Prague Freestyle Fest and PIRATE PROMO

              After wonderful times working in Wildalpen at Liquid-Lifestyle it was time to go for next competition of CNAWR rodeo Cup in Prague - Troja Freestyle Fest! Chris from Graz - new Austrian C1 hope arrived at thursday evening to pick us up and we left paddling and running our way up to Prague with Hanka and Adam from Poland.

In the morning we catch up with crew at Troja kanal and get some paddling session. New hole in Prague is really great! You can make all of the tricks there and it's sticky and nice for training. At left part of it it's deep to make all the moves so it's perfect for having fun! Also it gives you big pops if you dive with your boat! But then you might hit the current ;) Unfortunetly right side is shallow and a bit dangerous for carbon boats but without any problems you can stay on left and enjoy it!

 Unfortunetly this year not that much people came but the party in the evening thanks to boulder v siti bar which provided music aswell was great as always! Everything got arranged by our crew member Stepan Vohradsky. Whole competition been organised by Tomas Pospisil, same as making new hole so thumbs up for good job!

Saturday started with prelims for us which put 3 pirates in top places, I was 1st, Ondra i think for the first time had beaten Honza who finished 3rd and came 2nd. But we were happy for our scores and were looking forward for semi-finals.

Semi-finals turned out lucky for me as i barely made it coming up at 5th place beating Michal Wrzal by a little and Honza took 1st, Unfortunetly Ondra has dropped finishing his race. To the finals except us proceed from second Jan Bubnik followed by Jirka Langer and Martin Kucera.

Chris and Adam - our travel companiers joined Yougsters category as they are just beginners - Chris C1 and Adam K1. With cool rules made specialy for beginners they both got to finals - Adam from 1st place! He even kept it next day by making glorious loop and youngster trophy move - swimming in the hole which gave him big aplaus. Chris came 4th but enjoyed it alot especially after saturdays party where was great band playing and fire show - from what people said. Unfortunetly i missed both as i felt asleep in the evening, guess i was too tired... I woke up just a moment after last song of the band and kept party running!

On Sundays finals good news was that Lucie Horka made it for Czech champion tittle! In Mens after great final session I've won, followed by Honza who got Czech champion tittle again. 3rd was Jirka Langer, 4th Jan Bubnik and 5th Martin Kucera.

Just after finishing ceremony and tombola we left to Poland with Michal where with Adam we took bus to Cracow. For weekend getting back to Prague for bday party and then moving to Sopac - for sick competition of CNAWR rodeo - hope to meet you there!

Check our promo video!
https://vimeo.com/46437533

European Championships, Wildalpen and Prague Rodeo!

Been a while without an update, had some busy days but let's start from beginning!

My last post included wrap-up before the championships. Every day was very busy for me with mostly 2 starts in different categories per day. In Mens i got through qualifications at 20th position which provided me some stress while waiting for the scores as it was the last place with ticket to the next round.Honza came 17th but unfortunetly Ondra dropped out at 31th place. In the same day I've had prelims for C1 and advanced from 8th place to semifinals. In squirt I advanced from 3rd place to semifinals. At thursday we had quaterfinals for mens - 3 rides and sum of 2 best counts. I had some good moves in my runs but wasnt sure if it will be enough for the semi, unfortunetly i was first one which dropped - coming at 11th place and missing 60 pts to higher place. Unluckly for Honza judges didnt appreciate his routine and he ended up at 16th place. After quaters i had a small break and then went straight for semifinals of C1 - I didnt really look for any bigger score here but after getting really good ride with air loop and helix i was looking for final five but judges didnt score it so i ended up at 9th place. The last category i was in was squirt boating where i finished at 2nd place which put me into saturdays finals.

Squirt boat final was opening category for saturdays entertainment but there were already alot of people watching. I did 3 good runs and ended up 3rd getting Bronze Medal!

At evening we had beatiful  ceremony with anthems and flagues followed by big party! Unfortunetly alot of people had to leave to get home on time. Luckly we werent in hurry so we enjoyed our time. With Ondra, Honza and Jan Choutka - our C1ing friend we went in the morning to meet with Femke from Sandiline who provided us with some awesome new gear so we went for local wave which is located 30 km upstream from Lienz to test it. We really loved our new lifejackets which you don't even notice as you have so big movement possibility! And also they are so light and comfy!
The water there at Isel was quite cold but thanks to our new powerstretches with warm polar inside we stayed warm for whole session! The wave there wasnt too big but was fast and stip so we could go for all aerials moves! Was really good fun to paddle there but in afternoon water rised and wave wasnt surfable anymore so we packed our car and left to Wildalpen for next competition!

We arrived in the evening to Naturfreunde camping where we have our lovely schmidthaus. Next day i went to work at liquid-lifestyle school and in the meantime Honza and Ondra were training at local playspot (you can find an update about it under this LINK) We were preparing our promo movie so we spent alot of time recording and working on it which with work and trainings made our week quite busy. On thursday came Tomo Andrassy from Slovakia brining new VAJDA Beast for Ondra. He really loved it from the first moment he sat in it. You could see him improving just in this few day which you can notice from scores!

Wildalpen rodeo was second part of Alpine Rivers Freestyle Cup and last part for Austrian Cup. Competition took place at saturday, Most of people were from Czech and Austria. Honza and me, beside K1M category started also in C1 where we got straight to finals and ended up Honza at 3rd and me 4th.
After prelims i was 1st followed by Honza, Tomo, Ondra and Marcel which made beatiful heat of VAJDA Beasts. To the final we proceeded in same 5 but with some shuffling - Tomo was on the lead, Honza second and I was 3rd. Was so good to get final 5 with whole Pirate-Productions Crew! Final rides were really awesome and made the score really tight in the end. I won with 1029 pts, Honza 2nd. 1027pnts, Tomo 3rd followed by Marcel and Ondra.

After the competition there was an awesome party with AARA band - playing on everything that we brought to them! Next day my teammates left back to home but I will be here in wildalpen for over then week working and practicing but later will move to Prague for Troja Freestyle Fest!

Looking forward for competition in Prague as CNAWR is preparing new hole there to have an awesome place for training!
You can find some informations about it at
http://www.facebook.com/cnawr
and 
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trojsk%C3%A1-Tlama/225254577554345



Now, the hole seems to be ready and running all the time being prepared for upcoming Czech Republic Championships which will take place at 21-22 of July! For people interested in training there, great information will be that you can stay at camping just over the playspot  at HG Sport area! Info for it can be found here:
http://www.hgsport.cz/en/page/ubytovani-kemp-troja