Wednesday, February 13, 2013

"OUTDOOR" - My film


OUTDOOR #1 - A film by Valentin Grollemund from Val Grollemund on Vimeo.

I'm super glad to present you my first real film "OUTDOOR"!!
It's the first film of a serie dedicated to outdoor sports and outdoor sports athletes showing their love for their sport exploring and playing in the nature everyday.

For this first opus the athletes are:
Adrien Seguret - Trail Running
Maurice Batbar - Golf
Gautier Grollemund - DownHill MTBike

I had really good feedbacks and I'm definitely motivated to make the next OUTDOOR!!
So, it'll happen somewhen but for sure I'll let you know.

Hope you'll enjoy it!!

UCPA photoshooting with Paul Villecourt

On Feb 4th to 8th, photographer Paul Villecourt invited me to be one of the models for a photoshoting for UCPA holidays centers.
So we went to Chamonix. Unfornuately weather wasn't that good but we had an awesome deep cold powder to make sick photos even if sun was shy...

In the forest with Aloïs et Anaïs

Myself flying!!

Antoine

Anaïs

Myself, broooooooap!!

Aloïs

Me going through pines

Anaïs






With Adam and Aloïs going back up after a sick powder run.

Arriving with skis to the van, soooooo sick!!

A great photoshooting week once again with amazing powder but a shy sun...
Thanks again to Paul Villecourt for all those sick photos!!

Freeride World Tour 2013

As last year, I'm working again for the Freeride World Tour, the ski and snowboard world Championship.

This year, things are evolve a lot cause we have our events live on the web for the 6 stops of the season!!
The Challenge is great, we're 38 persons involved on the TVmedia crew doing a sick work all together!!

Well, I've been to Courmayeur Italy and then to Chamonix France which were the 2nd and 3rd stops (1st one was in Revelstoke Canada) of the 2013 Freeride World Tour.

Here are the two highlights video clips of Courmayeur and Chamonix:



I had the pleasure to be in charge to edit the mid-season quick highlights video clip, here it is:

Here few photos I took during my work on the Freeride World Tour: 

Shooting with Adam Brown and our guest rider Sam Anthamatten.

In the steep to film Sam Anthamatten.

Sam riding down!!

Our guide that day Sam Anthamatten, thanks Sam!!


Chamonix, freeriding mecca.

Shooting with Adam Brown and rider Ludo Guillot Diaz

Early morning heli carryings, hyyyypa!!

Setting up the finish line

Sam Anthamatten and Jeremy Heitz Naked On Top!!

The finish line, my office during the events. Office with view on the Mont-Blanc!!

Adam Brown, my cameraman at the finish line!!

Piers and Lars doing interviews.

So that's it, here we are at the mid-season of this 2013 Freeride World Tour, I'm having sick experiences there and improving my workflow!!
And yeah, working with those panoramas is not that bad!!
Next stops for me are Fieberbrunn Austria and Verbier Switzerland on March!!

Ride life.

End of 2012 at home

On 2012 Autumn I spent my times at home in Rodez to enjoy my local backyards with friends doing sports!!
So many things to do here, XC MTBike, golf, trail running and for sure kayaking even if the water levels were quite low for the season.

Here are few photos wich speak by themself:

Lost in the nature, 5minutes from home.

Golfing in Rodez.

End of the day at the golf.

Rappelling a bit and walking below the surface for a hour with Adrien Seguret in La Veyssière cave 10 minutes from home.

 Going down below!!

Adrien Seguret running down below.

 Adri using a jumar to climb back up.

A little XC MYBike ride with Adri.

Another sick day lost in the nature with friends and bikes.

Having water directly to the source.

Antoine and Mat.

Gautier and I having a 50km road bike ride to go at our grand parents house for Christmas.

Having fun with kids of the Rodez Canoë Kayak club on our local river.

It's so good to be home and enjoy our wonderful backyards which offer us a sick terrain to play!!
Love it!!

Adventure Race training with Absolu Raid

Yep, to not stay at home getting lasy waiting for the good water levels in my local rivers, I'm doing adventure races (kayak, XC MTB, trail running). I already have good basics on a MTBike and in a kayak, I really would liked to do something I can practice all year long.

The weekend of December 15-16th 2012 we had a training with members of the club the region of the Roquefort cheese.

So, two days full on with XC MTBike and orientation trail running, and heavy legs at the end of the weekend!!

Long uphill to come back on the plateau.

Baptiste.

On the plateau, downhill is close.

Some really interesting downhill, a bit slicy but only have to go fast!!

Baptiste almost dead during the orentation trail running.

Only 2km to go and weekend is done.

A good weekend outdoor enjoying amazing sceneries and sports, so good!!
Many thanks to the whole Absolu Raid team for this weekend!!

Hawaï sur Rhône, Lyon - France

End of November, I went to Lyon to enjoy the great water levels of the Rhône.
To say it simply, it was massive!!
Two sick sessions in the world famous wave Hawaï-sur-Rhône and a little one on Miribel's wave.

Mika Hyla

Mika Hyla

Mika Hyla

Myself.

Mathieu Coldebella.

Well, even if I'm not a wave killer, I really enjoyed surfing that big girl and have some good carnages with friends!!