One full week of rain. Few days ago I run my first big river - Enns. Which is class IV/V. I run it in wavesport ZG and was quite scary for me in some moments but it was so much fun! Thought i still prefer playboating :D
Becouse of rains salza gone sick - jumped to 230cm! Heliwave become quite nice wave now despite the fact it doesn't give too much bounce and there is almost no eddy so paddling back after flush is really exhausting. But i think
Yesterday i had my birthday and we had really nice party!
Today water dropped and we had really nice hole for getting some sweet aerial moves, hopes this level will last long!
In one week I'm going with Honza and Lucie to Sopotnice in Czech to prepare for competition which will be at 13-14.08,
See Ya there!
B
Kayaking, traveling, lifestyle. Living the life!
27.07.2011
18.07.2011
Kadan Video Clip
Short Video Clip from competition of CNAWR cup in Kadan - Czech Republic
You can find info and relation from the competition under this link:
http://bartoszfreestylekayaker.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html
Right now I'm still in Wildalpen with my friends - Honza and Lucie, working as kayak and raft instructor.
I'm here since almost 2 weeks now but every day I'm impressed with beatifulness of the landscape as much as the first time!
More Clips coming soon,
~B
You can find info and relation from the competition under this link:
http://bartoszfreestylekayaker.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html
Right now I'm still in Wildalpen with my friends - Honza and Lucie, working as kayak and raft instructor.
I'm here since almost 2 weeks now but every day I'm impressed with beatifulness of the landscape as much as the first time!
More Clips coming soon,
~B
12.07.2011
Wildalpen
At wednesday evening Marcel and me arrived to Wildalpen where we met our friends Honza, Lucy, Lucas and Katya staying already. It was pretty nice weather and after checking forecast we were really optimistic becouse of alot of sun coming. Unfortunatly the weather here is very whimsical and changing as it wants. We had some nice training session between showers and sun.
Saturday was competition day again. We had pretty lots of nations - even Seth from GB was here also German guys, alot of Austrians and Czech. I was starting again in two categories - K1M and C1 which gave me 12 runs ! That was exhausting alot but had alot better condition then in Lienz.
After prelims was holding 4th position behind Marcel Bloder, Philip Vorbohle and Honza Spindler. At C1 i was at 4th place.
In semis i had sick ride which got scored 1085pts! Which gave me 1st place, Honza was second having 530 pts ! 3rd place was for Marcel, 4th Ondrej Krivanek , 5th Moritz Schneck.
Finals didn't work that good for me.. I had even better 2nd ride then in semi but unfortunatly most of moves were after the time and there wasn't any watch so i didn't notice that the time is out and kept throwing trick after trick.. Well finally Finished up second behind Honza, Ondrej was 3rd, Marcel 4th and Moritz 5th.
Thought I'm still on the lead of ARFC : ) In C1 i came 5th.
After competition there was big party with really awesome band playing on everything that was possible - from our paddles, among pots and boats to medals and benches. Had really great time with lots of friends partying to late hours with accompaniment of Aara band.
So what's next? Now i decided to stay here and work for 3 weeks as kayak and raft guide. I'm really glad that Honza and Lucy are staying with me also so I won't be alone at my trainings and overall. I'm sure we'll have here awesome time together! So anybody that's looking for nice freestyle sessions or some great fun just join us at wildalpen!
Photos: Hanka Bubnikova & Seth Ashworth
TRAILER OF FEAR!
http://vimeo.com/26324531
Saturday was competition day again. We had pretty lots of nations - even Seth from GB was here also German guys, alot of Austrians and Czech. I was starting again in two categories - K1M and C1 which gave me 12 runs ! That was exhausting alot but had alot better condition then in Lienz.
After prelims was holding 4th position behind Marcel Bloder, Philip Vorbohle and Honza Spindler. At C1 i was at 4th place.
In semis i had sick ride which got scored 1085pts! Which gave me 1st place, Honza was second having 530 pts ! 3rd place was for Marcel, 4th Ondrej Krivanek , 5th Moritz Schneck.
