Euro Cup #2 ! & Wildalpen

Last weekend - 27-28.07 took place Freestyle Fest in Troja (Prague) which was 2nd eurocup event!

We had loads of competitors in all of categories and again alot of great paddlers which made it high class competition. Through week trainings were quite limited as in Prauge there will be World Championships in Slalom in September so alot of slalom paddlers were training there. We had our trainings limited to morning and evening and as alot of people came to compete it was pretty busy.

also i had to go at wednesday evening by train to cracow for entry master degree exam and came back next day - which was pretty exhausting trip for me but I'm at 2nd degree studies now.

Friday was almost full training day and competition started at saturday. As usual i had some judging to do but watching all people high performence was really nice. Also had a while to observe the spot - after flood which happened lately it got pretty irregular and there was flushy tongue happening from time to time.

Qualification went well for me - after getting first good run i was already feeling confident and wanted to do some combos. All in all i ended up 2nd behind Peter which was nice position before semifinals. Then there was kayak cross and afterwards semifinals. After seeing some high scoring rides i got really motivated and went for really good run scoring 1070pts and finishing up at 1st position.

My semifinal ride , thanks to Pavel Benes for upload!

Semifinal Ride    <<<< LINK /no idea why couldnt put it from youtube/


Unfortunetly i felt really tired and left evening party really fast. I also didnt feel too strong next day - probably all day trip took it's effect aswell. Anyway in finals the bar was set from beginiing really high and i wanted to do full combo run to get through it but i didnt have enough power and finished up at 4th position behind Martin Koll, Tomasz Czaplicki and from first position Peter Csonka. Honza Spindler was 5th.


Straight after finals we packed ourselves with Adam and left to wildalpen. Here with also Martin we will be training for next 2 weeks and then i will fly to Nantahala (USA) where im going to stay and train until World Championships begins.

Unfortunetly water here is super low as it didnt rain for over 3 weeks almost and great Helliwelli hole is very shallow and quite hard to do tricks. But we are working it out!

Here is short clip Martin prepared from - Helliwelli how low can You go?

Stay in tune!