2016, 2018 and 2022, and his current team mates (Sarah Mertes, Felix Pfeiffer, Alexander Prendinger) completed their first ten 4-way Open Class rounds at a world championship in Eloy last October, with Andreas Trögele still on camera.
AtomiX won the qualification for the FAI Tanay Mondial 2020 at the national championships in 2019, however, the cancellation... (more)