Finals didn't work that good for me.. I had even better 2nd ride then in semi but unfortunatly most of moves were after the time and there wasn't any watch so i didn't notice that the time is out and kept throwing trick after trick.. Well finally Finished up second behind Honza, Ondrej was 3rd, Marcel 4th and Moritz 5th.
Thought I'm still on the lead of ARFC : ) In C1 i came 5th.
After competition there was big party with really awesome band playing on everything that was possible - from our paddles, among pots and boats to medals and benches. Had really great time with lots of friends partying to late hours with accompaniment of Aara band.
So what's next? Now i decided to stay here and work for 3 weeks as kayak and raft guide. I'm really glad that Honza and Lucy are staying with me also so I won't be alone at my trainings and overall. I'm sure we'll have here awesome time together! So anybody that's looking for nice freestyle sessions or some great fun just join us at wildalpen!
Photos: Hanka Bubnikova & Seth Ashworth
TRAILER OF FEAR!
http://vimeo.com/26324531
5.07.2011
Tacen & Plattling Gallery!!
It was my first time in Slovenia and I must say that this is really beatiful country with such nice landscapes and views! It was even better becouse Tacen Extreme 2011 was awesome! Quite small competition but really hips of fun !
I even had my first time in creek boat! I gotta say that it's pretty hard to freestyle in it but it's alot of fun also! However I'd prefer staying with my playboating ;). We've been also testing various levels of water and gotta say that at maximum level you can get really nice wave there which gives you alot of fun!
So the competition last 2 days and I was busy very much becouse I was asked to be speaker! I enjoyed it alot but it was quite exhausting and without help from Honza Spindler wouldn't make it, thanks buddy!
At Saturday there rodeo competition had place. It was first time that they were able to hold the competition in lower playspot. They picked medium water level for that which in my opinion was the best! You could do all hole tricks and still some wave which made big fan of tricks bringing on nice entertainment!
Again i decided to compete in two categories K1 and C1. After prelims in K1 was second behind Honza and next to Marcel Bloder and in C1 was at the lead! Becouse there weren't alot competitors it came up fast to finals.
I had really nice ride in K1 and was pretty sure to get gold this time unfortunatly i lost 5 points to Honza! But it wasn't that hard to carry it becouse I'm happy for my friend.
In C1 had even "worse" story! I had same amount of points in best ride as Jonas Savšek ! In that situation rules are counting also second ride and mine was lower. Still getting that high in C1 and bringing two silver medals is the score that I'm satisfactioned with!
So thank you guys for really nice time and really nice competition! Special thanks to main organisator - Jonas! I'm looking forward for next years competition in Tacen!
Next stop on my trip will be wildalpen at this weekend so see ya there!
And at last here are some shoots from Plattling and Tacen!
Authors: Various
I even had my first time in creek boat! I gotta say that it's pretty hard to freestyle in it but it's alot of fun also! However I'd prefer staying with my playboating ;). We've been also testing various levels of water and gotta say that at maximum level you can get really nice wave there which gives you alot of fun!
So the competition last 2 days and I was busy very much becouse I was asked to be speaker! I enjoyed it alot but it was quite exhausting and without help from Honza Spindler wouldn't make it, thanks buddy!
At Saturday there rodeo competition had place. It was first time that they were able to hold the competition in lower playspot. They picked medium water level for that which in my opinion was the best! You could do all hole tricks and still some wave which made big fan of tricks bringing on nice entertainment!
Again i decided to compete in two categories K1 and C1. After prelims in K1 was second behind Honza and next to Marcel Bloder and in C1 was at the lead! Becouse there weren't alot competitors it came up fast to finals.
I had really nice ride in K1 and was pretty sure to get gold this time unfortunatly i lost 5 points to Honza! But it wasn't that hard to carry it becouse I'm happy for my friend.
In C1 had even "worse" story! I had same amount of points in best ride as Jonas Savšek ! In that situation rules are counting also second ride and mine was lower. Still getting that high in C1 and bringing two silver medals is the score that I'm satisfactioned with!
