posted Aug 31st, 2011 - The NSL News covered the French Nationals 2011 with the story on 12 August 2011. The two French national B-Teams took the first two places, Rebootizer Monaco won the bronze medals after two first places at the previous Coupe de France meets in 2011 and after a battle with the Air Force team from Nice.

Rebootizer Monaco is the 4way team that has been representing the generation of French top competitors in the 80s and 90s. Didier Boignon, Jeff Ronzevalle and Franck Vazille competed in 8way by then and won numerous national championships and international medals at that time. They decided to come back in 4way several years ago and have had a very visible presence ever since in the team's famous red jumpsuits.

The three former 8way champions now decided to really go back to the roots and recruited other former team mates to compete at this year's national championships in 8way, which was held in Vichy on August 10-14. Pierre "Titou" Auvray, Franz Jardel and Yves Negrié joined forces with the three Rebootizer 8way champions of the 80s and 90s, Stephane Mattoni and Aerodyne Deep Blue Defender Laurence Hervé completed the 8way lineup.

Three other teams signed up for the competition in the Open Class, and Rebootizer Monaco's 8way lineup won the national gold medals with a 12.1 average.

French Nationals 2011		Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Rd. 7	Rd. 8	Rd. 9	Rd. 10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class											Total	Avg
1	Maubeuge NPC B1	13	17	18	14	17	12	29	18	13	14	165	16.5
2	Maubeuge NPC B2	14	17	21	13	15	13	24	17	13	13	160	16.0
3	Rebootizer Monaco	15	15	15	13	15	13	23	16	13	12	150	15.0
4	Armee Air Nice	15	15	18	12	15	12	19	17	12	12	147	14.7

The Rebootizer Monaco 8way veterans, now with an average age of 44 years and a total of almost 100,000 jumps all together outscored Generation GO-X by seven points after nine rounds. Generation GO-X had a very colorful lineup, as well.

Two reigning 8way world champions of 2010 (Thomas Perrin-Gachadoat, Arnaud Mille) and Paul "Polo" Grisoni, French 8way expert of the late 90s and early 2000s, guided five 4way experts through the French 8way Nationals.

Thierry Boiteux is a French 4way world champion of 1999. Pérrine Sanchez is a current Aerodyne Deep Blue Defender, as well, and Stephanie Texier is the team's alternate who also trains and competes in the French CISM lineup.

Florian Denonfoux and Isabelle Seel have been members of French national B-Teams in the past years. Arnaud Camproux completed the lineup, and Pierre Roinel was filming this 8way team.

It seems as if the Rebootizer Monaco 8way experience outlasted youth, talent and technique in this case... Rebootizer Jeff Ronzevalle enjoyed the special reunion at the national championship: "It was such a nice experience to jump again with our former team partners, after a 25-year old and long lasting friendship..."