Photo Recap: Sport Achat, January 2024
Sport Achat now boasts the largest collection of winter sports brands under one roof in Europe. With all the major brands exhibiting, snowboard hardgoods were well represented. Brands such as Capita , Bolle , Black Diamond , Dragon , Eivy , Giro , Nidecker , Nitro , Rossignol , Gnu , and many, many more were exhibiting next season’s kit. Visitor numbers increased by 5%, compared to 2022 .
SOURCE visited the show in its new home at Alpexpo in Grenoble.
Check out our photo recap below.
Alp Expo - the new home for Sport Achat in Grenoble
Welcome to Sport Achat, France's leading winter sports show
The Registration team
SportAir's Mathieu Kurtz
The entance inside the hall
Around the show
Around the show
Around the show
Around the show
Around the show
Around the show
The full program of seminars covered a variety of subjects
Lunchtime
After hours booth drinks
Mood board: Upcycling and forever lasting
Mood board: Biotech
Mood board: The Meta Realm
Academy's freestyle Propaganda
Agence Meyaclo's Fabrice Chardon
American Socks' booth
American Socks' Reaper, a thermolite snow sock
American Socks' Burek brothers
Aphex's booth
Aphex's Maarten van der Laan wearing the Orion goggle, with a magnetic lens. it also comes with a goggle protector
Arva's booth
Arva's Clement Valentin
Arva's EVO BT search and find Beacon
AZR's booth
AZR's Damien
AZR's in-mould Chromic Orion with integrated visor
Barts' booth
Bataleon's Surfer with a new tail shape for easier turning in the pow
BCA's booth
BCA's stash backpack with BCA's new logo and look
Bent Metal's Transfer with 24/25 graphic
Black Diamond's Julien Dabat
Black Diamond's Temperature freeride bag with shovel pocket
Bliz's booth
Bliz's Emmanuel De La Teyssonniere with the Matrix which has an adjustable nose pad
Boardriders' booth
Boardriders' Cedric Choisnard
Boardriders' Guillaume Artigue
Boll'se booth
Bolle's Alexandre Isreal
Bolle's X Fusion is an eco design helmet with an integrated visor
Cairn's booth
Capita's Navigator with a real wood topsheet
Cardo's booth
Cardo's communication system can interconnect 15 units up to 5km apart
Cebe-Racer's booth
Cebe-Racer's Florent Katchikian with the Extra Vision sunnies
Chatex's snowboard and ski repair equipment
The Creme Fraiche zone
Creme Fraiche zone - ADN
Creme Fraiche zone - Natural Artisanal Local
Creme Fraiche zone -GoodLoop
Creme Fraiche zone -Lynkx
Creme Fraiche zone - Prolong's Tanguy Frecon
Creme Fraiche zone -Raised Together
Creme Fraiche zone - Skwal Thias
Creme Fraiche zone - Zufo
Dakine's booth
Dakine have launched a helmet line for 24/25
Dakine's Pascale Kaiser
DC's new double Boa Phantom
Deeluxe, Salomon, Bataleon, POW, Shred, Rome and Slab Distribution's booth
Deeluxe's freeride Deemon Pro with double BOA and custom thermo liner
Devold's booth
Devold's Jean-Marc De Cloitre with Merino silk fleece
Dragon's booth
Dragon's DX3 Plus with 2 lenses and armoured venting
Dragon's Sam Nelson
Eivy's booth
Eivy's 100% recycled polypropylene Retro Inca jacket
Eivy's Remi Trehand and Etienne Perdrix
Fix Bindings' RB1 has new highback and ankle strap
FullStack's Olivier Garcin
Giro's women's freestyle mips Tenaya helmet
Gnu's Banked Country with progressive sidecut
Gogglesoc's booth
Gogglesoc's Perrine Gammac with the Gogglesoc Pro: A larger size Gogglesoc for larger lensed goggles
Goodboard's Apikal has a traditional shape combined with an updated construction
Gotcha's booth
Gotcha's logo t-shirt
Gotcha's Thierry Wolf
Hilx's multisport Savage sunnies with photochromic lenses
Hilx's Nicolas Montagny
IZIPIZI's booth
Izipizi's price point, traditonally styled Glacier sunnies
Jones's entry price directional Frontier
Julbo's booth
Julbo's Lucy LaCroix with the Launcher google and Hyperian helmet, both new for 24/25
Juyar's Lionel with Flash sunnies, 50% of the frame is made from castor oil
K2's Alban Gahlam with the Almanac, a true freestyle pintail board
K2's booth
Kari Traa's Johanne jacket with an eco bionic finish
