J'ai finalement recu mon attèle pour mon genou!!

J'ai eu bien du plaisir à le pimper cette après-midi!! Ha!Ha!

Snow, Snow, Snow

C'est ce temps-ci de l'année où il commence à faire froid, que la neige commence à tomber, les montagnes deviennent blanche... C'est la qu'on veut commencer à rider.
Pour ce qui est de mon genou, j'ai travaillée très fort depuis mon opération, physio, gym à tous les jours, j'ai aussi fait beaucoup de méditation, visualisation et "Dryland training." Je crois que je suis prête à retourner sur mon Board.... Tout les jours je ne cesse de regarder la webcam de Whistler Blackcomb et il y a de plus en plus de neige... Il ne me reste moins qu'un mois au Québec et je retourne demeurer à Squamish pour recommencer mon entrainement et à rider. J'ai très hâte!
À bientôt neige!

9 octobre, +28 degrée... Session de snow Au SMRC

Soirée retrouvailles du programme plein-air de Curé-Hébert

24 mars 2011, C'est les retrouvailles du programme plein-air de Curé-Hébert! Tout pleins de beau monde y assistaient.  Ca fesait tellement longtemps que je les avais pas vue! Superbe soirée mémorable. Tout les anciens Professeurs étaient présent dont Benoit Lavoie, Jean-Francois Folly et Mar-André Racine, mes anciens coachs et depuis qui sont devenus des amis.

Un bon souper a été servi, il y avait une exposition des photos de nos beau moments passé dans le programme au Bar le St-Bernard du Mont-Lac-Vert, il y a eu quelques discours, dont un de moi-même où je fis un cours résumé de mon cheminement depuis.... Moi et les discours, vous savez comme j'aime cà!! HaHa!!

Et bien Merci encore à tous les organisateurs pour cette belle soirée!

Nouvelle édit Saison 10/11

Je n'ai pas eu beaucoup de temps pour accumuler des shots cette année, du a une blessure au début de la saison, mais j'ai quand même réussi à faire une petite édit avec ce que j'ai trouvé!

Temps d'attente

Bon... cà f'ait maintenant 3 semaines que je n'ai pas rider... La température ici à Whistler n'a pas été superbe pour rider anyway, alors ca rend les choses un peu plus facile pour moi... Je ne manque pas grand chose présentement mais ca reste toujours vraiment dommage et déprimant de voir tout le monde partir rider le matin et moi, je reste chez moi...
J'essaie d'enlever le Snowboard de mes pensées et de rester occupée pour ne pas avoir le temps d'y penser... Je n'ai pas regardé le site web de Whistler Blackcomb depuis quelques semaines, j'essaie de ne pas regarder la montagne et ne de pas rencontrer mes amis qui vienne d'arriver de la montagne pour qu'ils me disent quelle belle journée ils ont passés...

La date prévue pour mon opération est le 28 février, je vais ensuite retourner au Québec pour quelques mois pour récuperer, m'entraîner, bien manger et tout simplement essayer profiter du moment présent avec ma famille et mes amis et tenter de ne pas penser à mon petit monde de Whistler.

Après être revenue d'une opération il y a environ 6 mois j'ai appris bien des choses. C'est très important de rester positive et de ne pas laisser tomber. Les blessures ca arrive, c'est le risque du métier... et ce qui ne te tue pas te rend juste plus fort, alors je vais recommencer une convalescance, donner tout ce que j'ai pour que ca aille bien et ca ne va que me rendre plus forte et me faire voir le snowboard d'une autre facon.

C'est maintenant le temps de m'inscrire dans un gym, faire ma physio recommandée et essayer de revenir au plus fort de ma forme....

Spain day 6!

Oups, Once again I didnt wake up to my alarm this morning, Got woken up by the front desk at noon cause I had to check out. Afterwards, I went to the restaurant just by the hotel and got some breakfast... Not the best.. It was scrabble eggs with shrimps who really tasted like ocean! Anyway... I only had 3 more hours to go visit town, so caught a cab to go to espagna center. took the Tour bus got to see a bit of everything, Barcelona Is so nice! It looks like an old gothic town.. And It also looks like skate 3! theres random skate spots everywhere its pretty sick! I didnt get much time to visit, too bad cause there was soo much to do. Its gonna be for an other time! Barcelona's airport is the nicest airport I've seen. There a big shopping center inside, so I went shopping for some gifts for everyone! Im now stuck in Germany for 14 hours. So got to kill some time! Its awesome! Cant wait to be home after a long week!

