Bails behind the shot

This post is for everyone that is watching freeski movies or other extreme sports movies. Before making a thing such is a freeski movie you got to have enough really cool shots to even have a part in it. It has to be filmed well. Sometimes you can do the gnarliest trick ever on the gnarliest spot, but if the camera angle is not cool enough you can forget that day even happened! Such is life and so are the bails.
Bails are things that are usually not in those movies except sometimes in crash segments. The worst bails can cost you the season and some of them can cost you life. Yes, it can and it sucks, but that's part of the game. It's a men's game and we're playing it!

photo: Maja Ropret
Yesterday i made this funny little feature on home resort just for fun, because visibility was horrible to ski. My snowboard friend Žiga made it look easy with FS rodeo 5 of it. But for me something wasn't cool. Skiers always have less pop than snowboarders and i also took a lot of speed into it, because i want to make sure i will go high enough and clear it with my head.
1st. try i hit the wall with my head really hard and on camera looks like i broke something there, but wasn't really hurting so i took more tries. I always rotated a bit too much and rotation kept me falling on my back, shoulder, head,...I stomped the trick once, but definetly am not satisfied with it and will try to find another spot with different transition and different landing. I sucked big time, but this is freesking. You have to try more and more till you have it and shoot it perfectly in perfect conditions. I know that at the end of the season you will all be stoked to see my edit, but till then i will have many concusions, broken bones, twisted ankles and wrists...
Check this slo motion and you will see that just a little mistake can sometimes put you on the bed for couple fo days. I luckily didn't hurt myself much by doing this so...enjoy!

Big change in Slovenia

I bitch about lame winter over here since i got home from indonesia in November. Yesterday was still a relaxed day with cool people and i spent it on a trip to Bohinj and dinner in Bled. At the dinner i was talking to my sponsor and a good friend David that i am stressed out because of green December.

It is nonesense that skier has to be forced to stay at home. But as if they hear me from above it was snowing in the morning when i woke up at 5.30. Unbelievable first snow was here. I grabbed my 4frnts, dalbellos, oakleys, skullcandys and I pod and rushed to Krvavec resort that has just opened today. Cool day with cool friends and some freshie. Still not waist deep pow or a big kicker, but i am glad that winter has finally started and that i can ski again. I will be skiing as much as i can even if i only do turns on a piste without good edges on my skis. It's fun to float! We made some shots with new GO PRO HD camera. Flat light but shots are still perfect.