freeride video awards: hocus pocus!

[nikofransk]

Hello, I am Nicolas from http://www.cosmic-ride.com
I competed for freeride video awards AND for the vast awards.
I think that both of these awards are quite strange.let\'s start an interesting subject on this forum...Sorry if I take it in english,my swedish is not good.
If I am removed from this forum, and if the user "nicofransk" doesn't exist in a few hours...make yourself an opinion, users of freeride.se.
I have a few questions:
How can you organise a video awards were the winner is supposed to be part of the vast awards dvd, and make this awards finish the 21 of september, when , at this date, magazines have already received the official packed vast awards dvd (skieur magazine in france have received it 2 weeks ago, the chief editor of the magazine confirmed this information this afternoon to me!)?
Plus your awards didn't finish the 21 of september because you were late.

Second question:
Who is this winner of freeride vast awards , who supposed to have win september 21 st, and who is on the vast awards dvd since the 15 of september?

Third question:
Why didn't you published this winner on september 21 st, and why don't you speak any more about this video awards?

4th question
Why is the freeride video awards forum suppressed without knowing the name of the winners?

All this smells like some tricky business guies......

 

[johan]

Kul med lite konspirationsteorier. Tyvärr stämmer de inte alls.

Vinnaren av Freeride Video Awards kommer att vara med på nästa års Vast Awards tävling och dvdskiva. Som planerat.

Vinnarna i Freeride Video Awards kommer snart att publiceras på Freeride.

 

[Dustbin_Dan]

And in english...

Fun with a little area 51. To bad it dont make sense.
The winner of FVA will be on next years VA comp and DVD. As planned.

The winners of FVA will soon be annonced on "Freeride" (i dont know what that means in english)

My wish is that the crosscountryguys will be on next years Vast awards. (my comment)

 

[nikofransk]

ok , min misstanke var en misstag sen....Sorry for that.
let's say I didn't read well the conditions of your competition.

But don't go too far about "konspirationteorier"..you know the winner since more than one week.Why do you wait to publish the name?
Also, you have suppress the freeride video awards forum, where I and some other guies put posts where we were asking for the name of the winner...this is a fact.
So if you want to be really white like snow and turn my post into ridiculous, well, just think a little about your behavior .Otherwise, the konspiration teorier has maybe not a reason to stand, but I think I can aslk myself a few questions anyway, and share it with your community, as soon as I'm polite .

otherwise , youre irony about area 51 and konspirationteorier is a well known and easy method to chut the mouth of people who point on problems that are disturning too much.

I think anyway that behind your irony you know the freeride industry business because you are a small part of it... I used to be part of this business 10 years ago and I got kicked out not because of konspirationteorier, but because sometime, it 's not only about being a good rider, a good photographer, or a good cameraman...There are some other factors, so I think that according to the experience I had, I can say certain things, and it makes a sense...If you want to laugh at me, and speak about area 51 no problem for me guies...

I just express my feelings.If I'm wrong I apologize but I think it's better to say what I think then we solve the problem...If we are somewhere and I have a feeling it's an avalanche risk, shall I shut my mouth because I'm afraid my friends think I'm a paranoiac ?

 

[nikofransk]

By the way it started snowing on the summits in La Clusaz this morning!

 

[ernst]

^^oh my god did it?

 

[ernst]

najs! eng nice fr: typ tres bien

 

[nikofransk]

bara 5 cm men det luckta winter, tanke ja.

 

[johan]

I didnt mean to be rude. I am just saying that we are going to publish the winners on Freeride very soon. Winners chosen by votes of members.

We must finish where to show the winners before we announce the winners. I hope you understand this?

 

[Dave]

jag har älskat fransk-engelska förr, nu är jag totalt "head over heels" kär i svensk-franska!(speciellt i skrift) mera! mera! Vet du, nikofransk, vad ordbajsa betyder? tycker du gjorde det en del i senaste långa inlägget, men väntar dock på johans svar!

 

[nikofransk]

Daav: Ordbajsa? you mean shit is coming out of my mouth?
Well, guy, sorry if I do not speak you language correctly, or if you do not appreciate what i'm saying..
thanks for your answer Johan...I do not think shit is coming out of my mouth. I just express my opinion in a clear and polite way. I did a mistake and apologize for that, but I can also give opinons even if I have been wrong on one part of the subject.
why using the term ordbajsa? I don't understand Daav.it sound not very nice to me, but maybe I am again paranoiac. You don't have to take this subject so personnal man..It's funny how people can be so rude and ironic just because they are on an internet forum.
I prefer to express on an internet forum like I would do on everyday life, it's more fairplay.

 

[nikofransk]

or maybe ordbajsa is nice? hjälp

 

[nikofransk]

maybe min lilla swed-fransk 4 år son skull hjälp moi at understand dig, men nu sovar han.

 

[Dr_Snow]

Please, don't care about Daav's stupid comment. We all understand your english and respect your point of view, well at least I do.

