Youngster Camp Pirate-Production

At the weekend of 21-23.09.2012, we were holding the Youngsters camp at Prague kayak channel, Troja. It was hosted by Pirate-Production and suported by friends.  We had 29 participants, training in 3 main groups divided at smaller ones, from beginners through advanced ending up with experienced.   

We started at friday evening with first lecture led by Honza according equipment, which was followed by video evening. With good mood and positive mind sets we started next day early at 10am going with big warm up for everybody and spliting tasks between groups. Beginners starte dat flatwater gates, advanced went for small waves and eddy ridings and last group after waves went for hole riding. We were recording everything for our evening analyse. As performance of our groups was really good, we were really happy, noticing progresses already at second afternoon session. Also after it we’ve been holding fun slalom for beginners (which was gate riding at top of the channel) and kayak cross through channel for others! At evening we had second lectures led by Bartosz according rules which was followed by videocoaching.

At Sunday i heard from friend that he thought that we switched groups, but they just did so big step ahead! Everybody got familiar with channel already learning tricks with tips and getting good fun! After first session we had small rodeo event where everybody could try their strength in 45 second rides prelims. Rules were prepared specially for YOUNGSTERS so everybody got some good points ! For last session we did short lecture about safety and rescue and tried some of it at wild waters of kayak course.

It was great experience for me to participate in holding camp like this, as we love to teach others and share passion. We heard alot of positive comments and i think everybody was satisfied and it was that’s what it’s all about! We hope for next year to see more people attending to this great event!

Thank you very much to our sponsors, without them it wouldnt be possible ! For WRSI and HIKO who provided us great prizes! And for all who supported the event – Boulder v Siti, HG SPORT (For renting us camp and area!), HYDRO magazine, CNAWR, RISE UP production, Sandiline and GoPro. Also thank you very much to people who helped us with it – Stepan, Milos, Jarka, ygst cptn Zobak for preparing and mostly for all of you who joined us at it.

Thanks all and i hope to see you next year!

World Cup #3, Nantahala

The last event  of World Cup took place at Nantahala River, at NOC near Bryson City. Thanks to kindness of our friend Zack and his wife we stayed at his backyard so we didnt need to sleep in forest anymore! All week there were team trainings, we were having them together – Poland, Slovakia Austria and our Spanish and Irish friends. Thanks to Spanish coach who help us with timing at training we could train our runs all the time.

 Competition started at Friday,  i made it to quarterfinals from 7th place, Tomo was 11th and Peter again took 1st. Scores to make it to quarterfinals were sick again, you needed  1065pts for 20th place!  On the same day i had also squirt prelims – where i came 5th making it to finals on Sunday.  Saturday were quarterfinals with also really high bar, 1450 points for top 10! Peter and I made it through and after only 2 hours break we had another round. Unfortunetly i ended up at 9th place but Peter made it again staying on the lead. In evening we had really nice party from kokotat with some loterry and great band providing us alot of fun!

Sunday were finals, i started in squirts and missed medal by just a little bit ending u pat 4th place behind Tomasz Cz. Nina in her finals made it to 4th place, gold was taken by Claire O’hara with insane run of 668 pts! Great Job there! But the biggest entertainment was provided by Mens again, all rides were awesome,  Nick Troutman set bar really high with his first run to 970 but Peter respond was short and clear – 1246pts! He stayed in the lead till last run of Dane where he kick the bar to 1316pts! But when i seen Peters face i knew that he’s not giving away 3rd gold and his ride was just crazy! He did nearly every move possible scoring 1538 pts! