News

news (noun).

information or reports about recent events. see also: the news, break the news, good/bad news.

Latest art of excellence projects

Freeride Camp with Flo Orley 2023

Wanna ride fresh, untouched powders? Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of our very first freeride snowboard camp with backcountry legend Flo Orley hosted by art of excellence! Freeriding is the ultimate fascination for nature-loving snowboarders. Are you addicted as well?...

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1st ‘OUT OF OFFICE’ sports day

140 international and national personalities from the world of sports accepted the invitation of art of excellence and Skillyard last weekend and met on Europe's largest artificial standing surf wave in Ebensee. Numerous athletes from action sports such as snowboarding, ski jumping, skateboarding and mountain biking traveled to Ebensee in...

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Lisa Schulte

My big dream? Win Olympic Gold! – Interview Lisa Schulte

On the occasion of the start of the luge season 2021/22 we met the luge talent Lisa Schulte for an interview. She talked to us not only about her athletic goals, but also about competitiveness within the team, what a typical training day looks like for her, and what hobbies...

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Bang on time!

The epitome of perfect timing - A WORLD PREMIERE After an intense week of training in Obergurgl, the big moment had come in April 2021: both skydivers and skiers shared the sky for the very same moment on the very same spot - a world debut! Bang on time captured...

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Project ‘Urban Foil’ – the New Danube as city playground for Wingfoiling

When it comes to new sports trends, there is no way around wing foiling in 2021. Wing foiling is an exciting variation of windsurfing and kitesurfing with the great benefit that relatively little wind is already sufficient for wing foiling - which makes the sport practicable in practically any body...

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Red Bull LEDGend 2021 – the skate contest for tech fanatics

Innovation and impressive tricks characterized the Red Bull LEDGEnd 2021 Tech Skate Session Finale, which took place on July 31 on Vienna's Danube Island. evcom organized the spectacular event, which was hosted for the second time at Copa Beach Plaza and thrilled hundreds of spectators.

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aoe athletes as new Skillyard coaches

The latest one-on-one skill learning platform SKILLYARD is partnering up with art of excellence, presenting 3 aoe athletes as new Skillyard coaches.  We proudly present the launch of a partnership between two very innovative platforms in Austria: art of excellence as content creators and a pool of top-class athletes and...

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Lukas Kaufmann finishes fifth in the world’s toughest 1-day bike race!

Incredible 14,000 vertical meters and 525 kilometers in 21 hours and 47 minutes - and thus a great 5th place at the Race Across the Alps! Lukas Kaufmann's result could be summarized as simply as that. However, not if this result would include 12 alpine passes in the border triangle...

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OPEL MOKKA-e SHOOTING

The beautiful scenery of the Tyrolian Alps, still snow covered but sunny, have been a perfect backdrop for the OPEL MOKKA-e shooting we did together with the Red Bull Skydive Team in April. ...

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HOME OF DOWNHILL

Styria is a beautiful part of Austria and Schladming is not only well known for being a great ski resort and alpine world cup stopover. Schladming is also one of Austria´s finest MTB Downhills spots. More than 40.000 bikers visited the Bikepark Schladming and its 35 kilometers of dedicated MTB...

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THE MINE

Originally Hannes wanted to do a road trip to Mount Etna but then there was Corona. Because it was impossible to know in the beginning when things would get back to kind of normal again, he knew that he had to develop a different idea....

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LAKE BASE

The LAKEBASE presented by DUOTONE & SALT SAILING was founded from the two locals Stefan Spiessberger (KITE I 2x vice European champion, Top 5 World Ranking 2016 and 2017) and Tom Lackerbauer ...

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“Everything you can imagine is real.”

 Pablo Picasso