Spain day 5!

So today is the Slopestyle Semis and final! Its the nicest day yet, Its sunny out and warmer then every other days!
The finales went pretty good! everyone were killing it, unfortunatly none of the girls from canada made it in the finales... They all killed it tho! The course was sweet, but really icy and hard so hard to land everything. The Top 3 girls runs were amazing... Enni Rukajarvi 1st, Sarka Pancochova 2nd & Shelly Gotlieb 3rd. And for the boys... Canadian boys did pretty good! Julien Beaulieu got 5th and Robbie got 6th.
Right after the finale it was time to pack... Then we all ended up at the lounge and drank some cerveza on Julien's.... Thanks for that! Everyine was having a good time! Time to leave for Barcelona. about 2 minutes after we left, bob's car started overheating, Wow... this is going to be long and interesting, Kind of glad I wasent in that car!! haha we stoped at a gas station and he got it figured out after 45 minutes of fucking around... Jesse saved the situation! We got some road beers and kept going! HaHa!! funniest car ride ever, jesse singing, there was some ass showing and some stops on the side of the road to pee. I never been this close to explose ever in my whole life... haha! The last pee stop wasent the best tho, We were 7 of us peeing on the side of the road, In barcelona, on the side walk... then the cops showed up... haha Thanks god Jesse knew how to speak spanish, And he saved the situation again! Finally got to the hotel at about 11 Cheked in in our room then went downstairs to go drink some beers with the boys before everyone leaves. Ended up walking around Barcelona trying to find a bar to go to... Isint Europe supose to be tons of bar open forever??? It took us a while to find one, It was a karaoke bar Maybe a gay bar, we werent too sure... haha! played pool there for a little while and tryed to not get in trouble with some weird guy... Anyway! It was a fun night! Time to go to bed and visit Barcelona tomorow!

Spain day 4!

So my day kind of started early... Wel last night I felt assleep at around 8pm until 1am and couldn't go back to sleep afterwards... so I stayed up until 5 am, Missed the brakfast this morning and had to rush to the hill at noon. Did a lot of bus ride to get wherever I had to get but it ended up that the Qualifications got canceled due to high wind! It was soo cold and windy. So I went back to the hotel and we went to visit some more stuff! :) It was kind of a castle town, Really sweet, Took tons of pictures there, The sketchiest road ever to go there tho. But were alive! HaHa. Had lunch in a fancy little restaurant there. Lots of fun! Then came back to the hotel, Had a little interview with "Youth Olympic group" in the cold weather. It was alright tho!
OMG, the best to come... We went and had a Chocolate caliente in that little pub.... IT WAS MELTED CHOCOLATE in a cup, not hot chocolate... the best!! It was soo good! I love Chocolate!
So now that I drank that at 11 pm Im gonna try to go to bed... not... not gonna work! Got to stay up so it dosent do the same as last night!

Spain day 3!

Today was a tourist day! I got to see around town a bit!
My new friend Sony, a local here, brought me to puigcerda and we walked around the town and took tons of picture. Then sat outside of a little pub and had a beer in the sun! Lots of fun!
It was also the Halfpipe final so we went and watched that! It was pretty good! Really cold and windy tho!
When I got back, the knee was really swollen from walking around all day so I got some acupuncture done to it and some more physio. It was awesome. I love needles..... NOT!

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Spain day 2!

What a day!
So we woke up at 9h30, Late for breaky so had to rush downstairs to get some of the food they had left in the buffet! (bread and fruits). Time to scrape our boards and heading up the hill! they have some sick 6 peoples chair lift here, and you scan your pass yourself, It's pretty sick! So we get to look at the course on our way up! It's a really long course shape in S with lots of features! Looks like a lot of fun.
First run, Everyone checks out the course, check the speed..... Second run, I hit the first couples features, first jump.... then Bang, Knuckle and have a really big pain in my front knee... Got sledded down the hill, took a mini ambulance and got it checked out and tapped! That was not what I was expecting for my first day riding here at all...
Ho well I got some good physio to check it out and the team doctor. Hopefully it gets better fast so I can ride for the Qualification.

For now, Im just gonna be a tourist and check out spain. Ha yea, I made some friends who works at our hotel so there gonna go show me around tomorow! Should be fun!

