Developments on the MINI front!
Inspired by its partnership with CoreUPT.com, MINI is launching the Country Man, its new crossover vehicule that will bring the town to the mountain and the mountains to town.
To mark the occasion, a big, open air, ?altitude? convention was held in Megeve just before the X-Games, where MINI introduced its latest [...]
These last 2 days the resort of La Plagne, in partnership with the FFS and the FIS, has hosted the French Freestyle Championships. Monday 5th of April saw the Snowboard Slopestyle finals take place, and the Half Pipe finals, for both Snowboard and Ski, have just finished today.
CoreUPT.com was well represented by rookie, Ben VALENTIN, [...]
For this 3rd edition of WUP, just like each year, freestyle, fun and freaky antics abounded ! And for 2010 the organisers decided to add an extra day of competition (4 days instead of 3).
Our Young Gun team was in the place ! Unfortunately, destiny was not on their side ? Just 1 hour [...]
With the sun hiding behind a haze of clouds and temperatures still wintery cold, the 1000 contestants took their place on the starting line of the 22nd ?Derby de la Meije? this Friday the 2nd of April 2010. The goal being to cover the 2000m descent as quickly as possible for some, and as spectacularly [...]
As promised, here is the second episod of Candide Kamera :
Candide Kamera 2
These 3 pics have been taken on the Euro X-Games pipe during the training :
Crédit photo : Tristan Shu
After 3 days of backcountry skiing, tthe best 13the freestylers of the world have chosen Kye Petersen from Whistler, as the most skier of the Red Bull Cold Rush 2010. It took place from march 16th to 18th, at Retallack Lodge in BC.
Our french rider Richard Permin took the 5th place! Congrats Man [...]
Europe X Games Tignes By CoreUPT.com
For his first season on the Freeride World Tour, Candide Thovex could not have hoped for better? After surprising us all with a storming entry on the scene at Chamonix (even if we knew he was strong whatever the terrain), today he has reached the pinnacle of his freeriding career as he takes home the [...]
The adventure began well before the 10th of March for the CoreUPT.com staff. Work on the future CoreUPT.com stand took place on an unnamed building site somewhere near Lyon. Some of the staff spent a few days on site, bringing a personal touch to the 6 shipping containers, that were then transported to X-Fest village [...]
Follow our rider Julien Lange during the Winter X-Games Europe in Tignes, his home ski resort :
The 17 skiers and snowboarders (out of 25) who competed in the Freeride World Tour final on the ?face du Bec des Rosses? in Verbier this weekend, are going to have to compete all over again; the weather window not being wide enough to get everyone through.
As far as the skiers are concerned, saturday?s runs [...]
The first european X-Games were a huge success !
Sun, crowd, show and hapiness were in the place !
To complete the show, our rider Justin Dorey took the 3rd place during the pipe finals and Tj Schiller finished 4th at slopestyle !
Great satisfaction for the CoreUPT.com team and congrats to our riders for their performance this [...]
“hey hey,des news,des news alors que certains freestyler s entraine pour les EUROPEAN X GAMES atignes la semaine prochaine voici des petites news de notre freestyler/freerider prefere Richard Permin qui lui etait en Georgie pour shooter en backcountry.Il vient tout juste d arriver aujourd hui,un peu fatigue mais super comtant de ce trip ou les conditions [...]
Petit retour sur le premier événement freeride nocturne qui a couronné Guerlain Chicherit.
Jeudi 12 mars, alors que la journée du Freeride World Tour touchait à sa fin et que tout la petite troupe de riders et organisateurs du FWT savourait une copieuse paella au restaurant l’Escale Blanche, l’équipe d’Evolution 2 s’activait du côté de la [...]
Just like last year, the impressive Tram Face (intended spot for the occasion) did not have the pleasure of being ripped up by the world?s best freeriders. It was on the ?emergency? Silverado face of Squaw Valley that this 3rd stage of the Freeride World Tour took place. Herrik Windstedt (who dropped in with a [...]
La “LA Session” de Romain Grojean et Pacome Allouis fêtait cette année ses 4 ans, ou tout du moins, sa 3ème vraie édition (la première ayant subi une météo catastrophique ne compte pas…). Les deux dernières éditions de ce show à l’américaine avaient déjà remporté un franc succès auprès du public, des riders et des [...]
?I rather badly slept, I had an enormous pressure which did nothing but increase at the top of the face.I was not confident of my line and the snow conditions were very variable according to the places. Fortunately the ?old locals?, Seb Michaud, Thomas Diet really helped me. I thus chose not to make tricks [...]