Yohan Lovey - Sleepy Grill

Switzerland | Active public archive: 2011-present | Known for: Sleepy Grill, Buldozlife, Daydreaming, Harlaut Apparel, Salomon Départ | Discipline: street skiing, park skiing, creative jib

Stockholm Metal In A Dream State

The Stockholm spot sat tight and cold, with snow pushed into a street inrun and metal waiting at the end of a short approach. Yohan Lovey, riding as Sleepy Grill, moved through the setup with the patience of a skier who sees more than a rail: angle, sound, balance, exit, and the next strange idea.

Daydreaming, released in December 2024 through Harlaut Apparel, is the clearest recent marker in Lovey’s archive. The part was filmed in Stockholm, Umeå and Andorra during the 2023/2024 season, with Henrik Harlaut, Brady Perron, Andrea Cadena, Noah Albaladejo, Isaac Simhon, Markus Hjortek, Hugo Gadelius, Basge420 and Albie Baked on the filming credits. Henrik Harlaut edited the part, placing Sleepy Grill directly inside the Harlaut Apparel street-film language.

Ski Romand Before The Sleepy Name

Lovey’s official competition record is narrow but useful. FIS lists him as Yohan Lovey, a Swiss freestyle skier attached to Ski Romand, born in 1996, with FIS code 2530763 and a non-active status. That record gives his identity a formal base before the later crew work became the better-known part of his skiing.

Older web-video archives also show that he was present in Swiss freeski long before Sleepy Grill became the name most riders recognized. Zapiks and Skipass list a 2012/2013 season video by Patrick A. Güller, describing Lovey as a Swiss rider from the Romand freeski team. That early trail matters because it shows a skier moving from regional freestyle structures into an independent street identity.

Buldozlife And The Swiss Streets

Buldozlife gives Lovey his most important crew context. Downdays profiled the crew in 2019, listing its creation year as 2014 and its home resort as “the Swiss streets.” Lovey appeared in that feature with the Instagram handle @lovey.isgrilled, alongside the kind of self-description that fits the crew’s offbeat tone: skiing, music, videos and art.

The same profile called him “the most artistic lumberjack of the world,” a joke that captures the way Buldoz presents itself. The crew is not built like a national team. It works through friendship, rough street spots, handmade energy, strange cuts, hard bails, playful editing and a Swiss version of urban freeskiing that does not ask for permission from the contest calendar.

Gore-Flex, BPC And The Buldoz Run

Several Buldozlife clips and films shape Lovey’s archive. Downdays lists Gore-Flex as a 2020 full film from the Swiss crew, with Yohan Lovey tagged alongside Benjamin Copt, Isaac Simhon, Remco Kayser and Sampo Vallotton. That project sits in the crew’s full-movie lane, where street skiing, editing style and group identity matter more than individual result sheets.

Later, Buldozlife’s BPC 2 pushed the same attitude into summer and no-snow skiing, with Yohan Lovey again tagged in the project. PRIVE, released in 2023, placed Lovey and Benjamin Copt in another short street piece. Give Us A Movie Name followed in 2024, featuring Grillest, Sleepy Grill, Benjaman, Ez Panda and V Morel, and Downdays framed it around creative spots, a harsh opening crash and Buldozlife’s established street language.

How Sleepy Grill Uses A Feature

Lovey’s skiing should be watched through touch and delay. The trick is rarely only the named maneuver. It is how slowly a press is held, how the skis arrive on metal, how the shoulders stay loose, how a landing does not rush the clip, and how one awkward object becomes useful.

His street vocabulary sits in rails, wallies, redirects, drops, butters, presses, switch landings and improvised transitions. In a standard slopestyle run, the course tells the skier where to go. In Lovey’s better clips, the object seems half-discovered. A sign, roof, barrier, wall or short rail becomes part of the line because the skier finds timing inside something not built for skiing.

