Did you know that Baby Beavers from Wissota spread great vibes at the last NPSL 2011 meet? posted: Oct 3rd, 2011 The NSL News visited the Northern Plains Skydiving League last weekend for the last meet of the 2011 season. Cold but beautiful fall weather welcomed the teams and the NSL News at Skydive Twin Cities in Baldwin, Wisconsin.
It took both weekend days to complete the meet since many tandem passengers used the great weather conditions to get in the air for the first and maybe second time. Host DZ and NPSL Director Mike Betz had originally planned to have a Twin Otter available to accommodate the additional competition activities.
Unfortunately, the Twin Otter had mechanical problems that could... (more)
Did you know that Free Radical Miles Hubbard made his 15,000th skydive at the NPSL July meet? posted: Aug 7th, 2011 The Northern Plains Skydiving League finally had good weather for a whole meet as teams and competitors returned to Westside Skydivers for the 3rd meet of the year.
Many of the teams took advantage of a beautiful Friday evening and the Grand Caravan to get some practice jumps in.
Most notably, Fourcast had a 33-point practice round. Was this possibly a sign that they would end HTH's long winning streak? NPSL Director Mike Betz reported from Westside Skydivers.
July 30th, 2011Round 1Round 2Round 3Round 4Round 5Round 6TotalAvgRankAA Class19,1A,P,O,11N,15,C2,D,13J,H,L,FE,14,7TotalAvg1HTH... (more)
Did you know that even the devil was crying for air conditioning in the Northern Plains? posted: Jul 27th, 2011 Hot. That's the first thing that comes to Northern Plains Skydiving League Director Mike Betz's mind when he thinks about the 2nd meet of the 2011 season on the July 16/17 weekend: "With the temperature in the high 90's and the humidity not too far behind, even the devil was crying for air conditioning..."
However, much like the first NPSL meet this year, this meet started out on a very long weather hold. Fortunately, Mike Betz had invited British 4-way world champion of 2008, Hannah Betts, to help all seven teams dirt dive their jumps. Some teams took advantage of the downtime and worked on... (more)
Did you know that cheese curds have a special meaning in the Northern Plains? posted: Jun 21st, 2011 The Northern Plains Skydiving League had a change of leadership this year. Sandy Grillet, father of Arizona Airspeed's alternate Nick Grillet, launched the league from scratch in 2001 and has guided it like a godfather for ten years. He helped to ceate a strong following of passionate and casual 4-way competitors in the Northern Plains area and participated himself actively all the time.
It was somehow shocking for the NSL headquarters when he said that he would not be able to continue with his efforts this year. He left NPSL Director shoes of a very large size, and it was unclear who would... (more)
Did you know that Fast Forward and Gang Green went back to the beginnings at the NPSL season opener? posted: Jun 3rd, 2010 The NSL News story on 23 May 2010 provided live coverage from the May meet of the Northern Plains Skydiving League.
The the story on 25 May 2010 followed up with video footage of the competition jumps. The video featured the AA Class competition at Skydive Twin Cities.
The NSL News captured more videos in Baldwin. This time, NSL-TV features the six rounds of Fast Forward, one of the two AAA Class teams at the NPSL 2010 season opener.
The video clip begins with an additional view of Fast Forward's Round 4 where HTH videographer Nick Halsett uses his freeflying skills.
Fast Forward at... (more)
Did you know that national Freestyle champions have formed an NPSL 4-way team? posted: May 25th, 2010 AAA Class team Evolution Cremona was not the only winner from Italy in one of the four competition classes on last weekend's leaderboard. Fano's home team ASH competed in the AA Class and is still in 1st place with a 10.5 average after all AA Class scores have been posted. Italy's A Class team Saturno 4 finished in 3rd place with a 7.7 average and completed a very strong Italian showing last weekend.
Three competition classes have 13 teams each on the leaderboard, seven teams competed in the AAA Class. The AA Class had the closest race on the top of the leaderboard, and NPSL team HTH actually... (more)
Did you know that Baby Beavers from Wissota spread great vibes at the last NPSL 2011 meet?
Did you know that Free Radical Miles Hubbard made his 15,000th skydive at the NPSL July meet?
Did you know that even the devil was crying for air conditioning in the Northern Plains?
Did you know that cheese curds have a special meaning in the Northern Plains?
Did you know that Fast Forward and Gang Green went back to the beginnings at the NPSL season opener?
Did you know that national Freestyle champions have formed an NPSL 4-way team?