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Pepe Gay and Borja Azurmendi are two of Europe's most promising ski movie talents. This month the two lens heros dropped their edit submissions for Level 1's Super Unknown Filmer contest. Both movies feature the riding of some familiar faces.

One Morning in Tarter

Cartel riders Luka Melloni and Noah Albaladejo make an early morning visit to the Tarter terrain park with filmer/photographer Pepe Gay. Expect smooth style and chill vibes in this Iberian uber-edit.

Winning in Chile

If you follow the Amplid blog you’ll already know that Spanish Cartel riders Luka Melloni and Pako Benguerel have been in Chile for the last month travelling around the Andes and enjoying an endless winter. You might also have seen 4bi9′s video entry to the Eye of the Condor competition that both riders were a [...]
Well it may not be a cover in conventional terms but getting the Newschoolers landing page for a day is a pretty big deal. The shot is of a 7 blunt, shot in Chilean powder (not the Columbian stuff) by 4bi9 photographer Jeremy Lato during the filming of 4bi9′s video for the Eye of thee [...]

Luka & Pako Hit Chile

Spanish Cartel homies Luka Melloni and Pako Benguerel have been chasing the endless winter this year with trips to European glaciers, the Westcoast Sessions and for the last month Chile. In Chile Luka & Pako hooked-up with the 4bi9 crew including filmer director Mike McLeod and riders Lj Strenio and Karl Fostvedt to take part [...]

Luka Summertime Chillin’

Luka Melloni has more style than Don Cheadle’s wardrobe. Luka’s skiing is all about the smoothest butters and presses on the hill and when he wants to get airborne his hand drag rotations are so effortless and precise that you’ll wonder if you even saw him initiate the spin in the first place. This little [...]
This week the West Coast Session Team edits went live. Catch the videos on the WCS vimeo page and keep an eye-out for the white bases and green tips of the Cartel all riding next winter’s Syntax skis. Here’s a quick reminder of which Cartel riders were on which team. Steve Stepp and Luka Melloni [...]

West Coast Sessions Happened

The West Coast Sessions an annual spring gathering of the world’s best freeskiers happened last week at Timberline, Oregon. The Cartel has always represented Amplid in force at WCS and this year was no different. Noah, Luka, Steve and McRae made the trip out west to catch some rays, ride the best spring park in [...]

Monster Rail Trick Storm

We’re a bit late on this news but the videos is killer and the riding next level so it had to get posted. In March, Monster Energy held the Rail Trick Storm event at the Font Romeu Pyrénées 2000 snowpark. A little rocket rail to double kink staircase and a fence ollie to wall ride [...]
Last week Cartel riders Luka Melloni and Pako Benguerel were in Sierra Nevada at the southern most tip of Spain for the Spanish Championships. Luka spent the morning warming up for the event by hitting cliffs in the sidecountry and his hard work paid off with a 1st place in Slopestyle and in the Halfpipe. [...]

10 Tricks Luka Has Dialled

Here’s Luka dishing-out a masterclass on choosing a park feature and destroying it. To inflict similar damage to your local park you’ll need a good helping of speed, more style than Karl Lagerfeld’s wardrobe and sparks… everything is better with sparks. Shot and edited by Pepe Gay.

Amplid Uno, Dos, Tres

News in from the Cartel is that Amplid took control of the podium at this year’s FTP Monster of Formigal contest in Formigal resort, Spain. Noah took numero uno with Pako in 2nd and Luka in 3rd. Once again the Syntax proved itself to be the go-to park ski for slopestyle contest dominance. Congratulations gentlemen [...]

The Three Amigos

Luka, Pako and Noah, Amplid’s Iberian dream team have been filming recently for another of their many sponsors, Buff. Filmed in moody black and white around the Spanish Pyrenees, this little edit is packed full of the style we expect from three of Europe’s finest.
So if you keep-up with the European and particularly the Spanish freeski scene, then you’ll know that Luka won this year’s annual ATS Primetime comp. As his prize Luka got to go on an ATS (Alltheski.com) video shoot with the guys from POPTHESPOT to the French resort of Vars, which is nestled in the Alps [...]

Luka on a Spinning Spree

A poor season for snow in the Pyrenees hasn’t stopped Spain and Andorra’s dedicated freestyle scene from building next level parks and progressing their riding, Amplid Cartel rider Luka Melloni is testament to that. Last week Luka competed at Grandvalira’s Total Fight Masters of Freestyle 2012 competition and snagged a podium finish for his efforts. [...]
PRIME TIME is a video contest held by ALL THE SKI. Last year lots of prize money was to be won, this year the black firday situation “only” offers a trip to Vars, France. Since Vars is a bad ass place (even though it sounds like warts), that prize isn’t that bad. Check out Luka’s [...]
Guys – I’m  super stoked to be 3rd, behind 1st Dale Talkington and 2nd Niklas Erikson. Enjoy the video, Greets, Luka

Luka Melloni is a Beast!

Filled to the brim with Monster Energy Drink, Cartel rider Luka Melloni hooked up with Amplid’s favourite non-Amplid rider Noah Allbadalej and went shredding for the Monster TV crew. The Pyrenees might be experiencing a practically snowless winter, but the shapers at Vallnord have put a lot of work into the park and in this [...]

Luka Melloni in: POPtheSPOT

Here you have the POPtheSPOT video ! Just two days of filming in Arinsal, my home resort in Andorra. Even without snow our shaper did good job !!! Saludos, Luka.  
Since joining the amplid Ambush team in 2008, Spanish shredder Luka Melloni has proven himself to be one of the most stylish skiers in the game; so this year it was about time that we added him to the International Cartel team. ARC TV caught-up with Luka at the Shogun Big Air in Modena, Italy [...]
Every Friday we ask a member of the amplid Cartel team to tell us about five of their favorites. From five must have tricks you need in your repertoire to the five albums that are rocking their headphones every time they destroy the park. Weekly we’re bringing you closer to the amplid Cartel. Luka and [...]
Last weekend a small crew of Amplid Cartel and Ambush riders consisting of Yannick Bovard, Xavier Favre, McRae Williams, Christoph Schenk and Luka Melloni gathered in Modena, Italy for the Nissan Skipass event. Like all inner-city events the setup was a little sketchy with 20 degree heat punishing the snow and a kinky transition between [...]

Get Well Soon Luka!

This weekend team rider Luka Melloni travelled down to Modena from his home in sunny Barcelona to meet-up with a handful of riders from the Amplid team and compete at the Nissan Skipass event. The Skipass event’s ramp setup is completely unique, consisting of a mellow kicker transition with a hip style landing which can [...]
Amplid Cartel rider Luka Melloni checked in with HQ yesterday and told us about his 4 th position at the Kaunertal Opening slopestyle competition, which took place 10 days ago. According to Luka who had made the pilgrimage to the first big event of the Freeski calendar from his home in Spain, “I had one [...]
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