Andre Barbieri

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Milano Cortina Paralympics: Chapter 2

Buongiorno folks! Hope everyone is doing good. I’m writing from sunny California, fully decompressed from the magical Paralympic moments.  It has been almost 3 months from the fateful crash on the course, training for the snowboard cross event. After X-rays and MRI from both shoulders, a collection of injuries were revealed. The pain kept getting worse, to the point it wakes me up every night. I’ve been doing physical therapy, icing a couple times a day, cold plunge & sauna among other recovery...

May 14, 2026Read more...

2026 Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics 

Hello my friends, We have so much to talk and uncover from the Paralympics, if we were to meet this could be a long conversation!  It was so much fun and a fairytale in itself. It had great moments, historical moments and also scary moments.  Having my family there with me was priceless, it was the first time they watched me competing in Snowboarding.  I was feeling so ready and so confident because I was coming from a really good training camp pre-games, and...

April 13, 2026Read more...

World Cup of ParaSnowboard Banked Slalom, Steamboat Springs, CO, USA

Hello folks, Next on our agenda was a World Cup of banked slalom, excellent race & training before the Cortina Paralympics. This venue for me is as easy as it gets, one direct (2hr) flight & a 3hr drive - too easy! The course was fantastic, well built and we got to train on it for 3 days, which was awesome! Only problem we couldn’t control was the heat, it got too hot and even rained, but thankfully was the night after the...

March 3, 2026Read more...

World Cup of ParaSnowboard Cross Lenk, Switzerland 2026

Hello friends, Following up the harrowing races in Austria, we had Boardercross in Switzerland and I was excited! The country is awesome, the race course is fast and challenging = excellent training, and I had a new Cross board I was super pumped to try.  Well… it didn’t go so well. First nite, deep in my sleep, woke up with my belly feeling super weird and hard, went to the bathroom and the same nightmare from about a year ago repeated itself:...

February 9, 2026Read more...

“Crazy Curves”: ParaSnowboard World Cup of Banked Slalom, Kühtai – Austria

Hello folks,  Today I’ll tell you about the Banked Slalom race we had in Kühtai, an amazing ski resort in the idyllic Tyrol region of Austria. The race is nicknamed “Crazy Curves” and it is accurate, it was crazy.  Actually crazy dangerous!! I was super excited / anxious / happy / nervous about this one. I had new boards to test and get used to & a new prosthetic socket. When it’s been a while since I boarded, it always takes a...

January 27, 2026Read more...

2026 Season Starter

Gutten morgen my friends! I arrived in Germany and was supposed to be on my way driving to Austria, to train for my 1st race of the year! But all my luggage had other plans and didn’t show up, so we’re staying put in a hotel until we hear from the airport, so we can collect the bags.  Better than going to a resort, where mail access is dependent on weather —it could be many days waiting until bags would show up.  This irritates...

January 8, 2026Read more...

2025: It’s a wrap!

Greetings friends, Today I was doing a recap on my mind of the past season.  It was definitely action packed and exciting, I traveled quite a bit and had some great results, and some not so much. That’s how it goes… most importantly, I still feel I’m improving and always gaining more confidence in myself and my snowboard riding.  I started with a 7th place at the Banked Slalom race in the Netherlands (November ’24); had a great 2nd place in Snowboard Cross...

December 23, 2025Read more...

100 DAYS OUT TO CORTINA-MILANO 2026 

Good day folks, I hope everyone is doing good:) November is here, change of weather… That means I’ll be soon practicing in the snow and race season is coming! This year we chose to not do the Netherlands indoor race during Thanksgiving, so I could spend more time in Europe later, training pre-games. There’s some planing in which races I’ll be competing (& training), and I am so looking forward to that feeling again! Snowboarding is a sport that keeps me on...

November 28, 2025Read more...

Keep dreaming!

Hello folks, I hope everyone is doing well:) I’ve been focusing each and every day on improving myself in some way, since I’m in midst of preparing to one of the most important seasons / events of my life! To get to the Paralympics is hard work, it doesn’t happen overnight. I’m proud that I tried, and then tried again instead of giving up. And then I got there! Had I not tried or given up on the 1st failure, this feeling...

October 26, 2025Read more...

Chile Races & Camp = great training 

Greetings friends! I’m back from 2 weeks of action packed days in southern Chile. We went to Corralco again, where I had a total of 6 races. My low back was still achy so I kept up with stretching, mobility and strengthening exercises and improved to almost normal by trip’s end! It was time to test a few new things: a snowboard knee, a snowboard prosthetic socket, new boards. The boards never arrived on time, which was actually a blessing: there was little...

September 30, 2025Read more...