posted Oct 18th, 2016 - The FAI Indoor World Cup 2016 included for the first time a separate competition and leaderboard in the 4-way Junior category.

Junior 4-way competitors have been participating at indoor meets for many years, and the Sun Path Products NSL News has been giving them special attention from the very beginning. FAI/IPC launched their own indoor project with the first world cup in Austin 2014. 4-way teams attended in three categories (4-way Open - 4-way Women - 4-way VFS) and two junior teams from France (Aerokart Ak'demie 1 and 2) competed with four other teams in the Open Class, while two more teams had their own leaderboard in 4-way Women.

Two different junior teams from the Czech Republic (HF Junior Cubs and Flies) then attended the first FAI/IPC indoor world meet in 2015 at the Hurricane Factory, where they still performed the AAA Class sequences. However, they had their own separate FAI/IPC leaderboard in a "demo event".

Canadian Indoor 2013		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	A Class	6,21	Q,H,M	A,7	G,D,9	N,J,O	P,C,B	E,7	K,F,6	Total	Avg
1	4Astrophe	15	28	18	18	22	27	22	18	168	21.0
2	4 Way Drive	10	17	16	11	13	10	17	14	108	13.5
3	Chicks N Wings	9	17	10	9	11	14	14	9	93	11.6
4	Fly4 Mation	12	10	9	10	13	11	13	14	92	11.5
5	Wunder Bar	2	10	8	6	9	10	6	6	57	7.1

FAI/IPC then changed the rules and categories for the FAI Indoor World Cup 2016, where the 4-way Junior teams eventually had their own dive pool and rules (AA Class) and their own leaderboard.

France sent the three Aerokart Ak'demie teams to Poland earlier this month, and the Czech Cubs and Flies were back, as well.

However, the strongest junior delegation came from Canada, as the Air Devils (gold) and Tunnel Vision (bronze) won two sets of FAI/IPC medals at Flyspot.

The VossVind Girls from Norway completed the junior field of teams.

It was a good battle for the gold medals between Air Devils and the strongest Aerokart Ak'demie team, which ended with a 4-point difference after eight rounds, and the same difference separated Tunnel Vision and Ak'demie 2 for the bronze medals.

World Challenge 2014			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AA Class		18,6	15,1	22,F,D	9,A,J	K,2,O	H,13,Q	M,L,G,E	N,11,20	14,7		Total	Avg
1	Equal Pay 4 Women	UK	13	15	18	30	19	18	28	14	16	16	187	18.7
2	Phoenix	UK	15	12	17	28	22	18	23	13	16	13	177	17.7
3	Co-Motion	UK	15	13	16	21	19	18	28	12	17	16	175	17.5
4	4Astrophe	CA	15	16	15	20	13	17	26	9	17	17	165	16.5
5	Blue Rebels	GR	12	13	17	18	17	12	25	12	13	14	153	15.3
6	4Getit	IL	12	10	15	21	15	15	23	11	15	13	150	15.0
7	Mental BloX	UK	12	12	15	23	15	14	20	10	13	13	147	14.7
8	Fiasco	UK	12	12	14	15	12	13	20	12	13	14	137	13.7
9	Bodyflight Aero	UK	10	10	13	21	14	14	19	9	13	13	136	13.6
10	Kesshin	UK	10	11	12	16	14	13	22	10	12	10	130	13.0
11	TR4CK	UK	11	9	12	11	13	10	20	11	14	11	122	12.2
12	SolarFlakes	LT	7	8	13	16	7	13	19	10	13	12	118	11.8
13	Future Secret Weapons	UK	8	10	7	15	10	13	17	10	12	9	111	11.1

Both Canadian teams were neither new to the Sun Path Products NSL News audience after their competition career had started with participation at Indoor Cloud League events.

The first Air Devils lineup posted a 6.0 average in the A Class competition of the Canadian Indoor Championship 2015. A year and a half later, the current Air Devils lineup won the FAI/IPC gold medals with a 20.4 average in the AA Class.

One of the team members joined the Air Devils earlier this year and surely helped to increase the performance level.

The Sun Path Products NSL News had introduced Yannick Bisson for the first time on April 17th, 2013, after his family team 4Astrophe had won the Canadian Indoor Nationals with a 21.0 average in the A Class. He was 12 years young by then.

The Sun Path Products NSL News followed up on April 4th, 2014, just before Yannick Bisson competed with 4Astrophe at the World Challenge.

FAI Indoor World Cup 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Junior		6,22	21,P,B	4,20	14,M,N	K,15,C	19,L,7	O,2,H	J,A,18	Total	Avg
1	AirDevils	CA	16(-1)	22	16	24	21(-1)	21	22	21	163	20.4
2	Aerokart Ak'demie 1	FR	17	21(-2)	17	21	23(-1)	18(-2)	21(-2)	21	159	19.9
3	Tunnel Vision	CA	16(-1)	23	13(-2)	21(-1)	20(-1)	17(-4)	22	21	153	19.1
4	Aerokart Ak'demie 2	FR	16(-1)	24	17	14(-2)	22	19	19	18(-1)	149	18.6
5	HF Junior Cubs	CZ	15	18(-3)	13	17	18	16	14(-3)	19	130	16.3
6	Aerokart Ak'demie 3	FR	13	18	12(-1)	14(-1)	14(-2)	15	16	15	117	14.6
7	VossVind Girls	NO	11(-2)	15(-1)	11	15	13(-1)	15	16(-1)	13	109	13.6
8	HF Junior Flies	CZ	12(-1)	10(-5)	8(-2)	13	11	10(-1)	11(-3)	9(-2)	84	10.5

It was the same year when his sister Valerie Bisson was selected to join Parachute Montreal Fuzion, the Canadian national team in 4-way Women, who competed for Canada at the world meet in Prostejov 2014 where she turned 18 during the competition.

Yannick Bisson is now 16 years old and could be ready soon to follow his sister's example. With permission of his father Richard Bisson and DZ operator Michel Lemay, himself father of the three Lemay brothers Martin, Vincent, Benoit, 4-way bronze medalists of 2014 (4-way Open) and 2016 (4-way VFS), Yannick Bisson started his skydiving career this year, as well.

The new NSL-TV video clip features his AFF jumps and more footage of 4-way training, freeflying and other skills training. His AFF jumps were a little bit more advanced than the traditional freefall education. Get ready to be impressed...