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News Article Did you know that Sweden's national team Bardagi made plans for the 2011 season?
posted: Mar 2nd, 2011 The NSL News covered the national 4-way teams from Scandinavia extensively at and after the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010. The last update on 23 September 2010 discussed Denmark's team Bodyflight Voluntas' chances to become the top contender in the race for the unofficial amateur world champion title. The situation for Voluntas has changed in the meantime, as the team has a new lineup. Finland's unofficial Scandinavian champion, the Pro Team, had only plans until the World Meet in Menzelinsk, and Norway does not have a national team in the Open Class at the moment. Promising... (more)
News Article Did you know that Cold Fusion posted a record score with Annie Peterson?
posted: Mar 1st, 2011 The NSL News covered the AA/Intermediate Class competition at the Valentine's Meet 2011 with the first story on 24 February 2011. The Project Home Team lineups of Eloy Firestorm and Code 99 had gone neck to neck for six rounds and were tied in 3rd place. The two other AA Class teams, Fenix from Brazil and Cold Fusion, both ended up with a 7.8 average and far ahead of the bronze medal position. However, the meet average was only exactly the same since Fenix completed ten rounds. The team's average was 8.3 after the official six rounds of the Valentine's Meet. The race for the gold medals in... (more)
News Article Did you know that the Deep Blue Defenders still laugh a lot?
posted: Feb 28th, 2011 The NSL News mentioned a few times during the coverage of the Valentine's Meet 2011 that the new lineup of the French national 4-way team in the female category was also in Eloy for the team's first training camp but did not enter the competition. Aerodyne Cypres/aka Deep Blue Defenders have the Shamrock Showdown 2011 on the team schedule for the first competition this year, while the French Open Class lineup competed at the Valentine's Meet after opening the 2011 competition season at the Dubai Championship 2011. The reigning 4-way champions in the Open Class have not won a meet yet with... (more)
News Article Did you know that great team and league news came from the Falling Gators Collegiate Boogie?
posted: Feb 27th, 2011 The NSL News made a trip north today, while the 60-ways continued in DeLand with beautiful weather. The weather situation in Palatka was just as perfect, and the Falling Gators had perfect conditions to celebrate their 13th Annual Collegiate Boogie. The NSL News had visited Palatka in January this year (story on 16 January 2011) and reported activities of the Falling Gators who are mostly young skydivers relatively new in the sport. They study at the University of Florida in Gainesville and have made Skydive Palatka their home on most of the weekends. This weekend's Collegiate Boogie is the... (more)
News Article Did you know that Airspeed's new videographer Bill Schmitz was filming the BJ Worth freefall comeback?
posted: Feb 26th, 2011 World Team founder and leader BJ Worth, who has been organizing the Kaleidoscope Dives at the annual SkyQuest event for ten years, is back in freefall action. He sat out at last year's Kaleidoscope Dives for the first time in the event's history since he was recovering from a shoulder surgery and organized the Kaleidoscope Dives 2010 from the observer position. His time on the ground is over now. BJ Worth is back in action and currently participates in an 60-way event in DeLand that is related to his new big-way coaching project. He and Skydive University's Rob Laidlaw have developed a plan... (more)
News Article Did you know that Final Four witnessed the Discovery shuttle launch in freefall?
posted: Feb 25th, 2011 The German 4-way team Final Four is in DeLand for a week of winter training with coach Solly "The Schleifer" Williams. The training on Thursday happened to be over before space shuttle Discovery was launched for its last flight. Final Four decided to make another jump at the end of the day to watch the shuttle launch in freefall. On the same day, World Team leader BJ Worth came to DeLand to prepare for the 3-day weekend of 60-ways, which is a part of his plan for the new 500-way world record attempt. He traveled to Cape Canaveral on Thursday and filmed the shuttle launch live from close range. The... (more)