Date of birth: 05.22.1982

Place of birth: Annecy, France

Residence : La Clusaz

Size: 5'8"

Weight: 132 lbs

Favourite spot : La Balme in La Clusaz

Favourite riders : my friends

Favourite food : Nasi Goreng

Favourite music : Ragga, Reggae

Hobbies : skateboard, to make films

Best results : X Games slopestyle 2007, X Games super pipe 2002, Gravity Games 2000 big air, X Games 2000 big air, Freeride World Champion 2010

Candide Thovex knew how to ski as soon as he knew how to walk. And it shows when you see his ability on the mountain or in the park. Candide is kind of a revolutionary in the ski world. While others prefer to slide between stakes, he chose the freestyle path, first in Moguls (he became France's national champion of ski Moguls at age 14) and literally catches air between mountains. Because Candide is the kind of rider to throw himself from a hill to the other one, or off a cornice with incredible back flips and other insane tricks done with extreme risk. With all these senseless feats Candide became a ski icon in France, popular like few skiers were before him in France, relegating the pros of Alpine skiing to simple bodybuilded robots of mountain slopes. Though he looks frail, Candide is a ski genius with tremendous bravery, charismatic personality and a huge aura. Every product carrying his signature is a success as kids really identify themselves with this alternative sports super hero.

Visionary, Candide is the organizer of the Candide Invitational in his hometown of La Clusaz, a competition which gathers freestyle skiing and snowboarding best talents. An event just like Candide : modern, innovative and always the theatre of special feats. Thanks to this event, Candide Thovex changed the standards of modern skiing and showed the world that this sports not only consists in going down the mountain as quickly as possible to get the best time record. Smart with his professional approach of the sport, he carries out his own freestyle ski movies in which he's the hero like Special Delivery, Rastafaride and French Toast. Candide leads a generation of kids who dream to fulfil his performances.

For all these feats and his contribution to the sport, Candide Thovex is simply writing one of the most interesting pages of skiing history. His name could be inscribed in the annals of the sport next to Ingemar Stenmark or Jean Claude Killy in their Alpine disciplines. Candide is simply a look towards the future!