Check out my second cover of the season with Anne-flore Marxer in Bad Gastein for the Monster Session.
The Women in Boardsports Retreat took place in Saas-fee last weekend, it was an exclusive women meeting where we could talk about our job in the boardsport industry. It wasn’t a feminine meeting just a good oportunity to hang out and meet some great people who grew up in a male business.
Nicola Thost, Nicole Angelrath and Anne-flore Marxer
Check out this new website, it’s Italien but they will have an english translation soon.
And by the way you can have a look at my ITW.
Cette année c est le Rock on snowboard tour qui a remplacé le mondial du snowboard aux 2 alpes, le principe etait a peu pres le meme, des tests sur le glaciers toute la journee et beaucoup beaucoup de fetes.
Check out les photos de Vianney sur le site de Snowsurf.
http://www.snowsurf.com/News/3668-snow-surf-party-les-photos-des-2-alpes.html
Check out this website http://www.breathecostarica.com/
Drew Stevenson who has worked for so many years into snowboarding and who is part of his evolution, is now on a new project in Costa Rica, take time to look at it.
“Breathe is an organic concept born in the jungles of Costa Rica fusing music, activities, discourse, and inclusive participation aimed at sharpening focus on many social and ecological issues facing our future.
Time is short to address the enormity of different challenges facing the globe’s biosphere, natural resources and us as species. They are as big as they are diverse. The solutions are as clever as they are wide ranging. The first step in addressing a problem, is accepting there is a one.
Breathe challenges people to leave their regular surroundings and to re-immerse themselves with a isolated, vibrant, living, ecosystem. A chance to stop for a second. Take a deep breath. Interact, and re-examine our place on the planet from a completely different perspective.
In a remote jungle setting, Breathe promotes awareness through music, art, surfing, eco tours, yoga sessions, horse tours, offshore fishing, beach combing, local food & culture, workshops, documentary screenings and much more…
Put simply, Breathe offers a unique shared experience with like-minded people interested in change…”
I was at the freestyle.ch in Zurich few weeks ago, if you want to know everything just check out the website http://www.freestyle.ch/
Elias Elhardt's fan club
The french crew recovering from the parties
After the Billabong photoshoot with Anne-flore we had to wait 10 days before going to California for a trade show, first we wanted to stay in New Zealand to visit the country but finally we figure out that we better find a warm and exotic place instead. If you look at a map between NZ and California there is not too many oportunities. We picked out Fiji.
The first day we went surfing at the beach break at Sigatoka which was a bit too windy to be good. Later we went in Town for lunch and some locals surfer we met earlier led us the way to some nice waterfall where i had so much fun diving.
When we get back to our hotel we got a phone call from Andrew the Billabong team manager which was at Fiji as well but in an small island, he tried to convince us to join. After few minutes of deliberation he motivated us.
It’s how we get to the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen in my life, TAVARUA. Nothing else to say, just look at the pictures and you’ll understand what i mean. Bula!!!!
Fiji time is the way to be
Sigatoka
Beach break in Sigatoka
Sigatoka
The market in Suva
The Barbie mobile
Diving in the river
Waterfall shower
Tavarua, welcome in paradise
Living the dream!
15 minutes to walk around the island
The way to our Bure
Our bure
The view from the bure
kiddieland
Restaurants
Anne-flore surfing cloudbreak
Andrew killing it at cloudbreak
Tom Servais our fish teacher and new friend
The happy crew fishing
The happy crew in the tree house (Me, John, Anne-flore, Tom)
This snake can kill you in 8 minutes but his mouth is too small to bit
The heart of Tavarua
Kava ceremony is extremely important in Fijian culture
The Meke is a dance performance that enacts local stories and legends
Preparation of the Kava, mashing the root of Piper methysticum
One more nice sunset
Quiet and relaxing moment
Back in the main island, low tide in front of the resort
Anne-flore watching at our last sunset of the trip
Sunset at Momi bay
Thanks to the Tavarua crew for their hospitality http://www.tavarua.com/
Thanks to Tom Servais for the happy and fun moments you share with us http://www.tomservais.com/
Thanks to Anne-flore Marxer for those amazing holidays we had together http://annefloremarxer.com/
And thanks to all the nice people we met. Vinaka!!!!!
Middle of august it’s the scorching heat in Europe so it’s time to get some fresh air and go riding. It’s in New Zealand that Billabong decided to organize his photoshoot. During 2 weeks we hang out around Wanaka with all the crew, the weather and snow conditions weren’t the best but we’ve got everything done in time.
Sunrise in Cardrona
The mini in front of the house
Wanaka
Wolle ready for the road trip
On our way to the helicopter
Beautifull weather and fresh powder!!! what else?
Flying
Still Flying
David, Anne-flore and me in Treble Cone
Sylvain & Wolle focused on a football game
Snowpark's landscape
