LA CORNICHE ANNECY, FRANCE

PHOTOGRAPHY by RÂM LEGRAND // WORDS by VALENTIN SULCE

We’ve been friends since a young age, all coming from Annecy and the suburbs. We started to hang out together at our local skatepark a long while ago. Thanks to skateboarding videos and photos, little by little, we started to get interested into the DIY culture. Since a long time we got the idea of building a DIY spot. We started to build our rst piece of curve under a bridge wich was right away taken over by a tribe of gypsies. This made us really frustrated. Then during the lockdown, we were thinking about this concrete platform lost in the forest near by our skatepark, where we used to hang out away from the crowd. To us it was evident that this would be the perfect place for our next DIY spot.

During the lockdown, we had nothing else to do than give Life to our new project. Later on we could show to the rest of our crew the rst super rad pirate quarter we made with less than twenty bucks. As the rest of the crew got involved, we quickly started to build another couple of inclined planes and a short curve with it’s extention even steepper than the rst one. None of us has ever worked in a construction domain, so we had to improvise at all times.

Our dude Râm was really motivating us by constantly making footage of the spot before it eventually got destroyed by the cops. To our knowledge this is the rst DIY spot in Annecy.

Unfortunatly by the end of July, a group of crackheads installed their camp on our spot, but and after some dealings with them they disappeared over night and left behind them loads of garbage and dog shit, but funny enough, before leaving they took our concrete and lled a hole in one of our curves.

This is about it, with our short building experience we are now deadly motivated to make it way bigger.