Tyrolean Alps Tour de de force 2009

It's finally all booked, in a month or so, I'll be again this year experiencing the Austrian Snowboarding extravaganza. Can't wait +++

March 14th: : fly to Munich - meet Benny and the E boys flying in from Montreal - pick up the SUV - drive straight to Mayrhofen Austria, small party town close to TUX.
March 15th : :Ride - Hintertux / sleep Mayrhofen
March 16th : : Ride - Hintertux / sleep Mayrhofen
March 17th : : Ride - Hintertux / sleep Mayrhofen
March 18th : : Drive to Cortina d`Ampezzo Italy, magnificent and world famous ski town.
March 19th : : Ride - Cortina d`Ampezzo
March 20th : : Ride - Cortina d`Ampezzo
March 21th : : Drive back to Munich - night out in town - crash at the Benny's apartment for the night
March 22th : : fly back to Paris, sniff, sniff

Wingsuit evolution

Now this is adrenaline, I'm glad I haven't taken parachuting yet, cause this is the shit.



wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

Lapierre

How sweet it is to see a guy like Max Lapierre who's been grinding his way up there score a hat trick last night still grinding in a game over stealing a puck from that fat McCabe fuck(can feel the old T.O. rivalry here ;) to score in an open net. Gave me goosebumps.

Finally going to Mont Blanc

The first week of riding for this season is now booked for January 13th in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains / Mont Blanc We'll have a big house for the week with the Sophia-Antipolis crew, the Chilenos and Max, should be a good one.

Then I'll probably have a week with Max and Benny Blanco in Max's friends apartment in Chambéry in February.

To top that, we are in the process of booking the second week of march in Austria/Switzerland with mates from Montreal, Germany and France.

Can't wait to wax the board and hit the POWDA....

Sabourin NHL #1 GAA

How surreal to open the NHL.com stats page and see one of your long time best mates line up there in the #1 spot. He's been having the the best goal against average and save percentage for a little while but before yesterday's game, hadn't played enough games to be in the leader position. Good job buddy, and good pic, look like a bad ass!

First game in 08-09

As unhappy I was Sabou didn't get the start on the Sunday night game in Stockholm, so amazing was it to watch him rock monday night on his season debut when I came back from Athens. Late night it is to watch hockey in Paris though ....
Sabou what up with the hair? Feels good to have no more, maybe I should use the clipper also :) Giddy up!

Stockholm NHL Hockey Premiere

Stockholm hockey Premiere

October 4th and 5th, the Pittsburgh Penguins were playing the Ottawa Senators for NHL season opener in Stockholm Sweden. Living in France, hockey is definitely one of those things that makes you miss home, so I was not going to miss the opportunity to visit Stockholm and to meet-up with my best childhood buddy Dany Sabourin who plays for Pittsburgh. Last time we saw was last month at my cottage in Val d'Or where we had the best fishing I had in years and we found it pretty cool to say "hey mate, see you in Stockholm!" for pics of the fishing results, follow this link

3 weeks ago Sabou confirmed he had 4 tickets for me for both game and we(J, Milot, TBo) booked flights + 2 rooms at Sheraton where the Pens were sleeping.

Highlights:
- Stockholm is an incredible city, its beautiful, people or so so cool, kind and helpful(after an hour of hard work I was able to recover my bran new 800Euros SLR camera that I had forgotten in a cab:)
- 2 great hockey games with the best seats in the arena just a few meters from Mario Lemieux
- seeing Sabou and being able to spend some time with him in Stockholm
- partying up in a private party with the players and pounding 6 bottles of Pommery
- Falling face to face with Mario Lemieux and the players all week-end and having a chat with Lemieux after a morning coffee.
- Travelling there from Paris with some of my best buddies

Ah man, hard to be back in Paris and go to work ..... thanks Bou for the ticks

Greg against Borja in Finals of Les Internationnaux de France de Squash

If your in Paris this week-end and want to discover an amazing sport, come down to Paris Univesite Club on Saturday night. Greg Gauthier, the 2nd ranked squash player in the world, Frenchmen and good friend will be battling for the title of the French Squash Open with Borja Golan the Spanish revelation of the tourney who brought his A game to Paris this week and caused 2 major upsets in two breathtaking matches. Greg has been on top of his game not loosing any game since the beginning of the tourney. Everything points to a clean win tomorrow but the Spanish fighter will be there playing every ball like it's for his life. You can look up site squash for more info.

Hockey night in .... Stockholm

I wasn't able to attend the Stanley Cup Finals in Pittsburg last year but Sabou and the Penguins are coming to Sweden on October 4th and 5th to play the Sen's and you can be sure I'll be over there for some well diserved hockey time.



On some other hockey topic, I was looking at the habs roster this morning and the next year will be exiting. If Sundin can decide to play on the best offence line of the league with Kovy and Tanguay ..... BOUYAA

Blind kid skating with Tony Hawk

When a player is the Game: MJ

UFC 83 Montreal : RUSH

An historical night in Canadian Ultimate Fighting history will occur in my hometown Montreal on April 19th. Our boy Georges St-Pierre GSP will fight to get back his UFC welterweight title.

Back in September when I was in Montreal, he was sitting next to me @ the Habs game at Bell Centre, on April 19th he'll be fighting in front of 21,000 home fans for the world title in that same building. Gives me Goosebumps just thinking about the fight ... I so want to be there, but I'll already be in Montreal @ the end of March, can't pull 2 roundtrips in less than a month.

"Tickets for UFC 83: Serra vs. St. Pierre 2 are sold out the promotion today announced. UFC 83, which will be Canada’s first-ever UFC event, now ranks as the fastest sellout in UFC history.
More than 21,000 fans will pack The Bell Centre on April 19th for the event which is headlined by a welterweight title clash between Canadian Georges St. Pierre and welterweight title-holder Matt Serra."

Unbeatable Patriots XLII

How sweet was it Thursday night to come home in Paris from a tough squash league match, cook streak and noodle, sit in front of TV at 1am and screen "Sur la route du Super Bowl" on TV5. Especially having heard almost nothing about the season. Not being in America, you don't really give a fuck about American Football, in Europe it's all about the other Football(soccer).

Watching on the resume of the NFL season, I realized how much I miss the sport, the Passion about it. This season looked particularly interesting:
-Brady, Moss and the mystical touchdown setting the 2 passing and reception records + the perfect season on the last game against the team they will later meet at SuperBowl XLII.
- Favre touchdown record passing Marino
- Packers/Seahawks in the sick snow at lambo field for conference.
- Packers/Giants at lambo field in the freaking cold! Sick field goal misted from 37 yards in NFC championship, everything was in place for history, for a Favre against Brady for Z match before Webster intercepted the ball in overtime to send the giants to the big game.
- Maroney winning the game for the Pats on conference day against the chargers puts everything in place for the big game tomorrow.

I predict a big game for Moss who has been silent lately. My 2 favorite players of the last decade reunited, Brady and Moss can only lead to a Championship. I am calling my bookie and putting all my money on this team.