Did you know that Disturbance Delicious scored for iFLY Dallas' Indoor Cloud League team? posted: Jul 11th, 2023 The Indoor Cloud League activities took the back stage with the beginning of the outdoor season not only in the Czech Republic, as the NSL News reported on June 2nd. Only the 4-way juniors performed the six monthly sequences for the Hurricane Factory team.
Teams and competitors turn to outdoor training and competition as much as possible with better weather, even though the indoor option continues as a very valuable training tool. Indoor Cloud League events still continue throughout the whole year, as they have other purposes and benefits at the same time.
Kyle Hermberg, organizer of the... (more)
Did you know that Skywalkers Junior went from AA 8.4 in June to AAA 13.6 last weekend? posted: Jul 10th, 2023 The Skywalkers Junior team of Jan Klapka's 4-way project in the Czech Republic have been a regular topic for the NSL News ever since the team mates of the former 4-way Junior teams HF Flying Rebels and HF Chameleons started with AFF training and eventually joined forces to form the Skywalkers Junior 4-way team.
It was not a coincidence, at least not to Jan Klapka's understanding. He envisioned a bright 4-way future for the Czech 4-way community as soon as the Hurricane Factory windtunnel in Prague opened the doors. It did not take very long until he had completed a junior school program and... (more)
Did you know that Italy's Amnesya could be the top contender for the 5th place in Norway? posted: Jul 9th, 2023 The NSL News reported on June 27th that Echochamber will not compete for Sweden at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2023. Aurora represents the Scandinavian country, and Italy's national 4-way Open Class team Amnesya will take on Spain's military Papea lineup to compete for the 5th place instead of Echochamber.
This prediction is only according to the most recent NSL Power Rankings, which use the previous and most recent scores of the teams for the expected and estimated positions on the leaderboards. Papea are currently considered the top contender for the 5th place, after the 6th place behind Chimera... (more)
Did you know that a high-profile 8-way team challenges the new Airbus lineup in Germany? posted: Jul 7th, 2023 The NSL News reported on January 23rd that Germany's national 8-way team of the past years started the next 2-year cycle with a new lineup, after winning the first set of medals for Germany since 1985 at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022 in Eloy.
Only team captain Thomas Spielvogel, Carl Enders and Steffen Schiedek were back for the new lineup, together with videographer Erik Lorenz. Thomas "Spieli" Spielvogel recruited five new members for the re-start: Carola Fietz, Shaline Dincher, Karin Bauch, Holger Sass and Andreas Höhne. The new combination of experience and talent has been planning... (more)
Did you know that the double-gold attempts started as early as in 1987? posted: Jul 6th, 2023 Double-gold attempts have been a topic for the NSL News ever since French national coach Mathieu Bernier accomplished this "mission impossible" in Menzelinsk 2010. He won FAI World Championship gold medals in 4-way Open and 8-way Open at the same event.
It was unusual, as he was the only French competitor who participated in both events. It has been more common that a whole 4-way team is a part of a national 8-way team to pursue the same goal. Even Mathieu Bernier had tried this before, together with his 4-way team mates Julien Degen, Jeremie Rollett and his brother Guillaume Bernier, with Fabrice... (more)
Did you know that two more British 4-way teams were not sanctioned for the outdoor world cup in Norway? posted: Jul 5th, 2023 Volt4ge, the current signature 4-way team of the British Army, joined the meets of the Unite Kingdom Skydiving League (UKSL) in the summer of 2018. The first lineup started with a 4.5 average on the A Class leaderboard and lifted the scoring and performance level at each monthly competition by an average point (4.5 - 5.5 - 6.5) between May and July.
Volt4ge did not attend the national outdoor championship in 2018 and came back in the same category for the three UKSL meets in 2019. This time they followed up at the British Outdoor Nationals 2019 and won the A Class gold medals with the first... (more)