posted Dec 5th, 2017 - The NSL News mentioned a few times after the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 how two teams from the Czech Republic won FAI indoor bronze medals for the small European country after preparing for several years at the Hurricane Factory, including regular indoor meets of the Indoor Cloud League and the World Tunnel League.

The HF Chicks placed 3rd in 4-way Women, and the HF Cubs won the bronze medals in 4-way Junior.

The story on 30 November 2017 pointed out how the HF Cubs are now caught between AAA and AA sequences at the monthly Indoor Cloud League competition after the junior team lost eligibility for the A Class. They posted 25+ scores twice in the A Class and had to move up to only AA or AAA sequences.

Teams in FAI/IPC's 4-way Junior category perform only AA Class sequences without the six slot-switching AAA Class blocks, which reduced the HF Cubs Indoor Cloud League participation realistically to only one category (AA).

FAI Indoor World Meet 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		16,P,12	2,8,H	22,20,3	15,D,4	A,J,6,L	7,M,19	5,Q,21	18,B,17	G,14,C,N	K,E,10,11	Total	Avg
1	French Weembi Girls	FR	28	26	23	27	38	34	30	30	34	28	298	29.8
2	Volition	UK	22	22	18	23	32	29	25	26	28	23	248	24.8
3	HF Chicks	CZ	22	18	16	19	32	25	24	20	26	23	225	22.5
4	Team X	SE	24	20	18	22	30	26	24	18	21	20	223	22.3
5	Parachute Montreal Fuzion	CA	20	20	19	21	31	27	20	19	20	20	217	21.7
6	No Mercy	PL	24	18	18	19	23	26	22	18	24	21	213	21.3
7	Texas Crush	US	18	14	13	14	21	24	19	15	16	15	169	16.9
8	China 4-way Red	CN	11	15	13	15	20	20	17	14	15	17	157	15.7
9	Not Your March	HU	14	15	8	14	18	18	17	11	18	16	149	14.9

FAI Indoor World Meet 2017			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Junior		F,7,L	19,A,K	11,N,E	22,H,9	Q,M,J,8	14,6	B,15,P	O,C,18	Total	Avg
1	Aerokart Ak'demie	FR	36	29	27	26	34	22	33	23	230	28.8
2	Air Devils	CA	32	29	26	23	28	22	22	26	208	26.0
3	HF Junior Cubs	CZ	34	17	19	19	24	18	28	22	181	22.6
4	Skyblockers Singapore	SG	29	24	10	19	19	19	21	22	163	20.4

Just a few days later, on 2 December 2017, the results from the ISR Grand Prix 2017 were showing a new team record average of the Monaco Indoor Skydive Team. Monaco competed with a new lineup that included 4-way junior competitor Kylian Forsans, who trained and competed with the Aerokart Ak'demie 1 team before joining the three Monaco seniors in Roosendaal.

Kylian Forsans was the second example of how 4-way juniors get ready much earlier and quicker to enter the 4-way senior world, due to indoor training and competition practice and experiences.

Canadian Air Devil Yannick Bisson, silver medalist in 4-way Junior at this year's indoor world meet in Montreal, competed in the AAA Class even earlier with his 4Astrophe family team.

Canada had another 4-way junior who even skipped the indoor training and competition experience and joined the national 4-way Open Class team Evolution right away. Benoit Lemay was the youngest 4-way Open Class competitor at the FAI World Meet 2008 and eventually won two FAI bronze medals with Evolution at the same event in Prostejov 2014, in 4-way Open and in 4-way VFS.

The Czech Republic's 4-way godfather, HF Bad Boys member Jan Klapka, informed the NSL News shortly after the Indoor Cloud League update from the Hurricane Factory that he is not too concerned with the current situation of the HF Cubs.

He said that he has been preparing the 4-way junior team for the AAA Class dive pool for a while. The 4-way juniors will eventually grow out of the FAI/IPC category with AA and A Class sequences, by age and by skills and experiences both. He does not mind to leave the A Class sequences behind and begin to collect AAA/Open Class experiences, even if the HF Cubs may still compete in 4-way Junior at FAI/IPC events.

Jan Klapka's goal is to get the HF Cubs ready to fill open slots if any of the HF Chicks senior members are not available in 4-way Women. That's exactly what Kylian Forsans did for the Monaco team in Roosendaal.

The HF Cubs have not posted any AAA Class scores at the Hurricane Factory's Indoor Cloud League or World Tunnel League events yet. They could also challenge the HF Chicks with their own complete lineup soon, or even go after the HF Bad Boys and HF Flying Circus in the AAA Class...