Videos

CzechMate S03E01 | feBROary

by DanielHanka
Mar 31st - 773 views

Better late then never, huh? This season we were committed to fulfill the name of this project and finally film couple episodes in Czech... However, in similar fashion to last year, this year's winter was quite terrible. So believe it or not, this episode is filmed in mid-February, yet it looks like end of May hah. Well, it is what it is. Also, that's why we named this episode this way. February and bros… get it? HAHA, GET IT??? I think we've achieved comedy over here. Alright…now enjoy some fun shredding! Thanks for watching.

Skiing by Simon Bartik, Daniel Hanka, Stepan Hudecek, Vojta Bresky, Vit Zaribnicky & Jan Ferbr

CzechMate is supported by: Horsefeathers, Volkl, Marker, Dalbello and Daniel's and Simon's big hearts.

We would like to thank everybody that has been following this video project. We really appreciate the love and support. It really means a lot to us!

Big THANK YOU to you all - from Czech with love

@danihellhanka
@simon_bartik

#danielhanka #simonbartik #czechmate

CzechMate | MIXTAPE

by DanielHanka
Mar 8th - 214 views

The CzechMate Mixtape showcases the highlights from two seasons of adventures with Daniel Hanka, Simon Bartik, and friends. Enjoy pure ski action at Kitzsteinhorn, Livigno, Sunshine Village, Kronplatz, Crans Montana, Destne, Partybus junkyard, and the streets of Prague. A big thanks for supporting CzechMates goes to Horsefeathers and Newschoolers. Season 3 is coming out soon, stay tuned!

Skiing by Daniel Hanka & Simon Bartik.

CzechMate is supported by: Horsefeathers, Newschoolers.com and Daniel`s and Simon`s big hearts.

We would like to thank everybody that has been following this video project. We really appreciate the love and support. It really means a lot to us!

Big THANK YOU to you all - from Czech with love

@danihellhanka
@simon_bartik

Daniel Hanka | RAW ROOTS Pt.3

by DanielHanka
Dec 2023 - 366 views

The third and final episode is from the shoot at the Swiss resort of Crans Montana on a jump that was specifically built for this shoot on the other side of the glacier. The jump was absolutely massive, inrun speed was around 85-90kph including a huge "bridge" that followed after a tricky blind spot cat track.

Filmed by Etienne Merel & The Blue Max media.

Daniel Hanka | RAW ROOTS Pt.2

by DanielHanka
Nov 2023 - 415 views

RAW ROOTS is a three-part drop of my raw clips from Faction's 2021 ski movie ROOTS, including shots that didn't make the final cut. The second episode is from the shoot at the famous Finnish resort of Ruka, during a famous light festival and -20 degrees temperatures - felt like negative thousand.....

Filmed by Etienne Merel & The Blue Max media.

Follow me on Instagram for more content: @danihellhanka

Daniel Hanka | RAW ROOTS Pt.1

by DanielHanka
Oct 2023 - 2.7K views

RAW ROOTS is a three-part drop of my raw clips from Faction's 2021 ski movie ROOTS, including shots that didn't make the final cut. The first episode is from the shoot at the famous Swiss resort of Verbier, which also happens to be Faction's home mountain.

Filmed by Etienne Merel & The Blue Max media.

CzechMate S02E03 | Dolce Primavera

by DanielHanka
Jun 2023 - 2.3K views

The season has been pretty meh in Europe as America has stolen all the snow from us. We decided we wanna go to Kronplatz to enjoy some serious spring laps. However... Weather sucked but we managed to have 1 good and 1 ok sweet spring days through week long window. Daniel fell sick after day 1 and had to leave home. Jan arrived after Daniel's departure, but hurt his knee during his first day of skiing. Considering our "luck" this episode turned out way better then we were thinking it would be.

Skiing by Simon Bartik, Daniel Hanka, Stepan Hudecek & Jan Ferbr

CzechMate is supported by: Horsefeathers, Newschoolers.com and Daniel`s and Simon`s big hearts.

