BIO

Name: Robin Durand
Hometown: Gap
Current Residence: Grenoble
Sponsors: K2, Whiteout, Smith, Adio, Risoul
Local Resort: Risoul
Years Snowboarding: 10
Set-up: Board: K2 Darkstar 160, Bindings: K2 Auto, Boots: K2 Darko
Stance/angles: Stance max, +15/-7

STATS

If you offered you one free wish what would it be? I would want the snow to melt at 15°C.

What mythological creature would you most want as a pet? A dragon, but I think my garden is too small.

If you had to eat the same thing for the rest of your life what would it be? Pasta: good taste, healthy.

Biggest influences in your life and why? Mother and father of course, who can have a biggest influence in your life ?

Top five songs of all time? David Bowie – Space Oddity, MGMT – Future reflexion, Radiohead – Paranoid Android, The kinks – this time tomorrow, Joe Dassin - Les Champs Elysees

What do you drive? Your wife

Goals for next year? Your wife

Would you rather see a ghost or an alien? Alien

Name your poison? Potassium cyanide

Blondes or Brunettes? Brunettes

Coolest trick in snowboarding? Having fun with friends

What is one thing you do to help preserve our winters and save our environment? I try to not use my car so much; I use solar energy at home, I use city transportation any time I can. I don’t think it’s enough.

Best trick you can do that is not on a snowboard? I can do a Flaka windsurfing.

If someone wrote a biography about you what would the title be? Robin or the decline and fall of the french empire. Don’t ask me why, that’s not me who wrote it.

Favorite non-snowboarding activity: Windsurf, kitesurf, travel and videogames

K2 Snowboarding in one sentence: Make your dream come true!

Last words: What about you?