Vitals & set ups
 
Your website: www.xavierdelerue.com
Riding since: 1996
With Rossignol since: 2006
Other sponsors: Swatch, SNCF Saint Lary (train resort)
Prize list (Palmares): Freeride World Tour  World Champion 08, voted best line of the year FWT, Snowboard cross FIS world champion 2007

Board: Jeremey Jones 62 and 68
Stance: 58 cm (22 inches)
Angles front/back: 3/18
Boots: Jones
Bindings: Jones
 

3 words to describe yourself

A bit nuts
But just enough
And sometimes a bit too much !!

Your highlights
 
First experience in ski/snow: I was 2 years old
Best trick: Cliff jump with a blind take off and the receipt  in the middle of a couloir.

Tell your best trip: North face  of the Lenspitz I was with my wife and some extreme conditions…a 17 non stop hour.
A special training?: Fine food, some climbing, mountain, surf, tough ride in the forest until exhaustment and just a bit of park....
Off season activities: Climbing, mountaineering, surf, Downhill, MTB.

Influences in life and sport: I like to improve myself and explore new dimensions in what I do.  But also family, good moments in life, beeing close to the nature.

The snow/ski vid you love: In short
Video you are in: Aesthetica (Standard film)
The person you admire the most: Bernadette Chirac (ex-president’s wife), no I’m kidding...

Last concert: Chu Tsao ( a band from the Pyrenee, my friends , it is awesome)

5 favourite songs in your player:
See sex and sun
C'etait le temps des fleurs
La marseillaise
>> Typical French songs ;)

Chinese portrait
 
If you were…

• A food: A French Saussisson (very grassy, but soooo good !)
• An animal: A bear
• A star: The one from the Star Academy (TV show)
• A material: oak
• A color: brown
• An element: soil
• A place: The lakes of Neouvielle
• A feeling: The one I feel when I’ve finished my line… there is no name to describe it.
• A legend: Escalibur
• A vice: Greedy
• A torture: by tickles
• A vehicle: a split board
• A spice: Culin clove
• A part of the body: forehead
• A motto: it doesn’t even hurt !
  
• A stupidity: my motto !

Questions just for the Rider

1) What was the best moment of the past season ? Why ?
The best moment was in December when we received heavy snow fall. This was the beginning of the season and I spent bunch of sessions to ride in the forest to until my leg hurt too much. I again reached the point where riding became instinct. What is very satisfying too is to have a look back on the past season and to realize my evolution, how I improved my riding, one step after another…

2) What did you learn from getting caught by this avalanche?  Was it a kind of a warning ? Warning is a weak word for the mountain that fell on my face. That’s the best thing that could have happened. It will be tough to feel 200% confident again on top of steep lines but with times and humility I know I will be feeling good again on top of lines. I will try to be more focus on the surroundings and take a bit more time when we shoot big mountain riding. This is the only way to feel the mountain better, evaluate the risks and appreciate pleasure from big mountain riding.

3) What are your projects for the upcoming season ?
I will keep following the same path and hopefully keep progressing. I feel very good on my board and I’m willing to show that and get sick footage. I’d like to get involve in a big video production company such a standard, I will compete on the FWT. I got few nice travels in mind : first one will be in antartica this fall, we’ll be on the boat and will get to ride glacier that fall down in fjords in the middle of penguin and whales…it will be wicked!