posted Apr 23rd, 2023 - The 4-way Junior competition of the FAI Indoor World Championship 2023 turned into a very disappointing experience. In fact, the two junior teams from the Czech Republic (HF Flying Rebels) and Slovakia (SDU GenZ) were not even an official part of the competition.

The scores and videos were and are not posted on FAI's 1st Category Results Portal, and only the scores appeared on InTime as a separate event under "Tatralandia FS4 Junior Competition 2023".

None of the Formation Skydiving powerhouses (United States, France, Belgium, Qatar) sent 4-way junior teams to Slovakia, and the Russian juniors were not invited to compete at the event. Result was the 2-team competition between HF Flying Rebels and SDU GenZ.

However, both teams surely enjoyed their time at the event and were practically a part of the competition, as they were lined up up in the order of the other 4-way Formation Skydiving teams and completed their lower number of eight rounds together with the best 4-way senior teams in the world.

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, video footage courtesy of FAI/InTime

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There was no doubt that the Czech 4-way juniors of HF Flying Rebels would win the duel with the new 4-way junior team from Slovakia. Klara Bohusova, Patricia Herdicky, Laura Petrulova and Natalia Zuffova have been training together for only six months, while the Czech team have known each other for several years as participants in Jan Klapka's 4-way junior school program.

The current lineup of the Rebels (Denisa Jeziakova, Michal Mikulisek, Krystof Rulf, Martin Stransky) was put together in November last year. Denisa Jeziakova, Krystof Rulf and Martin Stransky have been with the Flying Rebels since 2018, and Jan Klapka recruited Michal Mikulisek from the younger lineup of the Helicopters at the beginning of the 2022/2023 indoor winter season.

The current lineup of the Flying Rebels completed 88 competition rounds since November last year and increased their meet average from 19.3 in November 2022 to a 23+ level this year. They performed all previous 88 competition rounds in the AAA Class, as the NSL News pointed out several times. The eight rounds in 4-way Junior this week were sequences of the AA Class dive pool. It was a year ago at the FAI Indoor World Cup 2022 when the Flying Rebels competed last time with AA Class rounds. The previous lineup, with Maruska Psenickova before Michal Mikulisek, had won the 4-way Junior competition in Charleroi, and the current Rebels were planning to defend the world championship title, as well, that the HF Cubs had won for the Czech Republic in 2019.

Indoor Cloud League April 2023	AAA	AA	A	RRR	RR	R	Total
Teams - Hurricane Factory	O,20,N,3	H,20,9	F,C,8	F,C,H	M,O,N	M,G	Total
HF Flying Circus	23	-	-	-	-	-	-
HF Flying Rebels	23	29	-	-	-	-	52
HF Chameleons	21	26	-	-	-	-	-
M Team	12	13	19	-	-	-	-
Accord	11	16	19	-	-	-	19
HF Helicopters	-	-	12	18	18	18	36
Smart Fish	-	-	11	13	14	16	16
Unicorns	-	-	7	9	11	13	-
Hurricane Factory's Best of April	23	29	19	18	18	16	123

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Indoor Cloud League April 2023: Hurricane Factory Highscores

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The NSL News had visited the Hurricane Factory in Prague on the way to Slovakia. Arizona Airspeed and XPG4 were completing their preparations for the indoor world championship in Prague on the same day when the Czech 4-way juniors meet each week. The story on April 18th included Niklas Hemlin's interaction with the Czech 4-way juniors.

The curriculum of the 4-way school day for the juniors includes most of the time the monthly sequences of the Indoor Cloud League, and the NSL-TV camera was actually recording footage of the same sequences from a different angle during the visit.

Jan Klapka later used the top camera of the Hurricane Factory in Prague to select the best sequences for the monthly presentation of the Indoor Cloud League scores and videos and submitted them for the April leaderboard of the Indoor Cloud League.

HF Flying Rebels posted the highest scores for the two Open Class sequences (AAA/AA), and some of Niklas Hemlin's new Airspeed fans added ICL points with their own lineups. A few days later, the Czech 4-way delegation (HF Flying Circus, HF Flying Rebels, HF Cubs) departed from Prague to travel to Slovakia for the indoor world championship.