AWAY FROM THE NOISE
CRONICLE I’ve always been into speed sports thanks to my dad. He was a car racing driver when he was young and he’d bring me to races when I was a kid and speed on the highway whenever there was an opportunity to. I loved every second of it and I still do. One of my earliest memories is from a race where I got to sit next to one of the drivers during a warm-up lap. It was so much fun. Speed has always been a thing that has cheered me up no matter what state I’ve been in. It makes me feel alive, excited and so awake. I think it’s what led me into boardsports.
LOVE OF BOARDSPORTS...
old and I broke my wrist straight away without actually noticing it. The tears didn’t arrive until I realised the injury would jeopardize my at the time current part in a big musical production of The Wizard of Oz in Stockholm that I had just landed. Since then I’ve broken my arm twice while snowboarding - the last time I managed to break it in three different places although I was wearing wrist protection. It’s the only board sport I’m still trying to accept my body might not be able to handle… Just a few months ago I managed to fracture my tail bone because of it.
I tried snowboarding for the first time when I was 11 years
First time I rode down a hill on a skateboard I was probably 54
about 10 years old. Then I got my own first board at 14. It was a really nice longboard at the time and it became a part of me - I brought it with me everywhere. It annoyed me when people started calling me Avril (which in my head translated to poser) in high school, but I was pretty good at laughing things off and not caring too much. At the end of the day, it’s what made my previous rock band and the best years of my life happen. One day in the school corridor, some boys at my school asked if I wanted to sing in their skatepunk band just because they knew I skated. It kicked off a 6 year-long awesome adventure with some guys that became my best friends and brothers. When
