Skate Agenda 4/2014 | Page 34

The 2014 Championship has already started . How long does it take to put everything together . To organize a championship like yours? It's a big task to put everything together : skateparks, clubs, staff ( judges, photographer, cameraman, ...). But the most difficult thing is to communicate and to find partners for some money. Because I have to learn day by day. I don't have enough experience in this domain. How many people are involved for the organization ? Guillaume GANSERT, our president who always go the the meetings with the federation and tries to make them understand our identity and culture. We try to be more independant... Cyril FORCHERON, our french contests coordinator and Equipement responsible We also have other guys that tries to develop the other specialities (Slalom, Downhill, Mountainboard). It's not so easy to make every one work together. What about the sponsors . It was easy to find some this year . How was in the early years ? It's very difficult to find sponsors. But I think they trust in the new Commission Skateboard because of our new project that try to help skateboarding in the good direction for the base of the pyramid.