Did you know that Paraclete XP4 finishes on top of the 78-team leaderboard? posted: Jul 22nd, 2011 The NSL News story on 19 July 2011 brought up a topic that has recently stirred up the 4-way community in the USA. USPA had decided in the last board meeting that Perris Fury and SDC Rhythm XP are the sanctioned Open Class teams to go to the 3rd Dubai Cup in November this year. Arizona Airspeed is not eligible according to the USPA Competition Manual.
It was not a big surprise that the poll results after the NSL News story reflected a very different opinion of the audience. The comments to the story and the poll expressed the different perspectives, and some visitors of the topic's forum were... (more)
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed is not eligible for the Dubai Championship 2011? posted: Jul 19th, 2011 Yesterday's NSL News update from the CISM Championship in Brazil needed a correction. The teams in both 4-way events have actually 8-round meets, six qualification rounds, plus semifinals and finals. The Golden Knights are only the winner after the qualification rounds in the female category, and Fenix still has work to do in two more rounds to defend the bronze medal position.
In the meantime, this year's Dubai Championship has created some waves in the US 4-way community. The USPA Competition Committee decided at the July board meeting that Perris Fury and SDC Rhythm XP will be officially... (more)
Did you know that Evolution tries to win both 4-way events in Canada? posted: Jul 7th, 2011 The team name "Evolution" did not appear on the leaderboard of this year's Midway Battle, at least not on the 4-way Formation Skydiving leaderboard for teams who fly horizontally.
The Canadian national 4-way team with the complete LeMay family (father Michel and his three sons Benoit, Vincent, Martin) had attended the Midway Battle last year and then competed at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2010. The NSL News covered the unique team many times on its road to the World Meet in Menzelinsk, Russia.
It has been quiet around the team ever since, as the LeMay family is very busy... (more)
Did you know that the SDC Furies XP are the TEAM of the WEEKEND? posted: Jun 14th, 2011 The NSL News mentioned on 11 June 2011 that the sequence of Round 8 would challenge Arizona Airspeed. It was probably the slowest sequence of last weekend's 10-round competition draw, as the SDC Rhythm XP (15) and SDC Furies XP (10) scores for Round 8 show.
The question remains open whether Airspeed would be able to score 21 points or higher for that sequence since the team had to quit after Round 7 to make the departure time for the flight home to Arizona. There will be another time when the same or a similar sequence will be drawn at a meet that Airspeed attends.
The last NSL-TV video of... (more)
Did you know that the Valentine's/World Meet combination has scored five times since 1995? posted: Jun 10th, 2011 The Midway Battle at Skydive Chicago is only a confrontation between the weather and the teams so far. There was one attempt to get a plane to jump altitude, which did not work out well. The whole load, including Arizona Airspeed, landed with the Twin Otter. The competitors on site have been entertaining themselves with playing games ever since, Thomas Hughes reported.
Mark Kirkby mentioned that the competition draw is surely "middle of the road". There is no 3-block sequence, and none of the jumps has more than two random formations. Seven of the ten rounds begin with a block, and only three... (more)
Did you know that an international meet weekend with Airspeed is coming up? posted: Jun 9th, 2011 The upcoming meet weekend will be an exciting one. Arizona Airspeed is at Skydive Chicago to defend the Midway Battle title that the 2010 lineup won with a 26.4 average after five rounds. It was only a small 5-team field last year, which was still very competitive with top contenders Perris Fury, Canada Evolution and SDC Rhythm XP.
The home teams, SDC Rhythm XP and SDC Furies XP, are the only other teams coming back to this year's Midway Battle. However, Airspeed will definitely break the first record of the 2011 season and take the lead as the busiest competition team at this point in time.... (more)
Did you know that Paraclete XP4 finishes on top of the 78-team leaderboard?
Did you know that Arizona Airspeed is not eligible for the Dubai Championship 2011?
Did you know that Evolution tries to win both 4-way events in Canada?
Did you know that the SDC Furies XP are the TEAM of the WEEKEND?
Did you know that the Valentine's/World Meet combination has scored five times since 1995?
Did you know that an international meet weekend with Airspeed is coming up?