posted Mar 24th, 2019 - The last NSL News update from the Czech Republic after the March meet of the World Tunnel League at the Hurricane Factory had featured the meet videos of two of the Czech 4-way junior teams, the current national team, HF Cubs, and their 4-way junior successors, HF Flying Rebels.

NSL-TV is now following up with several more meet videos of Czech teams at the same event, including HF Flying Circus, the national team in 4-way Open, who will compete for the Czech Republic at the FAI Indoor World Meet, together with the HF Junior Cubs.

An earlier story on March 1st explained that the Czech delegation had to withdrew the national team in 4-way Women, HF Chicks, from the indoor world meet, after a new FAI/IPC rule does not allow 4-way junior competitors to compete in two different categories at the same event.

Two of the HF Chicks members are still 4-way juniors (Adela Vesela and Sabina Cioleková) and were prepared to compete with both teams, together with their former HF Cubs team mate Tereza Zívalová and HF Chicks senior competitor Eva Turkova. The plans for the indoor world meet had to be changed, while Adela Vesela and Sabina Cioleková are still competing with both teams at the WTL meets in the Czech Republic. The new videos also feature the ten rounds of the HF Chicks.

World Tunnel League March 2019		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class	M,P,Q,G,21	1,11,K	17,16,H	N,L,D,6	13,18,3	E,J,14,5	2,F,12	15,C,B,19	22,10,8	9,20,A	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Circus	29	23	25	29	18	26	19	22	17	26	234	23.4
2	HF Cubs	30	21	23	29	19	24	15	20	15	29	225	22.5
3	HF Chicks	28	20	23	27	17	17	15	21	14	26	208	20.8
4	Empower	24	16	19	23	15	21	16	18	14	20	186	18.6
5	Skydive University Slovakia	24	17	12	23	15	21	19	19	13	22	185	18.5
6	Sky....	23	15	17	21	12	17	14	15	10	18	162	16.2
7	M Team	22	13	14	19	11	15	12	13	11	16	146	14.6
8	Accord	16	11	13	13	9	15	10	10	7	9	113	11.3

HF Flying Circus, HF Chicks and M Team at the March meet of the Czech Tunnel League

HF Flying Circus and HF Cubs were not able to lift their performance level beyond their previous record marks this month, which they have almost become used to. In fact, only one AAA Class team finished the ten March rounds with a new team record average.

HF Bad Boys member and Czech 4-way Godfather Jan Klapka began player-coaching the M Team when his own team was slowing down with training and competition. The Bad Boys have attended only two indoor meets in 2019, after a long gap since April 2018.

The M Team has benefited from Jan Klapka's extra time and mastered the March draw with the new 14.6 team record. The M Team lineup includes Mirek Slánský who was Jan Klapka's team mate back in 2005.

The M Team started without Jan Klapka in the Rookie Class indoor competition of November 2015 with a 1.8 average and went through A and AA before entering the AAA Class world with the beginning of the 2018/2019 indoor season.

Jan Klapka encouraged the team to make the final step and brought his own broad 4-way AAA Class experiences into the new category for the M Team. They have not missed a meet since November 2018 and are ready to tackle the 15-average level in the upcoming indoor meets.

World Tunnel League March 2019		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class	M,P,Q,G	1,11	21,K,H	N,L,D,6	13,18	E,J,14	2,F,19	15,C,B	22,8	9,20	Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Rebels	32	16	21	24	16	22	16	18	15	18	198	19.8
2	HF Dragonflies	29	15	19	17	13	19	16	18	13	16	175	17.5
3	Ladies&Gentlemen	24	12	19	18	12	21	14	16	11	16	163	16.3
4	Mimozemky	19	11	15	13	10	15	15	12	10	15	135	13.5
5	HF Chameleons	16	9	12	10	10	12	9	8	9	11	106	10.6

HF Dragonflies and HF Chameleons at the March meet of the Czech Tunnel League

The AAA Class teams had to deal with a slower competition draw in March, while the AA Class teams could start the competition with a sequence of four random formations (M,P,Q,G). Result was the opposite situation compared to the AAA Class competition, where only M Team finished with a new team record. All five AA Class teams at the Hurricane Factory were able to better their highest previous meet averages.

The NSL News mentioned earlier that Jan Klapka has moved all of his current 4-way Junior teams into the AA Class competition to get them ready for FAI/IPC events in the near future, while he is preparing a new generation of 4-way fliers for the Rookie and A categories. The future national team in 4-way Junior, HF Flying Rebels, are in their first year of AA Class competition and are very close to the 20-average level.

The HF Dragonflies even skipped the A Class and stepped up from Rookie Class competition until April 2018 to AA in November last year. The all-female junior lineup is still keeping up with the same progression that the Flying Rebels are showing.

Then there are the HF Chameleons with the youngest lineup, who started in the A Class in November 2017 and would not even need a 14-foot flying chamber to perform the AA Class dive pool. They left the 10-average level behind this month...