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Fragmento 20 - WINTER SEASON III - Back to the roots

Once I was taken to the snow, back in the epic winter of 2009 in Grandvalira/Andorra, I was domed to never go back to summer days and was destined to follow the winter. Now after almost 2 years of traveling the world and going from north to south winters I am back to the roots. The first green run I ever ride, on a poor rental Salomon board, and the crazy Argentines adventures I used to have back in the days are going to be part of my daily life again. Now time for the snow and time for discipline. I am attempting my level 3 CASI at the end of march and I must train. I am doing a small break from instructing full time so I can spend more time working of my snowboard performance, on my deep knowledge of technique and art of SNOWBOARDING! I feel so excited that it’s hard for me to realize I came so far on my life time dream career. Fabulous. Now time for me to finally get that goodness body and practice my most dangerous trick I want to achieve. Backflips are on the top of my list, no falls no balls! As I use to say to my guests “you’ll only know if you reach your limite by trying, falling, trying, falling and trying again. Until your body hurts and your mind is set to succeed.

On my way to Andorra after a very intense week in Toulouse. As tommy says “Toloose” ahah I can’t stop thinking about the great expeditions we are going to live all together. New season, new crew. To start with, I cannot even believe I will have the honor to spend another winter season with my dearest friend/best friend MOWIE! 😉 the whole story starts with us thinking about where to go next and realizing that she would be going to Zermatt to train for her level 3 NZ and me going to Andorra. But life gives you lemons sometimes and we should always do and most importantly drink LEMONADE! There she goes, another unforgettable season i will be sharing with her. Another crazy chick that will be joining us is Laura! Now Laura is going to attempt the level 3 with me, and she is my best partner in crime in park! The best park companion to be honest, love the pussy on the rail 😉 The boyz shall be presented now : Starting with the surprise of the season Harry Hadley! Yes, yes I know he is a skier, a very good skier actually but still A “skieur” I hope he will cope with the boarders strapping in. He is a good boy, I didn’t got much time to get to know him really well, but I know we will become good brother and sister! 😉 The second man of the band is my lovely French friend Robin! Now Robin just got his level 2 and I am super stock to have motivate him to do his levels with CASI and to open the door to him on this beautiful industry ! Finally after so many long talk we will be shredding together! Robin staged his best friend from wake boarding Max, or Mad Max, or was I call him Maxou who also will pass his level one and two. He is the craziest snowboarder I ever seen, I mean not just he is good but he is great fun to ride with. Finally but not for last, my dear womby Tommy! He his the best little shredder I meet in falls creek, and the true (he is not aware) my plans are to rip his head off and get all his powerful knowledges and skills of snowboarding! He is a geek and I love that on him. I feel that I can actually learn so much from him, since hanging together I can already feel my grey mass grow grow grow grow with all the pro names, the technical vocabulary, the expensive words and most off all the freaking motivation to sleep, ride and eat. Setting my mind for that. The boyz do not even imagine how crazy party living drunk it is Andorra, and that very easy you can get lost in between two beers after work. Thank god we are living in el tarter. Best town in the area, calm.

FINALLY FIRST DAY RIDING! Wow okay so just to update a little bit, I now own some great UNION (triolagie) bindings and the best snowboard boot I ever owned THIRTY TWO ! Also got myself another very good helmet from bern! So at this moment I am boarding with most of my favorite brands, UNION and GNU. Picture for my overalls and roxy jacket. All ready to start my intense training for my CASI level 3! So excited I don’t even realise it’s actually happening! The snow fall last night made us enjoy fresh snow track in freeride areas of Grau Roig and SOLDEU!

To explain a little bit of my experience of this season : I broke my COLLARBONE. COLLARBONE? What the f🍑🍣🍘 is that ? Well I also didn’t imagine the importance of this bone in my body before I actually broken it. Best and worst experience I ever lived. It got all my plans mix up, and now I will have to wait until next northern winter to pass my level 3, but it’s alright I got the chance and privilege to have meet one of my biggest inspiration in the world GENEVIEVE PILOTTO! She is, out of five, the only woman at achieving her level 4 with CASI! She is not just any type of ripper, she understand so much about snowboard it can give you the goosebumps ! Glad I can now learn so much with her, and truly Considere her as a friend! She is insanely good, at snowboarding, and people’s skills and as a mum of two little dragons! I worked hard to understand with this lesson that you need to listen to the mountain and your heart. You need to be selfish and get into your own mood to snowboard. There is time for fun and to ride with friends, to be chill and not overthink, but when you are training, learning and trying a new trick you should get into the zone of your own mind, and maybe even go for a ride by yourself! I am not recovering for the next month, after two that already pasted by. I am working hard and resting as much as I can.

I got the best opportunity to go work in Farellones, Chile! So stocked for that I still do not believe my luck! After a door closed and I cut some people off my life I feel strong again to focus on my winter paths. Following the winter never seemed so logical for me. I wanna keep doing this, for as many years as I can and as my body can handle it!

The fact of been injured just made me stronger and excited for the future, it didn’t stop me from going snowboarding on the last 3 days of the season, so I can confirme : “You can rip with a broken collarbone”

Stay tune for more adventures !

