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21 septembre 2022 In

A decade to reinvent a new life 2012 – 2022

Reunion Island & Grand Canaria – 2012 to 2022

TO LEAVE & LIVE AGAIN

In 2012, after the death of my friend Matthew by a shark attack, in Reunion Island, I realized that I had to leave Reunion and to reinvent me. It’s been 10 years already that I arrived in the Canary Islands and my life has changed for the better.

Enjoy this video which quickly summarizes my journey since my arrival in the Canary archipelago. I took on challenges, I got joys and successes and I will always carry with me the link I have created with the Canaries
The moral of history ? Never give up, search and find a plan B.

Edited by Cristian Antunez @vgbnd.media
Supported by
@bodyboardsniper
@amauryacademy
@mundo_surf
Thanks to all video makers for their shootings.

30 décembre 2021 In

MY TRIBUTE TO EL FRONTON – video

Gran Canaria, Galdar – 2021

OBSESSION, EL FRONTON

Every morning, when I wake up I see by my window El Fronton, my neighbourg, at the bottom of the seascape.

I take the binoculars to see how the wave behave.

This incredible wave is one of the most dangerous spot in the World.

Some people would say it is my Obsession… I would probably agree.

But, it is a sane obsession that makes me stronger and aware,
that makes me realise the beauty of Mother nature.

PREPARING MY BODY & MIND

If I want to be able to ride this wave at my best level, I must be at the best physical and mental level.

For this, I need a severe discipline. By having the most healthiest routine, I stay alert to watch the beast’s awakening.

Enjoy this awesome clip that mixes amazing footages of riding and discover my daily training.

You can see that I am not exhausted in training. I am regular, competitive and I progress day after day.

Every time I ride these majestic and powerfull waves,

I realize how lucky I am to be here,

I celebrate the beauty of the ocean.
All my body and my senses are awakened.

Fimed and edited by Sunay Film Maker.

Supported by @bodyboardsniper @amauryacademy @mundo_surf
Duration 3min 28

24 avril 2021 In

PURE OCEAN ENGAGEMENT

Sardina, Gran Canaria – March 2021

A WATERMAN & AN OCEAN LOVER

For me the Ocean is life, a moving life. It’s a source of well-being, It gives rhythm to my everyday life. It’s my practice ground,my playground, It’s what makes me feel better everyday. The Ocean represents 70% of the planet and 97% of water on earth. But the ocean is in danger with over-fishing and plastic pollution…
It’s a big challenge, we really need to take care of it.

In 2021, I decide to join the Pure Ocean, a French endowment fund created in 2017. Its main mission is to support innovative applied scientific research projects around the world, contributing to the protection of fragile marine ecosystems and biodiversity. And it is also a sports races and challenges promoter.

MY ENGAGEMENT & CHALLENGES

As a Pure Ocean ambassador, I want to raise awareness about science actions and innovations supported by Pure Ocean. They are big innovative scientific projects for Ocean protection and biodiversity. I also want to highlight projects supported by Pure Ocean and thus increase their reputation.

As a Pure Ocean ambassador, I will rely on both Amaury Academy and the World tour.

AMAURY ACADEMY & PURE OCEAN

For the first time, in March 2021, I have presented Pure Ocean projects and actions to the kids of my Amaury Academy. It has taken place in Sardina (Galdar, Gran Canaria) during a bodyboard course for kids aged 6-10. We are filmed and Interviewed by the France TV National broadcasting reporters, Eric and Mourad coming from Paris.
I explain to the kids attending the course the importance of caring for the ocean and the role that each of them can play in this challenge. Then I gave them a little bracelet « I am a Pure Ocean lover » just before we all declare in spanish : « we are Pure Ocean lovers » then we threw us into the water for class ! Thanks to Eric for the pictures.

I want to continue developing my Amaury Academy around the world, to keep on transmitting my values to all the young people who love bodyboarding and love the ocean.

In the educational context of my bodyboard classes, I want to make them understand the importance of the ocean in their lives, and the urgency of taking care of it.
I will organize not only beach cleaning, for example, but also presentations of scientific projects and I will involve local actors in the countries where I teach.