We would like to thank everybody that has been following this video project. We really appreciate the love and support. It really means a lot to us!

Big THANK YOU to you all - from Czech with love

@danihellhanka
@simon_bartik

#danielhanka #simonbartik #czechmate

CzechMate S02E02 | Taps and Elks

by DanielHanka
Apr 2023 - 1.2K views

As the paths of destiny has lead us all the way over the ocean to Canada. We couldn't really film just one episode. This time crazy freezing temperatures tried, but didn't manage to stop us from tapping the sh!t out of Sunshine Village snowpark features. Enjoy the second episode from our CzechMate Canadian adventure.

Skiing by Simon Bartik, Daniel Hanka, Curt Hiller & Tom Mcdougall

CzechMate is supported by: Horsefeathers, Newschoolers.com and Daniel`s and Simon`s big hearts.

We would like to thank everybody that has been following this video project. We really appreciate the love and support. It really means a lot to us!

Big THANK YOU to you all - from Czech with love

@danihellhanka
@simon_bartik

#danielhanka #simonbartik #czechmate

CzechMate S02E01 | CzechSnakes

by DanielHanka
Mar 2023 - 1.2K views

The CzechMate season 2 is finally here. Yeah, it took a while... But it's here! This time, Daniel & Simon took a long trip over the ocean, all the way to the land of hockey, maple syrup and...snakes? Doesn't make any sense to you? Worry not, you'll get enlightened after watching the video. Now please sit back, relax and enjoy the first instalment of season 2.

We would like to thank everybody that has been following this video project. We really appreciate the love and support. It really means a lot to us!

Big THANK YOU to you all - from Czech with love

Danihell & Simba.




@danihellhanka
@simon_bartik

CzechMate is supported by: Horsefeathers, Newschoolers.com and Daniel`s and Simon`s big hearts.

#danielhanka #simonbartik #czechmate

The Documentary | DaniHell Hanka Invitational 2022

by DanielHanka
Jan 2023 - 3.4K views

In March 2022, the inaugural Danihell Hanka Invitational welcomed twelve unique skiers from across the freeski spectrum to Daniel Hanka’s home resort of Destne, Czechia. Their mission: to enjoy a week-long, no-rules session on a special park setup envisioned by Daniel, and to bring back a touch of the flavor and style from the times before skiing was dominated by rules, regulations and organizations.

“With this invitational, I would love to bring back the old-school park session and do an event that will actually satisfy the core of our ski community,” says Daniel. “My skiing is really character oriented, so I would like to appreciate all the other skiers that are working this way. That’s pretty much the point of the Danihell Hanka invitational.

Video made by: Erwan Lier
Instagram: @kekous

”Made possible by:
Oakley - Walter Gianni, Jan Dvorak
Horsefeathers - Tomas Koudela
Skicentrum Destne - Petr Prouza, Hanzi Prouza, Týna Řezníčková
Downdays.eu - Ethan Stone
Newschoolers.com - Twig Spensley, Milo McSenderson

Big shoutout to everybody involved who helped to make the first DaniHell Hanka Invitational happen:

YourPark Shapers crew:
Stanislav Ježek, Jan Ježek, Petr Marčík, Michael Derunov, Jakub Ungrád, Jakub Hejduk

Cat drivers:
David Krejčí, Patrik Kříž, Jakub Hejduk

All the riders and filmers, Karolina Řeháková, Rafael Regazzoni, Vojta Sulanský, Erwan Lier, Hai Yen, Jara Sijka, Kluci s Dronem, David Kakud, Linda Nováková, Kamil Feifer, Jiří Lubínek, David Pavlíček, The AC/DC Tribute band, Bar Dvojka.


