adidas Outdoor Sports Team Show 2/2018 -  Highline in the Dolomites & MTB Road Trip to Baja

Outdoor Sports Team goes Slackline / MTB

2017, Italy & Mexico

LUKAS IRMLER (GER) - HIGHLINE IN THE DOLOMITES

Professional slackliner Lukas Irmler (GER) first stepped on a slackline in 2006 -  a life changing experience, because the new sport he had just discovered for himself soon became more than just a hobby; it turned into a passion and five years later even into a profession. Lukas has a Master degree in Economics, but he fully commits his time to the sport of slacklining, working as professional athlete, performing artist, and consultant. His passion for the stretchy webbing has taken Irmler around the world. To date he has “slacklined” and even “highlined” on 6 different continents. The 29-year-old holds multiple world records, including the Highest Altitude World Record at 5,721m (Volcano Misti, Peru), the Waterline World Record (750m across Lake Kaltern, Italy) and the Longest Highline in Africa (crossing the famous Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe).

Although slacklining has taken him around the world, the Bavaria-born athlete has hardly realized any highline projects in the Alps, which are right at his doorstep. Together with some slackline colleagues he searches for a sophisticated highline project in the Dolomites – an undertaking that turns out to be more challenging than expected.

ANDREW TAYLOR (USA) AND MARTIN SÖDERSTRÖM (SWE) – MTB ROAD TRIP TO BAJA

When Californian MTB freeride pro Andrew Taylor (USA) stumbled across an old school bus for sale in 2015, he found the missing link to make his ultimate road trip to Alaska come to life. He bought the bus and turned it over several months into a tailor-made adventure vehicle to take on a strenuous mission from California to the Arctic circle and back. At the same time, Taylor already planned a second trip to the opposite end of the spectrum, driving his old school bus down south towards Mexico. The film features his thousand-miles-journey through Baja, for which Taylor was joined by world-famous MTB freestyle pro Martin Söderstrom (SWE). The two professional freeriders explore Mexico’s unique trails that flow down from dramatic ridges through cactus groves towards the sea. Epic mountain bike footage that makes you want to go out to for a ride.