Did you know that the Bisson family has new 4Astrophe plans for Israel 2024? posted: Sep 15th, 2023 The NSL News has paid attention to 4-way family teams for a long time, and the recent update from the combined Belgian/Dutch outdoor championship featured the next and latest version with Belgian bronze medal team Family Flash and the Ibens family at their first competition together.
The special attention has been directed at family teams that consist of different generations and/or siblings. Married or unmarried couples together in 4-way lineups have never been unusual in the sport at all, and some of them even made it to the gold medal level in the past and presence.
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Did you know that Siem Ibens won his first Belgian 4-way medal with 16 years of age? posted: Sep 14th, 2023 Gary Smith was one of the most successful 4-way competitors in the sport, with two world championship titles of 2004 and 2006 under his belt. He started his career as a coach while he was still competing and has been just as successful with his job.
He guided NMP PCH HayaBusa to the team's first world championship title in Prostejov 2014 and helped to defend the 4-way title in 2016, 2018 and 2021. He knows the Belgian team and their history better than anybody else, even though he has been a full-time coach for Qatar's Formation Skydiving delegation for several years.
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Did you know that Ayro won Belgian gold after the next duel with Falco? posted: Sep 14th, 2023 The NSL News covered the new combined Belgian/Dutch outdoor championship when the teams had completed eight rounds at Skydive Flanders in Moorsele on September 8th. The competition was not only the combined national championship for teams from Belgian and the Netherlands. The NSL News mentioned in the first update that the two new Qatar teams, Cheetahs and Lions, were also heading to the event to participate as guest teams.
The event turned out to be a re-match between five of the teams who had visited Skydive Voss in Norway just a week earlier. Dutch national team Out Of The Blue had finished... (more)
Did you know that FAI medalists Airbus and Meltemi had no serious opposition in Germany? posted: Sep 13th, 2023 The NSL News reported live from the 4-way competition of the German Outdoor Nationals 2023 when the teams had completed Round 5. The NSL Live Talk conversation with Airbus Illertissen Oceanside on August 31st took place while rain was pounding the facilities at the Fallschirmsportzentrum Saar.
The German national team in 4-way Open was obviously unimpressed by the weather in Saarlouis, as they had just experienced very similar conditions at the 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving in Norway. They finished an average point higher after the eight completed rounds at FSZ Saar, which is the... (more)
Did you know that Airspeed, France and HayaBusa had something special in common in Norway? posted: Sep 12th, 2023 The 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving featured a very special coincidence in the 4-way Open Class competition. The teams in the first three places on the world cup leaderboard had something in common that has little and still much to do with the actual competition.
The team videographers play a major role in Formation Skydiving competition, especially in the medal area of the 4-way Open event, where the break of each sequence's first formation usually happens in less than a second. Any flaw of the videographer's exit at the wrong time can cause a point deduction, which has the potential... (more)
Did you know that Thyra won the next FAI medals for Norway? posted: Sep 11th, 2023 The NSL News coverage of the 23rd FAI World Cup of Formation Skydiving is far from over, even though other events keep happening during the aftermath of the competition at Skydive Voss in Norway.
National championships in Germany, Great Britain, Belgium and Netherlands were taking place shortly after the outdoor world cup, and more Formation Skydiving events will come up very soon, including Canada, France and the United States. Most of them relate to the outdoor world cup, where the best 4-way and 8-way teams of participating countries meet for international competition.
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