So thank you guys for really nice time and really nice competition! Special thanks to main organisator - Jonas! I'm looking forward for next years competition in Tacen!
Next stop on my trip will be wildalpen at this weekend so see ya there!
And at last here are some shoots from Plattling and Tacen!
Authors: Various
1.07.2011
Worlds.
20-26 of june World Championships in Freestyle Kayaking had place. Monday was day of opening ceremony with athletes parade. Next day me and my teammates - Tomasz Czaplicki and Michal Wrzal had start at Squirt category. It was first time that you could start at surface boats becouse the rules had been changed so there were no boat specifications except safety requirements. It was pretty big chalenge for us becouse most of moves were different and we couldn't do mystery moves, thought we were able to bring some trophy. So we came up with idea of making flatwater Phoenix Monkey and McNasty. Thanks to this and some other flatwater moves Tomasz and me got into semi and Michal came 12th.
Wednesday was day of K1M prelims. I was so angry when i figured out that I'm at first heat at 9am! I'm really sleepyhead and it's hard to get up earlier for me so you can imagine my frustration when becouse of water alarm - hard rains forecast - whole schedule got moved and they put as much categories at one day as they could which has result at moving whole category 2 hours earlier which meant for me starting at 7am! That was nightmare. Anyway, somehow I managed to do that after going sleep really early and setting my alarms from 5am. The only thing that was cheering me up was that I was in one heat with one of my best friends - Thomas Dunphy from Ireland. I was even more relaxed thanks to really big crowd which gathered at 7am just for cheering! Thanks guys for making it that early! So after being given nice motivation and taking focus it came to my ride, which was almost perfect! However judges didn't think that. I made McNasty, 2 Phoenix Monkeys loop and 2 helixes and got scored only 450! which means they didn't count any of my phoenix thought they said at captains meeting that it'll be enough to pull it at 45 degrees at half only that's why i didn't look for vertical ones that much.. anyway, here is my ride, you can judge yourself.
gotta find my ride.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15539311
At second ride i got flushed unfortunatly, and did only 2 phoenix, loop and mc nasty and that was a nail to my coffin becouse this ride got scored only 250.. still i was pretty sure it will be much more.
gotta find my ride.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15539398
The thing is i wasn't the only one thinking that my rides were really good, my teammates and alot of other kayakers said it was blast which would surely shoot me at top 10. But the judges had different opinion about it. Getting 706,667 on the end made me 29th, just 4 places and JUST 40 points behind quarters.
I kept complaining about judges quite badly until i was timer at man quarters, which let me sit just beside Joey - one of the judges. At begining i thought he was really cruel at judging - and that's what i've told to him but he gave me quite satisfacting and good answer - I'm not cruel, I'm good. If we would count this moves which weren't made perfectly there would be no difference at scores. Which was actually shoot to ten. After getting their point of view i started to look at all the moves really strict - the way i was doing before "the english way". It was funny to discover that in over 95% of scoreing i would do same as him.
But still i think my rides got maybe a bit underjudged. Moves weren't perfect, but were followed by rules and i think it might be becouse of first heat - super high shaft which with time went a bit down which i could notice in later rides of some people.
So after getting knocked out I was pretty dissapointed but only for a while. Got focused really fast on next day start and after this on next competition, thought sense of sad still left somewhere deep.
At thursday we had Squirt Semifinals and unfortunatly both Tomasz and me got knocked out.. He came 7th and I came 9th. Seems that beating mystery move is not possible with normal boat but it was alot of fun anyway and well, quite big achievement getting that far in different boat.
Except competitor view i spent awesome time, meeting even more new people, partying with everybody and having fun together. It was so nice feeling that getting from our tent to playspot was taking me so long becouse there was always somebody to have some words with! Got even called few times as 'walking entertainment' ;).
I will be missing all of this staff so badly.. Living in plattling for so long time with so many great people from different places with their own stories and always something to do together. Thank you everybody for this awesome time i could spend with you!
