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Xavier de Le Rue scored first place in Squaw Valley during the Freeride World Tour
03/Mar/2010
Xavier de Le Rue scored first place in Squaw Valley during the Freeride World. He ends up ranked first at the overall ranking before Xtreme Verbier, final of the tour.
"Although I was excited at the idea to challenge Tram Face which is a myth and fit my style of riding better, weather didn’t make it possible and it was a good surprise to shred Silverado again as the snow condition were great ! Regarding my run, I landed switch close to a rock and I had to do half cab right after but everything went fine. Today it was a great show. The new course format with best out of two runs counting for final ranking gave us the chance to go for it a bit stronger than usual. Still no one went crazy and took too much risks which is super good as well. It shows riders are real professional and that our sport is getting matured. Now I’m back home and filming for standard films as my priority, I will try to get as much lines as possible before the Xtreme Verbier and get fit for the Bec des Rosses!" Xavier
Xavier Jordan, snowboard head judge commented on Xavier’s run after the results were announced. « He did an amazing second run! Xavier went fast and without hesitation, he stomped a frontside 360° at the top then went for double cliff and ended up with a huge air on a cliff at the bottom, the whole run without any mistakes!”
More infos about the Nissan Freeride World Tour presented by Swatch on http://freerideworldtour.com/en/
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FWT: New victory for Xavier de Le Rue in Chamonix at the Nissan Russian Adventure
05/Feb/2010
Xavier de Le Rue won the Nissan Russian Adventure by Swatch, relocated in Chamonix due to weather and avalanche risks in Russia.
The competition site, The North-East face of l’aiguille pourrie allowed riders to make choices between relatively mellow terrain with freestyle options or fast steep line Alaska style. Xavier decided to go for the second choice. He performed it de Le Rue style, combining fluid fast turns with radical cliff drop and clean landings. This breathtaking line would go unequalled for the rest of the competition and bring back Xavier in the game to defend his back to back freeride world champ titles.
Here are Xavier’s comments about the day
“I was already in Chamonix few days ago for the freeride world tour and I had big crashes, totally eaten by the pressure. I didn’t recognise myself as I did such stupid mistakes. Today there was this line that really attracted me and that looked really natural. I went in there, the snow was great, I forgot about the contest, I just had fun and it paid off, it’s a really good and I’m stoked to be going to the Olympics with that victory. It kind of reminds me where I’m from and that’s good.”
Xavier will not even have the time to savour his victory as he will leave Europe tomorrow morning for Mt Bachelor, Oregon to meet up with the French snowboard cross team for a week of riding and off media solicitations before heading to Vancouver Olympic games.
More news about Olympic experience soon.
More infos about the Nissan Freeride World Tour presented by Swatch on
http://freerideworldtour.com/
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COUPLE NEW AWARDS FOR XAVIER
30/Jan/2010
Xavier de Le Rue awarded « stand out of the year » at TransWorld SNOWboarding Rider Poll and Snowboarder Magazine Big Mountain of The Year following his freshly Snowboarder Magazine Big Mountain rider of the year title, awarded by la crème of snowboarding for the past decade.
Rider of the year award
Xavier de Le Rue’s name got shouted loud and clear at the Fillmore auditorium in Denver on January 29th during the 11th Annual TransWorld SNOWboarding rider poll award when winner of the Stand out performance of the year got announced. The snowbard scene voice made it clear there were yet another Big Mountain Rider to watch out by awarding Xavier Standout Of The Year for hair-raising, big-mountain lines in Alaska.
“In the last few years I re discovered snowboarding”, stated Xavier de Le Rue “Getting the chance to film has been so cool and gave me the opportunity to share what’ I’ve been doing with other people. Being awarded for this is the best honour I could receive and it makes me want to do only better in the future. It feels great to get that recognition from the riders themselves. I’d like to give a big shout out to my sponsors and Standard films people who believed in me!”
Xavier had two amazing seasons which led him to cumulate not only competition titles: Back to Back Nissan Freeride World Tour world Champion, back to back overall (yes that means snowboard and ski) best line of the Nissan FWT presented by Swatch, Overall winner of Swatch O’neill Big Mountain Pro, but as well video segments in both Aesthetica and Black Winter from Standard Films and Relentless Lives of the Artist movie with the Greenland trip.
Next year Xavier will be visible in various many high anticipated video flicks: Deeper by TGR, next Standard Films video and Relentles production “Lives of the artists 2” with the Antarctica trip and he’s in the list of riders filming for next Transworld video.
Xavier de Le Rue is supported by Rossignol, The North Face, Swatch, SNCF, Nissan, Relentless, St Lary, ABS, Dakine and Deeluxe
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XAVIER DE LE RUE: AWARDS, NOMINATION AND NISSAN FREERIDE WORLD TOUR IS ON AGAIN
22/Jan/2010
There is nothing more enjoyable than knowing your peers appreciate your performances at their real value. Xavier De Le Rue is on his way to get that recognition. In a two years period his status changed from relatively unknown freerider to one of the best big mountain rider out there. Projects he’s on and his video segment are receiving props from the snowboard scene.
