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!!!

MIDDLE RAMP INLINE CONTEST, MASSY (21/10/2007)

First ever ramp contest for me!!!!! Arriving late, everybody had already done his 3 qualification runs, Major let me perform few warming up runs and then the 3 qualification runs (Thank you again very much Major). As it usually takes me one hour to warm up, it was a bit hard, but anyway, it was so fun to have music with a cool public that the mental and physical stress was lower than expected!!!!! And what a surprise, I was selected as one of the 10 finalists (OK we were 17...). We had to perform five runs, it was a bit harder for me, more stressed from more public and more time to warm down than up, but everybody was in the same conditions!!!! This contest was a local friendly one, the winers did nice combo tricks on the coping, other nice rotations. And again surprised, I finished 8th..... It was really cool and fun to compete with my friends and it pushes me a bit more to try new tricks.
Source and results here

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.

Bures (6/2007)

Cool session with Swann. With both increase our tricks amplitude:

Champigny (17/6/2007)

Cool familly session with Timo and Swann. Swann tried skateboarding and Timo learned how to fall on his kneepads. Nice weather to rainy one, after a 5 hours session...
Videos:
-Some grinds and airs
-Timo skateboarding
and Picts:

Champigny (6/5/2007)

After 6 incredible sunny weeks, this is the last day and a good session with Timo and Swann!!! Timo nearly reaches the coping in skate:

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

Vancouver

Nice stay at Vancouvert for IEEE Ultrasonics congress. For Rskating, the city is quite flat, with smooth big concrete plates or smooth pedestrian ways. The police is cool, and many skateboarders ride along the road!! On sunday 1st, we planned to skate around Stanley park, here is the map:

Thes views are quite stunning and the cycling path is smooth. Be carefull, the northern part is anti-clock wise only (not wide enough for 2 ways). Here are some views:

Start harbor


Still at the Harbor:

Nice view from the Rowing club


Forest


cap



from Burrard bridge, we continued to Vanier park (not good for rskating: sand stones path)


And a nice Japaneese meal to finish this cool first day


On thursday we had a cool RSkating session at Hastings skatepark with Rollergirl and her friends!!! The bowls are deep enough to cover all levels, smooth with a good steel coping.