Did you know that the Mideast Skydiving League kicks off the 2006 season with a Fastrax Skills Camp? posted: Apr 18th, 2006 The Mideast Skydiving League carefully prepares the start of the 2006 season on May 20 at Skydive Greene County, and Team Fastrax will be even more involved in the development of the league, which is managed by Randy Connell. The current MESL Director of three years launched the MESL as the Indiana Skydiving League in 2004.
The success of the league and the participation of world class team Fastrax helped to spread the 4-way word widely in the region, and Randy Connell changed the name according to the growth. The Indiana Skydiving League became the Mideast Skydiving League in 2005.
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Did you know that round one of the Florida Skydiving League meet is now on NSL-TV? posted: Apr 18th, 2006 The first round of the Florida Skydiving League Meet 2 last weekend at the Florida Skydiving Center was already uploaded yesterday, shortly after the last round of the Shamrock Showdown was added to the NSL-TV page.
Competition jumps of four of the seven teams in Lake Wales could already be viewed during the NSL-TV coverage of the Shamrock Showdown and are still available on the event's NSL-TV page: Teiwaz Lake Wales (AAA), FSC Wind Damaged (AA), Skydive City (A) and ZT Mal4mations (A). The other three teams had not competed earlier this year. (more)
Did you know that Round 10 completes the NSL-TV coverage of the Shamrock Showdown? posted: Apr 17th, 2006 Round ten of the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2006 completes the NSL-TV coverage of this event. This happens just in time since the new footage of the next FSL meet last weekend is already available. There are also the meet videos of the second Southwest Skydiving League competition that need to be uploaded.
The last round of the Shamrock Showdown included another effort by DeLand Fire to finish the competition with one more victory over the Italian national team Sinapsi PD. The Italian team had the higher scores on the scoreboard in seven of the previous nine rounds. DeLand Fire won only - but clearly... (more)
Did you know that the line-up in Lake Wales included well known teams and names? posted: Apr 17th, 2006 The second meet of the Florida Skydiving League 2006 season was hosted by the Florida Skydiving Center in Lake Wales. The host of the USPA Nationals in 2003, which was completely wiped out by the hurricanes in the summer of 2004, is still in the re-building process and uses the same alternate location as in 2005 until the new hangar with brandnew facilities will be built.
Seven teams attended the only 4-way competition last weekend, four teams in the AAA/Open Class, one team in the AA/Intermediate Class and two teams in the A Class. The field of teams included international line-ups and well... (more)
Did you know that Dr. Joel Shugar keeps Optic Nerve alive? posted: Apr 14th, 2006 The NSL News story on April 7 mentioned that the FSL Shamrock Showdown 2006 included another internal race between two teams that have been a part of the US 4-way competition for many years: Teiwaz and Optic Nerve. (more)
Did you know that Arizona Divewerkz offered serious competition for Elsinore Select? posted: Apr 13th, 2006 Today's earlier NSL News story mentioned that the video footage of the second SSL 2006 meet last weekend at Skydive Arizona is already available. Meet director Bryan Burke e-mailed the scores to the NSL headquarters the day after the conclusion of the meet and sent a video tape to DeLand on Monday. (more)