I've felt the need to ski for as long as I can remember.
I started skiing with my dad when I was 4 or 5 years old
Then there's a hump, and I'm going to jump
My father is Swiss-German and comes from Lucerne; my mother is Jamaican.
I was born in Geneva where I went to school. 0:00:56.799,0:00:56.399 I then moved to Verbier and have been living in a small village next to Verbier for 10 years.
Yes, it's a big melting pot, lots of things that have nothing in common.
But it all seems to have worked out in the end.
Sports and family life needs to be organized. It isn't always easy,
but my wife is very accommodating. She knows it's my career.
When I have to leave, I leave, there's no problem with that.
My wife and children help me a lot, and most importantly they support me.
Skiing and my family help me achieve balance in my life
and I couldn't live without either of them.
These are things you have to organize and it's not always easy to have to say,
"Ok, so I'm leaving tomorrow for 10 days." There's no preparation, it isn't something that's been planned,
so you just have to deal with it, but it's mainly my wife who organizes everything.
Did I think again about the risks after the birth of my two children?
Not really. I've had injuries and accidents throughout my career
I didn't want to injure myself then and I don't want to now
I think my skiing has developed.
I take on steeper slopes, ski faster and jump bigger obstacles.
It may look as if the risks are greater from the outside but for me the calculation is the same.
I'm not going to ski if the now conditions aren't good.
I think 10 years ago I would have said, "Yes, I'm going, it's good, it's enough"
But at the end of the day it's not so much about managing risk but more a matter of managing an injury and your body.
There's always a risk and we're all going to try and minimize it as much as possible
As far as injuries are concerned, physical injury comes with mental injury.
It doesn't happen for nothing, but it's often silly
I need to be surrounded by people when I'm injured. My family does that job very well.
The relationship with a film crew is more than just a working relationship
One side can't function without the other. You have to be perfectly in tune with each other.
Anything other than sport, anything you want to film, is put to one side
What does skiing mean to me?
It's indescribable. It means many things. It's a true passion,
all the traveling, the discoveries, the fear, the jumps, the emptiness, the cold, the snow…
You're stuck by so many sensations all at the same time.
If I had to look back on the first ten years of my career then the most important thing would be the fact that I'm learning all the time. I learn more every year.
I'm skiing with other people, as they show me new ways of skiing. That, for me, is endless.