posted Dec 14th, 2016 - The former members of the French national 8-way teams between 1986 and 1992, who came back for the 4-way team from Monaco in 2007, have made the Sun Path Products NSL News headlines many times. The first story was posted on May 18th, 2007, which introduced the first lineup of the Monaco Parachute Team.

The comeback actually happened even earlier, as the same lineup competed under Noene Mandelieu for France in 2006 and 2007. Original members Jeff Ronzevalle and Didier Boignon acquired support by the sovereign city-state of Monaco and their 4-way and 8-way lineups became Monaco's national teams.

Monaco competed the first time under the new name in June 2007 and was on last month's leaderboard of the ISR Grand Prix 2016, almost nine years later. The team name in Roosendaal was Monaco Tunnel Team, original members Jeff Ronzevalle and Stephane Mattoni are still in the lineup, and the junp suits are still red.

ISR Grand Prix 2016			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		A,17,9	12,P,L,18	C,B,O,11	14,21,M	6,K,D,E	N,3,J,15	22,16,F	7,Q,H,2	Total	Avg
1	Thunder ISR	BE	35	23	33	25	33	28	26	31	234	29.3
2	Flying Squad	FR	31	22	30	22	31	26	20	26	208	26.0
3	Amnesya	IT	24	19	22	21	30	22	19	27	184	23.0
4	Energy Garzigliana	IT	26	19	24	21	27	20	19	25	181	22.6
5	Monaco Tunnel Team	MC	23	18	24	19	25	19	17	23	168	21.0
6	M4trix	NL	22	16	21	18	23	19	16	21	156	19.5
7	Flyzone Les Affranchis	FR	20	16	22	19	22	15	17	21	152	19.0
8	Ludo's Pinkcakes Deluxe	DE	17	13	22	16	21	17	14	19	139	17.4
9	Murphy Mania	NL	19	13	18	16	20	14	14	17	131	16.4
9	Crash Test Dummies	BE	17	13	19	15	19	15	14	19	131	16.4
11	Hoppaaaa	BE	14	11	17	14	18	14	12	18	118	14.8
12	Cool Runnings	NL	16	11	11	14	15	11	14	13	105	13.1
13	Blue Rebels	GR	14	10	13	13	15	11	10	14	100	12.5

It has not been easy for the Monaco team to find recognition as a national team by FAI/IPC, as Monaco is often considered a part of France, and the team members competed for France at world meets and world cups between 1986 and 1992.

However, Monaco eventually had its own 4-way team on the leaderboard of the FAI Mondial 2012 in Dubai and added an 8-way lineup to the project in 2013. The 8-way team even won silver medals at the 4th Dubai International Parachuting Championship 2013.

The eligibility status of the Monaco team is still in question whenever it comes to FAI/IPC events. No Monaco teams competed at the world meets in Prostejov 2014 or this year's Mondial 2016, although the reasons were different. Monaco did not even try to attend the world meets, as the team did not train much and did not feel prepared well enough.

