Team Mattia Molnar | bastard

The 2011 edition of Positivity camp takes off tomorrow. The Positivity Camp is a non-profit snowboard camp located in the most exclusive resort in the Alps; it takes a good couple of hours of mountain path walking to reach it. But when you reach the camp you’ll be alone in a breathtaking location, Val Formazza, with a private skilift and a snowpark that gets shaped everyday.

Info and contacts
11 to 26 giugno Rifugio 3A – Glacier Siedel – Val Formazza
positivitycamp@gmail.com

Mattia Molnar has finally found the perfect way for filming his Bosco Gurin sessions.

Simple, handy, affordable and ecologic; the drone (the unidentified flying object close to Mattia) allows the same filming angles of an helicopter but without the noise, it’s incredibly small and it doesn’t need gasoline to fly. Basically you can produce breathtaking footage without bothering nobody.

Good job Mattia, always caring for nature and others.

Very good news from this august! Two brand new Lazy Riders just arrived on this planet. I’m talking about Mattia Molnar‘s daughter and Marco Lambertucci‘s son.

Great job everybody and welcome to Giulia and Jonathan!

Boy, such a long weekend up there in Gaverland! After a series of quite unfortunate events (avalanches, broken roads and postponed events), we finally succeeded in the Safari Session, the Electric Team Photoshoot. During the winter we added up quite a few riders in the Electric roster, hence the idea of the photoshoot and some filming. The tranny was built by Mattia Molnar with the help of Gigi Gas and his brand new Everest. The kicker that came was 8mt tall (26ft) with a 6mt (20ft) gap, raised landing and a nice steep bumpy runway.

Tobias gap - © Daniele Kaehr

Who showed up and what did they do?

On Easter Sunday, Mattia and Tobias Sherlin open up the jump fearlessly. Mattia shoots out a couple of frontflips while Tobias celebrates the warm spring sun riding in sunglasses, no gloves and no jacket, simply killing it. New jack Matteo “Whatza” Borgardt, shovel in his hands, builds a wall on the landing and starts a series of handplants in the jump gap. And watching him ride the park rails was awesome. Kinder, landed in haste from London, rested for almost the whole day saving up energy for power 360s in the golden hour.

Stefano Kinder Carini in the golden hour

On the skiers front, Massimo Kikko came back on the big jumps after ACL surgery. Knee and tricks getting along perfectly! Paolo Martinoglio killed it, and we could see why he’s in the european team! We sure didn’t expect a 15 year old busting big moves like those. Mark this name: Denis Battisti, supercool young Obereggen local.

Denis Battisti

For the records, Mattia lands a 720 cork, then takes his girl on (litterally!) and rides down the mountain to the parking lot with the “passenger”, followed but their trustee dog Doremi. Family time (best image of the whole photoshooting)!

Monday morning up at 5am for catching the crazy lighting before we had to go. As the sun starts rising the session starts off. Kikko abandones due to evident hangover matters, Pedrazzi the swissman abandones due to evident crazyness matters. So only Kinder and Paolo keep on riding and make this early session worth the rude awakening. The sun is now all the way out, it’s 8 am, time for breakfast and the ride home.

Paolo Martinoglio Flatspin at sunrise

Thanks to: Electric, bastard, Gaverland and the locals, Daniele Kaehr, GroS, Riky Felderer for the photos, Simone Salvatori for videos, all the riders for the tricks and good luck to Lukas Goller that injured his knee before the session. Here a small photogallery with the guys attending the events, for more infos and pictures stay tunes on Snowboard mag, 4Skiers and snowbox.

On the cover of Entry # 22 Mattia Molnar is doing a front flip indy. Inside there is a good interview with our suisse rider. The interview by Taz is about the feelings of Mattia for the snowboarding scene in Ticino Switzerland, and his true love for the mountain… He speaks about the Intol Crew project and how he sees himself in the future. Boiler did the shoots and he did a very good job.