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[[Image:CDF 2005.JPG|thumb|Championship of France 2005]]
[[Image:CDF 2005.JPG|thumb|Championship of France 2005]]
It was not before long until Florent learned about the art of mushroom generated [[Long Boosts]] (LB’s) and quickly specialized himself in this technique. This specialization would soon become a fruit bearing one, allowing him to hit his first ever GP WR, taking down Camille Batier’s (a French karter also known as Don Camillo and mostly known for his GP skills) [[MC1]] flap, with an LB aided record of 7”76. Later on he would drive countless more LB involved GP WR’s and also create a couple of video compilations demonstrating the use of LB’s nicely, one of them can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29bcbfgUUk here].
It was not before long until Florent learned about the art of mushroom generated [[Long Boosts]] (LB’s) and quickly specialized himself in this technique. This specialization would soon become a fruit bearing one, allowing him to hit his first ever GP WR, taking down Camille Batier’s (a French karter also known as Don Camillo and mostly known for his GP skills) [[MC1]] flap, with an LB aided record of 7”76. Later on he would drive countless more LB involved GP WR’s and also create a couple of video compilations demonstrating the use of LB’s nicely, one of them can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x29bcbfgUUk here].
== CDF/CDE Medal Collection ==
Florent is perhaps most famous for his high level performances during the annually organized [http://www.championnat-smk.org/ CDF]/CDE (The [http://www.championnat-smk.org/ CDF] was founded in 2003 by Franck Mazieres; in the beginning it mainly featured French competitors and a few Swiss ones. This changed in 2008, which showed an influx of competitors from outside of France; the [http://www.championnat-smk.org/ CDF] would therefore be known as CDE from that year onwards; CDE being an abbreviation of Championnat d’Europe, meaning Championship of Europe in English.)
In various CDF/CDE events since 2005 Florent has gathered 3 gold medals in GP (2006, 2007, 2008), 3 gold medals in Match Race (2006, 2007, 2008), 1 gold medal in Battle Mode (2007), 1 gold medal, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal in Time Trial (2008, 2007 and 2006 respectively) and one Master Cup (2008). The Master Cup was introduced as a new element at the SMK Championships of 2008 as an experiment and was scheduled after the overall competition was finished. The goal was to see if a more randomly organized tournament system could work for future CDF’s, tournament favourites were not seeded for example, but it was not an undisputed success and might not return in future tournaments.