We decided to introduce you to some of the members of the Team and their equipment.
Fun facts , youth stories and influence in snowboarding: meet and get to know them by reading the article!
LOUIF PARADIS
His age: 33
Regular or goofy: regular
Favorite trick: Backside lipslide on a rail, method in the air.
Number of years of experience: I started in 6th grade of primary school, I must have been 10 or 11 years old. So a little over 20 years!
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride: I made my very first turns at Mont-Comi. Then I started riding at Le Relais every weekend. Otherwise, my brother and I had a setup in our backyard, and we often went to a park near our house.
Snowboarding Influence: My first movie that I watched 1000 months ago was Decade by Mack Dawg Productions.
Fun fact: The first time I reached the summit of Whistler, I realized my bindings were screwed on backwards.
Sponsor: Adidas, Dakine, Salomon, Smith, Stance, Boutique Homies
Board : Salomon Villain 158, Salomon Assassin 162 Binding: Salomon Highlander
Boots: Adidas Tactical ADV 
NIC ROY
His age: 25
Regular or goofy: regular
Favorite trick: A good old slash in the pow. They're rare for me.
Number of years of experience : About 17 years. I think I started around 8 years old.
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride: I had a chalet in Mont-Édouard during my childhood, so that's entirely where I learned to ride.
Snowboarding Influence: In my early days, I was really motivated by any snowboarding film I could get my hands on. When I started filming parts, it was really the Videograss, Nowamean, and Déjà Vu films that inspired me the most. Several guys in those films inspired me a lot: Jake OE, Jonas Michilot, Louif, Jake Kuzyk, etc.
Fun fact: I rode goofy for my first two years on a snowboard, only to realize I was reg.
Sponsor : Dinosaurs Will Die, Howl, Vans, Fix Bindings, Boutique Homies
Board : DWD maet 155cm
Binding : Fix binding x Bruners
Boots : Vans high standard
THOMAS FOLLY
His age: 26
Regular or goofy : reg
Favorite Trick: Fs 7 4 Ever / Touch All / Face Shot / FS SLASH / Go Fast / Show Must Go On!
Number of years of experience : At the age of 3 between my father's legs, since then I've been riding for 23 years and it only gets better with time!
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride: Mont-Lac Vert / Circuit Scolaire / Shake Down / Snowmission / Vali
Influence in snowboarding: HERO REGION!! DCP, Phil Lusinchi, FAFF, Claude-David, Victor Lusinchi, Joseph Roby, Nic Tremblay, Jonathan Tremblay, David Thiviège, Alexis Morin, Mon Père JF! Crew: VALYNX, BT-43, Beetle Gang, Mont-Bélu Crew, Un inc,
Fun fact: A very, very old urban legend claims that the Garden of Eden is actually hidden in Valinouet. The 12 apostles left 12 km to get there. A small sip, and that's it, and life is forever. Valinouet + Lynx = VALYNX
Sponsor: Ripcurl Canada, SPY Optic, Nitro snowboard, Homies, Top Notch Agency. #Fjord Distillery
Board: Nitro Beast 155
Binding: Nitro
Boots: Nitro
PHIL COUTURE
His age: 21
Regular or goofy: reg
Favorite Trick: Backside blunt 270 out (Blunt Begel 4 dayz!)
Number of years of experience: I started at the age of 7, so I have 13 years of experience.
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride: Valinouët and Mont Belu are the mountains where I learned to ride.
Influence in snowboarding: Nicolas Tremblay passed on his passion to me and that's no small thing! As for inspiration, there's definitely the Déja Vu crew, Nowamean/Bruners, Videograss and the boys from Saguenay in general.
Fun fact: I'm goofy on skateboards, so it's kind of cheating when I do a rail switch.
Sponsor: Capita Snowboards, Union Binding, Coal headwear, Vans, Airblaster and Boutique Homie's
Board: Capita Doa 152
Binding: Union Force (team)
Boots: Vans Hi-Standard Pro
ALEX GENS
His age: 22
Regular or goofy: reg
Favorite trick : a back 3 at the bottom in pow
Number of years of experience : I started at 5 years old, so 17 years old
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride: Mont Bélu, Whistler Blackcomb and Valinouet
Influence in snowboarding : My inspirations are as much great legends like Jeremy Jones as all the riders with whom I share my passion. Big love to all the riders (L)
Fun fact: mixed like a card game
Sponsor: jones snowboard, now binding, the north face, Homies boutique
Board : jones flagship 158, jones mind expander 154
Binding: now select
Boots: Vans Verse
XAVIER BOUDREAULT
His age: 23
Regular or goofy: regular
Favorite trick : A good Fs 360.
