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Did you know that the Pink Pilcher House story continues? posted: Apr 18th, 2007 The Pink NSL News story continues. After reporting on Shannon Pilcher's new color of his house in DeLand on April 12, the NSL News received additional information of the interesting development in the Pilcher/Hjelle case.
PD Factory Team member and reigning 4-way world champion Shannon Pilcher and Norway's Arcteryx member Ole Petter Hjelle have possibly created a new saga that might offer similar entertainment as the Fun Flag has for many years.
New information came from Ireland. Conor King, international Irish competitor of earlier years and current member of a new and promising Irish 4-way... (more)
Did you know that Canada's team Evolution re-connects with the NSL network this year? posted: Feb 12th, 2007 It was the NSL 2002 season when teams from Canada joined the network of the National Skydiving League for the first time. Judging veteran Al Altendorfer and 4-way fan Jennifer VanRysdam launched the CanAm Skydiving League with its first meet on July 20, 2002.
The Canadian national 4-way by then, Stratosfear, and three other Canadian teams competed at this first CanAm competition. Two more meets in August and September 2002 completed the first CanAm season. Frontier Skydivers and Skydive Burnaby hosted the three 4-way meets in the area of the US/Canadian border south of Toronto and close to the... (more)
Did you know that Canada's team Evolution turns into a complete family operation this year? posted: Jan 5th, 2007 The NSL News story on August 7, 2005 (Archives > 2005 > News > search: Evolution), introduced the Canadian national 4-way team Evolution. The French Canadians from NouvelAir in the Montreal/Quebec area, with Martin Lemay (Inside Center), Michel Lemay (Outside Center), Vincent Lemay (Point), Francois Pigeon (Tail) and Peter Toutoudakis (Camera) in the line-up, had just won the Canadian Nationals 2005, as the NSL News story on August 1, 2005, had already reported.
The 10-round meet included a 32-pointer in Round 2, which was a new Canadian record in 4-way. Evolution replaced Stratosfear as the... (more)
Did you know that new Fun Flag information comes from Canada? posted: Dec 29th, 2006 The NSL News has mentioned the Fun Flag already in several stories. In addition, four separate NSL News stories covered nothing else but the history of the Fun Flag. The story on September 13 included Chris Wagner's summary of the early days. Tim Wagner's and Tim Stevens' contributions were posted on September 28. The story on October 7 added Billy Porter's memories how the Fun Flag was stolen out of Jack Jefferies' hands at the award ceremony, and the last story on October 30 reported of the time when the Fun Flag was in Norwegian possession.
New information was recently provided by a member... (more)
Did you know that the Fun Flag was also in Norwegian possession long ago? posted: Oct 30th, 2006 Last week's USPA Nationals 2006 kept the NSL News busy enough to put other stories on a hold for a whole week. There is still a lot of material for follow-ups on the event in Eloy, which will be posted piece by piece. The NSL News now goes back to the story of the Fun Flag history, which has not been completed yet.
The last part of the story was posted with the NSL News story on October 7. Canadian team videographer Billy Porter had reported how he stole the Fun Flag out of Jack Jefferies' hand at the award ceremony of the World Meet in 2001. (more)
Did you know that the Fun Flag was stolen out of Jack Jefferies' hand on the podium in 2001? posted: Oct 7th, 2006 The last part of the Fun Flag story on September 28 mentioned that "Spa Hayabusa members apparently took possession of the Fun Flag at the World Meet 2006 in Germany". This assumption has now become a fact, and the NSL News will get to this issue later. First of all, the story continues with additional comments, which were provided by Omniskore in 2001.
Molly Mercer, who was mentioned by Tim Wagner in his contribution, added her comments during the World Meet 2001 in Spain. It was the time when the whole history of the Fun Flag was explored, initiated by Chris Wagner. Here is what Molly Mercer... (more)