Have a nice evening!
(And yes, we are all a bit jealous about that snow... )

 

[jonathan_chips]

haaha så jävla najs me svensk-fransk-engelska förresten bonsoir j'em appelle Jean et j'adore faire les skis!

 

[nikofransk]

Thank you Dr Snow. I do not belong to a generation that got good english teaching at school...And I do my best with swedish.
And about my point of view...well I can be sometime radical , it's the way I am.
But at least I don't speak behind the back of people and spread rumors.
I expressed a feeling and asked direct questions...and I had direct answer so it's okay for me.
Anyway, don't worry about this snowfall it will disapear tomorrow, but I have to say we have had 3 great winters here in the aravismountain range...so I pray this will continue.

 

[nikofransk]

Superbe jonathan, din fransk är just perfekt

 

[ChristofferAldell]

I agree with Dr.Snow!

 

[nikofransk]

Thank you for your support.

 

[ChristofferAldell]

Well Im not sure about what you are saying is true, im just saying that I respect your opinion, and that we are jealous about your snow :P I never really understood what you really where saying though ;(
Which one is your video in the competitions?

 

[nikofransk]

yes, no problem, this was what I understod. You said you agree with Dr snow, not with me, which mean you respect my opinion.
My video is "ride with honor and pride" you can still watvh it https://www.freeride.se/videoawards/player.php

What I say is maybe not true, but it is the result of some experiences I had when I was a pro rider riding for dynastar and rip curl international team, writing in ski magazines , meeting people in this business during events like ISPO in Munich, etc...

The 2 guies I made this video with are :
Arsène Gony: Winner for example in "grand raid" year 2004, 2nd in derby de la meije in 2004
philippe Bataille, winner for example in roldal in 2001
http://roldalfreeride.no/resultater/2001/

So we are now since 2002 amateur riders, fathers of children, workers in many businesses (car mechanic, woodworkers, etc...), and we do not come from nowhere.
So you may not understand the way I react, but you shall all consider that I have an experience of the freeride business and media. I didn't wake up in a bad mood this morning and decided to spread shit over an internet forum without any logical reason.....
Very recently We have not been selected in the vast awards and the vast awards organisation lied to us untill mid september without knowing that we where in contact with other teams which have been selected and informed in the beginning of august....So now we have decided to be very active to explain that even if it's about ski and having fun...We have to check people who organise these kind of contest were there is prize money, and things like that.

It doesn't mean we think everything is shit...But there is a middle way between paranoia and being naive..So no konspirationteorier neither area 51 neither ordbajsa ...just experience and logical way to survive.

 

[ChristofferAldell]

Oh yeah that film is nice. Good work..

I was in the VAST awards to this year, but I never heard a word from them ;(

/Christoffer

 

[Carled]

Great movie niko, but french rock is a big no-no... You guys should keep to producing ballads and hip-hop! ;-)

And stop defending your behavior and writings, you haven't done anything wrong the way I see it! Apart for deserving an apology from Daav...

 

[nikofransk]

Yep, thank you....I have to say that heavy metal is my sin.
In fact we wanted to do things really clean, so we contacted several groups.They were the only one who answered us, and even invite us to their concert. They gave us the authorisation to use their music with a big smile. None of the other more "soft" groups answered us, so this is how we've been choosing the music. Plus they are quite famous in France.
Christoffer, you never heard a word from them.It's apparently a normal behavior for this organisation sponsored by big companies, were there are people paid , an office in Stockholm, an office in Are. I got information from them by phoning them several times, and at the end (mid september) I had an answer from one of the boss who used to be the chief of riksgransen tourist office in 97 when I was there living in a tent for one month.i told hil wghat I was thinking about this situation (their website didn't work so we could not update information about our team plus we had no news from them, plus they didn't send me back a legal paper that prooves they have had a dv tape from our organisation). So it's because he could remember me, that I had some attention.and unfortunatly a negative answer in my e-mail box, the same day I phoned him. The guy of this company who is in charge of this awards said during 3 monthes that my mail box was not working, and by miracle when I raised my voice, it was working again.Plus in the beginning of september, he was still saying that he didn't have the answer from the jury when I knew at least on concurent who had a positive answer in the beginning of august (and by a strange hasard, he is a "semi" pro rider who regularly write in skieur magazine which is a partner of the vasts awards).

I think now you maybe start to understand my behavior a little bit more.
So christoffer, you and I are not being answered, but some guies are being answered they are selected in august. What are the selection criteria of answering or not?
I asked them, and they said they have crashed their database.

yeah yeah....

 

[Dave]

OK, sorry, nicolas, it wasn´t my intention to offend you, with ordbajsa i just mean that you wrote a lot - "quantity before quality", could have been shorter, but again, that might just be my point of view. Sorry again.

 

[nikofransk]

no problem Dave, it is just because i took my dictionnary and literaly traduct...But Someone explained me the swedish meaning of this expression this morning. I understand what you meant.

 

[FF]

Interestning thread... Will try and direct my friend, the conspiracy-theorist's looking glass at VAST:s direction. By the way, thanks for sharing your homepage niko! Some really awsome footage in there.