a (fun) day in les 2 alpes Hi, I just got back from les 2 alpes. I first went there for the kumi yama, a fun team contest that we won with my friends Aluan Ricciardi and Arthur Longo, then I stay for a few more days to train. The conditions were really good, but the park is really fun but not good enough to train hard. I wanted to learn some new double corks in the pipe but it was over vert, and the landings of the kikers were a bit to flat. I had my go pro with me so here is a short clip that sums up the week. Nothing crazy but fun summer shredding. I'm back home now it's holidays for everybody so it's packed as hell, but I'm staying here surfing for few weeks before flying off to Argentina in August. Enjoy your summer! 
on July 13th, 2010 
closing party la folie douce check that clip from last week end's closing party at "la folie douce". Pretty much one of the craziest party place. Ibiza on a ski slope!!! 
on May 6th, 2010
stocked for kevin! Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy 
on May 5th, 2010
home scar and paperwork Hey, Sorry for not giving news lately, I was lazy at home! Well not really lazy but actually quite buzy. It's so unsual to be at home that I get to do stuff that I'm not really use to, specially cause there hasn't been any waves for 3 weeks. I finnaly got the surgery I needed for the thumb I broke in January, and since then I going to the physio at least 2 hours everyday only working on my thumb. Trust me, when you break your thumb or anything don't wait 2 months to get surgery or you'll get rehab for 6 months when it usaully take 2. But I still can do pretty much everything, so I was fortunate to take part of the 2nd edition of the odysey "du flocon à la vague". It's a sport adventure that takes you during 4 days from the top of the pic du midi mountain to the beaches of the basque country, doing all different sport that you can do all the way: snowboarding, trail running, canoe, rafting, stand up paddle, surf, sailling... But wich is even better in that event is that it's made to raise awareness on environmental problem and specially around water. Well we had a lot of fun and for a great cause. Now that the waves are back, I could get a bit of surfing, but I'll be back on snow next week end for a demo at the closing party of the famous "la folie douce" in Val d'Isere. Stay tuned, I'll update more oftenly! 
on April 26th, 2010
Winter X Games TIGNES Hi there, Just got back from the first european x games in Tignes. Let me take you through the week. After the olympics I'm went home for few days but quickly decided to go back on the snow to train a bit on kickers in Vars, but the weather wasn't really nice. Anyway we had a few powder turns witch was pretty nice. Then I got in Tignes in time for the first practice, but I already felt the tiredness of a long season! Everything was looking great but me! The contest started on wednesday with the slopestyle qualifiers. Everybody struggle with speed and had hard times making the jumps. I ended up 9th but top 8 made it to finals! I knew my main goal woudn't be slopestyle but missing the finals by one spot is always raging! On thursday came the qualifiers for pipe. It went quite smoothly for Aluan and me, a bit less for Arthur who landed pretty hard on the coping twice on his double corks. The finals for pipe were planned as the last competition of the event, we had a lot of pressure as all the frenchies before us killed it specially kevin and xavier in the ski pipe finals. I've been working really hard to get a run that would give me points with judges but that I would be stocked with in terms of progression and variety, but I couldn't stomp that run yet. I felt really tired before the finals and nearly didn't train, but I had a lot of people that helped me believe that it was possible specially my coaches Stéphane and Valerie. I finally made my second run witch gave me a good score but I knew there was room for higher scores. That's exactly what Iouri did with a near perfect run. On my last one I wanted to step it up to try to catch ipod's run but I under-rotated my first double cork! I end up second witch is a great result for me, being in France for the x games with some of the best riders in the world and probably the best crowed was amazing. It's now time to take a bit of rest, get surgery for my thumb and hit a bit of backcountry and freeride. See you. check the video and photos (credit fluofun and david tchag) 
on March 10th, 2010
This olympic experience... Hi there, Wanted to thank you all for your support through the years. This olympic experience has been great, the result is not quite there, so I'm disappointed but I have no regret at all. I gave my best, during the contest and even more in my preparation. It's been a hard year with a lot of injuries, everytime I had to fight to come back strong and move forward. And that's the most important thing I've learned in this journey, everytime you fall is to get back on your feet stronger than ever, that's why nothing's done for me, I have so much more challenges to achieve and I won't give up. Thanks again. Mathieu ps: check the polaroid shots below! 
on February 25th, 2010
last trainings That's it, the french selection is made for the olympics, it's gonna be Gary Zebrowski, Aluan Ricciardi, Arhtur Longo and myself going to Vancouver. But for now we are in Park City for our last days of training. The conditions are great, everybody feels a bit of pressure coming up and is riding super good. We had some bad news about the olympic pipe in cypress where it's really warm right now but it will be ready in time. Next update live from Vancouver. 
on February 4th, 2010
mammoth training The rest of the french team joined me in mammoth for some quality training in the pipe but it didn't really turned how we'd imagined it but we still had great times. Check out the video... 
on January 26th, 2010
crying earth Crazy photo that I found. Seams like the earth is crying sad of what we do to mother nature. Climate change as taken a human face to maybe help us realize that the situation is critical but it not to late. We can still act... 
on January 21st, 2010
mammoth grand prix Hi, I've been in mammoth for 2 weeks now, started up with 2 grands prix, with are the qualificatives events for US riders for the olympics. The pipe was amazing and riding as well. The first comp saw danny davis win with probably the best pipe run in date and shaun white won the second one. I made finals on both comps, but was a little tired coming up straight from france with jetlag, but it looks promissing. I'm staying here for more training. Keep in touch. Mathieu mathieu crepel mammoth from mathieu crepel on Vimeo. 
on January 12th, 2010 |
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