Did you know that the Czech teams switch back and forth between indoor and outdoor competition? posted: Aug 31st, 2017 The Indoor Cloud League competition has continued while most of the active 4-way teams are also jumping from air planes for training and competition. The national championships of most countries are taking place at the end of the summer season, as the recent leaderboards have been showing.
However, indoor training continues at the same time and usually parallel with outdoor training, and several teams continue to add their ICL scores to the monthly leaderboards.
The Czech 4-way teams attend their national outdoor championships this weekend, and they still posted scores and videos in all six... (more)
Did you know that Airbus defends 4-way and 8-way titles successfully in Germany? posted: Aug 30th, 2017 The German Nationals 2017 took place at the same time when Belgium and Italy held their national championships.
There were no surprises at any of the three events, as the three national teams (NMP PCH HayaBusa, eX3MO, Airbus) defended their top positions successfully.
However, there is some motion going on in Italy and Germany, while the Belgian 4-way world champions have no opposition yet in their homeland.
The battle for the top spot in Italy was a thriller, as the NSL News reported yesterday, and Amnesya is seriously challenging eX3MO's 4-way dominance.
Airbus was once again driving... (more)
Did you know that Amnesya challenged eX3MO to the extreme at the Italian Nationals 2017? posted: Aug 29th, 2017 Another real 4-way drama unfolded last weekend at the Italian Nationals 2017 in Fano.
The NSL News covered the Italian Indoor Nationals 2017 with the story on 21 May 2017. Ninja 4 won the competition, while Amnesya outscored eX3MO and qualified for the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 in Montreal.
The stage was set for the Italian Outdoor Nationals 2017, where the winner could possibly qualify for the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018 in Australia.
Reigning champion eX3MO has won the Italian 4-way title seven consecutive times and had two challengers this year with Amnesya and home team 6.1.0. with... (more)
Did you know that the British AA Class teams are on the top level of the 2017 world rankings? posted: Aug 28th, 2017 The 4-way AAA Class competition at the UK Nationals 2017 was not the only exciting event, due to the qualification for the FAI World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2018 in Australia in the Open Class and the Women's category. The competition in the three other events was even closer for the medal positions.
The other British teams did not have the same intensive meet schedule as the six AAA Class teams that had also competed at the FAI World Cup 2017. In fact, several members of the same six teams competed on three consecutive weekends.
They spent the first week in Saarlouis, Germany,... (more)
Did you know that the next HayaBusa double-duty test is coming up soon? posted: Aug 27th, 2017 NSL-TV has not yet featured all meet videos of the reigning 4-way world champions from Belgium at the FAI World Cup 2017. The first two HayaBusa rounds were uploaded during the competition, and the additional three rounds have now been added to the meet video.
Only four rounds counted for the official final rankings, as a few 4-way Open Class teams were not able to get in the air for Round 5, including SDC Rhythm XP. However, the new HayaBusa video includes all five rounds that the Belgians did in Saarlouis.
Round 5 was actually the best HayaBusa round, as the unofficial leaderboard with... (more)
Did you know that three Vision 99 members of Prostejov 2014 now won with Satori XL? posted: Aug 26th, 2017 The recent update from the UK Nationals mentioned that the British top teams have moved closer together. Team 4mula finished only seven points behind Satori XL by winning one round and tying the winner's score four more times. Even Chimera posted a highscore in Round 3 and finished with a new team record average.
Satori XL still never left a doubt that the new lineup would defend the top position in the United Kingdom successfully.
Pete Allum, Steve Hamilton, Ady King and John McIver, with Rich Orford on camera, gave away only two rounds, one to Chimera and the other one to Team 4mula in... (more)