Summer of 2011

Best. Summer. Ever.

And it's still on. Going snowboarding in 2 weeks. Woooop woooop!!!
At the moment I'm working as a doctor's assitant and it's pretty fun but also exhausting, especially as it's so hot at the moment. But I really like the job!

Summer update

We're back from Indonesia!
We had a fucking awesome time and we're really sad to be back. Check the photos here.

Next event will be Swiss Championsships HP and BA in Zermatt in September!

Turkey pics

Just got some photos from back in February in Erzurum. Hard to imagine I was freezing at -15°C (!!) in Turkey and now I'm sweating at 35°C here in Switzerland..

Me riding in semi-finals

Corinne Suter

Coach Joe

Palandöken ski resort

The view from our athlete's village

Landscape

Double minarett

"5 more minutes...please?!"

LIPSTICK PRODUCTION
These girls kick ass!!

"5 more minutes...please?! - TRAILER from Lipstick Productions on Vimeo.

3 days with Diana

Turns out, that wasn't the last edit of the season after all. Last week, I got a spontaneus invitation from Diana Sadlowski, who lives in Innsbruck. So I went there on Tuesday night and we straight drove to Ramsau where we could stay at a lovely house with some of the Lipstick girls and some Slovenian boys. We stayed at Dachstein one day and it was really good. I've wanted to shred that perfect rail line there for a long time and it was as great as I expected it to be.
The next two days, we stayed in Innsbruck and rode in Stubai which is about an hour from IBK. Friday was Diana's birthday, so here's my little birthday edit for her. Don't expect too much, I turned out to be a lousy filmer and even lousier snowboarder that day.
So, those were my very last days on snow for this season... Thanks again, Diana!

Stubai Birthday Edit from Gina Somaini on Vimeo.

Last edit and summer preview

Winter's over!
I have a crying and a laughing eye, though. I'm very looking forward to this summer: first, of course, I have a LOT of studying to do again because this summer, I'll hopefully have my Bachelor of Human Medicine, YAY. Then, from July 11th until August 12th, me and Carla will go to Bali. I'll finally learn how to surf! We're really looking forward to that.
Carla has her entry test for Sports Science studies in Basel in July, so she'll be exercising a lot in the next few months.

The last edit for this season is ready, too. We didn't film much anymore, since there really wasn't any snow left. But there are some nice shots from Carla with pretty good FS7 attempts. Sadly, the GoPro battery was empty when we wanted to film some of her first backflips, so we had to shoot it with a cell phone :)
The edit also contains a few shots of me riding at the PBRJ Finals in Laax. Sadly, I didn't place at the Top 5, but nevertheless it was one of the best days of the season! I got to ride with Urska again and I met Ana Rumiha from Croatia, whose riding I like very much and she's a cool person! :) Plus, Joelle Juchli, one of my favourite people to shred with, got 4th and Mary Luggen from Austria, who's a really cool person, too, won! The level at the PBRJ was crazy high and it was such a joy to see that also the style in female jibbing is getting better. Thanks to everyone who was there and to Volcom for another awesome event!

Anyway, check out the edit and enjoy your summer!! I know I will!

Winter Wars teaser

This is the newest teaser from the American/Canadian girls snowboard crew "PeepShow". I can't wait to see the movie. They are always very inspirational to my riding.

Check it out:

and also: www.peepshowfilms.com