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and furious speed riding is an extreme winter sports. movie under the skin contact kind of both throughout the ages. i'm just who are statues of european celebrities that don't quite look the part. let's get off to a flying start with a dead evel sport called speed riding it's a unique activity that combines elements of kite surfing paragliding and skiing i know it sounds quite difficult and dangerous but all i'm asking you to do is watch it because it looks quite stunning luckily one of its biggest proponents likes to create films of the spectacular speed riding adventures we caught up speed riding in the swiss alps gliding over hill and dale with a special parachute and skiing down pristine slopes at more than one hundred kilometers an hour this is speed writing

a combination of paragliding and skiing for swish extreme athlete and multiple world champion only cation holds it's the perfect sport yes if you there's a feeling you get speed riding is incredible because of the combination you can ski off a cliff and suddenly you're in the air flying and below you can see the next slope so you swoop in and your back to skiing on this them to see them she found. all you need is a pair of skis and an eight to ten square metre wing to go off piste. two cts help steer the wing into the air and back onto the snow. who only has been doing this for ten years three or four times a week. for me to sort out what it feels most to me is that it lets me reinterpret free riding on new to rights i can tackle new mountains and be the first to make descents which

wouldn't be possible otherwise the. only cashed in hawkes was born to ski from an athletic family he grew up in the swiss alps now he's active in ten different types of sports including skydiving parachuting and skateboarding. he's been skiing since he was just three. he discovered snowboarding at the end of the one nine hundred eighty s. and went on to win fourteen world cup titles in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he was the first snowboarder ever to win an olympic bronze medal in giant slalom at the winter games in nagano in two thousand and two thousand and one he won both world championships back to back it was free riding skiing or snowboarding off piste that brought him to speed riding in two thousand and six he was one of its first pioneers. snowboarders as it's no border free riding on open terrain was always

a big thing for me when i went to my final olympic competition in two thousand and six i wanted to concentrate on free riding from then on but then i saw the first images of speed riding and i knew this is my thing. in two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight. and holds made a movie about speed writing his film play gravity shows the first speed writing dissents down the three swiss peaks mench and since then willie has also specialized in producing sports movies. when mr i'm not very good at not doing things if i see something i'd like to do i need to try it. speed writing is expensive but he highly recommends not scrimping on equipment all told a good parachute costs about three thousand euros and high quality material is the

only way to ensure a safe descent he says today he and his friend want to try out a new route they start about two thousand seven hundred meters up in the bernese out first they study the terrain and determine the route good preparation is vital . to get in speed or obviously speed riding is dangerous if you have a quick wing it small so you can build up lots of speed but it's handling is sensitive if you manage it properly there's no problem but you really need to know yourself and your own limitations you need to know the weather the conditions the mountain it then it's fire and confirm this is absolute ok sounds simple enough but it's far from being a sport for the masses experts gauge there are only about six hundred speed riders worldwide. speed writing that speech writing has really developed in the last ten years there was a little boom and lots of people got excited and joined but the noticed if you don't

keep it up regularly it gets dangerous and so they lost interest today you have a core group of people who speed right like me and do it really frequently writing so with me with few thought. it was a question holds wants to continue developing the sport is landing in the shuffle bear valley marks the discovery of yet another speed writing trail. now quick roundup of what's happening around europe in our express today as topics take us across the continent from russia all the way to britain where we start off with some royal news. this week britain's princess charlotte started attending nursery school to mark the occasion kensington palace published two official photos on twitter they show the two year old daughter of prince william and his wife catherine on her way to wilcox nursery school. the duchess of cambridge

a talented amateur photographer is said to have taken both pictures herself. base here train is celebrating the two hundredth birthday of karl marx the philosopher economist and social critic was born in germany is oldest city on by the fifty eight hundred eighteen live band for many years now a doppelganger guides visitors to important sites. including knox's birthplace and childhood home is the puerto negro city get its. true but also erect a statue of mach's that was a gift from china. early may an exhibition will pay tribute to his life and work.

in cure offs in northwestern russia norwegian musicians have performed a concert with instruments made of ice percussionist terry a song said organize the event he's been experimenting with ice instruments for more than two decades and has already recorded seven albums with them. each instrument is handmade on side using frozen water from the local lake and the musician says this gives the instruments a sound that's particularly. clear and distinct. we stay on the topic of ice now but the edible kind i'm talking of course about ice cream for today's installment of our series ice cold we travel to italy the country that gave us gelato this particularly flavor some version of the frozen treat is as

italian as pizza and spaghetti and in the city of belonging there's even a seat of higher education dedicated to the craft of making ice cream italian style the kind of p. johnny gelato university let's get a taste of this artistic delicacy which is enjoyed year round in italy. here. some ice cream. even in winter. temperatures.

