Mike Gallart

RIDER PROFILE

-Date of birth: 27-02-1989

-Hometown: Taradell

-Home mountain: Porté-Puymorens

-Currently lives in: Osséja

-With BeXtreme since: 2016-17 season

-BeXtreme board: BeXtreme Twist

-Description: At 27, his passion for snowboarding keeps growing. As he says: “water doesn’t exist, it’s just hot snow”. Filming at all hours, his camera looks like an extension of his arm. Motivation and laughs, beers with no rush and jumping off cornices! With his signature “rodeo”, big spins and the sparks flying off the rails, he guarantees fun and good snowboarding in all the videos we’ll see this season.

-Favourite trick he can do: I love handplants and can do a good 540 bs shifty, rodeo japan and a laid-out backflip. On rails I love 360 fs out indy grab and 270 in fs hardway to 270 out.

-Favourite trick he can’t do yet: I’m working on a big 360 fs double shifty and I’d like to land a 1080 bs melon grab. On rails, it would be nice to get the 360 fs out japan grab, a nollie bs tail 270 out and a frontside lipslide to pretzel out.

-Interests/hobbies outside boarding: Climbing (mostly bouldering), unicycling, travelling, archery, writing, reading and mushroom picking. He works as an optometrist.

-Advice: “Let things come to you” and “we are the champions”. And one in my native language: “canalla no us deixeu enganyar; els reis són els pares”.

-Instagram: @miikiimiikee

-Facebook: Miquel Gallart