The city in the desert was holding inline skate competitions again, and receiving Rollerman at Zhongning.
Three armors in china.
For the first time in the history, China was hosting 3 BUGY ROLLIN suits in the same time. FREEZY and XiaoLong were meeting Jean Yves Blondeau as Rollerman. They drove outside in the desert to find roads for rolling together.
It was looking like a western movie where the COWBOYS would have worn futuristic BUGGY ROLLIN armors. Trucks are very big in China. So we had to be very careful to share the road with these monsters.
Show with three BUGGY ROLLIN Rollerman at Zhongning
Performance has been made by Jean Yves Blondeau on stage and then he join Freezy And Xiao Long on the floor in front of the public. The rest of the evening has been spent as stage training. Next day all three went to celebrate the popular speed race with children.
Pictures of Rollerman at Zhongning
video of Rollerman at Zhongning
In the group of athlete that were here for competition, some came from Iran. Among them, one was very friendly : Roya. She walks like Kylie Minogue and has forgotten to be silly. She speaks fluent French and studies engineering.
For the second time, goes Rollerman at Xichang 2016. With happiness and expectation, this is another emotional travel.
A new Rollerman at Xichang 2016
Xiao long was receiving his brand new Orange BUGGY ROLLIN follows at XiChang. It was nice to have training together with Jean Yves during the long hours of competition.
Back to friends
The biggest expectation for Jean Yves Blondeau to come to Xichang is to meet his friends again. The first days he was not able to contact them. But as soon as he could get together again, the Sunny sun shine came back. Best fixer, Sunny bring back his friends with him. Robin was able to run on the side of Jean Yves as he was going down the streets of old XiChang with BUGGY ROLLIN suit. Miss Trump always carry good mood. Mr Bear keep fidelity. BinBin the cousin is always curious.
Lake and old city
firstly we spent time near the QiongHai lake. Then we visited the sloppy old city. We went outside the city to ErWu in order to find long perfect floor downhill. and finally we went to fire festival. Fire festival is a very special cultural event of XiChang. It goes only for a pair of hours. It transform completely the city. No word can clearly explain. just go and experiment it.
Rollerman at Xichang 2016 go freeride.
Thanks to Sunny and his friends we could secure the cross roads of old city in the purpose of making fast video in narrow streets. Also they made possible to escape the center of the city and film with BUGGY ROLLIN around. there is so much more to film in they area.
Pictures of Rollerman at Xichang 2016
Meeting the beautiful dancer was maybe one of the most beautiful present to receive in XiChang.
During two dances a magic complicity immediately crystallized between her two people. During the festival, the fire burns hearts. Even though he is fiery and ephemeral, his bite stays a long time.
Nor should we forget this ceremony of the The which was a mythical and magical experience. The magic tea drunk under the conditions of concentration and favorable breathing is a gateway to the breath of the dragon. If you want to know more, write to us!
For the first time in the world Jean Yves Blondeau bring a suit with Ice Blades in bob track. Rollerman on ice at Sigulda is another epic adventure. Designing the blades, chose a metal, make them cutting by laser Jean Yves had to work in a very short window. Then he had to update the prototype in order to fix some ice vibration issues. After proposing solution Jean Yves Blondeau made tests in ice hall. The next days he jumped on the ice of the Bob Track .
Rollerman on ice at Sigulda keep progressing
Création comes by work . In every thing making progress is making effort. So stepping on the ice was not easy. And there is still a lot of work to do.
2016 was the year of the most beautiful show of Rollerman at Shanghai and Lishui. In Shanghai Jean Yves Blondeau and his “9 Dragons” BUGGY ROLLIN wheel suit had show at the opening ceremony competition and also at the in line skate dance competition at people square in the center of the city.
Jean Yves Blondeau came as Rollerman at Wuhan to make show in Happy Valley. There was a freestyle competition. It is the third time that Jean Yves make show in happy valley. Happy Valleys are leisure parc like Disney land For China.
