French video from what looked like an epic session in the Alps this July. Best part of the video begins at 4:20 when Arnaud II gets up to 80kph behind the car – insane!
Riders: Arnaud II, Ched, Dalast, John, and Lil’ Remi
FREEBORD Session Aout 08 – France (38) from L.P.C Produfion on Vimeo.
It all started at a party during the Team Week :
- Tomorow is the last day of the Team Week, let’s ride as much as we can !
- Do you think we can ride 100km of different hills in a day ?
- Let’s do this !!!
So… we did it. We rode all the spots around Les 2 alpes in one day, some hills are 12 miles long, some others are 20% grade and totally crazy. It took us 250Km of car (thanks jon to heal your knee driving us around) and 9 hours to ride these 100km without riding the same hill twice.
We rode many mythic hills like l’Alpe d’Huez (famous for the biking Tour de France) and at 6PM, after 75Km ridden, the heavy rain started. We really wanted to get to 100km, so we kept on ridding under the tempest, and over an inch of water…
Riders that made it to the 100km : Arnaud Blin and Arnaud Debluze. Sylvain Ched couldn’t ride anymore after 83km… Big up to Jonathan Ehm, who couldn’t ride because of a knee injury, and drove us around all day.
We’re leaving you with some pictures of this amazing day.
Sylvain ched, Arnaud Bling and Arnaud Debluze at Alpe d’Huez
The final run… under the tempest (15% grade)
Besides coaching Freebord at Burton Snowboard Camps, Arnaud has invited the french ripping riders in Les 2 Alpes for filming and chilling. We met local riders and rode the craziest hills of the Alps.
As editing the tons of footage will take another few days, we’ll leave you with some pictures for now.
Arnaud over a nice alpine gap
A part of the crew in La Meije
Jonathan Ehm enjoying the scenery
Jon and I were in Grenoble on Sunday for one of our last tour stops on the French Represent Tour. Ten riders showed up to ride, we had BBQ at the top of the first hill, and then we rode at different locations in order to avoid the rain. That was really fun. Enjoy the video
After roaming on the south coast of France, the french tour went back to the Alps… Briançon is a small town in the middle of big ski resorts like Serre Chevalier. The crew is getter bigger and better every summer. Their roads are pretty crazy… It’s good to play with the snow again 
Here is the video of the Hike&Ride session we had in Monaco, with the local riders. This city is like a freebording paradise… we rode the epic Formula1 track!
Last week we also had a great community ride in Aix (france), great level, sick spots, lots of fun. Special thanks to Sylvain.
Local riders of Aix-en-Provence took Arnaud and Jonathan to their favourite spot: Sainte Victoire. Check it out.
Monday, Jon and I drove to the Mt Ventoux to finaly ride this mythic hill. The top was closed for cars, so we had to hike up for 2hrs… definitely worth it… for Jon ! The board I took wasn’t tuned for my settings so I couldn’t ride ! Have fun watching
Jon and I were in Aix (France) on tuesday and wednesday. This city in south of France is surrounded by hills… Check this epic downhill where Jon almost trashed the camcorder, and Sylvain and I collide.
Lucas Benacchio (aka: Luccio, french pro snowboarder) joined us for a ride in Montpellier. Desillusion Magazine was here and did a nice photoshoot and interview for the magazine and the website.
Check it out.
