Vars - the park!

Bonjour!
My french is getting pretty freaking amazing, gotta say.

When the snow wasn't showing up in Serre, we did some daytrips to french resort Vars for finding out if it really was France best park, as we been told from our french homies earlier on this trip.
And there we were for four supersweet days! The park was really killing it and we had a chat with the Arnaud de Bluye that runs the park about he's future plans for their park.
Arnaud was telling us how he during the last three years been building up this park from nearly nothing to what it is today, with around 80 kickers, rails and other jibfeatures. But he wont stop quite yet! This guy tells us plans of making Vars the next big thing on the Park-scene.. worldwide!

For our visit the lack of snow was putting sticks in the wheels(swedish expression..) for what was suppose to be 5 straight black kickers and alot of other snowfeatures that usually is up this time a year. But the loads and loads of rails and boxes got us more than happy for this time, and we are superstoked to get back here springtime to do some serious shredding!=)

Follow us and our new french friends through a lap from the top to the bottom of the mountain, in the three parks that are linked together!
boooyaka!

Euroshred 2011, Episode 4: Vars from Samuel Christensson on Vimeo.

Serre Chevalier, first round up!

After the car breakdown and some sweet touristing in Torino, “we” got our lazy car moving again, and were on the roads heading for Serre Chevalier!
Our friends from home, Anna and Milla, are renting a kickass 70s-show apartment in one of the villages around the resort with four beds in it. Jackpot baby! Here we got to stay for a while without any stress, and for the first time on the trip we could pack up our filthy underwear and get some descent sleep-ins in the morning for a while.=P
It had been dumping some white gold one week prior to our arrival in places around Serre, but it didn’t really show anymore. We continued our streak on hitting warm pleasant bluebird skies instead, and were driving around Serre and nearby Italian resorts for a few days, having a good time with out friends!

Although, we still had one special place in mind that we’d heard about from our french collony of Santa-Cruz shreddingfriends. Apparently Vars was the place to be! A french mountain that three years back in time had two small jumps and some boxes to brag about. Now though, they are puking out rails, boxes, treefeatures and bigjumps in all shapes and colors. We were told this was European parkridings next big thing. They are aming to be the nr1 park in the freaking wooorld! Crazy.
In the next days we’ll put up an edit from our visit there! Stay tuned!=D
I shred myself to bed. Nighty.

Our car suck ass!

The fairytail continues! On our way to Serre Chevalier our car got dissapointed over us making some wrong turns on Italian highways, and chosed to take a rest in the middle of a loong tunnel of heavy traffic.
That cars and engines really not are our cup of tea we already knew, but got even more obvious with us trying to find out the problem. With some help it was sorted out to be some sweet generatorproblemos, and we had to be toed to a nearby village for some professional consulting. The car were left in the hands of hustling mechanics meanwhile we made a trip into Turino for touristmissions.
Eating good food and going cultural with doing europes biggest cinemamuseum killed some time while waiting for the car to be ready to roll.

Eager to turn the trip into a snowtrip again we once again were on the way to Serre Chevalier, a bit less rich but a lot wiser on the movies history!


Episode 3 - Our tired car / Torino

Euroshred 2011, Episode 3: Torino. from Samuel Christensson on Vimeo.

La CLuzas, France

In la Cluzas Sam had some business to be done with International team manager of Santa Cruz, getting hooked up on some new gear for the season! It happened to be time for french snowboard showroom for all next years stuff. So there we were cruising at the arena in the never ending sun for two days, staying at the hotel of french Santa Cruz team and they’re crew. Never ever did I see people eat so much melted cheese in one night as these guys did! Impressive gotta say!!

We also took some runs in the miniminipark with swedish snowboardlegend Hampus Mosesson, that happened to be there representing his new sponsor. We got the honour to document his first time ever on a rockerboard, after all these years of rockerhype in the snowboardworld. After one run Holy Moses still wasn’t to stoked about the bananathing though, and are still claiming it's a fling that will be gone soon enough!

One of the days before leaving La Cluzas I went to Les Contamines to drink some Crystal (not really, but at least it was sparkling) with my buddy from back home, Anna Holmlund. This after seeing her winning third place in Skicross World Cup. Big ups to her!=D

Then again we turn the ignition on and we were of to Serre Chevalier!
So long!


Episode 2 - La CLuzas, Franc
Some chillin and killin in springtime french alps while waiting for snow!

Euroshred 2011. Episode 2, La Clusaz from Samuel Christensson on Vimeo.

In the next episodes you'll see how we "manage" a nighttime car-brakedown and when we discover Europes unknown parkparadise!
Stay tuned! Laters!=D