Art connection with Rollerman at Wuhan
This time the volunteers came from an art school. It consequently made a direct connection with Jean Yves who loves art. So friendship came instantly. Among the volunteers Milou pop her personality up.
Stage and parade
Not only Jean Yves made show on stage for slalom competition, he also made parade with all the skaters in the parc. At the end, they made a big dance show on central stage.
Jean Yves Blondeau and Danny Strasser decided to go BUGGY SKI at Lech Austria, in order to make BUGGY SKI video. Since Danny never made any BUGGY SKI video it was a need to do so, and perhaps get as much success as the famous SWISS PASS film.
Conditions
The weather was nice. But the snow was melting too soft and heavy . So it was difficult to ride BUGGY SKI.
Pictures of BUGGY SKI at Lech
Here is a film by Danny Strasser about BUGGY SKI at Lech Austria
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Rollerman at 24 hours of le Mans Roller. He made show in the village, ran the parade with BUGGY ROLLIN wheel suit. And during the night he made some show at the stands to cheer the riders up.
There is a long time that Jean Yves Blondeau was not invited on speed skate event. we went in several marathons in Germany and Lyon. Reconnecting the speed skater friends is great. Specially when many old downhill skaters build speed teams. So it was a bit like a lost family meeting.
Here are pictures of Rollerman at 24 hours of le Mans Roller
After the test of BUGGY ROLLIN suit by Freezy in April and Xiao Long in Zohngning, they decided to order their own Armors. With this intension, Jean Yves Blondeau Spent the summer in the work shop to build the Chinese new BUGGY ROLLIN armors. For Xiao Long Jean Yves made a very special Orange color by his friend Greg of Aix T Tic car paint.
On the other hand Freezy choose a black suit.
Nine Dragons
Jean Yves also worked on his new nine dragons concept armor. The idea in this suit is to be coherent with the lycra under armor. This Lycra suit had 9 dragons designs and messages in latin, germain, french, english japanese and chinese. The graphic design should go up and under the shells. It is a full art concept. From drawings the dragons in a traditional way, graphic design work with including gothic typographies, and wrapping the suit.
The best BUGGY SKI hit video was at Festigliss 2016.
Jean Yves Blondeau at Festigliss 2016 met Jim. The purpose of festigliss is that people can try alternative way of sliding on snow. You can understand new winter sports. The presence of Jean Yves on such event is to show that the future of ski already exists by making all around the day BUGGY SKI demonstrations.
So making video was not the main purpose. But the opportunity to go with jim made a very nice result. Jim is the video maker of La Plagne . Together they made a short presentation of BUGGY SKI. This short video has been watched 25 000 000 000 times on facebook.
Here are some screenshots of BUGGY SKI Festigliss 2016.
After a successful meeting at the office of china.com, Rollerman decided to make a happening on the Great Wall. Moreover, it is a symbolic way to make BUGGY ROLLIN and Rollerman belong to Chinese culture.
China.com and RCI Radio Chine Internationale
We made agreement with china.com to build up a communication plan for the promotion of Rollerman in China. At RCI we had interview with journalist and French – Chinese language teacher Xiao Tai. Later we found the books of her chinese lessons.
Great wall
When Rollerman decided to roll on the great wall with BUGGY ROLLIN, He chose to use the black “Tiger and Dragon” armor. The team of china.com helped and took video. Emilie was the translator. She is cute beautiful nice minded and speak almost perfect french. Therefor her contribution was highly appreciated.
Not an Easy riding.
The floor is made of bricks. There is so many people stepping there that the bricks are completely concave. In view of the floor irregularity, it was very hard to roll. There are also a lot of stairs and water channels which are crossing very often. So much that, it is almost impossible to make a continuous downhill without prior preparation of the floor.
The pictures of great wall
meet the police
At he origin, we made the mistake to make video just under the CCTV. So the Police came and started to make trouble. Even if we had representatives of Official media with us, They did not want to hear us.
Video of rollerman at the Great Wall
conclusion
Practicing BUGGY ROLLIN on the great wall is a very special experience. Thus it was a nice day, and a nice shooting, until police arrived.