I SEE WATER FALLING

I see water falling from Daniela Bily on Vimeo.

calm down. there's nothing after you.
sent with love from my easter ramble.

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BURNLAB OPENING WITH A YO KAMMZAI

a yo kammzai, we're taking our hats off. the opening was a super nice one.

roman rauch pimping my cruiser.

some serious ayo support by nomadee and the boys.

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A THOUSAND CRYSTAL TOWERS

one good thing about growing up in the mountains is that you can always come back and at best there's sparkling fresh powder waiting for you and your little kicker.

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2012 – A LAST GOOD BYE

my last day of 2012.

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DEAD SEA

in the middle you can see the result of my sunday activity. my surfboard finally got fixed and I scraped of good times past. what remains is this little heap of surf wax.

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DRIFTWOOD

here's a little insight into the first issue of my travel zine project "driftwood". from now on my journeys will turn to zines. it begins in sri lanka ...

to see more of the travel zine please visit my website.

driftwood or let's get a boat if the world's end is near is available in my web shop.

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WOMEN'S LONGBOARD CAMP 2013

as part of the crew and attendant of last year's women's longboard camp I am very excited to tell you that the second edition is coming up this may in France. I wish for many familiar faces and I am looking forward to meet at least as many new ones. Fee Bücheler, busy bee and head of this amazing event has all the infos and candies for you. 

hej Fee, how did the idea for the first women's longboard camp come up?

I don't think there was a special day I woke up and thought "uhhh, let's do a camp for women". it was more something that Christine and I always were thinking about: "how can we motivate more women in longboarding?" the camp seemed to be the perfect answer. there are so many camps for snowboarding and surfing so why shouldn't this work for longboarding as well?

what can we expect from the camp?

it's not just that your level is growing. it's also a place for meeting other great women that are stoked by the same things as you are and it's the start of a lot of friendships. and for sure nobody will be hungry or thursty. you can expect definitely one of the best weeks with muscle soreness for whole 2013.

how were your impressions of last year's camp in slovenia?

uhhhh, I was fucking excited, really. if you've never organized something like that before you want to do it perfect. on the second day I was so stoked to see how fast everybody was learning, how all the women threw their nervous ticking bombs in their head away and started to skate like there is no tomorrow. I always think of the last day of the camp when mostly everybody was crying because it was over ... goosebumbs over and over. 
all of them worked on their skills and I met a lot of the ladies which joined our camp in the last months, they are all so stoked ... mission accomplished.
if you want to know more about last year maybe this report gives you the right feeling.

is there something you'd like to make differently in France?

Yeah, definitely. we have only two options for booking this time. there's a camp option including food and drinking and a camp option that is called „course marshalling option“. this one is cheaper but you have to do the course marshalling instead of freeriding in the afternoon.

we call this camp „back to basic“. there will be only camping (no hotel or hostel) directly on the track with a more relaxed ambience in the evening, a few beers and maybe fire if the weather allows it. I think this time will be more like we really handle skating in our lives.

in one of the weeks we (what means you and maria wolfsberger) will film a bit for an amazing review. and I really hope that there will be more time for the team, for getting more relaxed to be able to put more energy into every woman that joins us.

what can the participants look forward to in particular? 

that we did the first camp already, free drinks, an amazing brand new asphalt on the track, camping directly on the track, yummy food made by the adh-crew, some more crazy stuff we are still working on and some good sponsorships.

do you have any shout outs?
sure! thanks to the crew last year! especially Christine, the longboardmag crew slovenia and all the guys which had so much fun in doing the course marshalling for us. thanks to the crew this year, escpecially the adh-crew. 
to the sponsors last year: Fibretec Longboards, Orangatang Wheels, Sabre Trucks, Concretewave Shop, Longboardshop, Rollladen, LesEttes, Sixxa, Musikshop Barde, LassRollen
to the sponsors this year: Zibeline Beanies,  LushLongboards, Rollladen, Sixxa and hopefully much more in a few weeks...
and not to forget for every women which believed in us last year and took part in the first ever women's longboard camp worldwide! thank you skateboarding to give us so much energy! if you need a hero take skateboarding.

quick facts
12–17 May 2013 & 19–24 May 2013,
Urbeis/Climont, Alsace (France)
for more infos click here

 

if you'd like to know how it was for me last year it's this way to the bear.

