May rain dance

May’s been quite busy month for me, as I’ve spent most of summer semester paddling, I had to catch up at my universites and there was plenty of it as a part from kayaking i’m still at two faculties. Luckly, I’ve managed it and right now i’m nearly done with more then half exams, but it’d cost me quite a lot of my day time. Fortunetly, May was picky month at Poland, and a part of excelent hot and sunny days, we had some serious storms, which provided us plenty of water in our rarely working rivers. I could say so far for me it was a month of golden fever kayaking as with FATH group we have paddled Białka, Konina and Kacwin which are some of most desireable rivers in our region. Konina is a beautiful, small river, which after rain becomes narrow, stip and fast creek with some great rapids, while Kacwin is a little bit calmer, but on the end of the run it offers 6m waterfall with safe pool. All of them were morning actions, which have allowed me to keep up with my trainings in night and stay focused at studing in day time. Of course don’t take me for some kaind of nerd who does nothing, but studying, it has all just acumulated for me. Despite of this, i kept on paddling every possible day, most, at the course, at  tiny wave, but also kept on working at our bottom feature, which unfortunetly still needs some improvements. Except those, we went to one of coolest playspot in the region – Wietrznice. Even though it’s shallow and forgotten by polish scene, I love coming back over there and playing around where i’ve started, but as water levels were pretty high it was a decent playspot.

Thanks to rains, and flash flooding of some rivers in mountains, the water has finally came up in Raba  letting us try The Zarabie Wave. Best levels were in morning, then water was dropping quickly. Unfortunetly we got there just after noon, as in the morning i had freestyle exhibition at kid’s festival. When we got to the wave, the water has dropped already in significaly- nearly half meter. Anyway it was still surfable litte wave and me & Maks have spent some time playing on it. The wave has no eddy service and you have to walk all the time up the stream but there are a lot of places where u can get out the boat after flash. I can definitly tell, it will be awesome at higher water level. In next week there should be some proper storms, so hopefuly it will come up again. This time maybe for longer.

Beggining of June, we left to Plattling for first event of this year- Euro Cup. We got new member to our crew, MIchal’s sister- Agata, she  just had opportunity to try out kayaking few times before the event but she loved it so much - that she was keen to go with us. So along with her, Adam, Max and Michal left cracow in our fun bus. Here is short write up of the trip form Michał.

                We got to Plattling at 6:00 at Thursday and went for the morning session. The water level was really high, so we’ve had a great time on training. After this we’ve had breakfeast and went to sleep as everyone was exhausted after all-night-road. Next day there were preliminaries and luckly all juniors from our crew have made it trought. Unfortunetly Adam and Bartosz mess it up and didnt get to next round. It was surprising for us, because we weren’t able to perform as many tricks as others at this competitions but thanks to good technical plans of our runs, we surpass better prepared rivals.

                At Sunday morning we’ve planned to go kayaking after breakfast, and then go home. However, our plans got messed up, as we’ve found out that our car engine won’t start. Luckly, after some help from friends we’ve managed to fix it. Then already on the way three kilometers from Poland we ran out of fuel. Lucklyy we’ve found the guy that helped us.

Right now, after all those adventures, we are on the way home, but just to pick up few things and moving straight to  to Warsaw without even stopping, where tomorrow morning, with Ondra, we are cathing plane to Moscow, where we get picked up by Stas and had to Norther Russia for russia championships- Tivdia competition. Cant wait to get there and surf that sick wave.

Stay tuned for updates!