posted Aug 16th, 2023 - The recent visit of the NSL News in the Czech Republic had the purpose of introducing the former 4-way juniors of Jan Klapka's 4-way school at the Hurricane Factory windtunnel in Prague, who have successfully transitioned to outdoor training and competition.

The Skywalkers Junior combination of former HF Flying Rebels (Michal Mikulisek, Martin Stransky) and HF Chameleon (Filip Lukavec, Antonin Ondracek) members were in training for the national outdoor championship at the skydiving center in Most. The competition is scheduled for the coming weekend, and the NSL News met the team on August 12th.

The upcoming national championship will be the third outdoor competition for the Skywalkers Junior lineup with their average age of under 17 years, the second one with the same lineup. Most likely, they will win the Czech 4-way outdoor title and compete for the Czech Republic at the world championships and world cups of the future. Jan Klapka plans to send the team to Israel next year for the outdoor world championship, and they have a test event in Israel later this year on the team schedule.

Other former 4-way junior indoor competitors have mastered the same transition successfully, as well. Tom Mattoni competed for France in 4-way Open at the FAI Outdoor World Championship 2022 and won the silver medals at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2023. Canadian Yannick Bisson competed at the same outdoor competition in October last year and made the Top 10 with 4Astrophe.

FAI Indoor World Championship 2023			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Junior		B,D,4		F,21,8		18,N,19		1,J,Q		15,K,22		6,G,14		L,C,7		E,A,M,11		Total	Avg
1	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	29	-2	21	-3	20	-1	28		20	-1	21	-2	25	-8	25	-4	189	23.6
2	SDU GenZ	SK	17	-2	16	-3	12	-2	19		12	-2	17		16	-7	20	-2	129	16.1

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HF Flying Rebels - SDU GenZ at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2023

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Another former 4-way junior competitor was watching the new 4-way Open Class outdoor competitors with great interest at the indoor world championship in Slovakia. In fact, Patricia Herdicky, member of Skydive University's GenZ lineup, competed in 4-way Junior at the same event with her own team.

Tom Mattoni competed in 4-way Open and challenged Arizona Airspeed in a few rounds, while Patricia Herdicky had two of the new Czech outdoor competitors as direct opponents in her her own category. HF Flying Rebels had at least company by one team on the 4-way Junior leaderboard, and Patricia Herdicky was flying in the point slot for the Slovakian home team.

She was carefully watching the 4-way action when her team was not busy with preparations for the next round, and she had comprehensive knowledge of events in the 4-way world, after following the NSL News very regularly. She happened to sit next to the observation post of the NSL News during the speed test round the day before the competition began and provided some insights from the 4-way junior perspective. The former SDU GenZ member recently updated the NSL News with information from Slovakia, which included the sad news for her that her team had no plans to continue after the indoor world championship.

Czech Tunnel League April 2023			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		M,7,5	22,H,1	9,8,B	K,14,3	10,C,O,6	12,N,G,4	10,J,15	F,13,D,16	11,Q,21	17,A,18	Total	Avg
1	HF Cubs	CZ	26	23	26	22	25	21	26	29	21	26	245	24.5
2	HF Flying Rebels	CZ	21	19	23	19	23	21	21	26	20	21	214	21.4
3	HF Chameleons	CZ	23	17	22	17	18	13	16	18	17	17	178	17.8
4	Kiss My Grips!	SK	18	14	17	13	13	12	10	16	12	13	138	13.8
5	M Team	CZ	16	9	14	12	13	11	11	14	11	9	120	12.0
6	Accord	CZ	17	11	14	7	11	9	11	13	11	-	104	11.6
Rank	AA Class		M,7,B	22,H,1	9,8	K,14,2	C,O,6	N,G,4	J,15,19	F,13,D	11,Q,21	A,18,20	Total	Avg
1	SDU GenZ	SK	30	14	15	13	21	15	13	17	16	13	167	16.7
2	Panthers	CZ	20	10	14	9	13	12	11	13	10	8	120	12.0
3	Moravian Cats	CZ	16	9	11	16	13	13	10	6	9	11	114	11.4
4	Moravian Flyers	CZ	15	8	11	10	11	10	8	11	7	7	98	9.8

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SDU GenZ' Patricia Herdicky at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2023 and AFF Level 5

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Patricia Herdicky had very exciting news at the same time. She provided a video that is showing her 5th AFF jump last weekend. It completed her freefall training, and she is ready to follow the path that Yannick Bisson, Tom Mattoni and the four Skywalkers Junior members started earlier.

