Did you know that Thomas, Tim and Moritz Mack competed together for Airbus 4-way? posted: Apr 23rd, 2025 The NSL News has covered special family lineups in 4-way competition for many years, as it is a fascinating topic when parents, brothers and sisters jump from air planes together. The most recent story was the one of the Mattoni family (father Stephane, sons Tom and Noe) who visited Paraclete XP for the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025. NSL Live Talk with the Mattoni family was posted with the update on April 16th.
Germany had its own family story, as well, when Joern and Max Thiele dominated 4-way competition in Germany with Paratec-Saar for several years. They competed together for Germany... (more)
Did you know that indoor and outdoor leaderboards look significantly different? posted: Apr 22nd, 2025 The high-level field of teams at the Shamrock Showdown 2025 required a panel of judges who would have their own competition experiences and all expertise and knowledge that is currently available in formation skydiving competition.
Claire King, Dirk Venter and Jim Rees all had jobs in judging and meet management at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 and made the same road trip to Florida as Aethers (FR), Arizona Airspeed (US) and Netunos (BR). They have attended Shamrock Showdown events in the past, as well, and committed early to the double-pack of high-level events.
Dirk Venter and... (more)
Did you know that five different teams won the five $200 skins at the Shamrock? posted: Apr 21st, 2025 The Shamrock Showdown 2025 was not over until the traditional Skins Game was completed. Skydive DeLand sponsored the event once again with a total of $2,000 cash for prize money. Half of it goes to the teams in the Top 3 positions ($500 - $300 - $200) according to the raw scores after Round 10.
French national team Aethers earned the $500 with a historic performance after ten rounds without any point deductions. The Golden Knights would have won the $300 for the 2nd place over Arizona Airspeed and donated the prize money back into the funds. It was forwarded to the only 8-way team in DeLand,... (more)
Did you know that world class competitors cheered for the A Class teams in DeLand? posted: Apr 21st, 2025 The Shamrock Showdown 2025 started once again with the introduction of the teams and the manual competition draw on Thursday evening. The new indoor world champions from France, Aethers, were introduced first and then pulled the sequence for Round 1 out of the hat, followed by ten other teams who created the complete competition draw.
Engineering and preparations for the first round on Friday morning were next, and the creeper pad was busy for a while before the last night and the start of the competition.
Aethers (FR), Arizona Airspeed (US), Cheetahs (QA) and Netunos (BR) had transitioned... (more)
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed won the second half of the indoor world championship? posted: Apr 17th, 2025 NSL Live Talk with Arizona Airspeed concluded the NSL News coverage of the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025 live from Paraclete XP. It was the complete combination of the previous and the current Airspeed lineups who took the time to evaluate their meet experiences after the completion of all rounds and before the award ceremony on Saturday.
Three reigning 4-way world champions (Niklas Hemlin, Joey Marshall, Chris Kuhlmann) and new tail Doug Hendrix had taken the 2nd place, after a 10-round battle with NMP PCH HayaBusa. New outside center Alisson de Vargas had competed for Airspeed at the... (more)
Did you know that Tom Mattoni celebrated his first FAI gold medal with his family on NSL Live Talk? posted: Apr 16th, 2025 The four Skywalkers Junior members, with an average age below 18, were actually not the youngest competitors at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2025. The NSL News mentioned on February 28th that the whole French Mattoni family will be back at Paraclete XP in April, father Stephane in the audience, older son Tom in the Aethers Medjay lineup, younger son Noe with the French D'Arc8 team in 8-way Open.
Tom Mattoni is now one of the youngest 4-way world champions in the history of formation skydiving competition with his 21 years of age. However, his brother Noe is even five years younger with... (more)
Did you know that Thomas, Tim and Moritz Mack competed together for Airbus 4-way?
Did you know that indoor and outdoor leaderboards look significantly different?
Did you know that five different teams won the five $200 skins at the Shamrock?
Did you know that world class competitors cheered for the A Class teams in DeLand?
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed won the second half of the indoor world championship?
Did you know that Tom Mattoni celebrated his first FAI gold medal with his family on NSL Live Talk?