Did you know that Vana and Dennis Parker have been in competition synch in several different ways? posted: Nov 23rd, 2016 The Sun Path Products NSL News covered the 15-year anniversary of the 4-way Women event at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving with the story on September 9th. The FAI Mondial 2016 was not only the 15-year anniversary for this particular event. There was also one competitor who competed at both world championships in 4-way Women.
The story on November 14th actually connected the dots, even though the topic was a different one and featured the battle for the bronze medals between Parachute Montreal Fuzion and NFTO.
Vana Parker was one of the very few 4-way competitors who attended... (more)
Did you know that Evolution turned VFS bronze into silver at the Mondial 2016? posted: Nov 22nd, 2016 The Sun Path Products NSL News reported on September 15th live from the FAI Mondial 2016 how Evolution's 4-way gamble worked out successfully with the first Canadian silver medals at a World Championship of Formation Skydiving.
Evolution was ready to accept a finish without medals in 4-way Open after the 3rd in Prostejov 2014 after little training with world meet open class rookie Jean-Christophe Ouimet in the point slot. JC Ouimet was in Evolution's 4-way VFS lineup before and won a bronze medal in Prostejov, where Katie Woods placed 3rd for Canada in 4-way Open.
The three Lemay brothers... (more)
Did you know that 4-way and 8-way Open celebrated their 30-year world meet anniversary? posted: Nov 22nd, 2016 The Sun Path Products NSL News had honored the 15-year anniversary of the 4-way Women event at the FAI Mondial 2016 with the story on September 9th. The U.S.A. won the first gold medals in this event (Synchronicity) and the Golden Knights with JaNette Lefkowitz the most recent ones 15 years later.
Nine world meets have taken place in this time period (2001 - 2016), and three nations have shared the gold medals equally: U.S.A. (2001 - 2004 - 2016), Great Britain (2003 - 2006 - 2008) and France (2010 - 2012 - 2014). The next world meet will be a tie-breaker.
It is a very interesting and unique... (more)
Did you know that iFLY Sacramento took the three Rookie Class highscores for November? posted: Nov 20th, 2016 It did not take too long until iFLY Sacramento followed up on the latest Indoor Cloud League scores for the 12+ flying chambers that iFLY Orlando posted last Thursday.
The internal iFLY Sacramento leaderboard is missing the name of Lori Connor in the lineups, who has been organizing the events of the Northern California Skydiving League and the Indoor Cloud League events at iFLY SF Bay and iFLY Sacramento.
She has not been missing many opportunities to fly with her participants, even though she has now forwarded the management of the iFLY SF Bay events to Maria Sheets. Lori Connor had to... (more)
Did you know that Gilles Dutrisac's comeback at iFLY Orlando added two 20-pointers to the ICL November leaderboard? posted: Nov 19th, 2016 iFLY Orlando's Indoor Cloud League team came back together last Thursday for the last effort this month to add to the previous total after the November 10 event.
Result of the third FSL Tunnel Kicker was a colorful iFLY Orlando leaderboard for the month of November, with scores and videos of all three events.
All three scores for the Rookie Class categories (RRR - RR - R) survived the whole month after two different lineups had posted the 17 - 16 - 16 combination on November 3rd. Kanishka Perera and Ed Ganley, with player coaches Bob Byrne and James Hall in the lineup, tied the 17-pointer... (more)
Did you know that the Eclipse fairytale comes to an end at the team's peak performance level? posted: Nov 18th, 2016 The recent Sun Path Products NSL News update after the Bodyflight Revenge 2016 focused mostly on the two British teams who also competed a week later at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016, NFTO and ACM.
The team in 3rd place, Eclipse, has been in the shadows of the best British 4-way teams throughout the 7-year team history, even though the Sun Path Products NSL News has paid attention to Eclipse several times over the years.
Eclipse has probably the most impressive performance progression of all British 4-way teams after launching the team project in 2010 with the same lineup that finished in... (more)