Red Bull Photoshooting Oct.12-13.2010

"Riding the top of Bucharest"

          On October 11 I arrived at Bucharest directly from Iasi city, where I had a contest, the "BiciCooltura 2". Because the contest was very hard and the travel by train was exhausting too, I decided to go to the hotel, where I took a break and relaxed a bit. Later, I went out with my manager and the photographer, to estabilish the battle plan for next day, beside a pizza. Basically we planed and talked about the places where we had to shoot. They said, I have to ride on the top of some huge buildings what was a total surprise for me, but when I heard that, I was like... OK let's do it!
          The next day I woke up early, to prepare myself for the big shooting and to be honest, I was a bit nervous about the locations, because I did not know what to expect exactly. We had two locations, two buildings at Minerva and Metropolis Center.
          First day at Minerva: The building was wery oldschool and inspiring, the ride wasn't like an everyday training, I was soo "high" and full of adrenaline. I had a lot of funn with the photographer and our collaboration was very good.
          Second day at Metropolis Center: This time it was a 10 floor building. When I saw it, I was a bit nervous, but in the same time exited too, to get on the top. Up there was incredible to see the whole city around, the landscape was soo beautiful, that realy pushed me to the limits. I recomand to all of you to try this if you have the oportunity xD, it was such a great experience.
          I realy enjoyed this photoshooting, I had a great time and lot of fun with Mihai Stecu, who is a pro Red Bull  photographer with whom I like to work very much, because he always makes the things soo funny.

         I hope you like the photos:

Action at Minerva:

Lifestyle:

Action at Metropolis Center:

Lifestyle:

Contest BiciCooltura 2’nd edition Oct.10.2010

I arrived with the train in Iasi city on Saturday evening on October 9, where was very cold and raining, which gaved me little emotions about the contest.  When the contest started Sunday morning the situation was the same, the rain did not stop and the tracks were all wet and slippery, but the organizers have thought about the competitors safety and they camed up with a brilliant idea to put on the dangerous places wire mesh for extra grip. By the way the difficulty of the tracks wasn’t too high, but their were tehnical.

I competed in Elite category,  where were only 3 tracks, which had to be passed 3 times. I started the race very good, I managed to control my emotions very well.  The first two rounds I was leading the category, but unfortunately in the third one I began to have trouble with my concentration, In fact I finished second place.

The contest was great, I had a very good time during the race, the atmosphere was very competitive and full of adrenaline.

The premiere was a very great feeling, when they began to sprinkle us with champagne, I felt like guys in the Formula 1, It was a truly new experience.

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Results:

1 Alexe Ioan Baiesiu

2 Kovacs Robert

3 Levente Janosi