00:00 - 00:45 Intro
00:46 - 05:13 - The Concept
05:14 - 07:04 - The Boner Box
07:05 - 09:11 - Cruise'n'Roll
09:12 - 11:29 - Thoughts On This Kind Of Events
11:30 - 13:00 - Shredder Of The Week
13:31 - 14:27 - Outro

#danihellhankainvitational #documentary #welcometohell

CzechMate Ep.4 | Working Out

by DanielHanka
Nov 2022 - 7.8K views

The long-awaited finale of CzechMate season 1. is finally here. This time in a form of a tiny movie. From fresh corduroy of Livigno jumps we've seen in Ep.3 we'll make switch into what most of us like the most - the slushy spring shredding. This time we sticked around Innbruck's famous spot Nordkette for the last week of the season in Austria. After Nordkette closed it's gates for good, we roadtripped to Switzerland, where we spent a great time in the Alaia glacier park. Now please enjoy the CzechMate season 1 finale.

We would like to thank everybody that has been following this video project. We really appreciate the love and support. It really means a lot to us!

Big THANK YOU to you all - from Czech with love

Danihell & Simba.




@danihellhanka
@simon_bartik

CzechMate is supported by: Horsefeathers, Newschoolers, Snowpanic and Daniel`s and Simon`s big hearts.

#danielhanka #simonbartik #czechmate

CzechMate Ep.3 | Corduligno

by DanielHanka
Feb 2022 - 8.6K views

After a wild off-piste adventure it was time for Simon and Daniel to take a sanctuary in a save environment of perfectly shaped park jumps made out of the nicest aldente corduroy you can ever wish for. And boy oh boooyy it felt good to hit jumps again. Thanks Mottolino Livigno for having us. We`re coming back in spring..Because not only taht we miss the great jumps..But mostly we do miss the food and espressos at Meating Point restaurant. Now grab your pasta and enjoy the 3rd instalment of CzechMate - The Corduligno.

@danihellhanka
@simon_bartik

CzechMate is supported by: Horsefeathers, Newschoolers, Snowpanic and Daniel`s and Simon`s big hearts.

Czech Mate Ep. 2 | As Is

by DanielHanka
Jan 2022 - 9.5K views

The power of chaotic faith brought Danihell & Simba into Austrian Alps. Original plan was to meet up with local hero Tom Ritsch enjoy the Kitzsteinhorn snowpark, however the park was not ready and therefore Tom took us to scope around the mountain. We have found the sacred place called The Crystal Bahn, full of curvy terrain, which became our favourite place on earth for next 4 sunny days. Therefor the name: As Is. We just used the mountain terrain as we found it and we were basically just skiing, finding natural hits and little lines to do tricks on.



Follow us on Instagram:

@danihellhanka
&
@simon_bartik

Supported by: Danihell & Simba and their big hearts, Horsefeathers.eu, Snowpanic, Faction skis, Out Of, Newschoolers.com & Pavel Zacharuk

#CzechMate #DanielHanka #SimonBartik

Czech Mate Ep. 1 | Partybus

by DanielHanka
Dec 2021 - 9.4K views

Daniel Hanka and Simon Bartik presents the first episode of the new webseries called ''Czech Mate''. We've spent a month in Tirol to experience the classic pre-season warm up on local crowded glaciers Stubai and Kaunnertal and commited to film the first episode of our new project here. Bold move after 6 months without skiing. Unfrotunately Austria went into lockdown again three quarters into our filming trip and the ski resorts had to be closed. But was it that unfortunate? See by yourself in the first episode ''Partybus''

Follow us on Instagram:

@danihellhanka
&
@simonbartik

Supported by: Danihell & Simba and their big hearts, Horsefeathers, Snowpanic, Newschoolers.com & Pavel Zacharuk

Simon Bartik - Slav and Friends / Trailer 2

by DanielHanka
Sep 2021 - 976 views

Slav and Friends is a two year video project about Simon's ski adventures with some of his best friends. Where I manage to ski quite a bit. Lot of effort, lot of love has been put in this one and it's definitly something you should keep an eye on. Enjoy and thanks for your support.

