Alaïs Develay
Font-Romeu, France | Active: 2018-present | Known for: X Games Aspen 2026 Knuckle Huck silver, Jib League, SLVSH Cup, Rock A Rail | Current: 1000 Skis, Phaenom, Capeesh
Aspen Snow And The Knuckle That Changed Her Year
The Aspen knuckle was disappearing under falling snow on January 23, 2026. Alaïs Develay came in as a French X Games rookie, looked down the Big Air landing, and treated the feature less like a contest object than a moving rail, butter pad, and dance floor.
Her Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck run placed second behind Marin Hamill and ahead of Anni Kärävä. Downdays described a left 720, a right-foot knuckle slide to front 450, and a superman front flip; X Games’ own day-one report also cited a backslide from the four on the knuckle. The official athlete page lists one X Games silver medal, attached to X Games Aspen 2026 Women’s Ski Knuckle Huck.
Font-Romeu To Aigre-Douce, Then Away From The Pipe Dream
Develay’s public trail starts in Font-Romeu, in the Pyrenees of southern France, where she grew up alpine racing before switching into freestyle around age 15. Phaenom lists her birthdate as March 28, 2002, and her ski style as freestyle, while FIS records her as France, birth year 2002, club CS de Montagne de Font Romeu.
Her official competitive identity is traceable through FIS code 2534676. The stronger cultural identity came from Aigre-Douce, the Pyrenean crew she credits as a family of skateboarders, surfers, snowboarders, skiers, and friends. Léo Fourcade became one of the most important names in that support system, not as a formal coach but as a rider who believed in her skiing before she fully did.
In interviews, Develay has been direct about the split between institutional ambition and personal direction. Her parents and coaches saw World Cup or Olympic pathways. She felt better outside that circuit, where the riding could be more instinctive, less scored, and closer to the way she described skiing through dance.
The FIS Paper Trail From La Clusaz To Den Haag
The early results show that she did not arrive in creative contests without a base. On March 11, 2018, she placed second in FIS slopestyle at La Clusaz, then repeated second place on March 12, 2018, at the same French venue. At Font Romeu, she finished fourth in the French National Championships slopestyle on March 31, 2018, and fourth in National Championships big air on April 1, 2018.
The 2019-20 season pushed her into Europa Cup slopestyle. She placed fifth at Tignes on January 30, 2020, with 72.00 FIS points and 45.00 cup points, then 14th at La Clusaz on February 6, 2020, with 32.40 FIS points and 18.00 cup points. On March 11, 2020, she took third in FIS slopestyle at Alpe d’Huez with 30.00 FIS points.
Madrid Snowzone added two indoor FIS slopestyle starts on November 1, 2020: fifth with 0.12 FIS points and fourth with 10.58. The following winter shifted toward big air. She placed seventh at the Les Arcs Europa Cup big air on February 6, 2021, then won back-to-back FIS big air contests at La Quillane on February 11 and February 12, 2021, both recorded with 10.00 FIS points.
Rail Events Reopened The Official Record
After a January 7, 2022 Europa Cup big air seventh place at Les Arcs and a DNS at Alpe d’Huez on January 19, 2022, the FIS line went quiet until the rail-event phase. That phase matters because it matches the skier she later became: less slopestyle-course conventional, more drawn to street-style features, flat landings, knuckles, and metal.
On December 6, 2024, she placed second at the Den Haag European Cup Women’s Freeski Rail Event, behind Maria Esteban Una and ahead of Tereza Korabova, with 89.00 FIS points and 80.00 cup points. On November 22, 2025, she placed ninth at the Innsbruck European Cup rail event, scoring 7.20 FIS points and 29.00 cup points. On December 19, 2025, she returned to Den Haag and finished second again, this time behind Hannah Marie Langes and ahead of Ellen Damsgaard, with 38.10 FIS points and 80.00 cup points.
Grandvalira, SLVSH, And The Near-Home Win
The shift from bibs to battles became public at Sunset Park Henrik Harlaut in Grandvalira. The Andorran venue sits close to her Pyrenean base, and that geography mattered when SLVSH brought women into the SLVSH Cup Grandvalira 2025 bracket for the first time.
The women’s field included Taylor Brooke Lundquist, Rylie Warnick, Anri Kawamura, and Develay. She beat Rylie Warnick in Game 2, then met Taylor Brooke Lundquist in the final. Downdays later framed the win as almost home soil: Andorra was one hour from her hometown, and the final against Taylor carried extra weight because Lundquist had already become a reference point for women’s street skiing.
That SLVSH Cup title gave Develay something different from a FIS podium. It placed her in a viewer-driven format where style, trick calling, quick adaptation, and pressure under cameras matter as much as classic judging criteria. It also connected her directly to Joss Christensen’s SLVSH ecosystem, James “Woodsy” Woods’ Jib League world, and a crew-heavy contest format that fits her better than a conventional Olympic qualification ladder.
