Champigny challenge 2009 (Sept 27)

This 2nd challenge and 3rd birthday was sunny again!!!!! A very cool event with BMX, skateboarding and Rollerskating friends. Franziska Scholz was there too, skateboarding hard against the sun ;-)
For the comp, you have to choose your category: pro or amateur. As I didn't care, finishing last of the pros, I chose pro. Like this, I also let some places for youngers (Ok I know what you are thinking: everybody was younger...) in the AM category. As everything never works totally as you intend, there were few pros, and I finished third ;-) behind Greg Maury (1st: 150eu) and Nicolas Colliaux (2nd: 100eu). So this year, no cup, but price money for me and of course lots of fun from 10am to 19:30pm, huhu !!!!!




Detailed results and picts from Conseil Général de Val de Marne here and program of the event



Résults
Roller

Amateurs
1) Lucien CAUSSE (TheClan)
2) Patrick AMPHIMAQUE

Experts
1) Grégory MAURY
2) Nicolas COLLIAUX (Rouen Roller Club)
3) Loïc MARTINEZ (TheClan)

Skate

Amateurs
1) Alain CARCEL (Azimut Nantes)
2) Franziska STOLZ (TheClan)
3) William ARTIGUE (TheClan)

Experts
1) Joris BRICHET (Annecy Skateboarding Club)
2) Marc HAZIZA (Tribe)
3) Loufti EDDIF

BMX

Amateurs
1) Julien THIVET (BRST)
2) Sylvain LACLEMENCE (BRST)
3) Grégoire NANCE (BRST)

Experts
1) Hervé AUBRY (BRST)
2) Hervé BONENFANT (BRST)
3) Xavier MAGNANT (Time2Ride)


Here are some shots from Guy
More picts on his page and detailed results very soon!!!!

Chevilly la Rue ramp (2007/12/16)

Cold winter session (0°C), Champigny vert was too much frozen, so we tried Chevilly spine ramps. No ice, but lot of dust and some water..... The coping of this ramp is very nice and wide, so nice grind seesion and transferts!!!!
Santa was here also with his skates!!
Swann took all the picts:

Session LeSPOT, Skatepark, Le Mans, France

Cool 4 hours session with Will, Barnabé and Joanny. Tried to gain speed and learn new curves: slides last much longer and fun too!!!! Quader was there too and enjoyed the park too

Champigny (1/12/2007)

Session with William and Major, my skateboarding buddies. The ramp was like a swimming pool in one corner. Lukily we could empty it by removing dust from the evacuation holes with our screwdrivers... then cleaning tools and the 12°c temps with 5 BF winds dried it in half an hour!!!!! This let us to ride from 2pm to 4:45pm time, closing time in winter (sunset time too ;-)) It's so good to rip vert!!!!
Here are some vids and picts:

Roll some Noise, Le Spot skatepark, Le Mans(2007/11/24)

Roller Disco night session at Le mans skatepark (LE SPOT) with access to the bowl!!!!!! Quader was very busy with the organisation, but he could have some time for bowl riding. The organization was perfect, with 80's music, animations such as dance, jump demo from the quarter, disguise (google translation...) contest and bowl of course. The skatepark is very nice, brand new with a street area (so smooth) and a bowl (wood). Temperature is kept constant, so it wasn't frezzing inside (outside it was). 4 hours driving back and forth for a 4 hours session was really worth the effort, and the main effort was (for me) in the bowl: I felt like on steroids and my heartrate often reached 230pulse/min, so the disco area was perfect for cooling down in slow motion with music.

Here are some vids:

Champigny (18/11/2007)

Cold session around 0°C, the sun was there, but with the cold -6°C night temp, the ramp structure was still below freezing point. It took nearly 2hours to unice it....for a 3 hours good session!!!

Paris slide (2007/8/27)

Session with Swann after the windsurfing season. Tried to get the move in eagle 180 backside: easier when the front hand try to reach the front skate, while the back end controls the rotation....

Paris slide (2007/8/25)

Super express session with Spocky, Wawa and Yeboy!!!! Spocky did nice rotation and rocks on the ramps. As we have se same shoe size, Wawa and Spocky could try my skates. Wawa could do his nice tricks on the coping:

Paris slide (2007/7/17)

First session at Paris slide with my 3 kids. Swann took nice shots. Taig Khris, Amine Fatih and his team did a nice show!!!!



Short video from Paris online TV webzine.

Champigny (7/2007)

Cool session with Swann (19°C!!!). I tried some grabs and to go higher.

