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Wake Up Call: Alvaro Dal Farra
Italy's Alvaro Dal Farra gave up his snowboarding career to ride FMX professionally. See what an average day is like for this shredder gone ... well, shredder.
The Italian FMX King of Style
In Italy everything is done with style: the way they make cars, the clothes they wear, the food, you name it. Style is like a religion so it seems. The man leading the charge in the Italian FMX style department is Alvaro Dal Farra. After he canned a promising snowboarding career to pursue freestyle, his FMX career is booming. Dal Farra's life is unfolding exactly as he wants — with style.
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Back in '02 Alvaro Dal Farra's snowboarding season had just come to an end. He was sitting at home in the small Italian hillside town of Belluno, trying to adjust, when he made a call to longtime friend and Oakley athlete manager Giovanni Balestra. The call went something like this:
"Hey Giovanni, it's Alvaro. What's up my friend?"
"Hey Alvaro, how are you, you want to ride an FMX comp in Rome in two weeks time?"
"Uh, yeah."
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