Twelve months, twelve short documentaries on a long way to success. Training. Races. Travelling. Life. This is TWELVE - a new project of the pro mountain biker and BMXer Michal Prokop.
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Rob Trnka's camera takes the past month of Michal' life just as he has actually spent it, without any adornments and planning. It doesn't aim to celebrate the leading actor; it wants to capture sincere racing action. TWELVE doesn't create dramatic situations, but it catches them if they arise.
The February part leads us through the Czech Republic with a short diversion to Slovakia. We visit two BMX halls in Chlumin and Senkvice. We remain under the roof of Downmall in Liberec and also in one of many circuit trainings in an oval track in Prague. With snowscoots we visit the HEIpark in Tosovice and then we will call on racing tires on ice in Tabor.
Four weeks, six localities, three different bikes, one snowscoot. Marble, stairs, soil, wood and even ice and snow under the wheels and runners. Training, race, duties, and amusement in five minutes! The Czech- Slovak part also has its Czech-Slovak Superstar TWELVE catches fire as well as rhythms of the authorial composition February by Jan Mocnak. This time the cameraman Rob Trnka had a hard row to hoe to manage catching all essentials planned by Michal.
The screenwriter and cameraman, Rob Trnka, evaluates the past four weeks by saying We could have saved some of the themes for future, but if we wanted to make TWELVE just the way we had planned to do it, we had to adjust to the Michals pace. Twelve isnt any fictitious TV series, so what happened in February doesnt belong to March part. The way Honza Mocnak managed to solve it is only another proof that he is an absolute pro and it was a joy to work with him.
Michal Prokop belongs among the few exceptional sportsmen whom one may afford the luxury to consider his placing under winner's rostrum in a top world competition as nothing surprising. With his two World Champion rainbow jerseys, two World Cup titles and 10 World Cup wins in his pocket, Michal Prokop belongs to living legends of a gravity mountain biking history. Yet he has found another great challenge in his highly successful career - nothing smaller than the BMX premiere at the Summer Olympic Games 2008 in the Chinese Beijing.
But Michal managed to step out of the shadow of sports giants even before the flames went up over Beijing. The life on pedals is his hobby and livelihood as well. The King of Czech cycling in 2006 acquired all titles on his mountain bike and he even defended them again. Michal brought himself to the attention of sports public particularly thanks to his dominant position in mountain bike fourcross. Unlike most of his other competitors MP devotes himself equally to two related, but still different disciplines. Moreover, in 2006, just a few months after his severe injury, Prokop initiated the Czech national team of the track world championship on oval.
Since 2010 rolled around Prokop has been riding AGang bikes, but the same company makes them as Author bicycles that he was riding for the seventh year in a row.
The February installment of TWELVE can be found here!
