Human / Machines - preview

Featuring Burn Units snow team riders Gigi Rüf, Arthur Longo, Ståle Sandbech and Mathieu Crepel, this short film by Johannes Östergård explores two contrasting sides of freestyle snowboarding: stylish moves in hand-shaped, natural terrain, and progressive tricks in modern machine-cut snowparks.

Originaly thought to follow Mathieu during two seasons on his road to the Olympic in Vancouver and the first Winter X-games Europe in France, Mathieu's boardbag webisodes will bring you a VIP pass to whats up in the real life of a professional snowboarder. Through the different webisodes Mathieu will share experiences and emotions with the viewers. Expect to discover the life of a pro snowboarder as never seen before, from World cup victory in his home country to a one day trip to a Japanese...

Little edit I made from our frenchie trip in Hood earlier this summer... Shot by Fluofun.fr Edited by Mathieu Crepel

freestyle.ch snowboard as seen by fluofun young guns. damn.

Everybody needs a good old fashioned crash sometimes. It wakes you up and reconnects you to your body and mind...but it can be painful too! Even Arthur Longo and Gigi Rüf got rebooted a few times last season and came out fine in the end. Arthur was scoring the opener of Unique8 and Gigi claimed the ender!

The X Games all-video "Real" contest series just crossed boundary lines into a whole new world. With the addition of Real Snow Backcountry presented by Burn, set to debut in conjunction with March's Winter X Games Tignes 2012, the series ventures into big-mountain snowboarding territory for the first time! Featuring : Gigi Ruf, Nicolas Muller, Jussi Oksanen, Mark Sollors, Mathieu Crépel, Devun Walsh, Iikka Backstrom, and John Jackson.

Watch the video of the men slopestyle qualifiers of the European X Games, with the run of Arthur Longo, Mathieu Crepel, Chas Gudlemond, who finished at the top of the podium and finally the run of Jenny Jones who wins the girls qualifiers.