Did you know that SDC Rhythm XP plans to put long-term pressure on the US top teams? posted: Nov 12th, 2009 The friendly rivalry for the naming rights of the 8-way team between SDC Rhythm XP and Sebastian Tempest was covered by the NSL News on 23 October 2008, during the coverage of the USPA Nationals 2008 in Eloy:
"The NSL News commented the 4-way competition between Sebastian Tempest and CSC Rhythm XP across the two leaderboards of the Open and Advanced Class already earlier. The same article mentioned that the two teams from Florida and Illinois would join forces for the 8-way event. CSC Rhythm XP won the Advanced Class competition with a 16.9 average, and Sebastian Tempest posted the team's highest... (more)
Did you know that the Falcon competes against the Eagle Team at SkyQuest 2009? posted: Nov 11th, 2009 The NSL News story on 8 November 2009 provided more details of the upcoming 100-way competition at SkyQuest 2009. The story mentioned that the rosters of the two teams would be posted very soon.
BJ Worth now released the two lineups and gave the two teams their names, as well. He is captaining the Eagle Team and Larry Henderson the Falcon Team. It will be a friendly competition for great quality. However, these two birds seem to have something else in their minds...
The Eagle Team (BJ Worth, Mike Johnston, Patrick Passe, Roger Ponce de Leon, Lou Tommaso, Solly Williams) has one more team... (more)
Did you know that Perris Fury has a new plan for 2010? posted: Nov 10th, 2009 Exciting news came from Las Vegas yesterday. Perris Fury was on a well deserved team vacation at the end of another successful season. The trip to Las Vegas included the evaluation of the 2009 season and a planning session. Fury's Point Josh Hall informed the NSL News after the meeting that his team is moving on.
He said that plans are made for the 2010 season and that the team may decide to add two more years after that. This would make the World Championship of Formation Skydiving in 2012 the ultimate goal.
The NSL News story on 25 October 2009 had already covered the Fury situation after... (more)
Did you know that the videos of Round 5 introduce more teams? posted: Nov 9th, 2009 The videos of Round 5 at the 2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships introduce the AAA/Open Class teams that have not been on NSL-TV so far.
The Round 5 show begins with Ranch Delivery, the team that finished on the very bottom of the Open Class field with a 7.4 average. David Gifford, Ivan Kaczor, Mario Mauro and Veera Ronalter put the team together only for the fun at the USPA Nationals 2009.
Ivan Kaczor was a member of the national top team Ranch Air Traffic (RATs) years ago. Mario Mauro trained and competed with DeLand VNE in the 90s.
Mario Mauro and Veera Ronalter will soon compete... (more)
Did you know that SkyQuest 2009 might or might not be a competition? posted: Nov 8th, 2009 Not only the competition draw of the 100-way meet at SkyQuest 2009 has already been posted, as the NSL News reported on 5 November 2009. BJ Worth and his team captains have also finalized the lineups of their two 100-way teams. The rosters will be posted very soon.
BJ Worth made fun of the latest NSL News update when he sent the second Kaleidoscope bulletin to his 200 competitors. He hinted in his message that it is far fetched to call the Kaleidoscope Dives 2009 a 100-way competition. The NSL News may have to study the definition of a competition.
However, it still is the first time that... (more)
Did you know that Mark Kirkby goes a litte bit farther than many other runners? posted: Nov 7th, 2009 The videos of Round 4 at the 2009 USPA National Skydiving Championships are coming along with an interesting story related to the reigning 4-way world champions and the old and new US national 4-way team, Arizona Airspeed.
The actual videos of Round 4 are showing Airspeed delivering the second heavy blow to the direct rivals for the top spot. Airspeed came already out of the gate very strongly and had a 2-point lead over Spaceland Force XP after Round 1, three points over Perris Fury.
The Force fought back in Round 2 and eliminated the Airspeed advantage. Then Airspeed won Round 3 by one... (more)