Did you know that Echochamber have plans for the next decade? posted: Oct 11th, 2024 Swedish 4-way Open Class team Echochamber won the unofficial amateur world championship title at the 26th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships. It is not new that Scandinavians enjoy celebrations, and Echochamber did not hesitate to start this one early after the completion of the event.
Team members and friends of the Swedish delegation came together right after the NSL Live Talk conversation at their headquarters near Crystal Coast Skydiving, within walking distance to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. They had great reasons to celebrate the 5th place after defeating the other contenders... (more)
Did you know that Rook Nelson and John D'Annunzio recalled the world meet hosting story? posted: Oct 10th, 2024 The story of the 26th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships began with the cancellation of the event in Israel that the NSL News reported on 13 October 2023. The update on 23 October 2023 followed up with the timeline for substitute hosting.
Potential hosts had three weeks of time left for a new bid, and the NSL News reported on 2 December 2023 that Skydive Paraclete XP and Skydive Chicago had created plans together how to host the event at Crystal Coast Skydiving. Less than a year later, the Formation Skydiving competition events were completed after all ten rounds, and the new world... (more)
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed won 19 meets consecutively since November 2020? posted: Oct 10th, 2024 Five years is the time that the current Arizona Airspeed lineup have spent together in 4-way competition and training, and they lost only two competitions, the very first one in January 2020 at the Wind Games, and the online NSL Cloud Mondial 2020 that substituted for the canceled outdoor world championship that year.
They won the following 19 indoor and outdoor competitions consecutively, including this week's outdoor world championship. In fact, Arizona Airspeed of the past five years have not lost any live outdoor competition at all, as the Wind Games is an indoor event, and the NSL Cloud... (more)
Did you know that the "Olden Knights"posted their second 23.9 average? posted: Oct 9th, 2024 Yesterday's latest NSL News update after the 37-pointer and new 8-way world record for a single round mentioned that three GKXP8 members (Matt Davidson, Jeshua Stahler, Andrew Starr) have been living the recent history of the 8-way highscore. They trained and competed with the Golden Knights 8-way team and have been owning the highest 8-way scores in history together since 2015.
All three "Olden Knights", as they call themselves, eventually joined GKXP8 when the U.S. Army did not support an 8-way team any longer. Tim and John D'Annunzio have been fielding and supporting a Paraclete XP 8-way... (more)
Did you know that GKXP8 blew away the previous world record in Round 9? posted: Oct 8th, 2024 The 8-way competition had one of its major topics going for a while. The U.S. national team GKXP8 have been chasing the record numbers of the Golden Knights in the last few years, and they now succeeded with perfect timing. The 33-pointer by the U.S. Army's lineup in Dubai 2015 has been the standing record number, and it was matched once by the 2018 lineup of the Golden Knights in Australia 2018.
The Golden Knights posted the two 33-pointers for two very different sequences. The 2015 lineup had to master five random formations (F,L,B,G,P), while the 2018 lineup had three blocks (4,1,3) in their... (more)
Did you know that Mathieu Bernier and Carl-Erik Tuv provided the half-time summary? posted: Oct 8th, 2024 Formation Skydiving competition was on a break on Monday at the 26th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships, and the teams staid away from the dropzone. Jump preparations for the remaining competition rounds were on the agenda for some of them, while others used the free time for recreational activities in the beautiful area of Crystal Coast.
There was no break for some of the competitors and coaches. GKXP8 members Kirk Verner and John D'Annunzio are working with the hosting staff of all events, and they were present while the other world championship disciplines launched their own competitions.
French... (more)
Did you know that Echochamber have plans for the next decade?
Did you know that Rook Nelson and John D'Annunzio recalled the world meet hosting story?
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed won 19 meets consecutively since November 2020?
Did you know that the "Olden Knights"posted their second 23.9 average?
Did you know that GKXP8 blew away the previous world record in Round 9?
Did you know that Mathieu Bernier and Carl-Erik Tuv provided the half-time summary?