Blog has been off for some time because we were changing the hosting provider… But better now then never: First few days of May we were shooting for the last Grilosode this year in Soelden.

Its already spring in Austria.

Nice ride: BMW M3 1992

After Grilomentary and Grilosodes, Grilos latest project:

Our flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg was late and we missed the connecting to Amsterdam for 10mins. We needed to wait for one more day and they got us a pretty cool hotel :D.

Last week was hard. Especially for 1200 riders competing at one of the hardest MTB race in the world.

Cape Epic is seven days long stage race where riders are competing in pairs. Every day they need to face app. 100kms over the off-road terrains, impossible climbs and fast dangerous decents and try to finish it in best possible pair-position.

We had three competitors from Slovenia racing in international pairs. (Peter Vesel-Michela Benzoni, Uroš Breški-Leonardo Santos, Mitja Rok-Tomas Katalenić)

My work was to get enough material for a 50min long documentary. I got my own motorbike and driver and we were waking up every day at 5am and follow the guys on the course.

We were sleeping in tents and were facing the temperatures from 5 to 50 degrees Celsius. Almost every day we moved to different location. So imagine what a logistic problem it is to transfer the whole camp for 1200 riders + 800 other people (media, catering, medical, volunteers,…) every day.

Down here you have few more panoramas and pictures of roads… I don’t know why they inspire me so much :D

Later after the race finished we moved back to Cape Town where my pretty long awaited dreams came true. We booked a helicopter for 15mins and I got a chance to first time ever film from heli and got some good shots of Cape Town for the documentary. Pretty cool haha :D

Its fun because all those guys are so small so it looks like giant vs. midgets. but imagine my brother Toni who is 10cms and 20kilos bigger than me standing next to them haha.

After editing the new Grilosode for last two days, I finally found some time to write a blog and to take a walk in the city.

The flight was pretty long but we got lucky and everyone of us got his own 3-seat row.

So far I was only in the area around the hostel, but even here its so much to check out and its summer here so it feels super good.

The crew. In the back there is the famous flat mountain and the sculpture made of Coca Cola plastic boxes.

They built the new stadium for Soccer World Cup 2010.

We were shooting in Arlberg last few days, where I gained the maturity and where I became the Man. Haha.

No seriously,… I am not really expecting or planning things in my life… I mostly just go with the flow, do whatever I love and live it full time… And it just feels so much better when unpredicted things happen to me…

One of those was for sure today. The Pirates (snowboard film crew) brought two Red cams and had lack of one filmer and invited me to film with one.

And yea… its for sure a great experience holding a 50.000€ worth camera + probably another 10.000€ worth lens in a pretty unpredictable conditions up on the mountain.

We got some really good shots and also almost destroyed it, while Grilo failed and bailed only a half a meter below me on a 20m backcountry jump. Unfortunately all those shots needs to be kept till Fall when the movie is out.

But that camera for sure is sth that every filmer wants to shot with,.. and I really hope I will get an opportunity again soon.

Otherwise we are having super good times here in Austria,… still a lot of snow and we are rocking T-Shirs only because its so hot. Props!