posted Jan 31st, 2017 - The Sun Path Products NSL News reported on 12 January 2017 that British team 4mula has a new lineup. The same story mentioned that 2016 members Kate Lindsley and Sian Stokes were planning to focus more on their all-female 4-way team Volition this year, while 4mula would continue with a new lineup.

Volition started as a team for a meet at the World Challenge 2016 and won the 4-way Women competition by two points (23.2 - 23.0) over Canada's national team Parachute Montreal Fuzion and far ahead of the British national team NFTO. The French Girls had signed up for the 4-way Open Class competition and finished there in 2nd place with a 28.6 average.

The World Challenge 2016 served as the qualification event for the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016, and Volition competed at Flyspot as the British national team in 4-way Women, while NFTO traveled to Ottawa to represent Great Britain at the FAI Mondial 2016.

World Challenge 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		P,2,10	8,F,15	G,14,17	L,H,E,13	M,7,O,1	16,21,11	N,D,4,9	18,20,A	Q,19,3	C,K,B,22	Total	Avg
1	French FLY-IN Girls	FR	22	27	27	34	35	22	33	24	29	33	286	28.6
2	Volition	UK	19	18	21	29	29	19	29	21	21	26	232	23.2
3	Montreal Fuzion	CA	21	24	22	26	26	21	23	19	21	27	230	23.0
4	NFTO	UK	19	20	18	22	26	14	25	15	20	20	199	19.9

The same three teams finished closer to each other in Poland, and Volition had cut the distance to the French Girls from 5.4 average points to 3.7 at the indoor world cup.

The results at Flyspot in October and the team performance must have been encouraging and motivating for Volition, as the team began to make plans for the 2017 season. Team member Kate Lindsley, former 4mula member, told the Sun Path Products NSL News that her team is now increasing the training efforts significantly with the same lineup.

Volition has hired NMP PCH HayaBusa member Andy Grauwels as the coach, and the team will also work with Dennis Praet for additional 2-on-2 training: "We are very excited to start training in two weeks and see what we can achieve over the next few years."

FAI Indoor 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
R.	4-way Women		15,11,6	7,2,A	J,B,18,5	E,19,Q,3	8,P,21	12,L,O,C	G,20,F,16	10,D,22	N,9,K,4	14,M,17	Total	Avg
1	French Girls Weembi	FR	21	29	31	30	26	28	26	23	34	31	279	27.9
2	Volition	UK	22	25	27	27	22	23	21	20	31	24	242	24.2
3	NFTO	UK	20	26	26	26	20	23	22	19	24	21	227	22.7

Volition is obviously looking at a longer time period, which could be dangerous for all other British 4-way teams, not only NFTO in 4-way Women, and also for any national teams who are aiming at FAI medals at world meets and world cups.

Great Britain dominated the 4-way Women competition a decade ago, with FAI world meet gold medals in 2003, 2006 and 2008. Claire Scott was in all three gold medal lineups, and Volition team mate Liz Matthews won her gold medal together with Claire Scott in 2003 .

So far, the competition has to worry only about the indoor situation. However, Volition has not completely ruled out competing at the UK Nationals in the future. The current plans for the 2017 season include only the World Challenge, which is once again the qualification event for this year's FAI Indoor World Meet in Canada, and Volition is planning to travel across the Atlantic in October this year...