Jib League Open Jumps, DIY Cars, And The Pro Session Door
Jib League changed the speed of her career. In 2024 at Sugar Bowl, California, Phaenom says she was riding the open division when organizers pulled her into the pro session, a rare move that put her beside established names rather than leaving her in the qualifier lane. One year later, Jib League Season 3 at Muttereralm outside Innsbruck listed her among the Open winners advancing into the week’s pro sessions.
The defining image came from a DIY car feature. Develay has said she remembered that session because she was happy with her riding; Phaenom adds the harder detail, describing a front flip off a car, then a crash trying another move that dislocated her jaw. Léo Fourcade stayed with her at the emergency room. Later that same day, she received news of the 1000 Skis pro-team step and a SLVSH Cup invitation from Joss.
Those hours explain the arc better than a simple results table. One day held a front flip, an injury, an emergency room, a pro-ski announcement, and an invitation into one of freeskiing’s most watched head-to-head formats. It compressed the whole Develay story into one Innsbruck-area sequence: risk, crew, style, pain, and a door opening at the same time.
Rock A Rail Lights In Hintertux And Den Haag
Rock A Rail gave the street-style side a formal scoreboard. On October 3-5, 2025, the tour opened at Hintertux Park Opening in Austria, where Develay won Ski Women ahead of Hannah Langes and Sarah Schönach. The setup moved the action from glacier training culture into a night-event structure, with rails, lights, and the quick-hit format that rewards skiers who can read metal without needing a full slopestyle course.
Den Haag gave her another measured result on December 19, 2025, through the FIS European Cup rail event. Hannah Marie Langes won, Develay took second, and Ellen Damsgaard finished third. That podium joined the December 6, 2024 Den Haag second place behind Maria Esteban Una, making the Dutch rail stop one of the clearest bridges between her official FIS file and her creative-contest reputation.
La Clusaz RAW Lines With Astrid Cheylus
Develay’s media record is thinner than her contest record, but it has useful markers. Faction published RAW SERIES S01 E02, “Kirkas with Astrid Cheylus,” with Astrid Cheylus and Alaïs Develay skiing park and freeride features across La Clusaz. The episode placed her beside another French skier in a format designed for athlete-led creative expression rather than a normal sponsor recap.
The La Clusaz setting also connects back to the FIS archive. She had two second-place slopestyle finishes there in March 2018 and a Europa Cup slopestyle start there in February 2020. In the RAW Series context, the same mountain reads differently: less bib, more natural transition, side hits, freeride texture, and shared decision-making with Cheylus.
How The Front Flip Became More Than A Trick
Her trick identity is not built around a published double-cork checklist. The verified public descriptions point elsewhere: front flips, left 720, right-foot knuckle slide to front 450, backslide from the four, and a willingness to use non-standard takeoffs. X Games highlights her front flips; Downdays’ Aspen recap gives the left 720 and the knuckle-slide line; the Phaenom story places a front flip on a DIY car at the center of the Jib League breakthrough.
That matters technically because Develay’s skiing is not only about rotation count. She carries speed into features, accepts uneven takeoffs, and uses body shape as part of the trick. Contemporary dance appears in her own explanation of skiing, and the link is visible in the way she treats a knuckle as a floor rather than just an obstacle.
Compared with riders like Taylor Brooke Lundquist, Anni Kärävä, and Olivia Asselin, Develay sits in a lane where playfulness and risk are close together. The skiing can look loose, but the results show enough structure: X Games silver, SLVSH Cup win, Rock A Rail Hintertux win, and repeated Den Haag rail-event second places.
The Current Map: Innsbruck, Women’s Events, And A Creative Pro Path
By early 2026, Develay’s public base had shifted toward the Innsbruck area of Austria. Her sponsor set reflects that creative lane: 1000 Skis for the hardware, Phaenom for boots, and Capeesh for the outerwear and visual culture around modern park and street skiing. The Capeesh link also places her near Ferdinand Dahl, whose brand work and Jib League orbit have helped define the current European park aesthetic.
The next concrete markers are not Olympic points. They are women’s streetstyle spaces, Jib League pro sessions, SLVSH brackets, Rock A Rail stops, and X Games Knuckle Huck. TBL Sessions placed her in an all-women streetstyle context in 2025, and X Games gave her the medal that turned a creative breakout into an official record.
Her page now has two archives running side by side. One is the FIS file: 17 listed starts from 2018 to 2025, two La Quillane big air wins, two Den Haag rail second places, and a traceable French club identity. The other is cultural: Aigre-Douce, Jib League, SLVSH Cup Grandvalira, Rock A Rail Hintertux, RAW Series, 1000 Skis, Phaenom, Capeesh, and an Aspen silver built from a left 720, knuckle work, and a front flip under snow.