Kask's helmets offer an in-built bone conduction audio system
Kasks's Lucca Cristofoletto
Knockaround's sunnies and goggles are now distributed across Europe by Sample N Co
L1's 4-way stretch 20/20k jacket
Level's booth
Level's Eighties leather glove with neoprene cuff
Level's Jean Burnet
Lib Tech's Austen Sweetin po model the Off Ramp
Loubsol's booth
Loubsol's Benoit Nussbaum with a LS7 photochromic toric goggle
Mission's concept store
Mission's concept store
Mission's concept store
Mission's concept store
Moken's booth
Moken's Pierre la Gall with the Hawkins Vintage glacier sunnies
Mons Royale's booth
Mons Royale's women's full merino Cascade
Never Summer's all-purpose Norkhu with triple camber
Nidecker's new powder Mellow from the Surf series
Nitro & L1's booth
Nitro's Julian Escoffier with the all-mountain directional twin, Prime
Northwave have redesigned the Decade, now with an EVA sole
Oakley's booth
Oakley's Francois Surel with the Line Miner Pro, which comes with 2 lenses and a magnetic change system
Ortovox's light weight touring Switchback
Ortovox's Marc Bechet
OSBE's booth
OSBE's Chiara Caselli
OSBE's Sirius helmet comes with a removable inner
OSV's award finalists display
Out Of's booth
Out Of's Electra
Out Of's Wilfred Richard
PAG's Paul Obermosser
PAG's prototype all-season Lifelayer, a baselayer launching soon
Palla's freeride Zeitgeist, for women by women
Patrick Bourgeois with the Borealis' Auriga with sintered base
Picture's booth
Plum & Hilx's booth
POC's booth
POC'S Benjamin Romted
POC'S Jeremy Jones collab, the Fornix mips
POW, Rome, Bataleon & Deeluxe's Frederic Bertrand
POW's Wayback GTX short glove has a gortex membrane
Prolong's care and repair management software for brands
Prosurf's booth
Prosurf's Philippe Waldberg
Prosurf's top of the range jacket with D30
Protest's booth
Protest's Anais Cuissard in the Layla snow jacket
QBL's snowboard and ski racking
Quiksilver's Sammy Carlson, a 3 layer Goretex jacket
Raised Together's crew
Red Bull Spect's Nicolas Melin
Red Bulls Spect's entry level google
Rehall's booth
Rehalls's 3 layer fuly taped jacket
Rehalls's Ronald Smits
Ride's booth
Ride's Thibault Audouard with the Moderator, a simpler version of the Deep Fake, that is more accessible to all levels of rider
Rip Curl's price point womens 10/10K jacket and bib
Rome's all-round Stale Crewzer with Eye of the Storm graphic
Rossignol's booth
Rossignol Snowboards
Rossignol's Vincent Lonchamp with the Revernant, which has increased camber for 2024/25
Roxy's Lunalite, a 3 layer Goretex jacket
Salomon's classic EDV binding
Sample N Co's Guillaume Marage with Sofa poncho
Sample N Co's Maui
Sample N Co's Olivier Lambling
Showroom LE 13, the combined booth for Gogglesoc, Sweet Protection, Mons Royale and Cardo
Sidas' booth
Sidas' new insole has side walls with 3 different heights to fit all shapes and sizes
Signal's Compass has 3D base for faster edge to edge
Sinner's booth
Sinner's Cyrille Dosba with the Mont Blanc, a fully vented helmet and visor system
Smartwool's Samuel Ferrari with ultra thin 50� merino wool sock
Sportpulsion's Francois Mleczko, Fabrice Piccamiglio and Julien Audin
Sportpulsion's booth
Spy's booth
Spy's Alexis Ratajczak
Spy's Megalith has a photochromic happy lens
Stance's Star Wars collab
Sweet Protection's booth
Sweet Protection's lightweight Switcher, with both injected and ABS shell
Thermic & Sidas' Anne-Charlotte Alonso
Thermic's Tignes ultraride glove has battery powered heating
Thirty Two & Volcom's collab with double BOA
Union Falcor Travis Rice pro model with asymetrical highback
United Shapes' booth
United Shapes' Seb Malesson with the Object, with a carbon stringer
V7's Charles Legay
Von Zipper's Capsule comes with a foreplay fast release mechanism
Watts' booth
Weston's freeride Backwoods comes with 4 year warrantry
Yes' freestyle jib board, the Halldor Extreme
Zeal's booth
Zeal's Cloud 4 XL with a photochromic polarised lens
Zeal's Marc Rollin and Sebastien Rey
Zero G's Martin Green's last show