MY RACE FOR PURE OCEAN

Besides financing research projects, Pure Ocean also promotes races and athletic challenges, with the objective of drawing maximum attention to threatened ecosystems
and highlight the importance of protecting them. As an athlete and two-time world champion, I also want my journey on the IBC World Tour to be a Race for Pure Ocean. You will hear about it !

Let’s hope that after Covid, sports and international competitions will resume, for the good of all !

More about AMAURY ACADEMY World Wide – AMAURY ACADEMY in GALDAR

More about RACE FOR PURE OCEAN – ENG / RACE FOR PURE OCEAN – FR

More about PURE OCEAN – ENG / PURE OCEAN – FR

6 décembre 2020 In

2010-2020 Ten years ago, the Bodyboard World Title ceremony

A splendid ceremony for the World Tour

In early December 2010, at the Tao Club in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, there is a very special event about happening.
Indeed, the IBA staff and the local producer of the event have organized a fantastic party. It is time to celebrate the 2010 IBA World Champions.
Isabela Sousa, Brazil is the 2010 IBA Women World Champion, she is an incredible rider with many titles and a big skill ont he waves.

El Confital, Gran Canaria (Spain) is the last step of the 2010 World Tour. The days before, all the professional riders have competed for this last step of the World Tour.

I am so proud to celebrate my this world title. For the first time in the history of professional bodyboarding an European rider his holding the World Trophy.
France is entering the legend and Reunion Island too !
I feel so proud and happy.

A glamourous moment

The cocktail and the dinner take place in a beautiful and perfectly decorated reception area. There are about one hundred guests. It is a sort of a dream.
Terry Mac Kenna opens the ceremony in a tonic and joyful speach.

My mother and my grandparents have come from France as well as Gilles and Béatrice, my uncle and aunt flying from Marrakech.
As a French ambassador, I decide to wear a tuxedo for this exceptionnal occasion. My grandpa brings me his dress shoes. My mother gives me my father’s cufflinks made of gold and opaline. It is a rare moment, something new for me. I feel confortable and elegant but inside my mind and my soul, I feel moved and blissed.

Thanks to all people that make the moment unforgetable.
A big stand up for the IBA International Bodyboard Association
A big thanks to the Canarian organisers of this exceptional ceremony.

VIDEO my 2010 year on the World Tour in search of my title as a world champion : every contetst, my victories, my interviews and the ceremony. Video edited by FocusProd. Don’t miss it.

3 novembre 2020 In

2020 – FRONTON KING – One podium with special conditions

Galdar – Gran Canaria, October 2020

A big suspense for me until the end

This competition is quite different from all the others with the constraints of the Covid atmosphere.
This Fronton King competition is the only one of the 2020 IBC World Tour that has just taken over the reins of the World Tour.
The protocol is very strict, there is no public and you must wear a mask as soon as you get out of the water.
These are pretty special conditions for all of us. With the strict travel conditions, few international riders come as Pierre-Louis Costes, Maxime Castillo and a rider from Costa Rica.
Some Spanish riders are there with a majority of Canarian bodyboarders. These local riders really raise the level of the competition.

IN MEDIUM WAVES

On the edge of the cliff, the site of the competition is empty, very secured, it’s quite strange. No noisy crowd…
The competition is broadcast in live.
The wave conditions are quite good, with some lay-days to catch the best waves.
I lead my series with determination and I find myself in the final with Lionel Medina, a local rider.guys at his level in the Canary Islands.
Throughout the final, he shows maturity and concentration by surfing above average. He has a good strategy and he knows how to stay calm.
When the bell announces the end of the series, we are tied for the score : we have the global wave-points. Lionel having scored the best wave of the heat, I let him the first step on the podium

MY POSITIVE REACTION

At the Fronton, I’m the man to shoot down, it raises the level of motivation of my opponents …
Some people are surprised that I’m happy for him but they don’t really know me.
Of course, I am disappointed not to get the first place, with such a close score.
But Lionel is a young man who is come so far and he deserves to win this first place.
I react positively and realistically to his victory. I like to see new talnets comoing out and defying me.
I really that in 2021, the Fronton will once again receive the entire elite of the World and local BB.
With the exalted public, at the top of the cliff… and no more masks.

