Three times champion of the Freeride World Tour, the Red Bull athlete between off-piste descents, climbing, mountain biking and… surfing
He doesn’t get along too well with the rules. For the “fault” of the rules it took him a while to find a precise sporting position. But then he did it. And with the rules, only hers and those of the mountains, she reached where no Italian freeride skier had gone before. For three years now Arianna Tricomi is the ski queen of Freeride World Tour, the adrenaline-pumping world off-piste skiing circuit that in 2019 also saw ours triumph Markus Eder . Snow is her element, as for her mother Maria Cristina Gravina, blue downhill and Olympic athlete at the 1980 Lake Placid Games; the air is the symbol of freedom, as for father Francesco, a former pilot of the Tricolor arrows and pilot of the scheduled flight that accompanied Pope Francis to Lithuania in 2018.
like an arrow in the sky
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“Paradoxically – he tells in front of a Capuchin in a refuge in Kronplatz, after recording a video on the slopes with Red Bull – my way of experiencing extreme sport is much closer to that of dad, even if its military stiffness clashes with my free spirit. But when I found myself competing for the first freeride world championship, it was his advice that helped me the most “. If her mother taught her to ski when she was not yet three years old, her father (who as a good Palermo driver didn’t have snow in his DNA) tried to help her manage strong emotions. “I remember just before the final he said to me: ‘I know that feeling, that sort of addiction to adrenaline. I understand you’. He, on the other hand, did crazy maneuvers with the Arrows, with incredible G forces and where you can’t afford not to be perfect “. And perfection, in his case, is inversely proportional to the rigidity of the training: “Experience has taught me that if the head is in place, the body follows it”. And the body is in perpetual motion, in winter and in summer.
between climbing, surfing and mtb
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“This year I discovered mountaineering climbing. I knew it was waiting for me and I just needed to feel the spark that ignites that fire. Now it is on and soon I would very much like to start a course to become a mountain guide “. Before it was surfing that put her in crisis: “I was training in the Canaries, I traveled a lot to follow the waves and I was even on the verge of leaving skiing, but then the call of the mountains took over”. Mountain lived at a thousand per hour even in summer, riding a mountain bike: “I like to ride uphill and then go downhill. There are many similarities with freeride skiing: even in mtb you have to be good at reading and interpreting the lines as quickly as possible “. All with a degree in physiotherapy that allows her to learn more about her body, recovery techniques and manage efforts. “It’s thanks to my father, it was he who asked me to finish my studies and now I’m grateful to him”.
world champion
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And just when he closed his university interlude and was able to concentrate only on skiing, his sports career took off. “In reality – he says – I discovered freeride quite by chance after abandoning alpine skiing and slopestyle because of rules and rhythms that took my breath away. The first races were the excuse to escape from university, but then I started to get results and, in 2015, I won the European title ”. And, without even knowing it, she entered the world elite of the Freeride World Tour. “Skiing off-piste gives you unique sensations because it connects you to the wildest soul of the mountain, the one I fell in love with when I was a child. The one that entered me and that every morning gives me a mad desire to wear overalls, boots and skis and draw the lines dictated by my instinct “.
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