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!
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