Did you know that Dutch and Czech teams share the 4-way passion? posted: Nov 30th, 2022 The special relationship between the national 4-way teams from the Netherlands (Out Of The Blue) and the Czech Republic (HF Flying Circus) caught the attention of the NSL News several years ago. The update on 6 July 2019 pointed out that the same two teams shared an outdoor leaderboard for the first time, after attending four indoor events together since November 2017.
HF Flying Circus had won all of them, including the FAI Indoor World Championship 2019 at Weembi Lille, with close finishing positions most of the times. It has been the reverse situation at outdoor events where the Dutch team... (more)
Did you know that the Moravian teams have a third indoor option? posted: Nov 29th, 2022 The NSL News mentioned during earlier coverage of the Czech Tunnel League and Indoor Cloud League events at the Hurricane Factory that not all training camps of the 4-way junior teams take place in Prague.
Czechoslovakia used to be spread out widely from west to east before the country split up into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Both countries now have Hurricane Factory windtunnels, one in Prague, the other one in Tatralandia, host of the FAI Indoor World Championship 2023.
Indoor fliers in the eastern region of the Czech Republic (Moravia) have a third option that reduces their... (more)
Did you know that Echochamber won the national indoor championships with the original 2016 lineup? posted: Nov 28th, 2022 The next national team that competed at the FAI Outdoor World Meet last month and then made a quick transition to indoor competition was Echochamber Oceanside from Sweden. The country's national indoor championships took place less than a month after Round 10 in Eloy.
Echochamber had to make a few adjustments in the lineup, as Ann-Marie Jarzebowski was heading back to Australia after the outdoor world meet, and Mattias Nord had planned a trip to France. Result of the situation before the national indoor championship was a reunion of the original Echochamber lineup of 2016.
Martin Backlin... (more)
Did you know that Ari Perelman plans to continue his Colorado comeback next year? posted: Nov 25th, 2022 The most recent Indoor Cloud League updates from iFLY Colorado Springs mentioned that former Arizona Airspeed member Ari Perelman has been back in 4-way action in support of Emily Bombardi's and Eric Daniel's ICL team. He participated last month for the first time when he was in the AAA/AA/A Class lineup for October.
His comeback actually happened earlier, as the NSL News mentioned on September 28th. He had also competed with Emily Bombardi and Eric Daniel for This is our Season in the AAA/Advanced Class of the USPA Nationals 2022. Steven Thoene completed the lineup at Skydive Chicago in September,... (more)
Did you know that Chimera still have an open account with NFTO? posted: Nov 23rd, 2022 The internal British duel for the country's top spot in 4-way competition between NFTO and Chimera has been going on since 2016. It was the World Challenge where both teams posted scores for the first time, on two different leaderboards.
NFTO had a their first complete year behind them when Chimera launched their new team, with three of the current members (Sarah Ashworth, Laura Hampton, James Woods) in the first lineup of 2016. Current NFTO members Anna Hicks and Vana Parker were in NFTO's 2016 lineup.
NFTO did not have much opposition in becoming instantly the strongest British 4-way Women... (more)
Did you know that Airbus could become the top contender for the 5th place in 2024? posted: Nov 21st, 2022 Germany has been one of the most consistent nations in 4-way and 8-way at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving since 1985, in 4-way even more so than in 8-way. The German national teams in 4-way Open missed only the FAI Tanay Mondial, where the participation was still compromised due to the corona virus crisis.
Germany was finally rewarded for the consistency and continuity with the country's first FAI medals at a world championship, as the NSL News reported on November 9th. The competition in 4-way Open at world championships is naturally much stronger, with many more national teams... (more)