In case anybody would be stoked about having this flick on their screening or event - please feel free to let me or Simba know.

Peace and keep squating




featuring
Simon Bartik
Daniel Hanka
Voita Bresky
Honza Novotny
Tomas Kroczek
Stepan Hudecek
Marek Skala
Alex Hall
Tereza Korabova
& friends

Edited by:
Simon Bartik

Hanka, Bartik & more | PIPELINE PUNCH

by DanielHanka
Mar 2021 - 1.9K views

The good old PVC tube edit. Hiking, good vibes, friends and sun. Nothing more, nothing less.


skiers: Daniel Hanka, Simon Bartik, Terka Korabova & Tomas Kroczek
filmed by: Linda Novak
edit by: Daniel Hanka
music: Will Smith - Miami

Hanka & Bartik | The Cure

by DanielHanka
Mar 2021 - 9.4K views

Times are being too hasty nowadays, people spin a lot and character is disappearing from skiing. Slowdown for a minute and soothe your soul with the art of straight airs.

Skiers:
Daniel Hanka - @danihellhanka
Simon Bartik - @simon_bartik

Filmed 100% on GoPro

Music:
Beethoven - Fur Elise

Thanks Absolut Park for having us. - @absolutpark



Filmed 100% on GoPro

Music:
Beethoven - Fur Elise

Thanks Absolut Park for having us.

Daniel Hanka | Blading Montage 2k20

by DanielHanka
Dec 2020 - 2K views

I spent a bit more time on my blades this summer, because Covid made skiing impossible. This is the collection of shots i managed to get during this summer which i spent in Prague. I wish I could film more. But this gave me a lot motivation to actually concentrate on a propper blading project for next summer. Gotta start somewhere right? Hope you'll enjoy.

filming by: Fekal Daemon, Antti Ollila
editing by myself
song: The Cramps - Kizmiaz
Locations: Prague, Innsbruck

Daniel Hanka | Zermatt Offering

by DanielHanka
Aug 2020 - 2.8K views

Ig: @danihellhanka

After the Covid had cut the ski season short. Europe lockdown finally eased up and I went for a short summer ski trip to Snowpark Zermatt, for a little shredd.. Park was awesome and I felt pretty good. So I decided to film a little and made this edit... Enjoy!!

Thanks to:
Simon Bartik & Linda Novak for filming and for being keewl.
Anna Puotka for hooking us up with tickets.
And Snowpark Zermatt for being a great place to spend your summer at.

I spent a month with Daniel Hanka | Czech Adventure by Erwan Lier

by DanielHanka
May 2020 - 2.5K views

In January 2019, after I finished rehab of my second ACL surgery, I was looking for a filmer for my new Cruise'n'Roll project. I posted an Instagram story and got a reply from a random french guy, fulltime engineer Erwan, aka Kekous. We never saw each other, exchanged couple messages on gram and suddenly he took a month of his regular everyday job to go to Czech Republic and film with me. Pretty insane if you ask me. But that's how modern world works. This video summes up the month we spent together from Erwan's perspective. It was definitely a time to remember and brings back tons of memories. It takes a month to make a friend for life.

Make sure to check out his instagram: @kekous
You can check my instagram too: @danihellhanka

Daniel Hanka | Good 'Ol Ski Edit

by DanielHanka
Nov 2019 - 3.6K views

A summer project that came out of nowhere during my trip to America - Good 'Ol Ski Edit has been filmed by many people with lots of different cameras with different settings, and it's all about skiing and a good vibes, like it was with ski edits back in the days. This is somewhat of tribute to the times, when people were shredding together and filming each other, hustling with the shots afterwards to make something out of it. This has been sure a bit of a hustle.. But it was all worth it and i hope you guys will enjoy it..and most importantly..that it'll make you want to do out there and shredd!!!