Now I'm in Tacen at awesome kayak course. It's said to be class of WW III/IV and some places are really nice. I had even my first creeker ride ever! But i will stay with playboating - alot more fun ; ). Unfortunatly holes here are pretty shallow, on first day i made phoenix monkey with triple rock bonus ;) one hit at initiation then second with jump to loop and third when i was landing. My cowwy got few more scratches so it got duck tape protection now. Today morning they were adjusting water level from maximum - which was pretty nice wave but without almost eddy to medium - which is the best i think and will stay for competition which are tomorrow.
Stay in Touch!
Bartosz
Wednesday was day of K1M prelims. I was so angry when i figured out that I'm at first heat at 9am! I'm really sleepyhead and it's hard to get up earlier for me so you can imagine my frustration when becouse of water alarm - hard rains forecast - whole schedule got moved and they put as much categories at one day as they could which has result at moving whole category 2 hours earlier which meant for me starting at 7am! That was nightmare. Anyway, somehow I managed to do that after going sleep really early and setting my alarms from 5am. The only thing that was cheering me up was that I was in one heat with one of my best friends - Thomas Dunphy from Ireland. I was even more relaxed thanks to really big crowd which gathered at 7am just for cheering! Thanks guys for making it that early! So after being given nice motivation and taking focus it came to my ride, which was almost perfect! However judges didn't think that. I made McNasty, 2 Phoenix Monkeys loop and 2 helixes and got scored only 450! which means they didn't count any of my phoenix thought they said at captains meeting that it'll be enough to pull it at 45 degrees at half only that's why i didn't look for vertical ones that much.. anyway, here is my ride, you can judge yourself.
gotta find my ride.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15539311
At second ride i got flushed unfortunatly, and did only 2 phoenix, loop and mc nasty and that was a nail to my coffin becouse this ride got scored only 250.. still i was pretty sure it will be much more.
gotta find my ride.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15539398
The thing is i wasn't the only one thinking that my rides were really good, my teammates and alot of other kayakers said it was blast which would surely shoot me at top 10. But the judges had different opinion about it. Getting 706,667 on the end made me 29th, just 4 places and JUST 40 points behind quarters.
I kept complaining about judges quite badly until i was timer at man quarters, which let me sit just beside Joey - one of the judges. At begining i thought he was really cruel at judging - and that's what i've told to him but he gave me quite satisfacting and good answer - I'm not cruel, I'm good. If we would count this moves which weren't made perfectly there would be no difference at scores. Which was actually shoot to ten. After getting their point of view i started to look at all the moves really strict - the way i was doing before "the english way". It was funny to discover that in over 95% of scoreing i would do same as him.
But still i think my rides got maybe a bit underjudged. Moves weren't perfect, but were followed by rules and i think it might be becouse of first heat - super high shaft which with time went a bit down which i could notice in later rides of some people.
So after getting knocked out I was pretty dissapointed but only for a while. Got focused really fast on next day start and after this on next competition, thought sense of sad still left somewhere deep.
At thursday we had Squirt Semifinals and unfortunatly both Tomasz and me got knocked out.. He came 7th and I came 9th. Seems that beating mystery move is not possible with normal boat but it was alot of fun anyway and well, quite big achievement getting that far in different boat.
Except competitor view i spent awesome time, meeting even more new people, partying with everybody and having fun together. It was so nice feeling that getting from our tent to playspot was taking me so long becouse there was always somebody to have some words with! Got even called few times as 'walking entertainment' ;).
I will be missing all of this staff so badly.. Living in plattling for so long time with so many great people from different places with their own stories and always something to do together. Thank you everybody for this awesome time i could spend with you!
Now I'm in Tacen at awesome kayak course. It's said to be class of WW III/IV and some places are really nice. I had even my first creeker ride ever! But i will stay with playboating - alot more fun ; ). Unfortunatly holes here are pretty shallow, on first day i made phoenix monkey with triple rock bonus ;) one hit at initiation then second with jump to loop and third when i was landing. My cowwy got few more scratches so it got duck tape protection now. Today morning they were adjusting water level from maximum - which was pretty nice wave but without almost eddy to medium - which is the best i think and will stay for competition which are tomorrow.
Stay in Touch!
Bartosz
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