Spain Day1

 

Jan 17th 2011
7h30 am Time to say goodbye, My roommate Mars dropped me off at the airport, Got to catch a short flight to Calgary, to after get on an other plane direction Franckfurt, Germany. Best Plane ride ever, It lasted 9 hours but Had some pretty good meals, and free booze and Toblerone the whole way! :) Germany's airport was soo huge, and I had to walk across the full airport twice to go buy a spark plug adapter. (Work out of the day) So I arrived at the Barcelona airport 18 hours later... + 9 hours of time change so it was 1h30 pm. Met Sam Denena and elliot her coach there then waited for Ben and Diane to come pick us up, With an awesome 9 seats van! That vane is the best... haha
Then we had to drive north out of Barcelona, La molina. The dive is verry nice! Barcelona is Gorgous, Tons of old and weird building. After a two and half hour drive, we found our hotel and got all setup and ready for tomorow, It's time to have some food, wax the boards and shower and go to bed. Ready for the first practice day tomorow.

World Championship in la molina, Spain

Jan. 9, 2011

CANADIAN HALFPIPE TEAM LOOKING TO EXTEND MEDAL-WINNING STREAK AT 2011 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Freestyle snowboard team announced for the 2011 FIS World Snowboard Championships

Canada~Snowboard is pleased to announce its roster for the freestyle disciplines of the 2011 FIS World Snowboard Championships held in La Molina, Spain, from January 14-22. Over 370 athletes from 44 countries are expected to partake in this most important event outside of the Olympic Games.

Canada will be represented by seven riders in the Olympic discipline of halfpipe (HP), eight riders in slopestyle (SBS) and four in the big air (BA) competition.

The 2011 World championships will be a historical event as it will showcase the discipline of slopestyle (SBS) for the first time. The discipline is currently under evaluation for Olympic inclusion by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)

The halfpipe crew of seven includes five riders who competed at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as two riders with previous World Championships medals.

The team will be guided by head coach Leo Addington of Vancouver, BC and technical coach Abram [Abe] Teter of South Lake Tahoe, California.

“We’ve had a good season so far, aligned with the objectives that we gave ourselves. The riders have had good training camps recently, and will be competitive at the Worlds in La Molina,” said Leo Addington, Head Coach of the Canadian Freestyle Snowboarding Team.

Brad Martin of Ancaster, ON, Justin Lamoureux of Squamish, BC and Derek Livingston of Aurora, ON will be riding the men’s halfpipe contest.

Martin, 23, is the defending Canadian champion in halfpipe. Martin has five World Cup podiums under his belt.

Lamoureux, 34, who posted the best Canadian result at the 2010 Games with a seventh place, is the 2009 World Cup champion, winning the Crystal Globe in men’s halfpipe last season.

Sarah Conrad of Halifax, NS, Alexandra Duckworth of Kingsburg, NS, Mercedes Nicoll of Whistler, BC and Palmer Taylor of Collingwood, ON will be competing in the women’s contest.

Nicoll, 26, will be looking for a solid performance after her strong finish of the 2010 season. Nicoll placed fifth at the 2010 Games, tying the best ever finish by a Canadian halfpipe rider in the women’s contest, and went on to podium in the last two FIS World Cup events.

Conrad, a veteran of six years on the Canadian snowboard team, started the 2011 season on a good note by finishing eighth in halfpipe at the US Grand Prix in Copper, Colorado this past December.

Taylor, 18, is the defending Canadian champion in women’s halfpipe.

Canadians won medals in halfpipe at the last three World Championships -- all three medals in the Men’s contests. Both Martin and Lamoureux have won medals at World Championships – a silver medal won in 2005 at Whistler, BC for Lamoureux and a bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Arosa, Switzerland for Martin. Jeff Batchelor of Oakville, ON won silver at the 2009 World championships in Gangwon, Korea. Batchelor will not compete at these championships as he is focussing of completing his education.

CANADIAN PODIUMS AT WORLDS – FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDING
2009 – BATCHELOR, Jeff – HP – Silver
2007 – MARTIN, Brad – HP – Bronze
2005 – LAMOUREUX, Justin – HP – Silver

Japan’s Ryoh Aono and China’s Jiayu Liu are the defending World Champions in the men’s and women’s halfpipe, while Markku Koski of Finland is the current World Champion in big air.

The alpine snowboarding (PGS, PSL) and snowboard cross (SBX) teams will be announced at a later date, prior to the World Championships.

