This project has been in the making for a very long time, we first started filming in 2016 in Czech Republic and Slovakia, but due to many setbacks, like broken bones, stolen bikes and a global pandemic of course, we were finally able to put a piece together we were both happy with.
In this video I am trying to show you my vision of the best riding - big jumps, flowy trails with slopestyle tricks.
created by BIKES ON FILM
thanks to Bike park Kálnica and Ski a Bike Centrum Radotín
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You are referring to the Eastern Bloc, where after WWII Russia kept its nasty tendrils in the governments of certain countries like Poland and the Czech Rep. The Eastern Bloc is long gone, and you should update your views and terminology.
It's not about updated views, I don't see it as the "bad communist east", but the past has left a significant mark on the culture and despite the "bloc" not being a thing anymore, if you don't see a difference between the "west" and what you'd call "central" then you clearly haven't spent much time there. I really don't mean it as a bad thing, but having spent 24 years in europe, travelling east and west it is a very different mentality and Czech easily fits into whatever you'd find further east, not so much out west.
It's an unpopular opinion and a lot of the patriotic czechs definitely don't agree and want to differentiate from the east for whatever reason despite the fact is it doesn't really matter.
I'll update my terminology then, thanks.
Which is why I'll ask @zakraviCZko why is it a shame? East isn't a shameful word, it carries with it some culture and mentality, some of which the west could learn from as well as some it shouldn't, just like the other way around. So why do people get offended and defensive when you say Eastern Europe?