{"id":160518,"date":"2017-07-19T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=160518"},"modified":"2017-07-19T09:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T09:48:30","slug":"invented-right-hand-handicapped-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/07\/19\/invented-right-hand-handicapped-filmmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"How We \u2018Invented\u2019 the Right Hand of a Handicapped Filmmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

At first sight, it was clear that things won\u2019t be easy. If you want to ride a bicycle, all the more so in the Bike Park, both hands come \u201cin handy\u201d when it comes to managing the handlebars. And that was exactly what Honza did not have. We met him at a parking lot in front of a big shopping mall in Prague minutes before we left for Livigno for a five-day photo shoot and mountain biking session. Burdened with a backpack and tripod, he arrived smiling and offered me his left hand for a friendly shake. Just a few seconds before that I noticed his right hand was missing. Or, more precisely, there was still a part left, to which he himself affectionately referred as a \u201cchicken wing\u201d.<\/strong>
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“Hi, I’m Honza Pova\u017ean,” said the 19-year-old boy from P\u0159erov, a small city in Moravia. With great references, he got assigned to our crew after he was recommended by our friends. Besides his excellent work with the skateboarding community, there was another reason to welcome him to the team. Honza belongs among the four students who were admitted to Film School in Zl\u00edn, Czech Republic, of several hundreds of applicants. However, all the way to Italy we were thinking about how he would manage the upcoming task with only one hand as the filming in big mountains is somehow different from hanging out with a bunch of skateboarders in the city streets.<\/p>\n

An invitation to Livigno<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Having the professional biker and We Love Cycling Ambassador Richard \u2018Gaspi\u2019 Gasperotti on the team, we were invited to visit Livigno by their official Tourist Agency in exchange for providing them with photos and video they could use for promotional purposes. Who would resist such an offer – Livigno is one of the most popular mountain resorts in Europe with 300 sunny days per year and an incredible mountain biking trails network. The area consists of two separated resorts – Mottolino and Carosello 3000 – each offering tens of trails ranging in difficulty from the easy blue to the insane 2005 World Cup DH track. Add the splendid Italian cuisine and the fact that Livigno is a duty-free paradise and you can hardly find a better place for your cycling holidays. With its altitude of 1816 meters, it\u2019s a great base even for the road cyclist eager to add some thousand elevation kilometres to their Strava record.<\/p>\n