FAI Mondial 2012			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Open		5,12,E	6,D,B,K	O,8,7	N,13,18	10,21,M	19,H,11	C,G,1,A	20,9,15	16,F,P,Q	2,J,4	Total	Avg
1	Arizona Airspeed	US	27	34	27	22	23	23	32	25	40	26	279	27.9
2	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	25	34	27	21	23	24	32	27	40	25	278	27.8
3	Aerodyne Aerokart	FR	26	30	27	21	23	25	29	23	37	24	265	26.5
4	Evolution	CA	22	31	24	17	19	21	28	22	30	22	236	23.6
5	Sky Panthers Barkli	RU	19	29	22	21	21	18	28	20	35	20	233	23.3
6	Satori	UK	18	26	21	17	15	18	23	17	27	18	200	20.0
7	Ex3mo 4	IT	17	24	20	14	17	19	22	18	28	-	179	19.9
8	Paratec-Saar	DE	18	26	21	13	14	16	21	18	30	-	177	19.7
9	Rotor Out	AU	14	25	18	15	17	18	22	17	28	-	174	19.3
10	Bardagi	SE	17	26	20	14	16	15	23	17	24	-	172	19.1
11	Voodoo	ZA	16	24	19	13	15	16	23	17	-	-	143	17.9
12	Ravens	AT	18	23	17	15	17	13	22	16	-	-	141	17.6
13	Qatar Tigers	QA	15	21	19	14	15	17	19	16	-	-	136	17.0
14	VIVA 4	CH	14	21	19	11	17	14	20	14	-	-	130	16.3
15	CTR Optimum	BR	17	19	16	13	15	14	19	16	-	-	129	16.1
16	Dubai Asaar Red	AE	16	20	16	12	15	16	18	13	-	-	126	15.8
17	China	CN	7	21	15	14	14	15	21	16	-	-	123	15.4
18	Spain	ES	16	21	16	13	9	13	21	10	-	-	119	14.9
18	Lize	CZ	13	21	17	12	17	11	17	11	-	-	119	14.9
20	Bodyflight Voluntas	DK	15	21	17	10	13	11	18	12	-	-	117	14.6
21	Rebootizer Aerial	MC	15	14	16	11	16	13	17	13	-	-	115	14.4
22	Silver Knights	FI	13	18	16	10	13	14	18	12	-	-	114	14.3
23	Magic 4	LT	14	17	15	11	14	14	14	13	-	-	112	14.0
24	Whooops	NL	10	18	17	10	13	14	16	11	-	-	109	13.6
25	Singapore	SG	14	21	16	12	13	9	14	9	-	-	108	13.5
26	Fast Air	IE	11	17	12	8	12	11	14	12	-	-	97	12.1
27	Ukraine	UA	11	15	11	10	11	10	14	10	-	-	92	11.5
27	Atmosfera G4	PT	12	15	12	10	8	10	13	12	-	-	92	11.5
29	Estonia Lupus	EE	10	14	12	9	11	10	14	11	-	-	91	11.4
30	Sky Dragons	SI	12	11	13	9	11	10	12	10	-	-	88	11.0
31	Kazakhstan	KZ	10	11	11	9	6	9	8	8	-	-	72	9.0
32	Argentina	AR	8	13	7	7	8	7	10	9	-	-	69	8.6
33	Cyprus	CY	7	6	10	7	6	7	10	7	-	-	60	7.5
34	Colombia	CO	6	9	9	5	8	6	8	6	-	-	57	7.1
35	Oman	OM	5	8	10	8	6	5	6	6	-	-	54	6.8
36	Turkey	TR	0	6	8	4	6	6	5	7	-	-	42	5.3
37	Thailand	TH	3	7	7	4	5	0	6	2	-	-	34	4.3
38	Ecuador	EC	0	0	2	2	2	3	3	3	-	-	15	1.9

Monaco has recently worked on the transition from the "old school" of 4-way skills to the modern art of 4-way competition. Original member Jeff Ronzevalle said that it was hard work. However, the results of the indoor training are showing, as Monaco recently finished with a new indoor team record average of 21.0 in Roosendaal.

The event was the 5th consecutive indoor competition for the Monaco Tunnel Team since November 2015. Monaco competed at the French Nationals 2015 and focused only on indoor training and competition after that.

Jeff Ronzevalle and Stéphane Mattoni also have two new team members in the Monaco Tunnel Team lineup, who joined the team first time at the World Challenge 2016 and have been in the lineup at the other two indoor events ever since.

Nicolas David was a member of the French national 8-way team in 2014 and 2014. He has taken the player-coach position for Monaco and is in charge of "modernizing" the team's flying style.

Victoire Fromantin represents the newest generation of French Formation Skydiving competitors in the Monaco lineup. She started skydiving in November 2014 with an AFF course after six tandem jumps. Then she discovered wind tunnels with some friends and started with 4-way training.

Her first 4-way competition was the ISR Grand Prix 2015 where she competed with the Skygirls in the AA Class for an 18.1 average. A year later she was back at the same place, and this time with a 21.0 average in the AAA Class. The Monaco Tunnel Team will continue to attend indoor events, while Monaco Parachute Team will come back for more outdoor competition.