Switzerland | Active: 2021-present | Known for: Gazolina.exe, street skiing, jib edits, Leysin crew projects | Current: Gazolina.exe / independent street films
The Baby Lift at Ovronnaz sat under clear weather on 30 December 2021, the kind of compact Swiss setup where every speed check shows. Basile Genevay dropped into the Adults M ski jam with bib 12, part of a rail-focused Tour Freestyle Romand field that mixed Swiss riders, French names, and local park specialists. The public result sheet does not frame that night as a career peak. It gives a cleaner clue: before Gazolina street clips and low-fi crew films, Genevay had already passed through regional jib contests where rail balance, edge control, and repetition mattered more than amplitude.
Genevay appears in the Ovronnaz Jib Night results as a Swiss skier born in 2001. He finished eighth in Adults M ski with a 53.4 score, behind Jeremy Boiston, Louis Coubes, Christian Moser, Max Pittet, Leo Rupp, Suwan Martin, and Mathis Rottier. The event was listed under Freeski Park & Pipe, contest type jibbing, with Tour Freestyle Romand and Opel Freeski Tour regional labels.
That contest record is useful because Genevay’s later public profile is not built from FIS podiums. It sits closer to the Swiss street ecosystem: crews, hand-filmed edits, park laps, rails, and short projects that travel through YouTube, Downdays, Newschoolers, and Instagram before they reach a wider freeski audience.
Downdays identifies Genevay and Albie Bigler as representatives of Gazo, the Gazolina group, in its coverage of Egal. The same article says the Gazolina riders come from the same part of Switzerland as Buldoz and have a base in Leysin. That detail places Genevay inside a French-speaking Swiss freestyle network rather than an isolated rider page.
Leysin matters in that context. The resort has long supported park skiing, spring sessions, and Swiss crew culture. For a street skier, a home base like that works as both training zone and meeting point: rails for repetition, side hits for control, and enough visiting riders to keep filming projects moving.
Egal, published through Downdays in April 2024, paired Buldoz Life with Gazolina for a Finnish street trip. The listed riders included Benjamin Copt, Yohan Lovey, Johan Lovey, Basile Genevay, and Albie Bigler. Downdays described Buldoz as a consistent street crew releasing multiple films a year, with Gazolina arriving as a newer group moving into the same orbit.
The Finland setting fits Genevay’s lane. Finnish street skiing often means low winter light, hard snowbanks, kinked rails, narrow run-ins, and spots that demand patience before style. In a project like Egal, a skier’s value comes from making ordinary urban features skiable: stairs, ledges, banks, rail entries, and awkward landings that would never exist in a shaped slopestyle course.
Gazo2042 expanded Gazolina’s footprint in 2025. Downdays published it as Gazolina’s third street video, presented through Arsenic, and described it as filmed in the United States, Norway, and Switzerland. The skiing list names Leonard Siegenthaler, Thomas Gaudin, Basile Genevay, Albie Bigler, and Jesper Folkesson.
The filmer list is just as revealing: Gazolina.exe, Number1.suspect, Eliot Golay, Remco Kayser, Hayden Benninghofen, Sleep Grill, and Basco Paterno Castello. That group connects Swiss riders with North American and Scandinavian street-ski language. The project points to natural speed, self-made spot choices, and clips built through repetition rather than a controlled park schedule.
Genevay’s handle, Basge420, also appears outside his own skiing credits. Downdays coverage of Daydreaming, Yohan Lovey’s Harlaut Apparel street part, lists Basge420 among the filmers. The video was filmed in Stockholm, Umeå, and Andorra during the 2023/24 season, with Henrik Harlaut credited as editor and Harlaut Apparel Co. as producer.
That filming credit matters for a creative profile. Street skiing depends on the person holding the camera as much as the person on the rail. A filmer decides the angle, follows the speed, waits through failed tries, and knows when a clip has the right timing. Genevay’s public role appears to include both skiing and documenting the crew around him.
Newschoolers lists Basile @basge420 among the riders in Master Shredder 2025, a Number1.suspect video tied to the long-running Master Shredder format. The same listing names Arsenic Anywhere among the presentation partners, alongside ski and culture brands connected to the North American street scene.
That appearance does not make Genevay a contest-first skier. It shows his clips crossing into a wider web of riders and filmers: Connor Johnson, Sam Malecha, Dom Lonetti, Dylan Patty, Doca Pepelnjak, Faelan Coldwater, Jack Kaiser, Paddy Flanagan, Tony Acevedo, Kian Barrett, and others listed in order of trick appearance.
Genevay’s verified public footprint points toward small-speed skiing. The recurring language around his projects is street, jibbing, natural speed, low-fi editing, and crew filming. That means fewer clean takeoffs than park contests, more uneven run-ins, and features where a skier has to manage edges before the trick even begins.
His profile should be read through rails, flat bars, down rails, switch approaches, speed checks, shovel-built lips, and landings that may be rougher than they look on camera. The point is not a single signature trick. The point is his place in a Swiss street group that values spot selection, timing, and shared filming work.
The clearest current marker for Genevay is Gazolina. Downdays tags him with Gazo2042 in 2025, while earlier coverage connects him to Egal and the Leysin-based Gazo group. The reliable public record does not show Olympic starts, World Cup podiums, or a major sponsor roster, so his skipowd.tv page should stay focused on street skiing, Gazolina.exe, Swiss crew culture, and the edits where his name is directly credited.
