2023-12-26 11:35:22
He’s wet his T-shirt at the moment, literally and figuratively, in the wall of the Calme sector at the Font-Romeu-Pyrénées 2000 ski resort (31% slope). Charles Beckinsale, former Australian snowboard champion, the “King snow” as he is called, is today considered the best “shaper” in the world for designing and building snowparks, these little paradises for acrobatic skiers. It was he who was responsible for designing the one in Font-Romeu which opened on Saturday December 23.
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“It is recognized worldwide for the quality of its architecture,” enthuses Romain Ndoumbé, head of the France snowboard and freestyle center at the FFS and the National Training Center. Riders who, in certain jump figures, put their physical integrity at stake, know that with it there will be no unpleasant surprises upon landing, that the snow will be soft under the board to cushion the landing and that they can count on a very hard and icy layer to jump as high as possible. »
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