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What a Session! The number 13 has brought good luck to all the participants. The EC conditions were awesome on Saturday, probably the best for 5 years. The spectacle with all the extremecarvers was beautiful below the blue sky. The level of the riders is still higher and higher, justifying the existence of this event, the original one in the place where EC is born. Riding together is the best way to progress and to support our sport.
In the night from Saturday to Sunday, we got 60-70 cm of fresh snow! All the DUAL demo boards were used of course. On Monday, full sun was back for freeriding in virgin powder at the very top of the resort.
Here is the group photo on Saturday: Picture in very high resolution: click the image (or get it by download here - 5.1 MB)
Personal thanks from Patrice, the organizer:
Warm thanks to all the people who helped Swoard before and during the three days. Without them, this event would not exist.
Not in alphabetical order: Julien, Holly, Christian (the 2nd photographer), Jean-Pierre, Laurent, Rafal, Joël, Etienne, Arnaud, Anthony, François, José, Valérie, Mallorie, Mustafa (the cameraman and film editor), Lionel (the photographer) and all the people who helped to prepare the main hall on Friday afternoon.
PHOTOS
- Our official photographer Lionel Fellay has shot great pictures on Saturday like some of the ones you can see below.
Discover his talent on Flickr here.
Christian Villard was the 2nd photographer. Some of his best pictures are below too.
More pictures are available in the Facebook album of the event.
- Christian Villard made a slideshow with his photos and Lionel's pictures. It was screened during the dinner.
Slideshow on YouTube channel.
If you like one of the pictures of yourself in the slideshow, you can download it from Picasa: link to the gallery here.
- The cameraman Mustafa has filmed and edited a movie which was screened on Saturday dinner. It was really appreciated by the public.
Film on YouTube channel.
- The dates of the Swoard ECS 2017 should be as always at the end of January! Thus the 14th ExtremeCarving Session should take place from Jan 28th to 30th, 2017 !
Participate in the 2nd Swoard Film Contest". Use your recent footage or shoot more with one or several Extremecarver (or DUAL) in action, for editing a good film. The deadline for participation is 14th January 2017 ! There are 3 boards to win, and the Awards will be given during the dinner of the 14th ExtremeCarving Session in January 2017.
See you soon!
The Swoard team
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