Did you know that Team Bodyflight will compete for the United Kingdom in 2010? posted: Dec 9th, 2009 It is not new that female competitors have been dominating 4-way Formation Skydiving competition in the United Kingdom in the past years. This does not only count for IPC's female category where UK teams won the gold medals in 2006 and 2008. The NSL News story on 8 August 2009 provided more details of this special UK situation.
It was not an all-female lineup that won the UK Nationals this year, as it happened in 2005 (Airkix), 2006 (Airkix), 2007 (Bodyflight Storm) and 2008 (Bodyflight Storm). However, the UK 2009 champion, Satori, has Katie Woods and Julia Foxwell in the front piece and won... (more)
Did you know that Andrey Veselov has a beautiful SkyQuest gallery? posted: Dec 8th, 2009 Several more videos of the the 100-way Kaleidoscope Dives at SkyQuest 2009 have already been uploaded for a while. They document the second day of the event with all available videos.
Russian videographer Andrey Veselov archived the SkyQuest videos and provided them for the NSL News. He also followed up with a gallery of photos that he took during the event, on the ground and in the air.
His photo gallery is a beautiful collection of selected images, and he has actually many more on his own website. (more)
Did you know that Airspeed offers free coaching on two weekends this year? posted: Dec 7th, 2009 The 2010 season begins with "work" for Arizona Airspeed's 4-way world champions. Airspeed will compete at the Valentines Meet in February, of course, then travel to Florida for the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2010 and complete the spring action once again with the World Challenge 2010.
However, Eliana Rodriguez, Craig Girard, Andy Delk and Mark Kirkby will first run a coaching camp on the team's home turf at Skydive Arizona in January. Airspeed informed the NSL News that the team has actually scheduled two camps with free Airspeed coaching for the 2010 season.
The first camp takes place on the... (more)
Did you know that three former Russian 8-way world champions try again in 2010? posted: Dec 5th, 2009 The NSL News broke news about a new Russian 8-way lineup with the story on 30 November 2009. The story went back in time and covered the successful Russian 8-way history. However, only two of the team members were introduced with this story, Sergey Yalpaev and Vladimir Arutyunov.
The 8-way strength and experience of the new lineup comes mainly with two members who have been doing 4-way with the Sky Panthers in the past years. Oleg Shalamihin and Vladimir Pavlenko turned to 4-way competition only after several years with the most successful Russian 8-way lineup in history, the one that the NSL... (more)
Did you know that 28 teams are registered for Ben Liston's 2nd tunnel meet? posted: Dec 4th, 2009 The NSL News reported on 4 November 2009 that Ben Liston and Brian Stephens, both former Mass Defiance members who competed with the Amphibious Attack Tigers and 8-way team Dallas Rogue at this year's USPA Nationals, were in the middle of organizing a new wind tunnel competition. The event is coming up this weekend, and Ben Liston updated the NSL News with more details.
A total of 28 teams have signed up, which brings the field close to the maximum capacity of 30 teams. Ben Liston also provided the lineups. Twelve teams will compete in the Rookie Class. 13 teams have signed up for a modified... (more)
Did you know that Nick Grillet pushed his father Sandy to his limits? posted: Dec 3rd, 2009 Last not least, there was also a AAA Class competition at the NSL Championship 2009. The PD Ninjas and a second Teiwaz lineup, Teiwaz Falcon, competed for the NSL Shugar Cup this year.
Both teams consisted of 4-way competitors who had already been in one or another Teiwaz lineup before this meet, with only one exception on Friday and Saturday, and a few more exceptions on Sunday.
The Teiwaz Falcon members (Jim "Bu" Klinge - Center Outside, Bob Byrne - Point, Rodney Cruce - Center Inside, Robert Chromy - Tail) have all attended several FSL meets in various lineups in the past years. The PD... (more)