Partnership with Sakai, Japan City, and profusion projects!

At the start, it was the study project of a Sup de Montpellier SUP student-now Business School-by Hervé André-Benoît, in 1997. A “Riders” and Sports of the Sports event was offered at the Ascension weekend in Palavas-les-Flots. It is accepted and it takes place on the beach, causing major traffic jams from the city of Montpellier. Mayor Georges Frêche is interested in it and attracts in his nets for the next editions which will become the Fise, a successful Montpellier success thanks to the genius of Hervé André-Benoît. The founder of the FISE is still overflowing a vision of numerous international projects until 2032!

Urban Sports Summit 2025 conference

“” I was a rider since I was 8 years old “Explains Hervé André-Benoît. And what a path has traveled since childhood! “” I was able to organize this event, and allow all these gliding sports to be able to meet together-amateurs, juniors-, as part of my studies in 1997, at Palavas-les-Flots beach ”, continues the founder of the Fise, and Hurricane Group based in Baillargues in the metropolis of Montpellier. At a conference at Urban Sports Summit on May 29, 2025, Hervé André-Benoît returns to the History of the Fise, the International Festival of Extreme Sports. After a first success noted by the municipality of Montpellier at the end of the 1990s, he consults sports, amateurs and juniors to create a skatepark in Montpellier. It will be at the Grammont area on the outskirts of the city. “” Then, we went to Tunisia, Algeria, in lots of places in the globe where the welcome was magical, a brilliant adventure. “Hervé André-Benoît recalls the developments of this festival like no other:” The big year step is 2014, the FISE becomes essential for gliding sports. For 2016, we wanted to develop new international sports series. And in 2019, it is the arrival in Shanghai in China, and in Denvers (Texas, United States)-five cities including of course Montpellier in the first city stage. “”

2020 is as we know the Covid crisis but in this delicate period, the region and the Montpellier metropolis provide precious support to Hurricane Group – the company born from FISE MONTPELLIER. Online competitions are then offered ” so that the riders find themselves in community “, Specifies Hervé André-Benoît. The videos are sent by riders and ski -on sports around the world. The judges assess sports services: more than 1,400 videos received, millions of spectators around the world.

Always bigger!

2024, Fise World extends to Macao (China), Hiroshima (Japan) and other cities on the planet.

In 2025, the FISE was available in several projects. FISE XPERIENCES SERIES is represented in four stages cities: Le Havre, Thonon-les-Bains, Reims, Tignes-The approach is popular with skateboarding. Each FISE event regardless of the scale contributes to world competitions.

The nucleus consists of fans with an offer of events, especially online, on screens. Currently, a new step place is being negotiated in the United States, and also in Germany, Scandinavia, India, Latin America. The FISE sees always larger and it can, its success especially with youth is planetary. FISE MONTPELLIER encourages creativity. The festival now provides availability at its YouTube channel to present the important moments of competitions and give free rein to the expression of athletes.

The FISE was born 28 years ago and organized more than 500 international events. “” Our mission is to create the world of action sports! Said Hervé André-Benoît before signing a new partnership treaty with Masahiro Hashimoto, mayor of Sakai in Japan. Because Fise World will stop in November 2025 in this city in the country of the rising sun.

Fatma Alilate

FISE MONTPELLIER

From May 28 to 1^East June 2025

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