Did you know that French and Czech juniors will probably catch attention next week? posted: Jan 24th, 2025 Yesterday's NSL Live Talk conversation with Gary Smith included a preview of the upcoming Wind Games in Spain and the first NSL Power Rankings. Solly Williams mentioned a day earlier that Arizona Airspeed will not attend the competition due to reasons of eligibility for new team member Alisson de Vargas.
Two other U.S. teams will compete in Empuriabrava and are expected to finish on the top of the leaderboard behind the world's arguably new 4-way leader, Aethers Medjay from France. The Golden Knights and their coach Niklas Hemlin will test the strength of the French national team in 4-way Open,... (more)
Did you know that Gary Smith explained changes for Qatar Tigers, Lions and Cheetahs? posted: Jan 24th, 2025 Gary Smith and Solly Williams are two of the most experienced participants in formation skydiving competition, first as world champion competitors, followed by successful coaching careers.
Both are still very active in the sport as coaches, while they also still jump from planes or fly in wind tunnel chambers if it becomes necessary. Together they invented the modern style of 4-way performance with the famous mantis position, which they applied when they trained and competed together with South Africa's national 4-way team almost 30 years ago.
Solly Williams commented the recent NSL News... (more)
Did you know that Solly Williams covered Airbus, Airspeed and Dive Pool? posted: Jan 22nd, 2025 The NSL News reported on January 4th that the German national team in 4-way Open, Airbus Illertissen, continue with a new lineup. The update included NSL Live Talk with team member Thomas Mack, his son Tim Mack, who competed with Teiwaz at the German Outdoor Nationals 2024, and coach Solly Williams.
The follow-up story on January 16th introduced the new Airbus lineup with more details of the new team members, Claire Rebhahn and Tim Mack, who will work together with his father in the front piece. Claire Rebhahn will take the tail position.
Solly Williams has been coaching the Airbus 4-way... (more)
Did you know that the Czech teams had opponents from Florida? posted: Jan 21st, 2025 The AAA Class competition of the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025 last weekend caught naturally a lot of attention, as the Czech Republic has consistently risen to become one of the 4-way powerhouses in the world's formation skydiving competition, as an event host as much as in the athletic field.
Jan Klapka's 4-way junior school has generated indoor world champions in 4-way Women and 4-way Junior, and the Skywalkers Junior team are on their way to challenge teams in 4-way Open Class medal positions indoors and outdoors in the near future. The AAA Class leaderboard deserves even more attention... (more)
Did you know that dive pool changers still ignore 95% of 4-way teams and competitors? posted: Jan 20th, 2025 The dive pool is not a new topic for the NSL News, as it has been covered several times in the past, including the TURNING POINTS column in the discontinued BLUE SKIES MAG. The last changes in the dive pool were announced in 2018 to be applied in 2019, the previous ones in 2010 for 2011. The current 4-way dive pool had its adjustments at the beginning of the 2019 season when two of the 22 blocks were fine-tuned (Block 1) or replaced (Block 13) with the purpose of synchronizing indoor and outdoor dive pools.
There has always been opposition to changes of the dive pool when there was no need for... (more)
Did you know that missions were accomplished at the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025? posted: Jan 19th, 2025 The Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025 was successfully completed on Saturday. Skywalkers Junior received their first national indoor gold medals, as it was expected. The NSL News mentioned in the preview last week that the team's goal would be higher than just winning the competition.
They accomplished the goal of posting a new team record average with the 25.9 which improves the scoring level of last year's winner, HF Chameleons, by three points. Next target is the 27.0 average of the HF Cubs, which is still the highest average that any Czech 4-way team has posted in the country's formation... (more)
Did you know that French and Czech juniors will probably catch attention next week?
Did you know that Gary Smith explained changes for Qatar Tigers, Lions and Cheetahs?
Did you know that Solly Williams covered Airbus, Airspeed and Dive Pool?
Did you know that the Czech teams had opponents from Florida?
Did you know that dive pool changers still ignore 95% of 4-way teams and competitors?
Did you know that missions were accomplished at the Czech Open Indoor Championship 2025?