Did you know that the ICL Midwest team had an interesting lineup in October? posted: Nov 5th, 2022 Things are in motion in the Midwest Skydiving League region. SDC Rhythm XP members Keith Conner and Chris Webb recently announced the MWSL 2023 schedule, which will once again include 4-way meets at the three major 4-way locations in the Midwest.
Skydive Midwest is one of the MWSL hosts, and SDMW NEXT has been one of the rising 4-way team projects in the United States. NEXT team members also launched the ICL Midwest team for the Indoor Cloud League and have become one of the strong players generating new 4-way participants regularly.
Lauren Byrd has been managing and player-coaching the Indoor... (more)
Did you know that MicroClim8 ran an obstacle course in 2022? posted: Nov 4th, 2022 The 8-way previews of the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022 indicated clearly that the gold and silver medals would be set in stone before the competition even began. There was neither serious opposition expected for Paraclete XP8 nor for Qatar Falcons in their top spots of the 8-way leaderboard. XP8 eventually finished 41 points ahead of Falcons, who themselves created a 31-point distance to the team in 3rd place.
However, the NSL Power Rankings expected a battle for the bronze medals in 8-way between Great Britain (MicroClim8), Germany (Airbus) and France (Mojo). It turned out to be a competition... (more)
Did you know that HF Flying Circus connect Czech 4-way history, presence and future? posted: Nov 3rd, 2022 The NSL News mentioned with the last Indoor Cloud League update from the Czech Republic on October 7th that the country's national team in 4-way Open, HF Flying Circus, was still helping out Jan Klapka's ICL team at the Hurricane Factory with the September scores for the two Open Class sequences (AAA/AA) before traveling to Skydive Arizona and the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2022.
It would be the first outdoor world meet for HF Flying Circus, and the team's participation in Eloy was also resuming the Czech Republic's outdoor presence at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving. The Czech Republic... (more)
Did you know that the majorities of the lineups have changed in the past years? posted: Nov 2nd, 2022 The combined leaderboard of the two 4-way categories that use the same competition draw and the same dive pool, 4-way Open and 4-way Women, did not change much since the NSL News featured it last time, after Round 8, and before the two fast sequences of Rounds 9 and 10. There was the change in the medal positions between France and Qatar that happened in Round 9, as the NSL News reported earlier, while this interesting finish does not relate to the topics of the combined leaderboard.
The same ten teams finished in the Top 10, including NFTO, Nephtys and XPG4. The French national team in 4-way... (more)
Did you know that Norway works on plans to bring back an 8-way team? posted: Nov 1st, 2022 The story of Norway's national team in 4-way Open, Agera, actually began in the later 90's when Carl-Erik Tuv trained and competed with the DeLand Norgies. The same lineup (Lise Aune/Nansen, Pal Kolbenstvedt, Torstein Valen, Carl-Erik Tuv) won three consecutive FAI bronze medals at the world meets in 1999, 2001 and 2003. Then they retired from the intensive schedule of a world-class team.
However, they never really retired, as the scores of this year's national championships were showing. Three of the original members were in the lineup that won the national 4-way title in August, and Carl-Erik... (more)
Did you know that iFLY Dallas passed the total of 1000 ICL points in September? posted: Oct 31st, 2022 The FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving is by far the most relevant competition for any 4-way and 8-way teams, competitors and the audience. It is still only one team in each event that represents a country and cannot be at any other location at the time of the world meet.
4-way and 8-way training and other activities come almost to a standstill across the Formation Skydiving world at the time of the world meet. Teams, competitors and audience pay at least a lot of attention to the event while they continue to do what they do.
The Indoor Cloud League events are a part of the 4-way... (more)