Leer el FRONTON KING 2020 en ESPANOL

Lire le FRONTON KING 2020 en FRANÇAIS

21 février 2020 In

2020 – A Sea Soldier on the Waves

Gran Canaria, Galdar – On late 2019

HOME BIG FRIENDLY RIDING SESSIONS

I have been riding for eight years now on these incredible Gran Canaria’s waves.
I live and I ride like a sea soldier in Galdar, with a strong troop of local soldiers too.

TRAIN & ENJOY GOOD WAVES WITH ME & MY MATES

Filmed and edited by: Nicolas Nachaj
Music: Pirates by Ombra

1 avril 2019 In

2019 – Secret Spots in Canary

THE PLEASURE OF SECRET RIDING

I was riding an amazing swell on a sister island in Canarys

Filmed by: Daniel Meana
Edit by: Daniel Meana

1 mars 2019 In

2019 – Emotion on a Secret wave

At Lazarote – On a secret and sad spot

2019 CANDY BARRELS

IN MEMORIAM

I WANT TO EDIT THIS VIDEO AS A TRIBUTE TO SANTIAGO CRUZ LUIS.

I am just on the way for a nice free bodyboarding session, with my friend Rafa Medina.
After walking pretty much two hours down the hill, we finally arrive closer to THIS secret wave.
This moment has been in my mind for a long time. It took me a long time to share this terrible happening with you.
This day will be remembered as a dark one in the Canarian bodyboarding history.

SOMETHING WRONG

As we are getting closer to the spot, Rafa and I can see a boat in the channel and we firstly think there is someone fishing overthere.
As we arrive at the location, there is no one out, no boat and we imagine it is too dry to surf.

Anyway, I decide to go in the water and while I am getting changed, a girl comes to me saying that I should take care as it is super dry. She tells me that a rider touched the reef just before we arrive.
I go into the water and realise that it is actually extremely shallow so the ride may be impossible or really dangerous.

SOMETHING DRAMATIC

I am surfing for about one hour by myself and as the tide is getting higher more riders arrive as Rafa and few other local guys. Then a man shows up in the line up saying that the rider that has touched the reef few hours before has died from his injury. We are all shocked but we still do not know who is this rider.

When I go back on the beach, later in the afternoon I have like 20 « missed calls » on my phone as people knew I was around.
I finally find out that the rider is Santi, a great bodyboarder from Tenerife. I cannot not believe it.

I remember the sensations I had when I was surfing alone, I was thinking by myself that things happen so fast when Life has decided it is your time to go…

Always in our heart. Ride in peace Santiago Cruz Luis.

Filmed by: Daniel Meana
Edited by: Daniel Meana

8 janvier 2019 In

2018 – Riding my best in Canarys

Let me ride my best in my playground

Enjoy this short clip when I am riding at my best level in The Canarys where I am living today.
This is the beginning of a big year for me. Not completely involved on the World Tour but totally engaged in my surf…

Filmed by: Alejandro Morán, Jesus de León, Ardiel Jiménez, Igor Sánchez, Pyramid Art Prod y Victor Bilbao.
Music: Chop Off by Future vs System Of A Down
Edit by: Alejandro Morán

16 avril 2016 In

BEIN Sports TV – EXPRESSO – VANESSA LE MOIGNE

Paris, February 2016 – BEIN Sport studios

A LIVE TV SHOW

Early in the morning, my agent and I arrive at Bein Sport, a national Sports TV channel.
I am the guest star of L’Expresso, the sports morning show hosted by Vanessa Le Moigne.
I am very happy to see that bodyboarding is in the spotlight, Vanessa Le Moigne is a very professional and funny animator .
The live show is based on reporting about bodyboard, on personnal interviews and quizz with many personal questions.
There is also a sport challenge with a bar training session and a cooking show in live. Enjoy !

Thanks to the Expresso Team for this welcome.
See the pictures of the backstage and the stage.