Sport Achat Recap, Lyons, France, January 2023
Last week, SOURCE visited Sport Achat in Lyons, the last of the winter shows in Europe. As with the other events, brands were happy with the level of prebook for 23/24 with retailers placing their last orders as the February holidays start.
Enjoy the gallery!
Arrival at the Euroexpo hall
Front entrance
Registration
This edition's hall plan
Show organiser, Sport Air's Mathieu Kurtz
Sport Achat celebrates 20 years of shows
A Celebration product wall was built
There were many products displayed on turnables, showing today's products and the comparable product from 20 years ago
Snowboards from 20 years ago
Around the show
Around the show: lunchtime
Around the show
Around the show
Booth party at SPY
The Creme Fraiche zone at the entrance for new brands
Creme Fraiche: around the zone
Creme Fraiche: Black Lines' Benjamin Bernaby
Creme Fraiche: Black Lines' Quiksett system allows you to swivel your snowboard binding around so you can ride it like a skateboard when you're on the level
Creme Fraiche: Everide is a 2nd hand platform for sports clothes and equipment. It is now in 8 countries
Creme Fraiche: Hilx is Nicolas Montagny's 4 year old Canadian optics brand
Creme Fraiche: Hilx's Samuari allows you to swap the sunglass arms for a strap, converting the sunglasses into goggles
Creme Fraiche: Raised Together founders Leo and Lena Arnault
Creme Fraiche: Raised Together's Falconery is a sport lifestyle sunglass part injected with plastic and part acetate
Three of 100Percent's signature line
100Percent's Simon Barbier
686's Pacome Allouis
After Essential's super comfy Sofa Poncho
American Socks' Olek Burek
American Socks' punky Guadaloupe sock to celebrate their 10th year
Aphex's booth
Aphex's bio-based Konka with removable side guards
Aphex's Tom Howells and Marteen van der Laan
AZR's Damien Didier
AZR's Proton with ABS and fitting system
Bataleon's x Beyond Medals new shape has been designed with a ski dancer featuring on the base
Bent Metal's collab with Gnu new for 23/24
Binocle's black and white lifestyle piece
Binocle's Nicolas Pezier, Soufyane Foudel, and Severin Cairon
Bolle's Eco RYFT pure Mips helmet. Most components have been made with eco friendly materials
Bolle's Alexandre Isreal
Cairn's booth
Cairn's Air Vision with anti fog lens release mechanism
Capita's Arthur Longo pro model new for 23/24
Cardo's booth
Cardo's Geza Maklary
Dakine's booth
Dakine's Filmore Gore-Tex short mitt for everyday use
Dakine's Jenna Maister
DB's bags booth
DB's Ella Moracchioli and Lisa Savy
DB's snowboard bag has a carry strap that enables you to adjust the size of the bag to your board length
Deeluxe's Aeris, the new Kevin Backstrom model
Eivy One Piece in leopard print
Eivy's Erwin Priol, Etienne Perdrix, and Remi Trehand
Flow's NX241 crew binding
Giro's Tenet with fit system, Mips, adjustable ventilation, and removable ear pads
Gnu's classic cambered Head Space, designed by Forest Bailey
Gogglesoc's display wall
Googlesoc's Peace and Love, part of a 40 piece box pack
Greenbush's Suncare Lipstick made from shea butter and caster oil
Greenbush's Jules Datommaso, Axel Liard and Stephane Ducos
Icebreaker's Mathilde Cottet-Emard
Icebreakers Zone Knit Insulated hoodie in 100% merino
ISPO's JC Marchionni and Veronika Gstoettl
Jones' ultra lightweight Butterfly
Julbo's booth
Julbo's Lightyear has a mechanism that pushes the lenses out from the frame to increase ventilation
Libtech's freeride Jack Knife, Eric Jackson's pro model
Loubsol's Dan Eros and Ann-Law Peyre
Loubsol's Size S goggle with Toric lense. Made in Italy
Ludi Sports' Mathieu Dammas
Mammut's booth
Mammut's new shorter airbag backpack for smaller riders
Mammut's Philippine Belon
Mizu's M8 insulated bottle, to keep hot hot and cold cold
Mizu's Pierre-Charles Fayolle
Mons Royale's Cascade 100% merino base layer
Oakley's Emmanuel De La Teyssonniere with Mod One Pro with Boa, Mips, and ventilation system
O'Neill's GTX Psychotech freeride Gore-Tex jacket
O'Neil's Jean-Baptist Aumont and Patrice Lugros
Out of It's booth
Out of It's Electra goggle with instantanous photochromic lens
Out of It's Letizia Gallo, Davide Desiati, and Wilfred Richard
PAG's bestselling Neck Pro Air Grid will be manufactured in France next year
PAG's Paul Obermosser
Picture's Gama is its most advanced outerwear line and comes with Xplore membrane
Picture's Greg Loveton
Plum's booth
Plum's Albert Felisaz and Thomas Denais
Plum's Pierre Berthier with the new Fario for intermediate to expert riders
POC's Baptist Auclair
POC's freestyle multi-purpose Caylx helmet comes with neck warmer
Racer's Inside glove has Kevlar on fingers and palm for added protection
Racer's Pierre Daniel
Racing's booth
Red Bull Spect's Reign comes with 2 new good weather lenses, one Toric and one cylindrical.
Red Bulls Spect's Nicolas Melin
Rehall's booth
Rehall's Ronald Smits with the Dennis, a fully specked men's snow anorak
Rome's directional twin Renegade with classic camber, Rene Rinnekangas pro model
Rossignol's booth
Rossignol's Vincent Longchampt with the Juggernaut. It has added flex for 23/24 and new Park Cities graphics
Roxy's all-mountain XOXO with twin directional tips
Salomon's all-mountain women's Bliss board for the more experienced rider
Sample N' Co, Libtech, Roxy, Bent Metal, Gnu, and After Essentials' booth
Sample N' Co's Olivier Lambling on the right, and Gunnar is on the chair
Sena offer helmets with inbuilt headphones and microphones
Sena's Gregory Onalise and Alexis Vincent
Shred's frameless Gratify with contrast boosting lens
Sinner's Boreas with sintrast lens technology, toric lens, and OTG compatibility
Sinner's Cyril Dosba
Slab Distribution's Frederic Bertrand (Deeluxe/Rome/Bataleon/Salomon/Shred)
Smith's booth
Smith's Silvain Faivre with the unisex freestyle Method helmet, with Koroyd. It can also take the Alec audio system
Sportpulsion's booth. (Giro/Nidecker/Northwave/Jones/Flow/Yes)
Sportpulsion's Fabrice Piccamiglio
Spy's booth
Spy's Alexis Ratajczak
Spy's Megalith Weekender Big Foot model
Supermatix's easy entry, fast release binding. It works with all boots
Sweet Protection's wall
Sweet Protection's full carbon Grimnir
Thirty-Two Hybrid Diesel is Chris Grenier's pro model with BOA ankle tightening
Union Force's binding has new 3 layered base plate and bushes for extra dampening
V7 Distribution's booth(Union/Coal/Capita/32) booth
V7's Charles Legay and Jean-Marc Vaisette
YES' directional twin collab with Pyzel surfboards