NEXT STOP : CHILE PLEASE! 🇨🇱

Many thanks to you all that follow my winters

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Falls Creek on my mind. MOOD. 🔵

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MEANWHILE IN TOULOUSE

Got a phone call from my old boss. Sebastien Maury, the best employee I ever had, and that I will ever have I guess. I started working for him when I was only 19, and worked for him for two long years. He tough me everything, helped me to get my potential at sells and communication at it's best. And of course he his a very good friend! I build up a little family at the select. He call me in urgency, because my "borrowed father" Nanar broke his shoulder and at to be replaced. So I decided that it was time for me to actually do something productive of my holidays back in Europe and took the bus for 22 hours with mum and arrive to France on the 2th of May! The same day I arrived I worked, and my second day of job I got the best working day of the shop of the year, not bad he said! I guess I never lost it after being out doing winter seasons. I mean, it's not by far the hardest job to do in the world, it's a bit physical because you are standing up for ages, but you have to be psicologicaly strong because of the drunk people. Finally I got to see everyone for a little bit, all my best friends from the old times. The Yotokoyoko Family and all my friends from rue pargaminiere. The Jamsession artists and the bohemian troubadours of the streets. I got the chance of getting on my music soul up to its high, and that was very satisfying. One of my very good friends, Louella got her first child after being living in Jamaica, I was so happy for her seeing her so happy and fullied, her baby, the most beautiful baby in the whole Toulouse, she now 6 months old. I had the best time afternoon 3 weeks, time to go back to winter! Follow the winter.

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Fragmento 17#

Last weeks of Niseko. Since my injury I that the pleasure to spend more time with the most incredible Japanese woman I ever meet, Ikumi San. She tell me every time, "I am just a house wife" but the true is that in her eyes, I see so much more. Indeed she is just a house wife, but her hearth is full of love, full of kindness for everything that is alive, everything that she does she does it with elegance and grace. She is so gentle, and delicates that you even might thing she is fragile, but the true, and I found myself very lucky, because I want the chance to see that side of her deep in time self, she is a very strong woman how takes life as a challenge, and never let her arms down, even on difficulties. She is one of a kind and she will be person I will miss the more. I took time to organise my head and to know where I want to go next, and for now it's quite divided. I will go to Australia to do another winter season, ahah or this wouldn't be called "follow he winter" but yes indeed, divided for one simple reason and the worst of them. Friends. Please don't get me wrong, I am so happy to have created friends for life, but it's shouldn't be a reason. When I decided to leave my home town, and leave everything that was comfortable for me, not letting friend in front of my project or my personal road were the main reason I left in the first place. Since I know myself, this last Sarah that I believe been e best version of me, I have been letting people I love in front of my decisions, my plans. Basically I have been wanted to travel the world on my own since ever, but never got the balls, and now that I had them, to do what I love the most, snowboard, I can stop thinking of those goals and plans, that took me to go to Japan this first season of "follow the winter". I believe that this season as been the most important for me, to confirm everything that I love, everything that I don't want for my life. Simple and concrete. I have a plan, and if I make plans with friends fair enough, I am very happy to share the road with them, but I will always walk alone, since my first breath to my last, so I am going to the direction I decided. So it's still hard to choose, FallsCreek or Thredbo. Back to the last weeks of Niseko, I was very wise to take it slow, to not take the stupid compliments that some of my co workers did, and take it seriously with my Physio and friend Wennie. I don't know if without her I would have make it, so thank you for that, you made me stronger for future injuries. I know understand that if you injure yourself, remember it clear your body is your temple. You need to give it time, time for rest, time for healing and time of re adaptation. So I did all I could with her help, the exercises, I did multiple exercises per day, I saw her once a week for treatments and I believe that after 5 weeks I was almost at my level before the injury. With my love for park and the necessity of learning more and more, I took the pleasure of going one day to the park all day with my friends Judith and Chris. Also with lovely Hewie, that I will talk about in future posts. Got to the park and collide with Judith, I felt super bad to be stupid enough to not give her time to get out of the part where she was in the park... Thank god she only hurt her arm but I felt so bad I wanted to go away, and is there that I saw my friend Dave from funny pack, amazing guy, a little shredder like me and super motivated to always go out riding with the girls, and finally meet Linda! Sick funny pack rider! Who after that day was doing 180, just like me! Best feeling of the world! Rotating in the air and landing... Baaaaah I can describe it totally, but it's like feeling I could take all my organs out of my body and but them back but with a refliment of ADRENALINE ! My favourite drug by the way. I worked hard a few days, was very lucky of having a little girl called Lexi who was an absolutely killer and super fun to have around ! It's magical when you stop baby sitting and have the chance to be a kid again, I even feel like my riding get better like that !! There was the HANAZONO SLALOM COMPETITION, my friends Judith, Chris, Tomoko and Patrick participated in the sking side, and Billy and Dan on snowboard (those are NISS STAFF as well) then there was a few of snowboard that I knew as well like Stefan or Sam from GoSnow and Ali, Wennie's boyfriend.. Ahhh to much details, sorry I get carried away, the only thing that I really wanted to say about this was that my beautiful ROOMMATE Judith win e woman's sking, and I was so proud, she is incredible, no words to describe her talent! I think she could have telemark and still win! Ahah I played twice in HANAZONO 308, wish was a very interesting experience and also a very good opportunity for me. I meet of of Chris's clients, how is working in Hong honk and his beautiful wife and kids, and he give me his card for me to contact him if I would like to send my music to one of his friends, how is a producer in New York! Wow amazing opportunity! I will think about it, first snowboarding, then music. Maybe one day I will be able to join the two together! Well after a long period of 6 weeks I was ready to leave, and go back home where I need to assisted my lovely mother how needs me, before I leave for more adventures. I feel I grow, for a very positive way, I can finally see clearly now. GOODBYE NISEKO thank you for e amazing powder, I see you next year!