In cooperation with POP TV - jem, we organise monthly events called STORIES OF ACROBATES with Uroš Slako, where in Trbovlje, in the City of Acrobats, we host successful individuals who are changing the world for the better. This year's guest was Peter Slatnar (SLATNAR skis), and Matej Marjanovič, DEXDIA, presented himself as a young acrobat.

Interesting thoughts from Peter Slatnar's talk

Athlete and entrepreneur - in both industries, you have to be a go-getter first. Believe in what you work for. Take small steps, work hard, persevere, stand behind what you do, then repeat, repeat, repeat. If you make a mistake, you have to pick yourself up, go around a bit on one side or the other, or go back. If the wall is too hard, take a bump and bump again if necessary - sooner or later there will be a hole through. To keep getting better, to keep educating, to keep learning, to keep listening to good ideas and to keep working, working, working, there is no other way.

The greatest value in business - to have brought a project from scratch, at minimal cost, literally from some waste, to have put something together that is useful to the point that it is interesting to others, that you can make their lives easier. So bringing a project to completion.

If you think narrowly about the Slovenian market, you can make a cake or something like that to sell in the village. You have to do serious business globally. It's a small world. Today you press a button and you have the whole world on your screen. You have to think you are starting out in the world, and then be bold, make a product, stand behind it, develop it, refine it to the point where it is interesting to a really big crowd. You have to work, you have to be bold, you have to put an idea on the table and make it a reality.

All Prevci have one thing in common - honesty, hard work, enthusiasm, they are really extraordinary hard workers. They got a good start from their parents, from their upbringing.

We are a team, everyone is very important. Every waterfall is also made up of droplets. And this waterfall can break the banks. As a whole, we try to work, to add something to this mosaic and it is not a bad thing that something good does not come out.

Ski jumping - it's such a beautiful sport. It's so niche, it's so small. Let us not destroy it, let us try to get together and take it to the next level, to make it even more watchable, more interesting, more attractive.

Innovations, ideas have to mature, they have to be tested, even Mr Container has to take in a lot before anything useful can be done.

Money is not everything, but I am quite proud that we have stayed where we are and that we are working with the local boys to try to push them forward first.

I like to spend my day in a lab coat. If there's a broom, that's fine. It's no big deal zafurat, phalite. But it looks like you've done something. And there in the office, you're folding those papers, and you're writing something up and down, recalculating, sending, sending, sending... It's more like Sisyphus' work. The broom and the rag - that gives the effect.

A young lady from a yellow press said to me - please tell me what your favourite brand of clothing is. I say Deloza. She didn't know what it was. It's that blue dressing gown and work overalls they used to make for the workers.

Raising your voice is forbidden in our company. You can only raise your voice if you have a good joke to tell. When someone comes for an interview, I just tell them - if you're going to jerk off, you're going to jerk off out the door.

Mistakes can happen and we can resolve them peacefully. No amount of shouting, no amount of screaming, no amount of wailing will fix a thing that has already happened. It can all be resolved in some collegial and cultural way.

Working with your father - that's a particular challenge. I was brilliant k wooden bird. My father knew something and wanted to pass it on to me, but it was never done well. Whatever I did, he said - it's not good. Even if it was good, it was not good for him because he wanted me to do even better. I knew when he was I askflew behind me, he also learned high C. Fortunately, over the years I have become so settled and calm that I have been able to compensate for that and realise that there is no effect if I go backwards. It's like going into the north face of a trig - you just get a bounce and nothing else. If you're too close, a rock falls on your head.
Now I can appreciate it - I learned a lot from my father. My dad now says he has learnt something from me too.

It was fine, we worked, we were dirty, but we had no money. I don't know if that's the meaning of life, I would have tried it a little differently. I went into sports and the first thing I did was to abolish the night shifts. My father said: Sine, this is not going to work, and you've just cut it in stone. This is not going to work, you have to work to survive. And it worked. We didn't fail. But mejdun, that maybe there is more left.

Here, we work strictly for eight hours. No overtime. No Saturdays. If necessary, myself and a few individuals go to competitions and training. For others, there is no overtime - the worker has to work 8 hours honestly, the rest is for his hobbies, family, some even some fushmake at home, no problem.

We are so small, so tough, like a fish, a snake, we are everywhere. But we are fast. The competition has some huge drives, some huge offices, some stamping to get something done. And we - when there is something, we go up to the factory, We roll up our sleeves, one burns there, one grinds there, one does this, one does that ... and in the evening, the ski smokes out of the press. We are reactive and daring, but we are too daring to try all sorts of things.

The soup and everything else is eaten with a spoon, no one has ever eaten it with a spade.

You have to be a little bit into the sport, a little bit of an enthusiast, do a lot of things for free, volunteer. If you counted your hours and everything else, the math would be very different. It's not all about money, it's also about pride. It's a proof that you can create a great story somewhere in a village, with very simple people, and take it to the long term.