Did you know that AeroDynamics impressed at the team's first outdoor competition? posted: Jun 17th, 2024 Sherry Butcher has been operating the AerOhio Skydiving Center for many years. She is also one of USPA's National Directors and Vice President of USPA's Board of Directors. At AerOhio she is the busiest AFF instructor and jumps as much as she can, including 4-way in any slot that she is required to fill, while she keeps her skydiving home in perfect shape.
The NSL News visited the AerOhio Skydiving Center when Ed Ganley launched the Great Lakes Skydiving League 2024 season last weekend. Sherry Butcher competed on Saturday with one of her local RRR Class teams in the tail slot and followed up... (more)
Did you know that the Golden Knights are ready to compete for CISM world championship medals? posted: Jun 16th, 2024 The NSL News has covered the military CISM world championships outside of the usual event format regularly in the past years. The last CISM championship took place in Austria 2022, where NMP PCH HayaBusa won the 15th consecutive set of CISM gold medals for Belgium.
The FAI/ISC 4-way world champions of 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021 never had much serious opposition at the military events, even though the Qatar Tigers have moved closer to the top position year by year. The Tigers have been almost as safe in their 2nd place as NMP PCH HayaBusa in 1st place.
The 2022 event in Austria featured a... (more)
Did you know that former Jetmax member Steven Lopes has joined Ayro? posted: Jun 14th, 2024 The situation of Belgian 4-way team Ayro caught the NSL News attention during NSL Live Talk with NMP PCH HayaBusa members Dennis Praet, Ray Lodens and Neal Willems on 31 March 2024. The two new HayaBusa members, Neal Willems and Ray Lodens, had competed at the BENELUX Indoor Championship, even though HayaBusa did not attend.
They reported from the event that they helped out for other teams instead, Ray Lodens with his brother's team Hybris, Neal Willems with Ayro. The NSL News followed up a week later when Ayro had decided to continue with a new team member after the great and latest 4-way experience... (more)
Did you know that Skywalkers Junior were out of reach on June AAA leaderboard? posted: Jun 12th, 2024 Two more teams joined the A Class leaderboard after the May/June meet of the Southern California Skydiving League (SCSL), Odd Man Outand Lizard Nuggets. SCSL Director Mary SantAngelo provided a summary of the event:
"The first Southern California Skydiving League of 2024, combined with SoCal SkyQuest, made its debut on Saturday, June 8th, with six 4-way teams. Christy Frikken took the reins from Josh Hall to run the SCSL and created SoCal SkyQuest, to include not only the SCSL events, but events that happen throughout the year at both Elsinore and Perris. Individual scores from all the events... (more)
Did you know that Kat Osipova brings back the Virginia Parachute Council 4-way events? posted: Jun 10th, 2024 The comeback of regional leagues in the National Skydiving League's 4-way Network continues with the Virginia Parachute Council. Returning league director Kat Osipova has scheduled two 4-way events for the 2024 season, and she is hoping that her 4-way community in the Virginia region is ready to resume activities of the longest standing skydiving league in the country.
The last event took place in May 2019, and the corona virus crisis was the same major obstacle in Virginia that got in the way all across the planet. RhEvolution XP and Burble Me Softly were the last teams that posted scores on... (more)
Did you know that Paraclete XP and iFLY Dallas shared the ICL May highscores behind the Czech teams? posted: Jun 10th, 2024 The Indoor Cloud League team of the Hurricane Factory in Prague created the second ICL Sweep in its competition history last month, as the NSL News reported on June 3rd. The story on June 6th followed up on the ICL May competition and featured the Czech teams who generated the sweep.
The focus on the Czech teams included the situation of Skywalkers Junior and HF Chameleons, the two Czech top teams in AAA Class competition, even though HF Chameleons are still a 4-way junior team. Evidence for the challenging situation of Skywalkers Junior followed not much later when the youngest 4-way senior... (more)