The Relentless movie, Lives of the artists, premiered in London in December, with a Greenland segment filmed with Xavier received the best shooting award and special prize of the jury at the international freeride film festival in St Lary. (www.relentlessenergy.com)
On a personal level, his « Black Winter » segment in lastest Standard video has been nominated at Transworld Rider Poll award as standout performance of the year and it’s nominated for best line at Cold Smoke Award. To finish with award Xavier will be on the other side of the fence as he’s part of the jury at riders-match.com a video contest open for pro and amateur, Xavier won the pro category last year and he’s now in the jury.
Life is not all about getting award or being nominated, Xavier is leaving Tuesday 19th of January to Sochi to take part of the first comp of this year Nissan Freeride Wolrd Tour to defend his back to back freeride world champ titles and aim for a three-peat.
Sochi will happen on January 21st then Xavier will attend Chamonix stop on January 30th.
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XAVIER DE LE RUE NOMINATED AT THE 11th ANNUAL RIDERS' POLL AWARDS
20/Dec/2009
In January 29, 2010 in Denver (Colorado) will be take place the 11th Annual Transworld Snowboarding Riders' Poll Awards. This celebration will reward snowboarding's top riders in different categories. The winners are determined by polling more than 125 professional snowboarders worldwide.
Xavier is nominated in the category "Standout of the Year" for his hair rising in big-mountain lines in Alaska.
It's pretty rare to see an european rider presented at the Poll Awards show... So we hope Xavier will win this price.
Let's meet in January 29, 2010 for the outcome...
TRIP/ Xavier De Le Rue...on his way back from Antarctica paradise!
16/Nov/2009
Xavier just coming back from Antarctica, he tell us more on his trip: " The boat is rolling through the Drake Passage.... We just left yesterday and all I can say about that trip is that this place is like something never seen before. We've had it amazingly good, we've had at least a little bit of sun everyday and most of all discovered this surprisingly powerful place.
The variety of the terrain, the snow quality and the challenges we've been going for have made this trip really special. It's been once again a pleasure to have Jeremy as a partner as we really enjoyed sharing our skills in these intense moments.
I won't say more for the moment but these pics will give you a rough idea of our trip.
Cheers, XV "
Thanks so much to playmakercommunication.com for the pictures... Matt, you're the MAN
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TRIP Antartica / Drake passage... check!!
11/Nov/2009
"It's been two days since we've left Ushuaia. We still haven't reach the peninsula and I've spent most of my time lying in bed to avoid the sea sickness. I've puked a bunch of times.... but the sea seems to be getting better as we are approaching South Georgia Island. It’s quite unreal the atmosphere there is, crossing the famous Drake passage, (worse crossing in the world) surrounded by these massive waves. We've seen a few whales already, the crew is really excited despite the long journey... Can't wait to see what's on the other side...!"
Xavier De Le Rue
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TRIP/ Xavier is back to Antarctica
09/Nov/2009
As you might remember we tried last year to reach and hopefully ride the wonderful untouched steeps of the Antarctica Peninsula... Unfortunately, we got on the boat in Ushuaia but stayed three days ashore for mechanical reasons until we got told that the boat could not be repaired....
We are back, and not for the least!
Jeremy Jones and myself along with the relentless film crew are ready for new up coming adventures! Two movies, mainly Lives of the Artists 2, but some of the action will end up in DEEPER as well, Jeremy’s project. We are about to board the clipper adventure for a 40 hours boat ride across the scary "Drake Passage", supposed to be the worst crossing on the planet.... After that we'll have 7 days of actual riding...
We got split boards, all the hard gear we could ever need, we are fired up... All we can hope for are friendly weather and snow conditions. Let's see if mother Antarctica is willing to let us glide on the last continent...
Fingers crossed!
Follow our ship position "live" with the following link.
http://vtrack.gmn-usa.com/cgi-bin/fleet_setup.pl?fleet=iaato&password=ushuaia
Unselect all ships beside CPA on the upper right hand window and you’ll see where we are at.
Xavier De Le Rue
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PRESS: Two more covers for Elias
10/Nov/2009
Elias Elhardt has 2 covers this month: Snowsurf in France and Pleasure mag in Germany.
There's a 6 pages article in the last one and so you will know more about this guy.
Nice pictures, great text, no doubt, you need these snowboard magazines.
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VIDEO: Elias on fire
02/Nov/2009
Elias Elhardt is the new comer of this season for sure.
After his great ride in Zurich for the freestyle.ch, Elias came at freestyle.Berlin with a huge motivation. The Saturday evening, he won the crossover session with a massive bs 1080 double cork.
Congrats Elias for this nice result.
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