Her AFF instructor was also filming the freefall action. Peter Novak is a former member of Slovakia's Skydive University 4-way team, who still competed for Slovakia at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2019. He was coaching the new generation of Slovakian 4-way competitors until the indoor world championship earlier this year. Then he continued his coaching work into Patricia Herdicky's recent freefall training.

Patricia Herdicky is a NMP PCH HayaBusa fan and wants to continue with her 4-way career: "I look up to those guys so much!! They are great athletes and in addition super nice people…" She is dreaming of training with the Belgians one day and meeting them again.

David Grauwels was coaching the Czech 4-way juniors in the past, including the HF Cubs junior and senior world and world cup champions in 4-way Women. The dream of meeting the HayaBusa members again could actually become reality. It was only indoor training that David Grauwels supervised in Prague. Skywalkers Junior and Patricia Herdicky have made the next step and could get outdoor coaching next. The next outdoor scores of the Czech team will be posted this weekend.

FAI Indoor World Championship 2019			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		M,K,D,14		Q,4,5		P,E,9,15		3,N,G,2		6,1,8		F,12,11		13,22,J		H,L,B,18		O,20,A,17		21,7,19		Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	39		36		42		35		27		32		29		42	-1	38		31		351	35.1
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	38	-2	33	-1	44		32	-1	27		29	-1	26	-2	47		37		31		344	34.4
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	39		33		40		30		27		29		24	-3	39		33		27		321	32.1
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	34		30	-2	36		29		22	-3	27	-1	28		36		32		28		302	30.2
5	Airheads	CH	35		28	-1	33	-2	29		25		27		24	-1	36		30		25	-1	292	29.2
6	Black Cat	RU	34		29		39	-1	29		25		22	-2	25	-1	36	-1	26	-3	22	-2	287	28.7
7	Echochamber	SE	34		27	-1	35		26	-1	22	-2	25		20	-5	35		26	-3	24	-1	274	27.4
8	ACM Weembi	UK	32	-1	28		32	-2	26	-1	20	-1	24		19	-2	35		26		25		267	26.7
9	Airfource	DE	33	-3	22	-1	33	-1	25		22	-1	23		20	-3	35	-2	25	-1	24	-1	262	26.2
10	HF Flying Circus	CZ	31		26		28	-1	23		24		22		18	-2	33		19	-5	23		247	24.7
11	Pro Team	FI	27	-2	24		30		23		23		22		22		30		23	-3	22	-1	246	24.6
12	Monaco Indoor Skydive Team	MC	27	-1	21		27	-2	23		20		22		21		29		21		21		232	23.2
13	FlySpot Sky4Four	PL	27	-1	23		28	-1	23		19	-2	20	-1	20		29		21	-1	21	-1	231	23.1
14	Papea Masculino	ES	28	-2	23		26	-1	16	-3	21	-1	20	-1	21		30	-1	23	-2	22		230	23.0
15	Out of the Blue	NL	24		22		27		19	-1	19		19		18		27		24		20	-1	219	21.9
16	H40	IE	22	-1	19		23		17		18		17	-1	17	-1	24		20		19		196	19.6
17	Skydive University Slovakia	SK	23	-2	19		23	-1	17	-2	18		17	-1	14	-3	22		19		17	-2	189	18.9
18	Magic 4	LT	26		15	-1	19	-5	15	-2	17		16	-3	17	-1	21		-		-		146	18.3

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SDU Slovakia at the FAI Indoor World Championship 2019

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