Thomas Diet
Discipline: FreeskiBirthday: 07.04.1984, Ales (FRA)
Nationality: French
Residence: Val Thorens (FRA)
| Sport successes | 2002 | Winner of the first-ever big mountain jib competition at the World Heli Ski Championships |
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| 2003 | 2nd at Verbier Ride 10th on the overall World Tour |
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| 2005 | 2nd at the World Tour Snowbird event 5th on the World Tour |
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| Personality | Give him shock therapy or something — just don't lock him up! | |
| Specialities | Thomas’ fixed idea is to place jumps and figures – which are usually made in a calculable setting (snow parks, kickers, etc) – in an unforeseeable setting: the mountains! | |
| Sidelines | Bungee jumping, snowboarding | |
| Film appearances | 2003 | Nuit de la Glisse |
| 2005 | Bar Code - A Ski & Snowboard Movie | |
| 2006 | Anomaly | |
| 2007 | Untracked Season Three | |
Dropping a big mountain line is never easy, even for experienced freeskiers. Now imagine dropping down a face while doing tricks off rails, rainbows, and jumps. That's the world of big mountain jibbing, a new school offshoot that may never become popular simply because hardly anyone is crazy enough to try it! In other words, hardly anyone is as crazy as Thomas Diet, 23, an instructor from Val Thorens, France, who won the first-ever big mountain jib competition at the 2002 World Heli Ski Championships. So what drives the future new school icon to risk his neck every day? "I want to be the best in the world," he says. "And my brother is getting good at freestyle. I can't let him get better than me.
