Freerider Thomas Genon letting rip on his home trails.
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Join Thomas Genon for some backyard slopestyle shredding

The Belgian freeriding mountain biking superstar does a bit of 'yard work' and comes up with something pretty special at his training compound.
Written by Ric McLaughlin
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Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Champs: Rotorua

The world’s best MTB slopestylers head to New Zealand for the first major competition of the year.

New Zealand

Thomas Genon

As an unknown teenager Thomas Genon won Red Bull Joyride and now the Belgian is one of the world's best mountain bike slopestyle riders.

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Thomas Genon – Home

Shot at dawn this is an atmospheric, alternative approach to shooting MTB action clips.

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As the 2018 slopestyle season prepares to kick off at Crankworx Rotorua the world's best freeriders are beginning to emerge from the long, cold nights of winter. But when the first rider drops into the Redwoods at the weekend, there'll be no time for lethargy.
The champagne hangovers of the 2017 season may have long since faded but the top slopestyle pro's will have been locked into training routines for many months now. When they're not riding many dig.
Thomas Genon at his home trails.

Genon, ready to drop!

© Bartek Woliński

Thomas Genon performing a 360 tailwhip

Spinning into 2018

© Bartek Woliński

Thomas Genon rides his slopestyle bike.

360 can-can off of the kicker

© Bartek Woliński

Freerider Thomas Genon performs at home.

Kickers for days

© Bartek Woliński

360 barspin

© Bartek Woliński

Giving it "the eyes"

© Bartek Woliński

360 tables don't come much more clicked than Tommy's

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High and fast

© Bartek Woliński

Stretching out a 360 tuck no-hander

© Bartek Woliński

Tailwhips off of the boner log

© Bartek Woliński

Genon's custom Canyon hardtail bike

© Bartek Woliński

And that's the case with Thomas Genon who invited Harrison Mendel, Nic Genovese and Bartek Woliński into his training compound to check out some renovation work he'd just finished.
Shot at dawn this "at home" film project was an atmospheric, alternative approach to shooting  the 'traditional' slopestyle action clip.
More: Watch below to see Genon talking with Cam McCaul at the Belgian's backyard set-up ahead of Crankworx Rotorua in McCaul Meets
And don't forget to watch Genon and the rest of the world's best slopestylers compete at the Crankworx Rotorua Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza this Saturday March 24

Part of this story

Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Champs: Rotorua

The world’s best MTB slopestylers head to New Zealand for the first major competition of the year.

New Zealand

Thomas Genon

As an unknown teenager Thomas Genon won Red Bull Joyride and now the Belgian is one of the world's best mountain bike slopestyle riders.

BelgiumBelgium
MTB
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