At the end of april I’ve started my road trip again. First
stop this time was plattling. I was really excited to go there as few days
before leaving i’ve got my new Vajda Beast thanks to shops kanokajaki.com and
kajak.nl! But not only this was the reason for my excitment, mostly it was
becouse of the life style that freestyle kayaking is based at. Spending all the
time with your best mates and enjoying best moments with them. In winter i
didnt really have too much opportunities for paddling as we dont have any spot
to paddle at in Cracow so except Uganda - which actually only made my hunger
for kayaking bigger – i was paddling only rarely at pool. So i was driving
whole night hardly to get into the boat again.
Plattling always has it’s own awesome atmosphere and
specific. It’s in my opinion the best place to train for all levels and for alot of people at one time so it
always baits alot of kayakers. Nearly every weekend from even march you will
meet somebody there. And same it was this time – there were plenty of people
from all around the europe – even guys from Spain and Russia!! Both eddys were
busy whole day! But it was so great to see everybody again and paddle together! Was so happy to catch up
with pirate-production crew again!
So about the new Beast. AWESOME! I guess i should get a
pilot license for this boat! Thanks to some extra volume behind nose It goes
aerial so easly with every move! And becouse of new shorter back it’s so easy
to land everything straight but anyway most of moves were finished FLAT. Also
thanks to new even sharper carves at nose and back starting all wheeling moves
comes without any problem and you feel like it’s keeping the balance itself! My
best friend Honza Spindler after taking one ride in it put an order for his own
beast!
I was slowly improving the outfiting and backbend setup to
get a perfect shape for myself as i wanted to have it done really precisly. Now
it’s like nearly finished and the boat feels as just another part of the body,
reacting for everything you do!
As plattling was my first paddling at this season getting
back to shape in new boat wasnt the easiest thing but surely it was most
exciting! Every session i was getting back so many of skills and suddenly
jumping everything even higher and landing it better then before! One day
suddenly i simply started to make big matrixes on both sides and before making
it even on one it was a problem for me! So from getting back to shape just
after few sessions i started to get an awesome progress and all thanks to new
beast!
At second weekend we had competition which i didnt feel
very comfortable about as i had some
pretty bad cut at my hand which didnt allow me to hold the paddle properly and
i still was retriving some moves but competing was always good fun for me and
it’s always good experience and pleasure to paddle with great paddlers so
without mumbling i jumped in especially as qualifiactions were in jam session
system which is always good fun as you can show some cool stuff as you have
alot of time! Finaly i jumped into semis at 7th place and missed later the
finals in normal system with 100 points as i unfortunetly flushed twice. But
with a big smile i cheered up for rest of people , the winner was Peter Csonka
followed by my countrymate Tomasz Czaplicki and at 3rd place was Simon Strohmeier
who is new deutsch master.
After finals we left with Honza Spindler, Lucie Horrka and
hijacker Tomas Burian to Kadan where we spent nice few days paddling and on the
weekend we having first CNAWR Rodeo tour competition!
Stay in tune, this time weekly!
Cheers,
Bartosz
Brak komentarzy:
Prześlij komentarz