The Speed Challenge

It came from three strong personalities and three mountain experiences. While talking about speed flying and mountain biking it came obvious that we needed to do something. We wanted to show our vision of the mountain and something fun. With Alex Buisse the photographer we started to plan this adventure, we had to be patient to have the perfect conditions and make the best pictures! After three week waiting the magic finally came, wing and bike were ready and clean, Alex managed his ammo and we started to walk in the new sun.


The challenge took place in Tito's home, Annecy in Savoy France, where they run the RedBull Element. La Tournette is a huge mountain with a technical trail for access, several cliffs and level. The view of the lake is amazing, in the background is the Mt Blanc and the rest of Aravis range. A beautiful place full of singletrack, a cool lifestyle and so an awesome place to live.


Our goal was to show the different way to ride a mountain, one from the air and one from the trail. Except that a speed flyer goes up to 70 kilometer per hour, hopefully Alex's camera is even faster. Alex Buisse is a talented photographer, young and enthusiastic this young man from Chamonix is constantly travelling around the world capturing the love of the passion for the mountain. Prepare yourself to hear more about him in the future.


For the shooting, timing was really important Antoine the flying man had to jump from a very sketchy place to be sure he can see the trail and the zone, after a stressful drop and take off the fly was fast and had to be precise, but even if the shooting was complicated the landing was important too! Antoine had to land on an opposite slope with blind parts, holes and rocks. While the shooting was easy for Tito, except that he had to hike his bike for a while to get to this nice slope. The terrain is so technical and steep but Tito could make a lot of part and in front of the surprised hikers he lost Alex and the camera and ended to the lake quickly for a swim!

Finally we met at the lake to have a look at the images, everyone was happy and we decided to try it again with another ingredient in a different season! We hope you will enjoy the picture and story and I inspired you as it inspired us.

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