The other day we were able to catch Kostya Galata, the founder of Ride The Planet, the shops prorider Trial Activities boards Bataleon.
Kostya is the insane preparing for the exhibition project on their freeride trips Ride The Planet, solves a lot of issues, prepares displays and workshops. But, nevertheless, we were able to remove it from the Minister for a few minutes and ask tricky questions.
- Kostya, tell you long snowboarding? Why him and not skiing?
- Snowboarding came after skiing already 10 years ago. The main reason was a pretty tough knee injury at the ski freeride contest, missed the entire season in the mountains, surgery, crutches, recovery. The next season just bought a whole snowboard stuff and went to Elbrus for the season with a new shell for themselves.
Studied on the board itself, prompted little Elbrus guru. But more ugorayu me, and a couple of years after that after hearing - "Kostya - skier".
But seriously, after skiing on the board becomes faster. The experience, the dynamics, the understanding of the relief in the big mountains - simply transfer it all to a new shell. First week on Cheget and Elbrus I rescued myself on the board all that is possible, and in three weeks has climbed to the board by the same margins, ridges and routes that previously raced on skis.
- Snowboard - a shell that is more intuitive and more soft or something ...
- And now for me in absolutely no difference freeride - ski or board. Almost always in the company and on the set and just have a skating fan and skiers and boarders, we ski on the same relief, with the same dynamics. Just may be chosen on the same slope - a little different lines. And this is very individual. Those big mountain freeride and interesting to me - here everyone chooses his line.
- And how did you become sponsored rider?
- Sponsored rider was in 2005. First as a program guide freeride and heliskiing. A year later, after a successful performance at the Cup of Russia on Freeride (2nd place in the 2006 season), I was invited to the team Trial Sport. And in the 2007 contract, I was given the first board Bataleon :) Then another of the name almost no one in Russia knew. Since then I have them and ride.
- Where do you usually ride?
- It is better to look at my web site devoted to the project Ride The Planet. 10 winter-spring seasons spent in the Elbrus region, in my opinion - this is one of the best places in the world freeride. Some times in Kashmir, went in different areas of the Alps, in different parts of the Russian Caucasus, in Khibiny, in Georgia, in Kamchatka, in Norway and in the Lofoten Islands, Lebanon, Japan. Bekkantri Putorana Plateau in the Arctic ...
And very many beautiful mountains in the world was not.
- As far as I know, of the many boards that you offer, you choose Bataleon. How do these boards?
- For the last 6 years I have not had any occasion Bataleon change to something else. If only the wide skis.
Over the years, spending in the mountains on the board for 4-5 months of the year - I did not break any of its Bataleona. As a rule - they live to a ripe old age, and it is worth something.
And believe me, I'm not used the board to spare. And it is not possible to seriously engaging the free ride - first snow over rocks, sometimes hard and icy slopes, drop off cliffs without looking at competitions, swotting Staffa behind the rocks in the technical bekkantri climbing ... Well TrippleBaseTechnology all Bataleon - get used to the geometry immediately. But when used to - have no desire to ride on the flat shell.
First of all - the maneuverability and speed of reaction timber when cool, tough. And the soft virgin fields - you can ride anything, the fact.
In Bataleon annually in the line of 2-3 Bigmountain Freeride boards and their design is almost unchanged from a year to year. And it's good!
And in general, it is true that every season Bataleon in Russia are increasingly in demand.
- Thanks for the great interview, be sure to look for you on the show!
- You're welcome! I'll meet you on the mountain!
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