Photoshooting last october

Last october, I did a little tattoo photoshooting with a young photographer who noticed me in Zurich and asked me to take some pictures of me. She wanted to use them for the photo10 exhibition but sadly, she wasn't chosen to exhibit.

It was kind of a special shooting. First, we took some photographs of my tattooed skin under a microscope at the ETH Zurich. Afterwards, we shot some portraits outside and then in a very old-fashioned and classic self-service laundry in Zurich 6, near Seilbahn Rigiblick.

She wanted it to look like I'm waiting for my laundry and just listening to some music from my tape. I really liked that idea and it was fun to shoot. Her other work is really good too: http://www.claudiak.ch, and this is the link for the series I was part of: http://claudiak.ch/mikro.php

Check out some photos:

Best Edit Ever

Yesterday, Diana and I had the brilliant idea to take our GoPros with us when we went shooting in Laax. Right from the beginning, we knew this would become a SICK edit.

2 hot girls + 2 pretty boys + 5 feet fresh powder + bluebird weather + some sarcasm =

SNOW!

Finally, it's snowing again! I hope it stays cold and the snowfall continues. It looks so goood after 6 weeks of spring temperatures and zero snow!
Right now, I'm in Flims with Diana Sadlowski from Ripcurl, Yoann the filmer and Löru the photographer and we're trying to get some powder shots today. :)

Carlita

Check out my sister Carla.
I'm trying to get some more footage of her riding to find a clothing sponsor for her..
She did really good at the Buron European Open this year, qualifying for the semi finals on 3rd place. But she injured herself in the semis and had to take a break. She's back now and already rocking the park again, I hope I'll have some more footage of her soon...

ERZURUM #6 (a.k.a. Maribor #1)

It' so good to be back!
The last day was a little disappointing. First, the slopstyle was cancelled due to strong winds (good decision though!), and then, during the absolutely amazing closing ceremony, some stuff was stolen from our rooms. My iPod had to leave me but I'm over it, already ordered a new one :).
As I said, the closing ceremony (in a soccer stadium) was great. All the athletes walked in and got a lot of applause and then there was some awesome traditional dancing.

At the Universiade, it's a tradition to change all your stuff with the other countries. For example, I have a Turkey hat and a Canada jacket. And at the last evening, I traded a Slovenian jacket. That meant a lot to me since I have some distant relations in Maribor and the next Universiade will be in Maribor in 2013. I definitely want to go there since this was an incredible experience and I'd like to make it again.
So this jacket symbolizes my ambitions very well. :)




So, I'm back home now and if anyone wants to hear more about my week in Turkey, let me know and we'll meet. :)
I'll be in Laax until school starts again in 2 weeks. Next week, I'll probably go to Grindelwald for another halfpipe competition and in about 3 weeks, I'll do another railjam in Üri, I thik.
For now, I'm just chillig a little and thinking about what I've learned for life in Erzurum. And that's a lot!


Here some video impressions:

(closing ceremony)

(Manu Eicher skicross gold medal)

(HP Finals, Chinese winner rode really well!)

ERZURUM #5

Yesterday, I had halfpipe semifinals with 8 other girls and I could reach my goal: I got a diploma with a good and solid 8th place. I was so happy to ride with these girls, most of whom I had already seen ride in Vancouver 2010 or at big TTR events this season and I look up to them a lot! I'm superstoked!!

Today, we had slopestyle practice and I jumped the big kickers but they really suck. The landings are too flat and they just don't work out. I hope they change something until tomorrow.
I already more than fulfilled all my expectations and don't want to hurt myself so I'll take it easy tomorrow. If the kickers are still not rideable I'll just go shred the pipe some more and cheer for Corinne Suter and other friends I made here :)

Check out coverage from yesterday and the day before:

http://www.universiadeerzurum.org/news/573-womens-snowboard-half-pipe-eliminations-are-completed
(Very bad) photo of me on the official Universiade website


from the Swiss newsletter


I'm on the left, Jonas Zbinden (who I'm very proud of) on the right.

ERZURUM #4

HP Qualification:
Today was just perfect. I had the best fun I ever had riding the halfpipe in the training. Sadly, I didn't land a perfect run in the qualis but it doesn't matter because I finished 9th and so I'm in the semifinals now!

Here are the first 9 riders. They all rode fucking well and I'm pretty stoked to ride the semis with them! Yeah!



By the way: You want to kiss my egg??

ERZURUM #3

Ok, first of all, I know some of you will be thinking "Why is she blogging all the time, she should be discovering Turkey", but really, I'm so talented in blogging now that it doesn't even take me 5 minutes to write how AWESOME it is here. And I know you're all dying to know! :)

First day of pipe riding: The pipe had some "rillä", some "teeth" from shaping, so the take-off and landing was a little sketchy in the beginning but we got used to it fast and the shape of the pipe is just amazing! Our coach teached us really well, he's such a cool guy. Tonight, he'll do some mental training with us, and I guess most of you know how much I need that!! (I'm about as nervous at contests as I am at exams...)

On the photo you can see my very nice swissski gloves (love them!) and in the middle, the huge pipe :)

ERZURUM #2

Good morning!

Today, we're gonna ride the halfpipe for the first time. I think it will be awesome to ride with people from so many countries. I'm quite curious to see how the Turkish riders are doing.. :)
Something else I'm looking forward to: I have a real coach (Joe Zangerl, nice guy)! So funny...

This is what the pipe looked like yesterday. It wasn't quite ready yet since it hasn't snowed since forever (when we got there it started snowing like crazy and in fact, we were quite lucky we could land on the snowy airport, I think!)

Jonas a.k.a. Lukas Zbinden checking out the halfpipe.

ERZURUM #1

We arrived in Erzurum this morning at about 3 o'clock in the morning. The rooms are really nice and comfortable and all the people are as lovely as I expected them to be. Everyone is working really hard to make our stay unforgettable. Sadly no snowboarding today but training starts tomorrow. I'm excited.
I also met my Rip Curl Team mate Urska Pribosic from Slovenia. I'm looking forward to seeing her rock the slopestyle course! :)


Some impressions from the long journey...


Sugar rush while waiting for 4 hours in Istanbul. Woooo-eeeeeh!



Shoe polishing service in Ankara.. Weird country..




Swiss team "bös" in Erzurum at 2am