for it's masterful ice cream creations. university. students come here from around the world. attention is being paid to small confections. and. the hottest cool thing are the. filled with ice cream called. for the german students. elsewhere in the laboratory. has made strawberry ice cream the key is to use enough sugar and few additional ingredients to ensure the strawberry take center

stage. museum shows the history of ice cream. more than two thousand years ago water based fruit ices were made in egypt. took the technique to sicily. this among our ask the first written documentation for the latter is from florence from italy in the second half of the sixteenth century yes. but at the end of the eighteenth century a lot of italians emigrated to other european countries spreading their july's or culture with them. they raised the scots and sold their ice cream in all the major european cities that you were. initially ice cream was served in find glassware in a practical cardboard cups and edible cones were products of the twentieth century in the one nine hundred seventy s. ice cream served like this was popular. and always in demand as ice cream on

a stick but what seems simple is actually a challenge to make. the vanilla ice cream is pulled to minus thirty five degrees celsius well the chocolate coating is heated to thirty five degrees that's the only way to get the layers to stick together. of course you have to keep some pints around let's do the job to go back up the surface temperature in that case the stakes are sure of the round the minus eighteen. to make ice cream cake. mixes cream with chocolate ice cream he spreads the filling in a form then adds rest. and leave a sponge cake is placed on top and the whole thing goes in the freezer. italian families often serve these cakes to celebrate birthdays and weddings so the decoration is very important. the course offerings at the gelato

university are varied and there is constant innovation that should all flavors are all the rage these days. at the moment there's beet ice cream on offer it's fresh healthy and typical of new flavors where the focus is not on sweetness for example parmesan cheese sometimes even nostrum cocteau. chili tomato all so it really varies from me to cheat you stupid to even fish anything really and it can be transformed into gelato so this is what's what makes the feel of the jalopy extremely interesting. gelato started off as a sweet summer treat now it's. making its way on to the savory menus in both cuisine. not all paintings belong in a frame some people prefer using their bodies as a canvas getting symbols text or drawings inked into their skin the grassy museum of ethnography and lights it is currently showcasing the world of tattoos looking

at both the possed and present there's even an interactive element to the exhibition but not to worry this doesn't mean you have to get yourself tattooed when you visit just that you can show off your own body art to add to the collection. there a way to stand out from the crowd and more than just ornamental skin becomes a surface which reflects people's dreams and designs to reveals who someone is or who they want to be credited to use my tattoos are me they're also my dream and i dreamed the maldives and i wake up early and there they are the fans will. tune piercing is the name of an exhibition mounted by like six crossing museum fast knology it's director is passionate about bringing the realities of modern life into the museum. using p.s.

and i don't sense that we're in the twenty first century everything's changed we're living in a different society we all travel there's mass migration we have so much information on the internet so museums also have to become livelier here sure we have historical collections but what actually moves people today i think enough knowledge the museum is something extremely relevant for us it's a motive and story to films are. one in five people in germany now sport a tattoo in recent years more women and older people have been getting them once frowned upon tattoos have become a status symbol. that's all it's me if i'm even tattoos have really become elements of our identity and that's what's so exciting about them people are traveling a lot and so the idea is spreading but most importantly i think that today tattoos are a very personal phenomenon i see you're showing here. is your persona he's. not

even a century ago tattoos branded people as belonging to the lower class. they were seen as the preserve of criminals and sites. with. gradually athletes and celebrities started to get them and show off their new body art. youthful transgressions and pain do play a role but not so much in the process of getting a tattoo. the mist had to be and for me getting tattooed is a kind of therapy. bazaar not of each tattoo gets me through a specific time through a tough time through an experience while keeping a bit of it with me when it's a record of my history things that were there but are over now my personality develops with every tattoo. this can of money and show off art on my body is their

