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Did You Know...

... that the Czech Octopucz 8-way team started with indoor training?

Czech 8-way team Octopucz
posted Feb 8th, 2020 - Jan Klapka, godfather of the Formation Skydiving community in the Czech Republic, has added another activity to his own and the agenda of seven other 4-way competitors. He has put together the Octopucz 8-way team and launched the new Czech project with two indoor training camps, one in Berlin, the other one in Spain.

It is an interesting timing for the new 8-way team. There is no indication yet whether Octopucz have plans to compete, either at indoor or outdoor meets, or even send a team to the FAI World Meet 2020 in Tanay, Russia. However, all team members are active competitors, and Jan Klapka also hired 8-way expert Marco Arrigo as a coach.

There has never been a Czech 8-way team at a World Championship of Formation Skydiving since 1985. Even the 4-way Open Class presence at world meets has not been consistent in the same time period. Czech 4-way Open Class teams attended eight world meets since 1985, the last one in Dubai 2012. The Czech Ladies, with Jan Klapka's wife Jirina Klapkova in the lineup, were the last team at a world meet and represented their country first on home turf in Prostejov 2014, then again in Ottawa 2016. The best placement of a Czech 4-way Open Class team was the 18th place in Dubai 2012 with a 14.9 average.


FAI World Meet 2016
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Avg
Rank 4-way Women 12,A,16 18,15,O 1,F,E,C 17,B,14 10,2,20 21,11,G J,5,19 L,M,K,7 D,8,4 3,13,Q Total Avg
1 Golden Knights  US  21    21    30    20 -2 17    19    24    35    20    17 -2  224 22.4
2 French Girls  FR  21    18    30 -1 23    17    18 -2 24    34    18 -1 14     217 21.7
3 NFTO  UK  17    15    21    19    13    16    18    26 -1 17    13 -1  175 17.5
4 Parachute Montreal Fuzion  CA  18    15 -1 19 -1 16 -2 14    16    17 -2 25    17    14     171 17.1
5 Les Stunts  BE  15    14    20 -1 16    11 -1 13    16    24    15    13     157 15.7
6 Bellatrix  AU  13    12    20 -1 16    12    13    15    22    13    14     150 15.0
7 Skymix  DE  13    11    15 -1 15    12    13    14    23    12    12 -1  140 14.0
8 No Mercy  PL  14    14    19 -1 13 -1 9    11 -1 12 -2 19 -4 14    11 -1  136 13.6
9 Infra Red Band  RU  15    12 -1 16 -3 13 -1 9 -2 11    13    17 -2 14    10     130 13.0
10 CZ Ladies  CZ  11    11    14 -1 13    9    10    12    19    9 -2 10     118 11.8
11 Valkyria  DK  10    8    16    10    9    10    11 -1 17 -2 12    10     113 11.3
Czech 4-way Open Class teams at FAI World Championships of Formation Skydiving since 1985
Last Czech 4-way Open Class team at a world meet in Dubai 2012
Things have changed since the Hurricane Factory opened doors in Prague, and Jan Klapka decided to make his country more visible on the world map of Formation Skydiving competition. The 4-way junior program has been extremely successful and already generated the first Czech 4-way world champions with the HF Cubs at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019.

The lineup of the Octopucz 8-way team is a very colorful mixture of 4-way competitors who are adding the 8-way experience to their agenda.

Jan Klapka is back together with his former Bad Boys team mate Marian Jeziak. His wife Jirina Klapkova has her own reunion with her Czech Ladies team mate Hana Opalkova. In fact, Jirina Klapkova and Hana Opalkova have also been training and competing recently with the Czech indoor team 4 V Tunelu.

Martina Vavackova and Lukas Kaderabek have been training and competing with HF Flying Circus since 2014, and they are the reigning Czech 4-way outdoor champions.


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 -1 26    23    27    38    34    30    30 -1 34    28    298 29.8
2 Volition  UK  22 -2 22    18 -1 23 -1 32 -4 29    25    26    28 -1 23 -1 248 24.8
3 HF Chicks  CZ  22    18 -4 16 -2 19 -1 32 -1 25 -1 24    20 -3 26    23    225 22.5
4 Team X  SE  24    20 -1 18 -1 22 -1 30    26    24    18 -3 21 -2 20 -1 223 22.3
5 Parachute Montreal Fuzion  CA  20    20 -1 19    21    31    27 -1 20 -1 19 -1 20 -2 20 -1 217 21.7
6 No Mercy  PL  24    18    18    19    23 -5 26    22 -1 18 -2 24    21    213 21.3
7 Texas Crush  US  18    14 -3 13 -2 14 -1 21 -2 24    19    15    16 -3 15    169 16.9
8 China 4-way Red  CN  11 -6 15 -4 13 -2 15    20 -5 20 -1 17    14 -1 15 -5 17    157 15.7
9 Not Your March  HU  14 -1 15    8 -3 14    18 -1 18 -1 17    11 -2 18 -1 16    149 14.9

Czech Ladies at the FAI World Meet 2016
The last couple of 4-way team mates in the 8-way lineup are Eva Turkova and Hanka Urikova. They have been training and competing with the HF Chicks since 2016, and together they won the first set of FAI medals for the Czech Republic.

The HF Chicks took the 3rd place in 4-way Women at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2017. Eva Turkova and Hanka Urikova are still training and competing with HF Chicks, while the team's lineup has changed. Former HF Cubs juniors Kaja Svejdová and Tereza Zívalová are the new team members, and other current HF Cubs members are filling open slots when necessary.

The Hurricane Factory's 14-foot flying chamber does not allow a full 8-way training in Prague, and Jan Klapka organized the first two training camps at the 16+ flying chambers in Berlin, Germany, and Madrid, Spain. The Octopucz 8-way team has been jet-setting back and forth between three of the major capital cities in Europe since December, and the January camp in Madrid took place just a few days before the world's 4-way teams traveled to Spain for the Wind Games. No Czech team competed at the Wind Games, where the 14-foot flying chamber does not allow an 8-way competition.

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