Lil Keystone edit

Here are few shots from Keystone, as you can see the park is amazing with a lot of stuff you can hit! One more week left...
Few runs Keystone

yours

Natalia

Guns n Roses concert Denver

I almost stopped breathing when Katarina Benzova asked me what am I doing on sunday! She is the Guns n Roses official photographer and they were playing in Dever. I was soooo stoked! My Faction team rider Andy Matthew had a car so we went together with my roommate Szczepan Karpiel to see the concert and the VIP afterparty as well.
The show was amazing, they have played 3 hours in a row and we have heard all the greatest hits! The band before was Black Label Society and they made an amazing show as well.
We have returned 5 in the morning but it was worth everything, the best show I ever see so far. Thank you and love you Kat!

 Axl Rose playing November rain

 Show was so awesome!

 Last standing

Us with DJ Ashba - the guitar player

Us with Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal - guitarist

Folklor 2 polish freeski movie!

So it is online, check the HD version of the second part of Tenchis movie Folklor:
http://vimeo.com/33139906

My part is there as well, filmed in one day on Hintertux, unfortunately I have no jumps there because I had no speed for the big ones, I guess I need to put on more weight haha

Enjoy and take care!

Natalia

Colorado trip

My dream came true, I came back to Colorado few years after I have worked for Keystone as a ski instructor. But now I am here to work on my skills, which is soooo awesome!
New skis from Faction, great friends around me, the only thing I miss is my new Orage outerwear, which came just before I left home. Never mind, it will be a Christmas gift when I come home!

Finally getting over jet lag, skiing Breck and Keystone and the weather cant be better.
Here is a picture of me and my little snowboard friend Klaudia standing on top of the Breckenridge kicker line:

And here us excited in front of the ski map:)

I am the new member of Faction Europe Team!

Hello everyone!
Check my online profile on Faction skis website, I am so stoked to be a part of the European team!
http://www.factionskis.com/en/activists/pro/natalia-slepecka.php

Season edit

Hey there,
new season is almost here and my friend Lolo managed to finish my last season edit, check it!

http://vimeo.com/30796688

Red Bull Art of Can

Thursday there was a special show in Bratislava, the opening of the Red Bull Art of Can exhibition. The exciting part of it was that I was invited to it.

Apart from admiring the art pieces made of Red Bull cans, we have met with our team manager about the Snowgirls project for the upcoming season. New exciting stuff is beeing prepared, looking forward to it!

But the biggest surprise came, when I heard the name of my friend Majkl Velner, he won 2nd place with his art, great job Majkl, congrats!!!
I took a picture of it so you can admire it as well:)

                                                             Majkl's fantastic RB tree

                                                            Me dancing with the bull :))

Take care!

Natalia

Hintertux Trip

Hey there! Winter is really close now and I have been on my first snow trip last week! Sooo excited to be back on snow! Me and Zuzka Stromkova went together with another 10 of our ski and snowboard friends to Hintertux. First day the snowpark wasnt ready at all, only few rails, so we were dissapointed, because we have planned our trip according to the snowpark FB news which said everything is ready. Anyway, the best 2 days were the weekend days, sun was shining and almost no wind made it perfect! So many pros were there killing it, it was cool to ride the same jump as the X Games winners! Two of my snowboard friends got injured and rode a heli back to the hospital, get well soon Zuzka Medlova and Ryba!
Cant wait for the next trip!

Here I am posing with the Imunoglukan supplement which helps me with my imune system, I am not a sicko anymore :)

Me and Zuzka Stromkova taking a picture with Matej Matys, our best slovakian snowboarder.

Picture by Zuzka, me at the end of the last skiing day jumping the big kicker line, perfect kicker shapes!

take care
xoxo
Natalia

News reporter

Hey there,
this is probably gonna be funny only for those which understand Slovak.
This monday I went to Bratislava for some Media relations training organized by Slovak ski association and with this occasion, while I was in Bratislava I went to the POME crew headquarters to film the freestyle news.
It was much fun, but at the end I was baked under the strobe lights which were sooooo strong. I was trying to imitate the old reporters from the socialist times when I was little, hope it went out good and people laughed when watching it.
Check it out:
http://vimeo.com/29041886

Polish water ramp camp video

Check the nice video Tenchi did from their Modest South Water Ramp Camp which was in Big Air water jump areal in Novy Hrozenkov.  Me and Zuzka have a couple shots there, it was really cool jumping with her, always good fun:)

here is the link:
Water ramp camp

Support from Aquapark Tatralandia

Hey everyone! Stoked to announce that I got support from Aquapark Tatralandia, which is a place right behind my house in my hometown Liptovsky Mikulas. They gave me a season pass so I can enjoy their thermal pools, wellness area and trampolines! We went there yesterday with Zuzka and Klaudia and filmed a lil trampoline Snowgirls epizode. Anyway, we are preparing a whole new season of Snowgirls so there is much more interesting stuff coming, specially for da ladies:) Stay tuned!

Acrobatpark Štíty

Right now it is the third day I am in Acrobatpark Štíty, getting ready for the sundays contest. The weather has been good, specially today it was sunny all day long so I got enough training time. Also few other freeski girls came to train, I am very excited for the contest, it is going to be a tough competition! Here is a picture of me and Klaudia Medlova (and Marek Polan's aka The Photographer's finger:)) chillin in the sun and Iza Kyselova doin a perfect backflip of the tower in to the water!

Trip to water big air in Novy Hrozenkov, CZ

On wednesday evening I went to the water ramps in Nový Hrozenkov. Zuzka Stromková was coaching there on the Bandidas Girls Camp organized by czech freeski chick Adrejka Krýslová. The camp was really well organized and It was heaps of fun!! Even the weather wasnt perfect, I still had a great time working on my grabs so they will be more solid on snow and during the trampoline training. The areal has a mini ramp as well, this is what I call a perfect summer holiday:) If you want to know more check their website www.bigair.cz. And if you want to try it there are camps which you can attend!

Here is a picture of me and Zuzka on our training holiday:)

Next stop will be another set of physical performance test with our coach Murgi, this time in Bratislava in the University of Physical Education, this time focused more on coordination and stretching. I hope I will do well, these two are my strong parts. Afterwards i am going to Czech Acrobat park Štíty for the water ramp Tipsport contest to defend my last years victory. Wish me luck:)

National team physical tests

Last week we have met in the Bigair water jump areal to perform some input tests with our new (and first ever) national trainer -  Tomáš Murgáč aka Murgi. Me, Zuzka and Juraj had to do various power and performance tests. The biggest problem for me were the medicinball tests, since my shoulder is painfull as usuall, I could not throw it as far as I wanted. Never mind, on the other side I have found out that my coordination is quite good. All of us got a training plan we can work with until the next tests in september. Lets do some work! :)

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog! I will try to post all the important updates in my freeski life. Anyway, the point is that you should do what you love because life is too short:)