posted Jan 9th, 2018 - The leaderboard of the Weembinamic 2017 included the name of a French 4-way Junior team, the third lineup of the Aerokart Ak'demie project.

The two other Ak'demie teams have received more attention by the NSL News throughout and after their battle for the top spot at the French Indoor Nationals 2017.

It was the French qualification event for the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 where only one team would represent France in 4-way Junior. The Ak'demie 2 lineup won by two points and traveled to Montreal to become the new 4-way Junior world champions.

Both other Ak'demie teams have continued with training and competition since the project was launched with the first posted scores in 2014.

The Ak'demie 3 lineup is the youngest one and attended the first competition a year later. It was the Clash of Champions 2015 where the first lineup competed in the A Class and placed 6th with a 12.3 average. Little over two years later, Ak'demie 3 completed ten AAA Class sequences at Weembi and finished in 2nd place with an 18.2 average.

Weembinamic 2017		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way AAA Class	F,C,Q,8	B,J,P,20	6,2,D	7,O,11	L,19,1	15,18,H	21,4,N	A,14,13	M,9,22	G,H,E,K,F	Total	Avg
1	Brits On 4	31	29	19	26	18	17	21	20	27	44	252	25.2
2	Espoir Weembi	28	29	21	24	18	19	18	18	25	41	241	24.1
3	Weembi Legion	28	26	18	21	16	17	18	17	22	30	213	21.3
4	Les Coyotes Jcm	24	20	15	18	17	15	17	12	20	32	190	19.0
5	Ak'demie 3	22	16	16	19	17	14	16	15	18	29	182	18.2
6	Hemera	18	18	15	19	16	13	13	13	19	26	170	17.0
7	Weembiver	17	17	14	15	14	12	14	12	15	22	152	15.2
8	Les Rookies	16	14	12	14	12	10	13	12	13	22	138	13.8
9	Whatura	16	14	11	16	11	11	10	6	16	17	128	12.8
10	Canop En Boite Pcp	14	14	9	12	12	9	11	8	15	17	121	12.1
11	Weembi By Fretois	8	8	4	6	2	1	5	5	9	7	55	5.5

Original member Oscar Messier was eventually recruited for the Ak'demie 2 lineup at the beginning of the 2016 season, where he joined his brother Eliot. Simon Capelle took the open Ak'demie 3 slot and has been with the youngest lineup ever since. Oscar Messier ended up as a 4-way junior world champion last year.

The Ak'demie 3 lineup also includes Valentin Vazille, who is the son of Franck Vazille, a former member of the French national 8-way team that won numerous FAI/IPC medals in the 80s and 90s. Franck Vazille has recently been training and competing with the 4-way indoor team from Monaco.

Weembinamic organizer Julien Degen had manipulated the dive pool for the competition draw to accommodate all AAA and AA teams on the same leaderboard and in the teams' knockout and single elimination battles.

He eliminated the six slot-switching blocks and reduced the draw to 5-point sequences. This way, the ten rounds at Weembinamic could have been drawn either for any AAA/Open Class competition or a AA/4-way Junior meet.

All three French Aerokart Ak'demie teams had competed on the same leaderboard at the French Indoor Nationals 2017, where the youngest 4-way juniors finished in 5th place with a 16.8 average.

The ten rounds in March were a real AA Class/4-way Junior draw, even though the junior teams complete only eight rounds at an FAI/IPC event.

Clash of Champions 2015			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class		K,L,19	6,4	N,7	D,2	O,M,B	P,9	E,21	G,Q,H	C,J,8	F,A,21	Total	Avg
1	Flying Circus	CZ	19	13	20	16	48	24	19	25	16	17	217	21.7
2	Amnesya RW4 Team	IT	17	15	19	13	37	24	17	23	18	21	204	20.4
3	Skyblockers Singapore	SG	16	17	19	16	33	14	17	25	14	23	194	19.4
4	Made in USSR	RU	12	13	17	13	31	19	14	20	15	14	168	16.8
5	Flatnamic	AE	12	11	12	11	24	20	12	21	12	15	150	15.0
6	Aerokart Ak'demie	FR	13	10	13	9	13	12	12	15	12	14	123	12.3
7	A Team	SG	8	10	12	11	19	15	14	11	8	14	122	12.2
8	Blue Phenix	FR	8	7	6	10	23	15	12	14	12	12	119	11.9
9	Alate	AE	9	10	10	8	17	17	9	13	11	11	115	11.5
10	Hardcore Hand Holders	AE	2	4	6	4	10	3	5	3	6	3	46	4.6
11	Last Minute	FR	2	4	6	2	7	2	3	3	3	3	35	3.5

Marin Ferre and Mathieu Cannesson were first coaching the two older teams together. Mathieu Cannesson began to focus on the youngest lineup once it was formed a year after the start of the Aerokart Ak'demie projec. The other two teams had their own coaches with Marin Ferre and Amelie Tirman.

Mathieu Cannesson said that the Weembinamic event was a great way for the youngsters to end the 2017 season. They could not travel to Canada and compete at the indoor world championships, as their Ak'demie friends did. He explained that the name of the event was inspired by the format of the Dynamic competition world, which consists of battles between teams and competitors. The Ak'demie juniors enjoyed the format, where almost each round feels like a final.

His team also attended and won the "Bellynamic" competition at the end of the event. This is a dynamic speed round with only belly flying, a series of snakes, levels and circles.

Ak'demie 3 will soon be back in 4-way action, as the next indoor meet in France is coming up on the January 20 weekend. Mathieu Cannesson is not available, and Marin Ferre will try to keep the team focused on the competition...

French Indoor Nationals 2017		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	P,Q,21	D,B,14	M,H,J,22	C,7,F	O,A,11	13,8	N,K,19	G,E,2	6,15	1,9	Total	Avg
1	Aerokart Ak'demie 2	26	24	24	30	20	12	25	22	20	22	225	22.5
2	Aerokart Ak'demie 1	26	24	25	25	22	15	22	23	20	21	223	22.3
3	EFMP Filles	23	21	20	25	18	12	19	19	13	16	186	18.6
4	The Outsiders	19	22	20	24	17	16	10	19	15	16	178	17.8
5	Aerokart Ak'demie 3	20	17	18	23	17	12	18	14	14	15	168	16.8
6	Shamal'In Clermont	21	21	18	21	17	13	19	9	14	14	167	16.7
7	4Flux	17	18	17	24	18	9	18	16	11	14	162	16.2
8	BonoZorus	10	18	15	19	14	11	14	15	9	11	136	13.6
9	Los Pollos Locos	14	15	14	16	13	11	13	14	9	13	132	13.2
10	Lemniscate ASPU Maubeuge	17	13	13	18	11	10	8	12	11	12	125	12.5
11	Caelestis ASPU	15	15	12	15	13	8	11	10	10	13	122	12.2
12	Toobiz'air Lens Dunkerque	11	12	13	18	8	8	11	12	10	10	113	11.3
13	Canop en Boite	12	11	13	14	9	5	10	11	8	8	101	10.1
14	Yapuka Vannes	12	11	13	14	9	8	11	7	9	5	99	9.9
15	Nev'Air PCP	4	10	17	14	8	9	11	10	5	7	95	9.5
15	Les Anonymous	11	11	11	14	10	7	9	7	5	10	95	9.5
17	Titanium	10	12	11	13	8	6	7	7	9	5	88	8.8
18	Weembi by Fretoy	8	7	7	7	5	4	6	5	6	3	58	5.8
19	Team 47 LCA	8	5	9	8	7	2	4	5	5	3	56	5.6