The new teaser from PVS, bringing the best of the french freestyle skiing scene with coreUPT.com, is coming exclusively on skipass.com and Zapiks with Guerlain Chicherit, Adri Coirier, Richard Permin and The Young Gun Team. The movie will be available by downloading/ streaming from fall 2010 on skipass.com. . More infos on :
http://www.skipass.com/news/55661-punch-line-le-teaser-.html
H ere is the teaser
Guerlain has sent us a little message to keep us updated about his trip with Adrien Coirier, Xavier Bertoni and Enak Gavaggio.
‘‘Kamchatka at last, but no phone or internet…We’re staying deep in the mountains, an hour and a half away from the nearest town…Apart from that it’s a totally amazing place with crazy mountains, and the snow is coming tomorrow… Otherwise, to pass the time, we go skidooing, but we’ve already broken two… 8 roll-overs for me yesterday and 1 for Xav today… 15 days is gonna be long… 
’’
This weekend, some of the CoreUPT.com team set off for Kamchatka, veritable wilderness peninsula on the far side of Russia. Adrien was the first to arrive, with the rest of the team being stuck in France thanks to general European airport closure. But if one volcano was playing up on this side of the world, another was delighting our Adrien on the other. Here are his very first photos of Vuluchinskiy Volcano; a 2000m plus climb, and more than 5 hours of walking…
We can’t wait for the next installement!
Developments on the MINI front!
Inspired by its partnership with CoreUPT.com, MINI is launching the Country Man, its new crossover vehicule that will bring the town to the mountain and the mountains to town.
To mark the occasion, a big, open air, ‘altitude’ convention was held in Megeve just before the X-Games, where MINI introduced its latest baby to its numerous French dealerships.
Guerlain Chicherit, Richard Permin and Adrien Coirier took to the stage before120 people to present CoreUPT.com and the partnership with MINI that keeps going from strength to strength.
The adventure began well before the 10th of March for the CoreUPT.com staff. Work on the future CoreUPT.com stand took place on an unnamed building site somewhere near Lyon. Some of the staff spent a few days on site, bringing a personal touch to the 6 shipping containers, that were then transported to X-Fest village in Tignes for the first ever European X-Games.
The installation of the stand was nothing if not memorable! With the help of a 30 ton digger, the game was to carefully place and pile up said containers. Following that, various days were needed to set everything up on the inside and do the finishing touches (welding, electricity, waterproofing, staircase, decoration, stickers, installing the MINI Clubman…) All was finally finished around 2am Wednesday morning! Phew …
The finished CoreUPT.com stand boasted a presentation of the 2010/2011 ski collection, a CoreUPT.com video game specially created for the event in partnership with youriding.com, and a presentation area for the MINI Clubman. Also on show was Pull-In Underwear, another partner of ours.
The rest took care of itself. The riders arrived in good time (no plane delays this time) and managed to fit in various training sessions, both in the Valpark and on the X-Games features themselves.
And we all met up for a typically CoreUPT.com meal at the Couloir in Val Claret on Monday night (cheers Chris ).
During the X-Games, CoreUPT.com made a name for itself not only on the snow but on the after-hours scene. Thanks to a partnership with the Melting Pot, CoreUPT.com made this Tignes favourite its HQ throughout the event, and you were not shy in coming to party the nights away!
Between the various artists (Aya Waska, Urban Knights, Eliza Do Brazil…) and the premiere of Candide Kamera 2, we really got the place warmed up!
As far as the team goes, Canada was well represented by our 2 riders TJ SCHILLER and Justin DOREY, and all the Frenchies were in the house; Candide THOVEX, Adrien COIRIER, Richard PERMIN, Julien LANGE, Guerlain CHICHERIT,JL RATCHEL, Flo BASTIEN and Ben VALENTIN.
A special congratulations goes out to Julien LANGE for qualifying for his first X-Games. We wish him the best of luck for the future. We’re all with you Ju!
An equally BIG congrats to Justin DOREY for his 3rd place in the Superpipe, just behind the Frenchies Kevin Rolland (1st) and Xavier Bertoni (2nd).
A good performance was also put in by TJ SCHILLER who finished 4th in Slopestyle.
The CoreUPT.com team thanks all those of you who were able to visit us on the stand and share the adventure with us.
Here’s hoping that these 1st European X-Games have had as much of an impact on you as they have on us!
May the adventure continue …
Just like last year, the impressive Tram Face (intended spot for the occasion) did not have the pleasure of being ripped up by the world’s best freeriders. It was on the ‘emergency’ Silverado face of Squaw Valley that this 3rd stage of the Freeride World Tour took place. Herrik Windstedt (who dropped in with a back flip) took home the title, followed up by Aurelien Ducroz and Reine Barkered.
This stage marked the comeback of the old schoolers (no judgement intended) who had been somewhat shaken up by the performances of Candide Thovex and Julien Lopez in the last 2 Chamonix stages. This time, Julien Lopez’s fall left him in 18th place, with Candide finishing 17th. Adrien Coirier, who had been told by doctors he would not ski this winter after his spectacular fall in Tignes, pulled off another good run and took home a well deserved 4th place.
Henrik takes the lead in the overall ranking, in front of Candide Thovex and Kaj Zackrisson, with Julien Lopez hot on their heels in 4th. Just a handful of points separate the leaders, so all will be decided at the fourth and final stage in Verbier (Switzerland) on the 20th of March.
Watch this space!
Today the second competition of the Freeride World Tour took place on the slopes of the north-east face of the Aiguille Pourrie in Chamonix, replacing the Nissan Russian Adventure (which had to be cancelled due to very bad weather conditions).
The frenchies turned out to be very good once again, as the podium is 100% French (1st Julien LOPEZ, 2nd Candide THOVEX, 3rd Seb MICHAUD as is Henrik WINDSTEDT). Thanks to his two places on the podiums, Candide has taken the lead of the general ranking. A very good performance which allows us to be totally hopeful for the future steps of the competition and which backs up his entry in the world of freeride.
On the other hand Richard PERMIN finishes at the 15th place and Adrien COIRIER at the 18th.
Congratulations to our team of riders and good luck for the next stages!
Candide wins his first Freeride World Tour event…
After the cancellation of the stage of Sotchi, the unloading of Candide Thovex on the circuit of Freeride World Tour has to await the stage of Chamonix.
A little delay thus, but reassure: the pendulums were given per hour, with an unstoppable precision since Candide Thovex gains this stage in front of Kaj Zakrisson and Tim Dutton… Useless to say that the performance makes a bomb effect !
After its victory in Red Bull Linecatcher, Candide thus confirms the relevance of its choice, and of course the value of its ski…
Adrien Coirier gone 8th and Richard unfortunaly took the 20th place.
We wish them good luck for the continuation of Nissan Freeride World Tour!
We wish them good luck for
After six months of recovery Adrien Coirier is back on his skis, and explain us his crash on the last freeride world tour, the Tignes’ stop :
Let’s have a look to the Riding News episod :
Everyone was there: TJ, Colby, Candide, Richard, Adrien and Guerlain.
The event took place at the Molitor Piscine, an old disused municipal swimming pool with a whole lot of character !
There were more than 3000 people and David Guetta, pumped-up on the decks, set the night on fire.
We presented the new co-branded CoreUPT.com MINI ski. All in all, a great success!
After this evening of revelry, the team is back in Tignes for few days, preparing hard for Freestyle.Berlin!
So stay tuned… the winter is not here yet, but CoreUPT.com news is back with a blast!