Did you know that new NSL Live Talk with Jennifer and Matt Davidson was overdue? posted: Jun 9th, 2024 Jennifer and Matt Davidson have been regular guests for NSL Live Talk, even though the topics were always different ones. They have been together on NSL Live Talk four times, and the last one was recorded on 4 November 2020. The first conversation happened on 20 April 2019 live at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2019 when they visited the competition at Weembi Lille without using the flying chamber.
Matt Davidson was the official alternate for Paraclete XP8 during his transition from the Golden Knights 8-way team to XP8. His wife Jennifer Davidson was on vacation in France, after training... (more)
Did you know that Menacing Moths' first scoring formation was out of working time? posted: Jun 7th, 2024 The NSL News reported on May 30th that the Northern California Skydiving League was preparing for the next 4-way season with new league director Tamara Bartlett. The first event was successfully completed, and the three NCSL teams at Skydive California in Tracy shared last weekend's leaderboards with the British 4-way teams at Skydive Sibson.
The British teams had the AAA and AA Class leaderboards for themselves, as the NCSL teams used only the RRR and A Class sequences for their first experiences in 4-way competition. The British Army's 4-way team Volt4ge and Axis both had also attended the... (more)
Did you know that HF Chameleons begin dominating Czech indoor competition? posted: Jun 6th, 2024 The NSL News reported on June 3rd that the Czech Indoor Cloud League team at Prague's Hurricane Factory swept the highscores of all six categories in May. This had happened only once in the history of the Indoor Cloud League, in January 2019.
As usual, several Czech 4-way teams battled for the honor of posting the highest score for the Czech ICL delegation. This time, six of the eight Czech teams were 4-way juniors, and three of them won their respective categories and combined for the ICL Sweep in May. Jan Klapka's senior M Team managed to steal one of the highscores with the 19-pointer for... (more)
Did you know that NSL Power Rankings date back to events in 2000? posted: Jun 5th, 2024 The recent excursion of the NSL News into earlier decades of Formation Skydiving competition included the history of Paul Hofstee's 4-way and 8-way odyssey in different European teams and his return to the Dutch roots as the new outside center for Out Of The Blue (OOTB).
The NSL News found his name in even earlier and unpublished archives before he launched the Punky Fish player-coaching project and then joined the Dutch national 4-way team, Dynamic Fource. Paul Hofstee's previous team, Dutch Fource, competed at each world championship and world cup between 1998 and 2001 before he and Bert Hajee... (more)
Did you know that new NMP PCH HayaBusa point Ray Lodens was outside center in Lake Wales? posted: Jun 4th, 2024 Larger portions of NSL News coverage were recently related to Arizona Airspeed for a good reason. It does not happen very often that a 4-way/8-way team can celebrate a 30-year anniversary. The attention to this unique celebration began actually in December last year, which was the month when the original Airspeed members completed their plans and negotiations for the 4-way team project.
However, the official celebration took place during the Arizona Challenge at the end of last month, as the NSL News reported on May 26th. The NSL News followed up next day with a medal count of 4-way and 8-way... (more)
Did you know that the Czech 4-way teams swept ICL May five years after the first time? posted: Jun 3rd, 2024 It had happened only once so far in the history of the Indoor Cloud League that one of the participating teams won all six categories with a clean ICL Sweep. It was the group of Czech teams in the Hurricane Factory who generated the total of 144 points in January 2019, as the NSL News reported on 2 February 2019.
HF Flying Circus, the Czech Republic's national 4-way indoor and outdoor team by then, posted the highscores for the two Open Class sequences (AAA/AA), and four other teams added the scores for the four additional ICL categories (A/RRR/RR/R). A total of 14 Czech lineups competed with... (more)