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Hey Mate!! I was at the Oakley Style Wars in Fallscreek
Australia last week.. I had tons of Fun there! great parties at the
Silver Ski Lodge with the whole Epic crew! I got to see my old friend PC from
the Epic book.. runs in the gum trees, watch Travis’ movie.. I was hosting the
contest for the web.. which was kind of funny.. I had tons of fun at the parties!
we have seen some water spitting, beer fights,and even some wrestling at some
point.. all in a fun party mood in the Aussie way. A that we improvised a trip
to Torquay on the way down and went surfing, the water was freezing cold, but
it was fun to catch a couple waves..
After the surfing, I joined the 2 Kristis ( Leskinen skier, and
KT the Oakley marketing girl in Australia). We flew Sydney, ate some kanguru,
did a couple PR stuff there with Alpha magazine and Sports Tonight Australia. I
pet a koala and flew to New Zealand.. we spent the first day in Auckland for
some more interviews for Sunrise (TV), Curl magazine, Sports Tonight NZ (TV),
couple radio stations, and last but not least, we got on the Sports Cafe show
hosted by some of the All Blacks (NZ national heroes).. they started asking us
some tricky questions when a streaker jumped out of the public and shaked it
right before my eyes on live national TV!! I was quite stoked to be there when
that happened
anyways got to Queentsown the next day for the Oakley Chicks day
out! which took place in Snowpark with another 50 girls.. the sun was shining
and the park was super good, we shred together all day, i tryed to give them a
couple tips, and we all rode back together to queenstown in a very loud
busride. At night we all went for a bootie shake at the subculture bar where
our friend RIA was DJing.. she killed it! she played tons of funk, which i love
and we all danced all night.. and now I m tired and ready to go back to
Euroland!
Thanks to Oakley and thanks tons to KT for organising this trip!
thanks to all the girls for coming shredding with us, see you all next year!
ANNEFLOREMARXER.COM
Today I just arrived in Saas Fee for the first day of the FIAT
rookie camp.. we all arrived in saas fee in the sun which became rain after a
short and necessary lunch brake..
Romain de Marchi, the 15 kids and I. The rookies were selected based on
small video parts they sent of themselves snowboarding, and invited by FIAT to
come spend 3 days with us.. we first introduced each of us.. the hello my name
is, i come from and my favorite trick is.. etc.. then we played beach
volleyball in the sand with a soccer ball so right now i m pretty much soaking
wet with about a pound of sand in my hair 2 radiating red fore arms and 2
scratched knees .. oh! and guess who is here? remember Ramona? the coolest
letter i ever recieved? well her sister and brother are here.. and she draw
another really cool pic!
our first riding day was chill.. i didn’t feel like riding much
but it was cool to watch the kids ripping and to feel their motivation.. being
in saas fee reminds me of when i came here to ride everyday for 4 months.. and
those kids are in that exact state
of mind.. they want to shred all day everyday.. it s inspiring! after riding we
had a run through the vita course with Romain explaining to the kids how important
training is to avoid injuries.. and we played some more volley ball..
the second started with very icy slopes and kicker but got
really fun after a couple hours.. it was fun to shred and to get some of their
motivation. the afternoon was spent on tips on how to contact sponsors, the
basics of a sponsorship contract and a couple of what to do and not to do on
interviews.. then we went hitting some golf balls.. the cool thing with this
camp is that they didn’t know eachother before coming here and now they are
shred buddies! i m sure they ll keep in contact with each other the camp.. and
that’s really cool!
sunday sunny morning on the glacier of saas fee judging all the
kids hitting the last 2 kickers of the park.. out of the 15 rookies, it was
cool to see the 2 girls shred.. Anais Cettou was doing good on her frontside
360 and 540.. for the boys the top 3 rode really well; Basile Specker got 3rd
with stylish and good amplitude on backside 720 to frontside 720, David
Bertschinger finished 2nd with good style on frontside 900 to cab 720, and our
FIAT ROOKIE 2008 is Patrick who stomped almost each time with great style and
technicity, changing tricks on each of his runs, backside 720 to frontside 720,
cab 900, switch backside 900 to backflip (those are the stomped ones).. quite
impressive for a 14 years old!!