I would like to thank everyone, who helped to make this happen. Special shoutout to Jason Arens from Windells Camps and Anna Puotka from Snowpark Zermatt for massive help. To Windells film and photo crew Mark Cola, Gucci Logan and Jacob Dubé for the sick cover photo. Nico from Swiss for helping out filming the Zermatt part.. To Šimon Bartík for being the best homie on our USA adVANture. And shoutout to all the homies and people I've met on the way! It was unforgetable summer.

THANK YOU

Daniel

Cruise'n'Roll | Water Skiing On Park skis Ep.11

by DanielHanka
Jun 2019 - 1.2K views

After the Faction Skis team shoot, Antti talk me to stay one more day and chill in Annecy after heavy team week.. So I stayed, we went for a lunch, met up with long Faction skis teammate Arnaud Rogier and suddenly we went water skiing on my park skis. It was really cold, really windy.. Water was also cold, and in the background you can see mountains covered with snow. However, in the end we've been all stoked that we we're able to do this. Shout out to Arno, for hooking us up with his sick boat and wetsuits to wear!

New Wave Invitational

by DanielHanka
May 2019 - 2.5K views

Alex Hall, Antti Ollila, Will Berman, Benjamin Forthun and myself had a last day of Faction Skis team shoot, weather was pretty bad and we couldn't film for the movie. So we decided to have some fun on abandoned snow bar.

Zerospin line

by DanielHanka
Apr 2019 - 1.7K views

Spending some time on this line in Mottolino with dem boyz and just couldn't resist to do the zero spin line..
@danielhanka

Cruise 'n' Roll | RAW Playstreets Madness EP. 2

by DanielHanka
Mar 2019 - 1.6K views

Hop on board of my 1968 Wildcat every sunday, to experience the life of a skier, with 50 years old hotrod, cruisin' around Europe, attending competions, visiting friends, meeting people and skiing it all!

First big event for me, the insane Playstreets with the super diffucult course through the historical center of Bad Gastain. Let me show you, what it is like to be part of one of the world's most original event.

0:00 - theme
0:29 - intro speach
1:30 - teenytiny travel sgement
2:15 - DAY ONE - course talks & training
5:39 - DAY TWO - qualis
6:56 - riders zone vibes
9:31 - pizza & chill time before the finals
9:56 - finals
12:30 - credits
12:45 - ???




music: https://www.epidemicsound.com/


camera:
Erwan Lier - https://www.instagram.com/kekous/

shoutout to: https://www.newschoolers.com/


#cruisenroll #danielhanka

Cruise'n'Roll | The Maiden Voyage EP. 1

by DanielHanka
Mar 2019 - 2.1K views

Hey Newschoolers! I'm finally back on skis with my new knee and also with a new video project called Cruise'n'Roll. Which I'm really happy to present to you right now and I really hope you will appreciate it the same way as you did with my previous project Smelly Socks - and once more - I'm really thankful for that! But it was time to move on....and this is it! It is slightly different, but my classic ski segments are still gonna remain, just enriched about some behind the scenes of my ski life that I'm so much thankful for... From traveling, events, homies, messing around with the Wildcat to rolleblading and partying..This all should be Cruise'n'Roll.


In the first Cruise'n'Roll, I'll take you to my homeresort, where I'll be skiing in the snowpark for the first time after 9 months long rehab of my back to back surgery of my right knee.

0:00 - theme
0:52 - intro
1:25 - traveling
4:00 - skiing
6:14 - skiing pt.2
7:30 - finding a way back to the resort
8:29 - outro

Thank you all for the support!

music: https://www.epidemicsound.com/

shoutout to: http://www.newschoolers.com


#cruisenroll #danielhanka

SMELLY SOCKS I Sayonara

by DanielHanka
Nov 2018 - 8.8K views

Daniel Hanka decides to step out of his traditional park enviroment and travels to Japan. Putting together crew of his riends Martin Bernard, Antti Ollila and Zuzicka Stromkova, to hit and film their first real powder on real powskis in their life and exeprience the true Japanase dream, accompanied by local sender Gen Sasaki.