Champigny (22/4/2007)

Cool session with Swann and Thomas. At eleven the park was still closed as the security office, so we used the gate the as it was. Swann dropped here for the first time and progressed side stance

Lyon gathering, skatepark du Gerland (6/4/2007)

Cool meeting with Bomberator team from Spain and Irene from NY!!!!!!!!
After a 2 hours TGV trip reserved last minute, I arrived at the park at 13h, too early for the indoor park, but already warmed up by coming rskating from the train station (flat/smooth/straigth 40min). Nevertheless, the free outdoor park and the small ramp were worth the try with this sunny weather. At the opening of the indoor park (14h) I was nearly alone on the vert, adapting to this new ramp form me and wondering when the Bombe team would arrive. I was figthing with my camera/tripod/remote stuff in order to take some videos while Nelo and is friends arrived by 15h30!!!! This was the beginning of a very cool and incredible afternoon. We were about ten quad rollerskaters on a vert!!!!! I was very impressed by the level and the motivation of everybody. Even during his warming up Nelo is impressive (how can you stretch so long? I can't wait in front of a vert ;-)) and after, his tricks were wonderfull (2m airs, infinite kind of inverts, rotations, slides), you should participate to the X-games/LG-action games Nelo!!!!!! Special mention to Marta the youngest who skated her first vert here and already put some nice tricks and to Irene was was still in the jet lags and skated!!!!
The ramp is really nice, (size between Nantes and Champigny). Pity I couldn't stay longer and share the other days with you and see Bernhard: this was the first gathering for me and not the last!!!! Here are few picts and videos from that friday:
-Run from Irene warming up
-Nello invert and more
-Bombe side stance
-Me trying autoshoot

Other picts from saturday here and on Bernhard forum for the other days.
Many thanks to all of you for this very special day Irene, Marta, Bernhard, Bombe, Nelo, Ricar, Torru, PoweRanger, Gambin,.....

Nantes, skatepark le Hangar (15/4/2007)

Second time there, on the way back to home. Few people and good rides with my 3 sons, Swann, Timothée and Tanguy. Tanguy tried is first grinds, Swann dropped the vert and Timo the bowl...

Here are some videos:
-Tanguy grinds
-Swann: pumping and dropping
-Timo on the waves and in the bowl
-Me: sidestance and parallel

Massy (21/4/2007)

Familly session with Swann and Tanguy. Tanguy tried his new inline skates on the coping. Here are some videos:
-Tanguy slides
-Swann slides

Champigny (18/2/2007)

After a weather always rainy and windy these last two months, this is the first dry week, long enough to dry the ramp!!!!! So it is time for a cool first session at Champigny for this year!!!!
The car diddn't want to start, out of battery, but (luckily) we could manage it, and at 12h Swann, Timo, Pierre and I were at the most wanted vert in Paris. Swann took some picts and viceos:






I tried to shoot some runs from the rider point of view:
- Skate view, eagle back and forth
- getting easier with the cam during skating I tried to share the different views here and there
The sound comes from the air rushing during skating, it always strikes me when I drop this ramp: calm on top and windy each time at the bottom ;-)
Here are some of the first airs and grinds here till november
The kids tried their pads and Swann gets more and more altitude.

Nantes, Le Hangar (2/2007)

First familly session here. Great fun with the vert and the bowl!!!!

Biarritz (2/2007)

Familly session in this small but complete indoor park. The ramps with spine were fun, could learn how to pass the spine parallel or sidestance. Timothee had fun in the street area!!!

Pallafrugell (Spain, 2007/1)

Some nice sessions with my son Swann at Palafrugell skatepark, the ramp is small (1.5m), but wide and the cover is really nice (Skatelite):
Short video

Eiffel tower vert session

Thanks to Taig Khris Events and "La voix de l'enfant", a vert ramp was installed at the Eiffel Tower first floor for the 25th birthday of the association "La voix de l'enfant". Free Rskating initiation and practice from 18th to 20th nov 2006. Against really bad weather forecast that predicted rain and wind, the weather was really nice during the weekend, so, it was hard to resist to Rskate in such a cool place!!!!! Taig Khris and is young team did a really nice show!!! The kids and their parents could enjoy rskating and try vert riding.
For me, it was really cool and wonderfull two afternoons, vert riding at nearlly 60m above Paris !!
Video here (or there)
A video featuring Taig Kris, from Xoban:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xoban_taig-khris-en-demo-a-la-tour-eiffel_extreme
Ready to drop in??!!






Links:
http://www.lavoixdelenfant.org/
http://www.taigkhrisevents.com/accueil/accueil.htm
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/
http://theclan.forumactif.com/viewtopic.forum?t=2301&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0