Did you know that Niklas Hemlin invites teams to join the Spaceland Houston Pre-Nationals Cloud? posted: May 20th, 2022 Arizona Airspeed's Niklas Hemlin had great news for the world's 4-way competition community when the NSL News met with him during his visit at Skydive Paraclete XP. His team, in the top position of the current indoor and outdoor world rankings, is ready to participate in the Pre-Nationals that the NSL News mentioned briefly yesterday.
Niklas Hemlin and Texas Skydiving League director Scott Latinis, who celebrated his 42-year skydiving anniversary on Wednesday during the Prison 9 training camp, had discussed the option of expanding Skydive Spaceland Houston's Pre-Nationals 2022 competition and... (more)
Did you know that Prison 9 member Scott Latinis had a special anniversary today? posted: May 18th, 2022 The 18th of May is a very special day for Texas Skydiving League director and Prison 9 member Scott Latinis. It was on that day in 1980 when he made his first skydive, which made it a 42-year anniversary this Wednesday at Skydive Paraclete XP.
His 8-way team Prison 9 was in outdoor training at Paraclete XP this week, which made the anniversary just another skydiving day for him. However, he was not alone on the same day in 1980, as he and NSL founder Kurt Gaebel recently discovered. They shared the date of their first skydive, even though they were geographically far away from each other at... (more)
Did you know that Out Of The Blue seem to be on track to accomplish a special Dutch goal? posted: May 18th, 2022 Three teams from the Netherlands completed the Dutch delegation at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022. Out Of The Blue and Chaotic Motion competed in 4-way Open, Fatal Four in 4-way Women.
The NSL News covered the impressive performance by the Dutch national indoor and outdoor champions a few times during the battle for the Top 10 positions. The new team record average of 24.0 eventually claimed the last Top 10 position, tied with Echochamber Oceanside from Sweden.
The same lineup had a previous 22.5 average in their records, posted at the Wind Games 2020, the team's last meet before the heavy... (more)
Did you know that three teams from Brazil competed at home before and after the international events? posted: May 16th, 2022 The NSL News reported on May 1st how the two teams from Brazil helped to set a new indoor participation record for teams visiting Europe from overseas. Three U.S. teams (Arizona Airspeed, Skydive Midwest NEXT, SDC Rhythm XP) and the two Brazilian 4-way teams (INIT-Y, So Pressao) posted their scores on the 4-way Open Class leaderboard of the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022.
In addition, Brazil's military 4-way lineup of the Netunos had attended the Paraclete XP Indoor Championship 2022 earlier this year.
The same three teams from Brazil also posted more scores on their own leaderboard at the end... (more)
Did you know that Sweden's second team Aurora skipped the 20-average level in Charleroi? posted: May 16th, 2022 Sweden's best know team has been Echochamber Oceanside for many years. Echochamber was founded in 2016 and have represented Sweden at almost all of FAI/ISC's indoor and outdoor world cups and world meets ever since.
The corona virus crisis put a dent into this record, as it did for many other teams. The FAI Outdoor World Cup 2019 was the last FAI/ISC event that Echochanber attended before the comeback at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022.
Echochamber have never missed a Top 10 position for Sweden at the world meets and world cups, and the 2018 season, with the 5th place at the FAI Outdoor World... (more)
Did you know that SDC Rhebellion XP was the busiest competition team in the United States last year? posted: May 13th, 2022 The changes of the RhEvolution XP and SDC Rhythm XP lineups that the NSL News recently covered was showing the challenges of keeping a team together for a longer time period. However, there are also more than enough examples that teams can also get better once they find a well working lineup, and there are finally the teams who manage to continue with the same lineups year after year.
One of the teams who have made plans for the 2022 season with the same lineup is SDC Rhebellion XP, even though they were facing their own challenges of a special kind, as well. Their obstacles were positive ones... (more)
Did you know that Niklas Hemlin invites teams to join the Spaceland Houston Pre-Nationals Cloud?
Did you know that Prison 9 member Scott Latinis had a special anniversary today?
Did you know that Out Of The Blue seem to be on track to accomplish a special Dutch goal?
Did you know that three teams from Brazil competed at home before and after the international events?
Did you know that Sweden's second team Aurora skipped the 20-average level in Charleroi?
Did you know that SDC Rhebellion XP was the busiest competition team in the United States last year?