One world, one full movie… check out the Rip Curl team in this season’s shred flick Welcome Home II.

Rip Curl’s team of shredders are a diverse bunch from across Europe and beyond, and this season’s Welcome Home 2 follows some of their big guns welcoming other members of the team to their home mountains. Now, after 4 months of regular webisodes, Welcome Home II is ready to be broadcasted worldwide in full!

Welcome Home Vol. II was the second chapter of our riders’ adventures on the Search mission. Once again, Rip Curl joined forces with French Kiss Production and Freestudios Creative Media Production to release this brand new snowboarding movie. Our team visited fellow riders around the globe to find those backcountry gems that dreams are made of. The movie showcases riding in Argentina (Matti Radaelli), Germany and Austria (Elias Elhardt), Switzerland (Martin Seiller) and finally Sweden with the legendary area of Riksgransen.

The riders wanted to go back to the essence of a ‘feel good’ road trip and found themselves in lesser known territories, spending a lot of time riding out of mountain refuges. This proved to be the way to get the best out of their skills, as you will see…

“To have my team mates and friends over at my house is always something very exciting. You end up asking yourself if they’re going to behave like on a ‘normal’ trip, meaning riders spreading their stuff all over the house and procrastinating on the dishes… But in the end it went smoothly, we had a blast on and off the snow (après-ski!). It’s really cool to guide your friends around your own riding area and show them the house where you grew up.” says Elias.

The film crew was as always made up of Julien Mata, Olivier Pictet and even got Jaime Benicio as a rooky. For photos, the cream of the crop once again consisted of Rémi Petit, Eric Bergeri, Matt Georges and is completed by the emergin talent of Jérôme Tanon.

They had to put it all out to come back with the best pictures and film, Olivier coming in first place with a puke-athon (seven times!) during a heliboarding day… unforgettable!

This third chapter is a real blast! The Swiss recipe is quite simple but dramatically effective: pick seven fresh and motivated riders: Elias Elhardt, Rémi Lamazouère, Martin “zizi” Seiler, Victor Delerue, Darius Heristchian, Emilien Badoux and Mati Radaelli; sprinkle them with sick pow lines, huge backcountry sessions, and pour the final touch to spice it up: a perfect heli trip that will remain in some minds for a while…

“I remember how stoked we were as our heli took off and headed directly to some untracked mountains. We were like small kids in a toy store before Christmas. We had such a blast that day, and I can still see Olivier (our filmer) puking out of the helicopter. Fun day with friends, powder and sun back home, that’s how snowboarding should be. Good times…”, remembers Martin Seiler.

And Elias Elhardt adds: “The Heli Trip was a crazy experience. Doing this for the first time in my life was a dream come true. I will never forget the moment when we took off and flew very close to those big mountains to scope out lines. The snow was perfect and the options endless. It was good to share this great experience with my team buddies Darius and Seili. Being on my snowboard, going down my line, I forgot about everything and only felt the pure joy of riding. In the end, every one of us had two super long and fun lines. Seili was ripping his spot!I guess dedication and passion for something enables us to do things that would normally never be possible…!”

For this first trip of the movie, Elias Elhardt welcomed his team buddies Janne Lipsanen and Victor Delerue to his home in the Allgäu and made them taste the sweet sound of the German powder. He was stoked to be able to show them his territory. “This year I had the honor to welcome the Rip Curl crew in the house I’ve lived in since I was born and show them my home resort. Throughout the shooting, I saw the mountains from a different perspective and also discovered spots I didn’t known before. One of my best memories was when we all jumped in the ice cold fountain in front of my house. That was so much fun! You should have seen the suffering face of Janne. Victor and I could not stop laughing”.
And the guys enjoyed it as well. Victor said: “It was the most welcoming trip of the winter. We stayed at Elias’s huge and very old  wooden house, surrounded by a lot of fresh snow. He opened the door and welcomed us like we were home, it was warm and friendly. My memories?  Big smiles and stiff legs.” And Janne was stoked too: “Elias’ home resort was awesome for powder riding. It is a small resort with only one lift but full of deep powder and nice spots.  I felt like we were in Japan, with lots of forest riding and powder sessions to be had… just perfect!”

Enjoy.

From Left to Right: Martin Seiler, Babe1, Elias Elhardt, Babe2, Raph, Damien Giraud, Janne Lipsanen & Pierre

Check out what the Rip Curl crew have been up to on the Scandi and Eastern Euro legs of their premiere tour for their new team flick, Welcome Home 2.

Here’s the field memo team manager Raph fired over…

The Rip Curl Team is now back from the Scandinavian and Eastern Europe tour.

“I was super stoked to meet again all these snowboard fans all over Europe. I am glad they love the movie” Elias Elhardt said.

Basically, the feedbacks we had on tour have been really good. WH2 appears much better from its previous chapter. Furthermore, the attendance increased: More people than last year and lots of positive feedbacks!

Janne Lipsanen threw some words just before the screening in Slovakia “Good to be back in Trvana; The after party will be epic”; and according to the Pro- Team, it was!!!!!



The tour cruised from Helsinki to Oslo via Göteborg. It was tough to start the show in Helsinki cause of all these party animals upthere! After a couple of miles on a Ferry and by Car, we hit Bratislava and Trvana. Few Skateboard and Wakeboard sessions later, It was time to show the movie in Czech Republik in Brno and Prag accompanied by a sick rock band!

We ended the tour in Ljubljana, where all the pro Slovenian snowboarders (Grilo, Pristavec, Bizjak…) showed up to bring us a support!!! The cinema in slovenia were loaded and the Photo exhibition was successful!!!!

For the First time, the premiere tour went to Zagreb. Nice screening and a huge party followed up!

Now it’s time to make a break.

Photo exhibition

We dedicated all the Tour to Torgeir Berre – Have a fast and great Recovery Mate!!!

Join us for the last stops!

Munich: November 5th @City Kinos
Innsbruck: November 6th @Weekender
Grenoble: December 3rd @6rex