Philippe Bataille

29 years old

Snowboarder - skater - Photographer - Cameraman

PRESENTATION:

Philippe is an extremely polyvalent snowboarder...He has holded a strong mountain-man and freestyler experience, with a traveler experience

 

After a few years in La clusaz and Chamonix, he spent a few seasons in La Grave where the medias started to get interested in this kid that has performed many technical runs by mixing freestyle engagment with mountain counsciousness (trifide 3 by including acrobatic tricks, Y couloirs in 3 turns, etc...Those kind of sessions permitted him to contact sponsors and represent them all around the world, throught different medias and differents events...(Alaska, Caucasus, Australia, New Zelande, en Scandinavia), since 1995.

Now, philippe is organising his own expeditions and projects, and can feel as well at ease in a snowpark as in a refuge lost in a deep valley.

He has also leraned to use professionnal video and photo materiels in any mountain conditions, and so can bring to your company more than his athletics competences: The originality and quality of his "pictures and video shooting work.

This last winter, he has been responsible for recruiting a crew of athletes, and then has participated with them as an athlete to a movie make in chamonix for some japanese compagny.


Of course,if you sponsore him has an athlete, he doesn'nt shoot himself in video, but he is working with his roped-party friend: Nicolas, mountain and extreme skier who has the same knoledge (photo dia, video 16mm, 8mm et Béta) and from whom you can see the competences by cliquing here or by visiting the cosmic-ride's picture galery.

Philippe is constantly connected with the mountain world and always has in his magic bag some expeditions and filming projects, that he can describe to you more in details in an interview.