Photo: Michi Gasteiger (www.michig.de)

Samstag, 15. Januar 2011

Newspaper Article, La Clusaz injuries...

Hey Everyone,

My local newspaper just published a story about the rising freerider Eric Zeller. :D
I meet up couple days ago with the editor and he was super stoked about freeriding and was super excited to bring some freeriding closer to the people around Konstanz. The local newspaper called Südkurier has a print out of more than 25.000 copies a day. So pretty sick for sure! ;D

Unfortunately the article is in german. ;) But you can find it here anyways... : http://www.suedkurier.de/sport/regionalsport/bodensee_west/art2783,4673380

I also was on my way to La Clusaz the first stopp of the this years Freeride World Qualifier Tour, all in all really disapointing, I had to get back in my car after reinjunring my right ankle at some warm up runs yesterday. So the competition is going to be held without my presence. I had injured my ankle 10 days ago while riding with the snowsick crew in tirol. I was hoping and praying that the time to the contest will be enough to recover. I was working really hard to start in La Clusaz so it seems to be a little set back but injuries happen and everybody has to deal with it I guess! :D

I´ll be back stronger and better and for sure healthier. ;)

see you guys soon.
Just klick back for more informations....

Montag, 3. Januar 2011

Happy New Year - Powder?

Hello Guys,

first of all I wish everybody a super exciting year 2011. May all your dreams and goals come true. If you start waking up everyday telling yourself today is going to be a good day, you find yourself having really good days, even when there are sometimes other days... :D

So I guess this was my little statement to all of you for 2011!

The last day of the year 2010 was an epic one for sure. I went to Hochfügen, Austria with my friend Steffen Hürter. No snow has fallen in 7 days and the forecast wasn´t looking better so that we weren´t really excited about having a good at all, but it turned out really nicley. We hiked up some ridges and found an untouched bowl, ridicoulous! :D So we pretty much spent the wohle day in there! We weren´t too excited about filming but here is a little edit about it.



Now I am on my way to Rosenheim to see my buddy Gex Rathfelder from the SOS ALPS TEAM. We might catch up with the Snowsick crew in Innsbruck.
I am kinda getting really excited about the first contest in La clusaz on the 15th of January. I put some news up as soon as possible after the event.

Find some pow pow....cheers!

Donnerstag, 23. Dezember 2010

Red Bull Hüttenralleye 2010


Hello guys this years first Red Bull Hüttenralleye was a blast. I qualified pretty easy for the final day. I won the first heat and got second in the final qualification run on tuesday. I was super stoked, the course a real ski cross course was not what I expected when I arrived in St. Anton. Two huge jumps on the qualification day with about 25m and 40m were on the plan. :D

The final day a lot Ski cross worldcup riders has been invited, names like Dahron rahlves, Simon stickl, enak cavagio, tomas kraus are all riders who have won worldcups, where waiting for the qualified riders on the final day. The le mans start (running to the skis) didn´t worked out so good so that I didn´t qualified for the Semifinal heats as an unlucky forth but it was still so much fun and a super good experience. Here is a picture from the athletes dinner with my friends Christian Reichenberger und Sepp Schmölzl.


here all the qualified riders: .... :D

Here is the bottom part filmed by one of the riders Helmetcam with the big jumps. The first one was easy 25m and the second 35- 40m. :D
enjoy watchin....



see you guys soon, merry christmas to everyone!

Freitag, 17. Dezember 2010

Movie Premiere Munich

As I said, here some pics from the movie premiere in Munich. It´s was pretty epic. Over 140 people showed up. We all had a really great time, special thanks to Niko and Nina from SOS who organised that stop for us.Here the whole Crew: Johannes, myself, Niko (SOS), Cameraman Kai



Lots of give aways from Blizzard, SOS, Blacksheepsports and Peak

Big thanks to Nina & Niko


The Blizzard Crew, me, Steve and Ralf; super cool that you guys showed up!

FULL HOUSE :D

so some impressions from munich....it was preety sweet. on the weekend we hunt some powder in Nauders...wish you guys a nice christmas time. ride on

Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010

Champaigne Powder ! ! !

Last monday me and Gex ( he is a new member of our SOS Freeride Team (SOS TEAM ALPS)) decided to go to Hochfügen, Zillertal (Austria). When we arrived in the parkinglot we had no idea how amazing that day would turn out....
A ridicoulous day, champaigne powder and bluebird. It was just unreal. The best day of the season so far......checkout our small clip....


Champaigne Powder ! ! ! from Eric Zeller on Vimeo.

Premiere Konstanz


The day finally arrived. Last friday was the day of the premiere in Konstanz. It was super special for me showing it in my hometown. I was super excited and maybe a bit nervous as well, presenting our movie to all my friends, family and the freeride community from Konstanz. In the end almost 90 people showed up and it was a total blast. I was really happy and we partied the wohle night. Check out some pics.....




Konstanz was the second stop after vienna. Munich is coming on the 14th and I will put some more news up after that.


Check back for some more news coming soon....a short episode : Powder in Hochfügen (austria) will come shortly as well as the premiere in Munich.

The next week coming up is going to be epic; I am invited to start at Red BULL event: Hüttenralleye:
The motto is to ski and compete with the pros like Dahron Rhalves, Andreas Matt (Several times Worldcup Winner Ski Cross) and some more... :D

http://www.redbull.at/cs/Satellite/de_AT/Red-Bull-H%C3%BCttenrallye/001242897564619

so we see how that goes, I think it gona be lots of fun for sure.....I will give my best as always and bring some pros in trouble....cya ya all soon again....

Dienstag, 23. November 2010

North America, publications and the long awaited Movietour!

So well, some news from overseas!
USA/CANADA was for sure cool but not so much snow as I expected.
It was still nice and I had a chance to see some old buddies and friends. We tried to go out and do some sleding and filming, lets see in a couple month how it worked out. :D


While away powdermagzin.de published an interview about myself and an article about the whole summertrip in New Zealand, you guys can find it here, its pretty epic, thx to the guys from powdermagazin: http://powdermagazin.de/#/42



Than finally I can present the tour dates for our long waited Movietour 2010/11.
Its going to be
Vienna 3.12 (20h Schmezbar (Hangloose Party))
Constance 10.12 (Jugendzentrum Gustav Schwabstr.12c) open doors 19.30h, start 20h!
Munich14.12 (padres) www.padres.de (19h open doors, start 20h)
Salzburg 17.12 more infos closer to the event...
Gießen 22.01 same here


Event Flyer for Constance, my hometown! see you all there.....


We tried to show in our movie a lot about a different society you guys may know. Freeriding is a passion we all share and love that´s what we try to show. We are like a big family! The movie is pretty humerous and shows how much you can do even with a small budget. It shows a lot about a beautiful country and his people. Amazing pictures from nature, wilderness and of course of freeriding. I hope you guys have chance to watch it and come to your own opinion. For myself it was one of the best eperiences of my life....

hope to see you guys all at the premieres.....those who don´t come miss out! :D

shred the gnar.....