Paul Couderc pushes himself to the limit in Headache

Paul Couderc has just signed one of the most spectacular Freeride productions of the year. The Frenchman has premiered “Headache,” a video piece filmed in the deserts of Utah that mixes huge lines, speed, and a cinematic staging to shape a project that was born with the idea of serving as a candidate for the Red Bull Rampage, but ended up growing much beyond that.

  “Headache”: the spectacular project with which Paul Couderc takes freeride to the limit

The piece, filmed over two weeks alongside Dorian Jouvenal and Adrien Couderc, shows the French rider facing some of the wildest areas of American freeride. Utah reappears as that almost unreal setting of rock, dust, and constant exposure where any mistake can have serious consequences. And precisely that feeling of permanent risk is one of the visual keys of the video.

Couderc acknowledges that the project ended up becoming something much more ambitious than he initially expected. “Headache could be the biggest and toughest project I have faced in my life,” explains the Frenchman. “It is a true passion project, and I put all my energy, commitment, and heart into it.”

The video stands out not only for the technical level of the lines but also for the way it is visually constructed. 

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Utah was also a pending account for Couderc. The Frenchman had been dreaming of filming something like this for a long time: “I have always dreamed of filming a great video part in Utah, and we finally achieved it,” he points out. “I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished among the three of us in just two weeks thanks to motivation and determination.”

The rider also wanted to make it clear that filming in that environment is far from the idyllic image conveyed by the cameras. “Filming in Utah is wild. The weather, the terrain, the exposure, and the exhaustion make everything brutally difficult,” he assures.

With “Headache,” Paul Couderc reaffirms himself as one of the most creative and aggressive names in current freeride. A rider capable of combining style, speed, and a very personal vision of how this type of extreme MTB should be told.