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Overview

  • 7 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Czech, English, Slavic Languages; learning Indonesian, Italian, Japanese
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Steel Fabricator / Welder, Ski Instructor, Guide
  • Secondary Vocational School - Engineering / Autobody Tech...
  • From Hradec Kralove, Hradec Králové Region, Czechia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Chasing snow and waves around the world and exploring foreign cultures. Self educating based on traveling and trying to find out a sense of life...

ABOUT ME

Hey here I am. Easygoing and open-minded Czech guy.
I was always curious what is it like out there in the world and traveled around europe with parents since my childhood.
Once I finished my studies and gained a bit of work experience in my fields of Steel fab/Welding and Ski Instructing I started traveling and living in foreign countries on my own.
In 8 years since then I lived in England, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Northern Ireland and most recent Norway. I have visited all the continents except Antarctica.
It totally opened my eyes. I learnt how to travel off the beaten path and live independent, geined new work skills, learnt about foreign cultures, improved skills at sports I love and best of all I got to know myself better.

I enjoy to see results of my actions and I always try to leave something behind me by for example teaching people skiing techique and putting them to higher level, fabricating steel movie sets and seeing them recorded forever in TV shows. Even in off season when I just travel I try to teach basic english in local schools in the small villages around South East Asia and Indonesia. Eventhough its always for little while atleast I try to leave something behind...

PHILOSOPHY

It'€™s not the mountain we conquer-but ourselves.€™
ۥSir Edmund Hillary

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

"Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on the spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way will recall the veal cutlet he used to slice on his dinner plate and apologize (belatedly) to the cow."
ۥMilan Kundera

One good thing about music is when it hits you you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

Once we want to become more than a human we are less.
William blake

One life is too short for cognition of the whole world
Jerry:)

Stop dreaming about your dreams and realize them!
Jerry:)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As I travel or live at staff acommodation of the ski resorts I work for, it is not always possible to acommodate people. Sometimes it is possible though so I try do my best to get people to stay if I can!

I can meet up people and give them information about certain places mostely ski resorts and surfspots.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Always positive experience :)

Interests

Traveling, Freeskiing, Snowboarding, Surfing, Music, Culture, Sk8boarding, Longboarding, Agressive inline skates, Yoga, Photography, Languages, Underground music scene, Trampoline

  • culture
  • photography
  • glastonbury
  • festivals
  • beer
  • yoga
  • tv
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing
  • bungee jumping
  • skiing
  • snowboarding
  • sports
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Punk, Nu Jazz, Ska, Reggae, Hardcore, Old school hiphop, dreadstep, Post-rock

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Got chased by a guy with a razor in Salvador favelas, Skied deepest and lightest powder on earth in Japan, Hiked and camp in Denali National park in Alaska in company of Grizzly bears and wolf, Skied heaps of amazing mountains around the world, Volunteered in elementary school and orphanage in Indonesia and central Asia. Hiked in Nepalese Himalayas, Skydived in Taupo/NZ above largest volcanic lake in southern hemisphere, Hiked and slept in the cave in the jungle on the edge of Amazonas, Traveled thousands of kilometers on a motorbike in Indonesia and South east asia, Spoted a wild elephants in Sri Lanka, Spoted Orangutans in wilderness of Sumatran rainforest, Partied at Glastonbury festival, Bungee jump in Japan, Climbed and Skied down Mt. Ruapehu crater lake and Ngaurahoe Volcanos in Tongariro National park, Worked for the movie industry in Vancouver(participated in fabricating movie sets for Mission Impossible-Ghost Protocol, Eureka, Twilights, Alcatraz, Vampire diaries, Primevil etc.

Teach, Learn, Share

Im keen to share my knowladge of snowsports, languages and Steel fab / welding skills.
I can also give tips for traveling in differents parts of the world and hook you up with locals in the places with no acommodation.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can invite you for a beer :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Czech Republic, England, Japan, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway

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