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Did you know that 4-way competition does not have to be so serious?
posted: Jul 15th, 2011 The June issue of the Blue Skies Mag (#21) featured the next piece of the "Turning Points" series. It is the sixth contribution from the Formation Skydiving competition community by the NSL News and for the comprehensive Blue Skies Mag coverage of the whole skydiving world. The previous article covered the best teams in the world, and the World Cup 2011 will soon provide new information. However, this time the NSL News went to the other side of the large Formation Skydiving community for the Blue Skies Mag piece and looked at 4-way competition from the grassroot level perspective. In fact,... (more)

Did you know that Golden Knights and NMP-PCH Hayabusa will have a 4-way battle in Brazil?
posted: Jul 14th, 2011 An interesting duel is coming up between NMP-PCH Hayabusa and the Golden Knights Gold team. It takes place this weekend at the CISM, the military world championships. Both teams then continue at the World Cup 2011, Hayabusa in 4-way and Golden Knights in 8-way. There was actually a third team with the same travel agenda, but Ireland's team Fast Air has canceled the participation at the World Cup and attends only the CISM competition. The miltary event in Rio, Brazil, brings together two of the 4-way and 8-way top contenders at this year's World Cup. The CISM dive pool is very different and much... (more)

Did you know that the Aerodyne Deep Blue Defenders are on track to outscore the French world champions of 2010?
posted: Jul 13th, 2011 The competition in the female 4-way category of the World Cup 2011 is probably the one where the winner can be predicted quite easily. There are not many doubts that the French Aerodyne Deep Blue Defenders will successfully live up to their team name. The main question for the Defenders is only how close they will get to the scoring level of the Deep Blue lineup. Sophie Deremaux, Amélie Tirman, Bérangère Duplouy and Françoise Simons-Hamouchi won the gold medals for Deep Blue at the World Cup 2009 in Prostejov and at the World Meet 2010 in Menzelinsk. Sophie Deremaux and Amélie Tirman... (more)

Did you know that that partial playback, slow motion, and multiple views increase the quality and speed of judging?
posted: Jul 12th, 2011 Judy Celaya, one of the most experienced judges in the sport, is the Chief Judge at this year's USPA Nationals at Skydive Arizona in Eloy. She has been advocating for a better application of available judging techniques for a while to improve the accuracy of the scores. The current official FAI/IPC and USPA judging rules have not been using the technical features that new judging systems, such as CamScore, offer for the sport. The current FAI/IPC rules define the judging procedure as follows: 5.4.) The Judges will watch the video evidence of each jump to a maximum of three times at normal... (more)

Did you know that the 8-way event could be the highlight of the World Cup 2011?
posted: Jul 11th, 2011 The last preview of the World Cup 2011 mentioned that this year's event has the character of a real world meet, as four teams from outside of Europe visit Germany next month. The Golden Knighhts are the major contributor to this great feature event of the 2011 season. The US Army delegation has a lineup for each of the three traditional Formation Skydiving events, and the 8-way competition will most likely be the most exciting category. The 4-way Open Class competition does not have the strongest US team in the field of 23 teams, Arizona Airspeed. The Golden Knights have a very strong 4-way... (more)

Did you know that Flying Fish is the TEAM OF THE WEEKEND?
posted: Jul 11th, 2011 The busiest meet weekend of the 2011 season is coming up, with events at eight different locations. Five of the competitions take place in the USA, while teams in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and France will also post their scores at the same time. The third weekend of the month seems to be the prime choice of meet organizers. The Midwest Skydiving League had the only meet last weekend. MWSL Director Alan Butt scheduled a faster turnaround from June (25th) to July (9th) since the MWSL teams have a shorter competition season after a late start this year. The turnout was still the same at Chicagoland... (more)