CANADIAN SNOWBOARD TEAM – HALFPIPE – WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
WOMEN
CONRAD, Sarah (Halifax, NS)
DUCKWORTH, Alexandra (Kingsburg, NS)
NICOLL, Mercedes (Whistler, BC)
TAYLOR, Palmer (Collingwood, ON)

MEN
LAMOUREUX, Justin (Squamish, BC)
LIVINGSTON, Derek (Aurora, ON)
MARTIN, Brad (Ancaster, ON)

CANADIAN SNOWBOARD TEAM – BIG AIR – WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
MEN
BEAULIEU, Julien (Lac Beauport, QC)
LEBLANC, Alexandre (Beaupré, QC)
GRAY, Harrison (Newmarket, ON)
STONE, Zachary (Thornbury, ON)

CANADIAN SNOWBOARD TEAM – SLOPESTYLE – WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
WOMEN
DENENA, Samm (Orillia, ON)
DUCKWORTH, Alexandra (Kingsburg, NS)
RACINE, Marie-Andrée (Brackendale, BC)
RUDGE, Diane (Thornbury, ON)

MEN
BALHARRY, Robby (Canmore, AB)
BEAULIEU, Julien (Lac Beauport, QC)
CATTON, Elliot (Collingwood, ON)
STONE, Zachary (Thornbury, ON)

HIGH PERFORMANCE STAFF – FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDING
ADDINGTON, Leo (Vancouver, BC) – Head Coach
TETER, Abram [Abe] (South Lake Tahoe, CA) – Technical Coach
JONCAS, Robert (North Vancouver, BC) – Director, High performance
M’SEFFAR, Nadia (Vancouver, BC) – Manager, High performance

The 2011 FIS World Snowboard Championships will be held in La Molina, Spain from January 14-22, 2011. Over 370 riders from 44 countries will be expected to compete in the six disciplines: snowboard cross, parallel giant slalom, parallel slalom, halfpipe, slopestyle and big air.

Canada~Snowboard is the governing body for snowboarding in Canada and is committed to high performance excellence in World Cup, World Championships and Olympic Winter Games competition, Canada~Snowboard provides a wide range of programs and support services for long term athlete development and riders at all levels of snowboarding.

In 2010, with support from LG Electronics, RBC, Ripzone International, Own the Podium, Sport Canada and other valued partners, the Canadian Snowboard Team won three Olympic medals, three FIS Crystal Globes and had 33 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup podium results. For more information on Canada~Snowboard and its provincial and territorial associations, visit: www.canadasnowboard.ca.

http://www.sbcwomen.com/news_article?news_id=592

Lamoureux, Racine to compete at World Championships | Local News | Squamish Chief, Squamish, BC

First big contest of the season, after a long rehabilitation from knee (meniscus) surgery. The knee is now strong and ready for some more riding!

This was feature in the Squamish chief,
JANUARY 11, 2011

BEN LYPKA
BLYPKA@SQUAMISHCHIEF.COM
The Canadian roster for the 2011 FIS World Snowboard Championships will have some local flavour after it was announced that Squamish's Justin Lamoureux and Brackendale's Marie-Andrée Racine both made the team.

Lamoureux, 34, will compete in the halfpipe event at the World Championships, which run for nine days beginning Friday (Jan. 14) in La Molina, Spain. He posted the top Canadian men's result at the 2010 Olympics, finishing seventh in the halfpipe. He is also the 2009 World Cup champion, having won the Crystal Globe in men's halfpipe last season. At the 2005 World Championships in Whistler, Lamoureux won the silver medal.

For Racine, it will be a unique opportunity as her event, the slopestyle, will be on display for the first time in World Championships history. The discipline is under evaluation for inclusion at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Slopestyle involves an athlete performing tricks in the air as well as on rails and boxes. Unlike racing, there is no clock and competitors are awarded points for the style and difficulty of their run by a group of judges.

According to the team's head coach, Leo Addington, the team should be more than ready for the event.

“We've had a good season so far, aligned with the objectives that we gave ourselves,” he stated in a statement. “The riders have had good training camps recently, and will be competitive at the Worlds in La Molina.”

More than 370 athletes from 44 countries are slated to take part in the sport's most important event outside the Olympics. Squamish residents Maëlle Ricker, an Olympic champion, and Tom Velisek are slated to compete in snowboard cross at the World Championships, which are scheduled Jan. 14 to 22 in La Molina.

http://www.squamishchief.com/article/20110111/SQUAMISH0101/110119996/-1/squamish/lamoureux-racine-to-compete-at-world-championships

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