Samstag, 25. August 2012

BACK IN NZ



The time went by way to fast down here at Wanaka NZ. I've been shredding the Snowpark a lot with my buddies Wayne and Andreas Bacher, which is also just coming back from an ACL injury. I’ve been also competing at the World Heli Challange where we had crazy good conditions and at the end I was lucky enough and ended up winning the whole thing. I was super stoked on that because it was my first time skiing powder since pretty much a year. 

Unfortunately my knee is still bitching around and swells up once in a while so I had to take a couple of days off where we did some cool trips like checking out the westcoast and we went bungeejumping! 
Right now there's also the Red Bull Snow Performance Camp going on up at Snowpark so we had the opportunity to lap the trippleline with the sleds which made it so much easier for us and finally I re-did all the tricks since my injury. Red Bull was also filming for two days with the Heli and I hope I’ll get those shots so I can cut a small edit!

Already in five days I'm leaving NZ and head over to Chile for the Swatch Skiers Cup!
    HELL YEAH

Check out the video entry of Sean Balmer of the WHC. Got a couple of shots in there ;) There are also a couple of other Videos on the WHC website!!



If you wanna check out some pix of the whole trip check out my facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3683054477529.2147474.1310115311&type=3

next post is coming soon i hope!!!
cheers

Dienstag, 26. Juni 2012

Life's good!

Finally I'm got to the point where i can do pretty much everything! Yesterday i did my first backflip from the ground at the Red Bull Trainingscenter and on Saturday I've been shredding for the first time since my injury at the Park of Val Senales. I was taking it pretty easy but it felt like I never stopped! I'm super stoked right now... Some more training and I'll be ready for NZ! :)


Check out the Timelapse I did while we where building up the Snowpark of Val Senales. The shedding vid is comming soon!

Montag, 11. Juni 2012

GOT SOME NEWS!

I had a lot of ups and downs over the last few months with the recovery of my knee. Sometimes it was hurting without any reason and it took me a while to get the full extension and because of my bone and cartilage damage I had to wait a bunch of time till I could start running. I spent a lot of time at Salzburg at the Red Bull Trainingscenter where I got the perfect treatment and since a month I can finally do the full training. Now six months went by since I had the surgery and yesterday I had the final control at the Klinik of Innsbruck with Doc. Rosenberger. He was super happy about it and gave me the OK to go to New Zealand this summer! HELL YEAH!!

Here are some pix from the last couple of months:
 JOB shoot at Poland took a look at the Hangar 7 after training
  
Roy Kittler showing his skills at the JOB shoot at Livigno
  
My bratha Lukas Schäfer after dislocating his shoulder... 
 JOB shoot at Livignio with Roy, Niclas and the Cablecam ;)
Me pulling Niclas up to the top
Two weeks ago I went up at Speikboden with the bike. There's still a bunch of snow!
  
 the view through my valley on the way up
getting some power