I was stoked to take part of this FIAT camp and get to meet all
those young shredders.. hopefully i ll see them soon again.. they’ll probably
take my job soon enough!
ANNEFLOREMARXER.COM
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Published by anne-flore: 3:11 AM
Updated On: 10/20/2008 at 3:14 AM
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Russia,
I’ve always wanted to go there!! And here I am, landing in Sochi designated
host of the 2014 Olympic games. The small airport stands by the black sea and I
m quite surprised to see palm trees through the plane window.. We made our way
through the taxi drivers scrum,
chose one of them by the size of his car and drove up towards Krasnaya
Polyana.. It s a 45 minutes drive.. this place looks like a remote and small
European resort.. but 40 years ago. Oakley is
always a fun crew! Grete Eliassen, Gretchen Bleiler, Angeline who has missed
her flight, Marie-France Roy who had some visa issues and will arrive a couple
of days later and I.
The lift is sketchy!! You sit on that red metal 2 seater
chairlift while the chairlift guy holds it by handcraft for 1 second.. your
board on your knees as well as your backpack, gloves, ipod etc.. you are
hanging about 40 or 60m off the ground and the lift makes weird noises.. or
stops and runs the wrong direction for 10 seconds.. the way out is even
sketchier! Same thing, the guy grabs the chair and you have 1 second to jump
off and run with your gear in your hands…
Everywhere nearby the chairlift you can find some tough
Russian body guards.. they looked scary.. but Gretchen got them to be our friends
by getting them into our photo albums! So everyday.. they looked just mean and
tough.. but when we showed up, they gave us their biggest smiles.. with hardly
any teeth appearing or maybe a couple golden ones.. Never mind, it’s sunny and the snow looks epic.. but it’s
really warm.. and yep it has been really warm and sunny a full day already, you
should have been there YESTERDAY! It looked like fun hot pow but my board got glued so hard to
the ground that I couldn’t even turn or keep my nose up! That snow was pretty
much the worst you can get! No way to work it.. and worst was to come.. it
rained for a week.
And still we went up and got a couple of jibs done.. there
was no water in the house (no showers) but all was good.. cause the girls were soo fun to hang
out with! While the skiers were building a wall ride, Gretchen and I
took the lift to the top.. Super sketchy avalanches went down on the whole mountain!
Wett heavy huge avalanches all over the place.. but the top stayed good.. cause it was just cold enough to
keep it together.. That night we decided to drink it blue witch is an easy
thing to do in Russia.. Anna showed Gretchen and I a couple breakdance moves, I
painted on Shin’s face while Marie-France was holding him and thanks to Grete
who puked that night cause it worked and got sunny the next day!
It had snowed and blown quite a bit on the very top.. and
that was our chance to make it happen.. we hiked 2 bowls behind the top
chairlift and found a couple lines, slashes and cliffs… the snow was super fun
in the shady spots.. I was stoked to finally get to ride! And to slash pow
YEAH!! The last run down was soo fun!! And then we had to traverse for about an
hour and hike another hour to get back to the slopes.. it was close to dark, all lifts were closed
and there were both of Grete’s fans!! Waiting for her to appear out of the
woods. What a good day!! It s funny how 1 good day makes it up for ten bad
ones.
That was our last night in the mountains and we all went to
the Russian Sauna to get naked and
beaten with branches by a Russian type of Tarzan!! The best thing ever!
We left to Moscow the next day and that was super fun too!
The Red Square was on my to see list.. pretty mind blowing! Thanks to Oakley, Shin, Anna and Marie
for making this trip a trip to remember!
annefloremarxer.com
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