Florentin Marfaing.

Le Dome.

Florentin is from Mühlhausen, Germany. He also spent a lot of time living in Paris, France and possibly lives in Barcelona, Spain now. Josh Kalis recruited him to ride for Seek in the early 2000s based on his part in the Lordz Wheels video. After Seek ended, he was pro for Santa Cruz for a number of years. I want to say he's still skating and sponsored by a couple of European companies. Flo was on Vans for the longest time. It's a little odd to see him wearing Vans in this photo sequence because nobody else on Alien was wearing Vans back in those days. His skating is a prime example of high quality Euro tech. Flo absolutely demolished the classic Le Dome hubba spot in Paris.

Flo and Kalis owned the first few months of ads for Seek. I picked out the relative best of the batch to use. The design of this one skews a tad into Habitat territory.

Helge Tscharn was the photographer.

Transworld - November 2002 Volume 20 Number 11