posted Jan 13th, 2017 - The Flying Circus of the Hurricane Factory in Prague, Czech Republic, is a well-known name in the 4-way world by now, and the young team continues to make the headlines month by month.

It happened again this week that Flying Circus increased the performance level and finished with a new team record average. This is nothing unusual, as the chart with all of the team's indoor scores is showing it clearly. There has hardly ever been a point in time when the scores of the last meet were not higher than at the previous ones.

The chart of all indoor scores with decreasing meet averages is misleading, as it begins with the Rookie Class results, which are naturally higher than the recent scores in the AAA Class. Flying Circus has moved from the first Rookie Class meet in September 2014 to this week's 18.7 average in the AAA Class in little over two years. It seems to be only a matter of time when Flying Circus will break the 20-average level in the AAA Class.

ETL January 2017		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	2,7,12	N,F,B,20	19,5,D	16,Q,J,10	A,K,8,14	9,18,13	11,M,O,L	6,G,1	3,15,P	E,17,C,H	Total	Avg
1	HF Chicks	17	27	17	19	22	17	24	18	18	25	204	20.4
2	Bad Boys	17	23	18	20	18	16	24	19	18	23	196	19.6
3	HF Flying Circus	15	25	17	19	18	15	24	18	11	25	187	18.7
4	CZ Ladies	14	20	16	17	17	14	20	16	15	19	168	16.8
5	Accord	11	16	9	11	9	11	15	11	8	12	113	11.3
Rank	AA Class	2,7	N,F,B,20	19,D,14	Q,J,13	A,K,8	9,18	11,M,O	6,G,1	15,P,L	E,C,H,4	Total	Avg
1	Skydive University SK	12	18	15	16	19	16	17	14	18	23	168	16.8
2	HF Junior Cubs	12	17	14	15	19	13	16	14	16	17	153	15.3
3	HF Junior Flies	14	17	11	11	10	13	18	11	14	14	133	13.3
4	Best of Relative	13	12	11	12	15	10	15	11	12	15	126	12.6
Rank	A Class	2,7	N,F,B	19,D	Q,J,4	A,K,8	9,21	M,O,N	6,G	P,L,F	E,C,H	Total	Avg
1	Mimozemky	12	22	12	10	12	15	24	12	21	17	157	15.7
2	Mirek Team	11	23	10	12	9	14	22	11	15	18	145	14.5
3	HF Junior Blue	8	11	6	6	7	7	12	7	9	8	81	8.1
Rank	R Class	M,P	F,B	O,L	Q,J	A,E	H,B	M,O	Q,A	P,F	E,H	Total	Avg
1	HF Junior Green	5	8	3	4	2	3	5	1	4	6	41	4.1

Flying Circus is currently cleaning up the Czech AAA Class leaderboards team by team. The CZ Ladies, Czech national 4-way team in 4-way Women, with Flying Circus member Jakub Klapka's mother Jirina in the lineup, were able to hold off the charging youngsters until November 2016 before they had to allow Flying Circus to pass in December.

Flying Circus is now far ahead of CZ Ladies two months later and is moving dangerously close to the Bad Boys, reigning Czech 4-way Open Class champion with father Jan Klapka in the tail slot. Only nine points was the difference between the two teams this Wednesday, and Flying Circus outscored Bad Boys in two of the ten rounds.

Flying Circus also tied the scores of this week's winner, HF Chicks, in two rounds and closed in on the second all-female Czech lineup in the AAA Class.

One reason for the team's ongoing and rapid progression in the AAA Class is the fact that Czech 4-way godfather Jan Klapka offers his teams plenty of opportunity to get familiar with the dive pool.

Flying Circus regularly learns and practices slot switchers, memory and 6-point sequences by using the Indoor Cloud League sequences in training and apply techniques and mental skills at the regular monthly 10-round meets at the Hurricane Factory.

This week's competition draw included a 6-point slot switcher for the front piece in Round 1, and at least a slot switcher for the rear piece in Round 3. The 11-pointer for the slot switcher in Round 9 is showing that Flying Circus is still new to these AAA Class challenges, even though the team came back very strongly for the next slot switcher for both pieces in Round 10. It will become really dangerous for Bad Boys and HF Chicks once Flying Circus cannot be shaken any longer by the slot switchers, memory and 6-point sequences. It will probably not take too long...