 

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SRI LANKA – TUK TUKS AND TICKLING TURTLES

Sri Lanka plays me the post travel blues. the teardrop formed island in the Indian Ocean looks up after almost 30 years of civil war and the devastating tsunami that hit its coast. nonetheless I've never been to such a friendly place before. people look into your eyes and smile. just like that.

right at the beginning we celebrated kind of a hairy ceremony at the beach in Hikkaduwa. this was where we met Banti. once you know Banti and his disco tuk tuk you know where's the party at.

do you remember the mtv ad with the indian in the barber shop? this or something like that happened to us at the spice school. a guy fumbled around in my face, we got partly unhaired and I almost lost my Marylin Monroe birthmark. the ayurvedic medicine man should be forgiven. he just didn't know how awesome it is to have one.

we came along many cinnamon houses that led us to reality. people harvesting cinnamon by hand get 2000 rupees for one kg, what is about 12 euros, what is about hello fucked up world.

thanks to this young lady who run her own business we got super great custom-made boardshorts within one day. 

 things I did for the first time

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surf a reef break, whoop!

get biten by over 40 sand fleas on one leg

meet a guy that travels the world on his bike since two years

visit a buddhist temple

look at a personal tsunami photo book of a wise man

 ride a tuk tuk

make siesta every day

tickle a turtle

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GOLDEN RIDE presents EUROTIC

after two weeks in beautiful Sri Lanka I am slowly picking up pace and I am discovering things I have missed in busy europe. 

failure number one: the online premiere of lipstick production's eurotic video. well, it's not that bad because you can watch it everywhere at any time again and again and luckily I've been to the video premiere presented by golden ride in munich three weeks ago. what a great weekend it was!

I am sorry there are no pictures of the snowboard party crowd. it was just too good to see friends again.

and now, get eurotic!


EUROTIC - THE FULL MOVIE from Lipstick Productions on Vimeo.

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MAGIC IS SOMETHING YOU MAKE

even if you can't see it on this pictures gothenburg showed up with its most beautiful skies and sunsets last week. the houses around seemed to burn because of the golden light.

when we weren't at the sea or eating grilled fish with potatoes or fish with mashed potatoes or fish with fish or fish soup with tea and rum we sticked our heads together for the next issue of monki magazine. keep your eyes open so you don't miss it.

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MY AFTER BIRTHDAY SLAM PARTY

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MY BIRTHDAY SLAM

some days ago I celebrated my birthday. I won't tell you which one, ha! i just say such a birthday needs to be celebrated at least as special as it is. so I traveled back in time to my childhood that consisted a lot of my dad and me watching tennis tournaments – always in favour for the czech guys. this heroization was followed by some sweet serendipity. there is a picture of martina navratilova, jana novotna, my dad and me that was taken in the ice stadion in zell am see. if my memory serves me right my dad asked them even to play ice hockey with me. so we did.

wearing a cap that was saying "tennistalent" on its front side I went through hard lessons with a tough and freckled tennis trainer. he always told me that I am a tennis player so why the hell i am moving like an ice figure skater over the court? I quitted. 

some years later a cute and mainly qualified swedish tennis trainer aroused my interest for tennis again. but neither jonas nor my original tennis racket from anna kournikova – of course my dad have organized that – kept me up playing tennis.

since then too many years elapsed what seemed to be a good reason to invite my friends to a birthday slam.

boys and girls, thank you for making my wish coming true and especially thanks for the (easy) game.

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GIRLS, BOARDS AND A BEAR.

it's just some days ago the first women's longboard camp came to an end but thinking back and going through the pictures I took it feels like its stories and impressions could fill my whole summer.

amidst a small and sleepy village in slovenia a bunch of lively girls gathered from all over europe to defeat the bear. the bear is a hill. a huge one and quite steep as well. facing the bear's guts for the first time gave me the creeps.

i hardly can't believe how much everybody learned and improved. besides the amazing job our instructors fee, sophie, christine, anni and glori did by responding to everybody's needs i think the bubbling energy between us girls brought ourselves to do things some of us maybe never thought of doing in our lives.

of course there were not just girls. it were the boys who protected the track with 2000! hay bails before. and they were doing great as road marshals. they gave us some important hints for sliding and drove us up the hill and not to forget the campfire they made every night.

at the beginning of the camp all participants got a longboard we set up together at a workshop. distracted by its wonderful shape and sixxa's great pirate ship graphic we screwed around and learned a lot about bushings, kingpins and bearings, yo.

in this idyllic creek that builds the boarder to croatia we found our cooling after skating. and yes, in some of us it awoke the animal.

this is one of the last pictures I took. it's nice to see how close we all got after some days sharing our passion. only crew love is true love.

 

this week teached me a lot. a healthy fear is important but sometimes it's time to switch off your brain and just listen to your heart. whether it's about going downhill as fast as you can or just do another turn while dancing on your board. with every try you grow.

with every try you grow from Daniela Bily on Vimeo.

sonja, i loved to listen to your songs.

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