posted Jun 10th, 2020 - Body sizes are a critical component of indoor 8-way training and competition. A 16-foot flying chamber can accommodate 8-way teams, as Paraclete XP and Weembi Lille have shown with their regular 8-way events.

However, the 8-way indoor dive pool is still not identical with the outdoor blocks and random formations. The indoor modifications are supposed to allow the 8-way teams to use the same basic dive pool. The body sizes still make a difference, and an 8-way team of basketball players would have more troubles in the same 16-foot flying chamber than a group of shorter people.

4-way teams have comfortable conditions in a 16-foot flying chamber, while they have to be more accurate and space-efficient in a 14-foot chamber. 4-way training and competition in a 12-foot chamber is similar to 8-way in a 16-foot chamber, and the dive pool for the Indoor Cloud League events is even more limited than the 8-way modifications are.

The same limiting factors don't count for the Czech 4-way juniors, as Czech Formation Skydiving godfather Jan Klapka recently demonstrated at the Hurricane Factory.

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Junior 8-way training at the Hurricane Factory

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Jan Klapka could use his 14-foot flying chamber in Prague to introduce 8-way to his youngest 4-way juniors. He launched a senior 8-way project not too long ago, as the NSL News reported on February 8th. The Octopucz 8-way team with 4-way seniors need a 16-foot flying chamber. They travel to Berlin in neighboring Germany for indoor training.

The Czech Formation Skydiving juniors don't have to leave Prague for 8-way training. The 14-foot flying chamber of the Hurricane Factory accommodates eight juniors in a similar way as eight seniors fit into a 16-foot flying chamber. It's not the most comfortable situation, but it works somehow.

The video of the junior 8-way training is showing a combination of two 4-way junior teams. The HF Chameleons were formed with a different lineup in 2017, and Krystýna Cejkova is the only original member. The current lineup posted a new 17.7 team record average in the A Class at the last meet of the Czech Tunnel League. The HF Chameleons are also contributing A and RRR Class scores regularly for the Czech Indoor Cloud League account.

They added 28 points in the RRR Class for the most recent total of the Hurricane Factory in May, as the NSL News reported on June 4th.

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Indoor Cloud League May 2020 - Hurricane Factory	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams	F,11,Q,12	O,11,19	C,E,9	C,E,N	M,F,Q	M,O	Total
HF Flying Circus	22	23	-	-	-	-	45
HF Cubs	20	22	-	-	-	-	-
M Team	14	13	23	-	-	-	-
Accord	14	10	15	-	-	-	-
HF Dragonflies	-	18	34	-	-	-	-
HF Flying Rebels	-	20	35	-	-	-	35
HF Chameleons	-	-	23	28	-	-	28
Rusalky	-	-	21	24	34	32	50
HF Juniors Invisible	-	-	16	15	30	23	-
Smart Fish	-	-	-	-	-	11	-
Hurricane Factory's Best of May	22	23	35	28	25	25	158

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The same Czech ICL leaderboard for the month of May was also introducing a new 4-way junior team, Smart Fish. Jan Klapka said that the lineup is the combination of two other junior recruiting teams.

Smart Fish (Roza Marvanovaá, Ester Gašová, Filip Rybín, Maruška Ochmat and alternate Oliver Novák) have not posted scores for a 10-round meet yet. However, the 10-pointer for the R Class sequence in May was the starting point for the new 4-way junior team.

The newest and youngest Czech junior team joined forces with HF Chameleons to learn the basics of 8-way training early in their careers in the 14-foot flying chamber of the Hurricane Factory. There is no doubt that the Smart Fish Chameleons are the youngest 8-way team in the history of the sport.

Jan Klapka and his wife Jirina assisted the young 8-way fliers at their very first 8-way attempts. They did not have too much work in the flying chamber any longer later on. Other 4-way junior teams were preparing for their indoor training in the background, and Smart Fish Chameleons will go back to 4-way sequences for the next events. In the meantime, the HF Cubs, still reigning 4-way junior world champions, are working on their exits from jump planes and their freefall skills...