Smelly Socks | Sayonara teaser

by DanielHanka
Nov 2018 - 1000 views

After a little break due to my knee injury, the new Smelly Socks episode is actually, and also finally, happening! This time I decided to step out off my snowpark enviroment and visit the mecca of deep powder skiing - Japan. And ski my first real powder, on real pow skis with some of my real best friends like Antti Ollila - also first time pow, Zuzicka Stromkova and Martin Bernard behind the lens ofcourse. It's been a great experience for sure, thanks to our local connection, guide and sick skier Mr. Gen Sasaki. I'm really hyped to present you the teaser, for the last Smelly Socks episode, Sayonara.

Daniel Hanka | Skatepark ACL test

by DanielHanka
Oct 2017 - 1.4K views

Winter is coming in hot, and I´m 6 months after my ACL and meniscus surgery... After long time of pretty much not doin anything except workouts, long gym sessions and all the boring stuff.. I finally felt comfortable enough and deciced to fully test my knee in a skatepark. Hard impacts, pops, crashes, goin fast, doin tricks... The knee feels good and i think I´m ready to get back on skis in full power again! And HOPEFULLY to film new season of Smelly Socks!

@danielhanka


Please, excuse the light quality.. The conditions were terrible and camera old...


Peace

D.

SMELLY SOCKS I 3.1

by DanielHanka
Apr 2017 - 29.7K views

Smelly Socks 3.1 is, unfortunately, the one and only Smelly Socks webisode this year. Simply for two reasons: We have zero budget for this and Daniel hurt his knee. But this doesent mean Smelly Socks are done! We tried hard and made at least one this year. And we will try even harder to bring you more Smelly Socks edits in upcoming season, so dont be sad and stay tunned!

This particular time for 3.1, we visited Absolut park Flachauwinkl in Austria. Daniel, Antti and Martin drove with Dans sketchy 1998 VW Golf literally overloaded with all kinds of classic shit like bags, skis, filming equipment...But also pretty gross shit, like a mixture of candies and leftover snacks on the floor, which at some point, mixed with melted snow, became some sort of nasty candysauce as we called it, while Martin was constantly complaining about Daniel driving too fast and too furious. We drove about 6 hours from Czech Republic to Flachau where we all stayed at Matthias Krallingers amazing house in the middle of the mountain. and he even has his own miniramp in a basement, where we had nice afternoon sessions after skiing with beers and a good music.

Overally we had 4 days to film the edit. But as it usually is the weather didnt really cooperate, so we had 1 day off and stayed home. That left us 3 days to work with. Unlike the bummer day at home, those other days luckily worked out perfectly for us! We had 2 days of sun that we used in a park and even one deep powder day! Where Daniel and Antti tried to be like The Big Picture guys and hit cliffs and stuff on their centermounted park skis, doin countless tomahawks, calling it the best day at work ever pretty much after each hit. At this point we were also joined by everyones favourite Zuzicka Stromkova, and she was sending the cliffs with dem boyz like theres no tomorrow, leaving Daniel and Antti speechless! Daniel dropped his first cliff ever in his life and Antti was killing it as usually on his 1.0s - for example his massive nosebudda dub 10 out off totally fucking nowhere speaks for itself. The rest of it youll see in the webisode. So sit comfy, blast your volume and enjoy the rocknroll!

We would like to thank:

You as an audience - without you, we wouldnt be able to make these.

Matthias Krallinger and his family for letting the smelly crew stay at his place.

Berndt Egger - Absolut Park manager

Martin Bernard for doin this because of his passion.

The crew for amazing experience and everyone else we have met and skied with!

Cover photo: Erik Tomasak

Music: Thee Oh Sees - Contraption-Soul Desert

Filming and editing: martinbernard.net