god like to show off anyway and it's a way to hold on to memories and like a kind of diary huggable them if. people have been getting tattoos for centuries in polynesia tattooing ceremonies are sacred rituals for maori men being king is done by hand it's about pain and overcoming it even entering a trance like state tattoos as records of people's life history their family tree beth effect. the technology has progressed still tattoo artists in germany operate in a legal gray area there's no officially recognized training. so getting a tattoo can still be a risky business as well as a painful and exciting one. as you have absolute doubt that's all part of it that's all before each session when you look for it in the feeling of the pain as people describe it feel and also to the sound the sound of voice tattoo machine absolute i like the feeling til it's

unpleasant many places and you think to yourself why you my doing this out it just wouldn't be the same if you didn't feel the needle penetrating your skin or. a tattoo is something. at last it's forever and maybe that's what people are craving something constant and fast changing want. want to know more about european lifestyle and culture visit euro max on facebook. you'll find highlights from our programs. three hundred sixty degree videos of the most beautiful places in europe and snapshots taken by our reporters take an exclusive look behind the scenes at how the program is produced and follow us on facebook life. we do love it when fans visit our facebook page and give us their feedback visit d w euro max on facebook. politicians

artists celebrities many of them have had their features immortalized with an honorary statue or bust but sometimes things don't go to plan and you end up with something that looks nothing like you what do you do i suppose you just smile and wave after all it's literally set in stone. five european celebrities whose statues don't really look like them. is that a businessman and aristocrat a modern interpretation of beethoven in his younger years well he is a musician and his unlikeness can be found at this liverpool airport named after him john lennon number five in our ranking of great stars with bad statues although the work was deemed brilliant by the former beatles widow yoko ono. british singer shirley bassey has an amazing voice she's performed the theme songs

for three james bond films earning the respect of fans and musicians a life. out. but huge statue was arrested in her honor and cannot castle in wales but is this really an honor fourth in our listing of strange stars statues the goldfinger singer is said to have a heart of gold but there's a hole where her heart should be. not five hundred kilograms this statue is definitely heavier than the original star was and he was no lightweight but that's not the only difference between them or could you tell that this statue is supposed to represent italian actor and swimmer bud spencer unveiled in budapest in november twenty seventeen it's number three on our ranking of stars statues that bear little resemblance not all of bud spencer's many fans are fans of the sculpture.

says she keeps her model by doing yoga on occasion that doesn't exactly sound like iron discipline so it's unlikely that she ever managed to strike this incredible. our number two is a solid eighteen carat go. sculpture worth some two million euros but most are self never posed for the sculptor and experienced yoga instructor didn't. this is just one of several statues which honor portugal's biggest soccer star his team right now madrid recently unveiled a new bust of him at the club's own museum. but this is the most infamous ronaldo statue it's our top pick for its will meant but unsuccessful attempt to depict the famous footballer the work was unveiled at christiane to a knowledge of madeira international airport in march of two thousand and seventeen

and has been parodied ever since because it bears no resemblance to rinaldo whatsoever. as the unveiling ronaldo put on a brave face well he is a pro after all. earlier on in the show we talks tattoos luckily this next artist uses nonpermanent paints. is a body paint that recently she switched to a preferred canvas from humans to horses of course that brings all sorts of challenges with it not least the fact that they don't always hold still but the artist has the patience and skill to create beautiful works of art we caught up with to find out just how she does it. a touch of white here a dab of blue there. is a body painter and usually she paints human bodies. need to apply a completely different technique because of their coat it's not like painting on

human skin i always need to brush in the direction the hair grows on the holes the challenge is creating the right proportions so you can actually tell what ifa painted. you're magdala the artist from a kind in northwestern germany applies the same paints she does on humans meant a person can stay still for five to six hours but a horse won't you really need to hurry to finish in time half an hour later the finishing touches that's lucky as four year old mash i am spacious is at an end to . luke a sweetie calm down or your stars will be all crooked. you're almost done for a quick snack this strike and considine then she's ready for the other side. jessica frenzel commission there's horse painting she's the stable manager that's

what a fine yeah i can picture a photo of her hanging in the chat room for the others to see because i'm proud of it there's also certainly room for it at home. these are the body paintings molly's bank has started off with now she takes part in competitions and is often contracted for promotions. being awarded well i am a bonnie painter and i do paint people and since i've always been writing and have owned horses since i was a kid one day i just got the idea to paint horses. morphia. plain and simple in bronze all with a motif by phone call. three hours. later in the painting for jessica friend so is finally ready and molly's is extatic. these pictures to see it like this i need another photo. it's such a great image i know the pictures are just incredible and it's so much fun. she's

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