Number of years of experience : I started at 5 years old, so around 17 years old.
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride: Mont Bélu for the park during the week and Mont Édouard on the weekend!
Influence in snowboarding : mainly for riding with friends, the hype of going on trips with your buddies. Also for the personal challenges it brings.
Fun fact : I rode for a long time with jeans under my pants without realizing that it wasn't comfortable.
Sponsor : bataleon volcom snow, homies boutique
Board: bataleon goliath
Binding : Rome Targa
Boots : Burton Photon
PHIL PEDNEAULT
His age: 24
Regular or goofy : reg
Favorite Trick : Fs3 Indy
Number of years of experience : I started around 6 years old
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride : Valinouet aka best place in Quebec ❤
Snowboarding influences : Felix Gauthier, DCP, Faf, Claude-David, Nic Roy, Mark Tremblay, and Charles Reid. The films Follow Me Around and DCP's Part.
Fun fact : I started on skis in the Valinouet competition club. After being disqualified from a race where I had the winning time and arguing all season with other kids and the coach, I switched to snowboarding the following season. After that, I never thought about going back to skis.
Sponsor : Arbor, Tirthytwo, Dragon
Board: Arbor Bryan Iguchi camber
Binding : Arbor Cypress
Boots : Hirthytwo Team 2 XLT
Alexandre Vezina
His age: 22
Regular or goofy: reg
Favorite Trick : Sw Frontboard
Number of years of experience: 9 years (started at 13) your grass roots? Where did you learn to ride!:
Influence in snowboarding: Dillon Ojo, Louif Paradis and the films "Encore" and "Deja Vu" which are still as good even after watching them 100 times.
Sponsor: Homies Boutique
Board: arbor coda
Binding : cypress tree
Boots: deeluxe boots
Your grass roots? Where you learned to ride: Omiski, Dolbeau-Mistassini (Probably the smallest mountain you've seen, but lots of great memories!)
David Arsenault
His age: 21 years old
Regular or goofy: I'm regular, I ride a 157 cm with a stance of about 21.5-22.5 inches.
Favorite Trick: Backside 720 melon and switch backside 540 stalefish
Years of experience : I started snowboarding at about 4-5 years old, and I've been snowboarding for about 16 years. I started riding in the snow park at 14 when I joined Claude-David Gaudreault's snow sports study program. At that time, Nicolas Tremblay took me under his wing with Philippe Couture.
Your grass roots? Where did you learn to ride : I remember riding at Mont Fortin and I was so bad that I did 2 laps in one day... Without forgetting to specify that I took the small pole next to the chalet, but that it took me 3 years to get to the top because I fell all the time. I think I hiked more often than I took the chair ahaha!
Influence in snowboarding : What pushed me to snowboard was, among other things, the fact that I met my best friends with whom I knew I was going to ride for the rest of my life. We always rode together and always pushed each other to do new tricks. But I think the two people who helped me realize that I could push myself and improve even more were Nicolas Tremblay and Claude-David Gaudreault. A little while later I joined the Homies snowboard team and even if it's not the biggest Board Shop in the universe, it was the greatest gift for me. Just knowing that Alex Gagnon wanted me to represent his shop as an amateur snowboarder with Philippe Couture was just insane, no joke. We were given stock, we arrived at the shop and everyone knew who we were, in short it was really rewarding and I will never forget all the fun I had when I was in the Am/ies (amateur rider Homies). Now I am in the big league with Nicolas Tremblay, Philippe Couture, Thomas Folly, Jonathan Truchon, Xavier Boudreau and our new kid Alexandre Vézina (snowpark and street guys obviously)! I think that the times when I had the most fun and was the proudest of myself in my life were on snowboard with them.
Fun fact: At the 2018 Snowmission, after the finale I did one last jump except I overshot the sweet spot and landed on my face... I got a huge black eye. It was the after party 1h30 later... I looked like a fool. But I was cute anyway. I still managed to have an eventful evening...
2019-2020 Gear: I've always wanted to ride Burton, so right now I'm riding the Free and Deep Thinker (157cm and 163cm) and I have the white Cartels. An all-white setup with SLX boots.