Harlaut Apparel And The 2024 Street Cycle

Harlaut Apparel gave Lovey a wider international frame. Newschoolers lists him as one of the filmers on Capitalskee, a Henrik Harlaut project filmed in Stockholm and Andorra during the 2023/2024 season. The same video listing credits Andrea Cadena, Yohan Lovey, Brady Perron, Markus Hjortek and Isaac Simhon on filming duties.

Fall ’24 then placed Sleepy Grill on the skier side of the same brand world, paired with Isaac “EZ Panda” Simhon and directed by Oscar Harlaut and Henrik Harlaut. Daydreaming completed the stronger personal marker: a Sleepy Grill street part, produced by Harlaut Apparel, built through Sweden and Andorra, and edited by Henrik. That sequence shows Lovey as both subject and contributor inside a modern street-film circle.

Salomon Départ And The Creative Ski Return

The Salomon Départ project adds another important layer. In FREESKIER’s 2024 interview with Sämi Ortlieb, the Départ crew was listed as Ortlieb, Nico Vuignier, Pontus Penttilä, Yohan Lovey, Vilma Warpenius, Dane Kirk, Gavin Rudy, Skye Clarke and Benji Copt. The same article noted that many riders would recognize Lovey as Sleepy Grill.

Ortlieb described the crew as a group where each person does more than ski, with roles across film, music, marketing and design. That description fits Lovey’s public image. He is not used as a conventional contest athlete. He belongs to a creative product and film ecosystem where the ski, the image, the part and the crew identity are connected.

Crans, Laax, Thyon And The Swiss Frame

The Swiss geography around Lovey is scattered through media traces rather than one official biography. Skipass and Zapiks place early edits in the Romand scene. Buldozlife frames its home terrain as the Swiss streets. Downdays tags Laax and Swiss street clips around his name, while Knuckle published a photo caption of Lovey skiing in Crans as chairlift passengers looked on.

That map matters because it separates him from a pure resort-park identity. Lovey’s skiing is tied to Swiss freestyle culture, but not only to groomed jump lines. Crans, Laax, Thyon-era web clips, Buldoz street missions and Harlaut Apparel travel projects all point toward a skier who treats Switzerland as a source of spots, friends and visual language.

The Influence Is In The Rewatch

Knuckle’s discussion of park-ski culture named Remco Kayser, Yohan Lovey and Buldoz as skiers who inspire because their skiing feels accessible compared with slopestyle or halfpipe performance systems. That is a strong clue to Lovey’s value. His influence is not based on winning finals. It is based on making other skiers want to try strange things in their own parks and streets.

FREESKIER’s note on Sleepy Grill points in the same direction, describing his incognito digital profile as having a devoted audience of skiers who love his style and creativity. That kind of following grows slowly: one clip shared between riders, one unusual press, one odd landing, one part that gets replayed because the first watch did not reveal everything.

Equipment Without A Fake Setup

Lovey’s equipment context should stay careful. The FIS profile does not list skis, boots or poles. The Salomon Départ project clearly connects him to the Départ crew, and public forums discuss the skis he appears to ride, but that is not the same as a full verified setup sheet.

The accurate gear reading is functional rather than exact. His skiing demands a ski that can press, butter, slide metal, land switch, survive street impacts and still feel playful in park laps. A street-first setup also needs clothing that can handle concrete, rails, long filming days and repeated attempts. Until a direct brand source publishes his exact kit, the page should avoid pretending to know binding settings or model choices.

Where The Sleepy Grill Archive Belongs

The strongest skipowd.tv tags for Yohan Lovey are Sleepy Grill, Switzerland, Buldozlife, Harlaut Apparel, Salomon Départ, Daydreaming, Gore-Flex, PRIVE, BPC 2, Give Us A Movie Name, Stockholm, Umeå, Andorra, Crans, street skiing, park skiing and creative jib.

The current endpoint is precise: Daydreaming in 2024 as his clearest personal street part, the Harlaut Apparel Fall ’24 cycle with EZ Panda, the Buldozlife 2024 short, and the Salomon Départ crew connection. Future updates should track new Sleepy Grill parts, Départ films, Buldozlife projects, and any official equipment information that confirms the setup behind his slow, strange and highly rewatchable skiing.