posted Jan 24th, 2018 - The NSL News mentioned briefly on 21 October 2017 that Canada's national team in 4-way Women, Parachute Montreal Fuzion, had a personnel change last year.

The FAI Indoor World Meet 2017 was in full swing on Fuzion's home turf SkyVenture Montreal at that time, and the home team was barely in medal contention for the 3rd place after Round 6. Fuzion eventually ended up in 5th place.

What had happened after the bronze medals for Canada at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2017 in Saarlouis, which could have been silver without the weather troubles?

Valerie Bisson had joined Parachute Montreal Fuzion at the beginning of the 2014 season as a teenager and finished in 4th place half a year later at the FAI World Meet 2014 in Prostejov. Fuzion was on the same path to FAI medals that Evolution won in 4-way Open at the same event.

The 2015 season ended perfectly with the bronze medals at the World Air Games 2015 and a 17.1 average that was significantly higher than a year ago (14.7) in Prostejov.

World Air Games 2015			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		B,C,17,2	N,19,4	13,14,F	6,E,O,L	7,1,A	D,18,P,22	M,H,5,15	16,9,12	21,K,G,Q	11,20,3	Total	Avg
1	Golden Knights	US	25	21	22	25	23	19	29	21	25	17	227	22.7
2	French FLY-IN Girls	FR	25	22	21	30	21	20	20	22	25	18	224	22.4
3	Parachute Montreal Fuzion	CA	16	19	16	26	18	12	21	16	14	13	171	17.1
4	NFTO	UK	18	17	15	20	18	15	17	14	19	12	165	16.5
5	Infra Red Band	RU	17	15	12	20	12	14	17	13	16	-	136	15.1
6	Dubai Asaar Ladies	AE	12	12	9	14	11	11	10	12	-	-	91	11.4

Fuzion then traveled to Bedford at the beginning of the next world meet season in 2016, outscored NFTO on their British home turf at the World Challenge and finished only two points behind indoor team Volition.

It was looking good for Canada in 4-way Women five months before the outdoor world meet in Ottawa.

However, it did not turn out successfully for Fuzion at the FAI Mondial 2016 where NFTO performed strongly, while Fuzion could only copy their own 17.1 average of December 2015. Canada ended up in the same 4th place as in 2014.

Fuzion still made new plans for the 2017 season and posted the third 17.1 average within a year and a half at the Canadian Nationals 2017.

The Canadian team was finally on the way to leave the old team record average behind at the FAI Outdoor World Cup 2017 in Saarlouis. They were tied in 2nd place with Russia's Bubble Trouble and an 18.2 average after Round 5, when bad weather stopped the meet. However, Fuzion had won the FAI bronze medals for Canada.

FAI World Cup 2017			1	2	3	4	5	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		L,O,F,K,11	C,3,7	13,2,G	1,17,20	5,E,21	Total	Avg
1	French Weembi Girls	FR	29	17	19	16	23	104	20.8
2	Bubble Trouble	RU	23	20	16	14	18	91	18.2
3	Parachute Montreal Fuzion	CA	24	20	16	15	16	91	18.2
4	No Mercy	PL	20	15	10	13	15	73	14.6
5	Meija	SE	19	14	10	12	14	69	13.8
6	PTW	UK	13	9	8	9	11	50	10.0
7	Kesshin	UK	10	7	6	6	9	38	7.6

In the meantime, Valerie Bisson had already announced that she would not be able to continue at the end of the 2017 season.

The commitment to team training and competition was too much to keep up well enough with her college duties, while Fuzion wanted to continue.

The team began to look for a new member and found Stephanie Longchamps who was ready to take the slot. She was on the Storm lineup who won the AA Class championship title at the Canadian Nationals in June last year.

Fuzion decided quickly to begin training with Stephanie Longchamps right away and compete with the new lineup at the upcoming FAI Indoor World Meet at SkyVenture Montreal.

There was not much time to bring the new member up from AA Class competition to Fuzion AAA Class speed, and the recent slot scramble did not make it any easier.

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

Stephanie Longchamps replaced Valerie Bisson in the tail slot. However, coach Niklas Hemlin had also suggested a slot switch in the front piece at the same time. Renee Point left her signature slot to become the new outside center, and Janylene Breton took her point slot.

The first competition with the new lineup came less than two months after the bronze medal trip to Europe with Valerie Bisson, and Fuzion still finished only eight points behind the bronze medal position.

Parachute Montreal Fuzion is now in the first year with the new lineup and will compete for Canada at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2018 in Australia. However, the best news from Canada was the commitment of the new lineup until 2020. The trip to Australia is only one step on the way to the final goal in three years.

2018 is a building year, and coach Niklas Hemlin wants to focus on improving individual skills and fine-tuning the block techniques. Fuzion is planning to spend an average of 30 minutes each week in the home tunnel, with and without the coach. It's the 5th year for Janylene Breton and Marie-Eve Dallaire with Fuzion, and they will reach out for FAI world meet medals in their 7th year together...