Adrénagliss - News

Adrénagliss website has been updated.
There are now photos and videos, more about team riders, goodies...

Have a look at the new fall-winter collection in the e-shop!!

www.adrenagliss.com

New partnership - sandiline

Julien Billaut contacted me about a week ago to offer me a partnership with sandiline for two years, and I accepted!
Eric Deguil also received the proposal and also accepted.

After the success on the international slalom market, sandiline enters on the freeride market with a complete new range that will please many paddlers.

In terms of my contract with sandiline, I'm on the international freeride team "sandiTribe."
This team is composed of freestylers and freeriders, there are:
- Billy & Carly Harries (Canada)
- Mike Dawson (NZL)
- Andreas Pfeiffer (GER)
- The crazy Japanese Yagi
- Enrico Lazarotto (ITA)
+ Adidas sickline team
+ Eric Deguil and me

Eric and I get our gear very soon!!
Please contact Julien, Eric or me for more information, or visit the sandiline website http://sandiline.com/

Many thanks to Julien, Femke and the sandiline crew!!

Spain freestyle championship - Millau, France

Is very strange, the Spain freestyle championship takes place in Millau, France southern.
So the french slalom olympic selections were in Seu de Urgell (Spain), I don't understand...

A nice competition, in a little hole, a very cold weather but a super hot atmosphere!!

Gerd Sarrasolses win in K1, Gaél 2nd and me 3rd.
Anol Sarrasolses win in K1 junior/cadet.
And Gautier win in C1.


Gautier looping for the victory


Gerd entry move to win

Val

Val, loop

Anol in a fisher-king

Tricky-woo by Gaél at home

Photos:
Gautier and Val Grollemund

Thanks to Seb for the boat.
Thanks to the organisation, good job!!

Cévennes, Always perfect!! - France southern

After few rainning days, rivers had hight water levels and we enjoyed it!!


The group at the Sources of Tarn river

Eric Deguil, Benji, Romain, Franck and Sophie his grilfriend, Raph Thiebaut and the Pion family (Stefun, Géraldine and their son Yanis) joined me in the Cévènnes region for 3 creekboating days!!


Yanis dancing on a "Cévennol" Rock

First day: Upper Dourbie river, Dourbie

Eric and Raph and me joined Stefun and the others to the star of the upper Dourbie river after a good night in the Village of Dourbie.
Our descent begins by a swim of Romain in a little drop about 1 meter... He pays drinks tonight!! The rest of the descent was so nice with lot of a good rapids in a classic "Cévenol" landscape!!

So, at the end of the river we met a real problem... we must came back to the car...
The mountain was too much vertical with a creekboat, and obviously there isn't path!!

Just after the portage Raph came back to his home

The evening we took beers and dinner at the local bar in a pure "Cévenol" atmosphere!!
We drove to Pont de Montvert and more exactly near the put in of the sources of the Tarn river.
Cold night at 1000 meters!!

Second Day: Sources of the Tarn River, Pont de Montvert

Waouuuw this morning was so beautiful with the sunrise!!
A good breakfirst and let's walk for an other portage, but this one was so cool in this beautiful paradise region!!

We started the first section of the Sources of the Tarn River with a real big smile!!
This one was perfect, and we lunched before the second section where just Eric, Stefun and me paddling.
The second section finished with the rapid of "Les frangines" 5 sweet drops before a nasty portage again...

Eric drove back in Pau, so he worked the next morning.

Eric going big on the Sources of the Tarn river


Stefun, 3rd drop of "Les 5 Frangines"


Val freewheeling in the 3rd drop of "Les 5 Frangines"


Val et Stefun in "Lou Pelaoudas"


Val opens a new line in the "Omelette"


Val, Eric and Stefun enjoy the fresh Jacuzzi made in Cévennes


Stefun in the last drop of "Les 5 Frangines"


Eric in the last drop of "Les 5 Frangines"


Val enters in the last drop of "Les 5 Frangines"

Aoutch 2 days, 2 hard rivers and we didn't have any power to do an other hard river like that!!
We camped in Pont de Montvert where we ate like bears and went to our car fo a long night...

Third day: Upper Lot river, Sainte Hélène


Stefun


Val in the Gorge of Sainte Hélène


Benji and Val

The morning, we drove to Sainte Hélène to do the classic section of the upper Lot River.
We did a fast lunch and put in the river.
The upper Lot river is a pretty cool class 3,4 river in a fantastic landscape, this one is perfect after 2 hard river days!!

The evening we went to the restaurant in Mende, before drunk beers and sleep on a parking in Mende.

The 4th day, we had to freestyling in Mende's hole but the water level of the Lot river was too hight.
We drove back in our houses and attending the next "épisode Cévenol"...


Eric, Val et Stefun...

Many thanks to all of you for this pretty good weekend!!

Photos:
Romain
Géraldine
Stefun

Roger's Wave video - Beaucaire, France

Roger pays his session et his video!!



A nice video about Roger's Wave in Beaucaire, France Southern, by Stefun Pion.
It was 4 weeks ago with 2600 cumecs.

There're articles too on the blogs of:
Stefun => http://stefunpion.blogspot.com/
Mat => http://matdumoulin.blogspot.com/
Gautier => http://gautiergrollemund.blogspot.com/
and of course on my mine.

Enjoy!!

Mat Coldebella - freestyle videos

My friend Mat sent me an email this afternoon with two beautiful freestyle videos.
Mat is a member of the Fluid kayak European team with me.
Check his profile on http://fluid-junction.com/


This video is about his travel on the famous "White Nile" in Ouganda on June 2008. He paddled the M Nemesis.


This one, takes place on Yenne - France, eastern - where he did good moves!!
He paddled the new S Nemesis.

Footage and editing by Mat.
Good job!! ;-)

Roger's Wave - Beaucaire, France

David Arnaud, Gautier Grollemund and me were yesterday in Beaucaire (south east) to surf the beautiful Roger's wave, on the Rhone river.
The previous week we were there but also with a low water level, this time we had 3000 cubic meters!


Gautier in a clean back-stab

Val, his Element and Roger

The smooth created by the wave has given us the opportunity to paddle with the Element, David and me enjoyed it!!
We also have the opportunity to make a video, I guess you'll enjoy!!

This fun game finished at the night ... La frontalé!!

David and his Element

Today we went to Millau where the Tarn was flooded, and there was a nice smooth wave under the Pont Neuf... Before the hight water level kill it...
Thank's to Gaël! ;-)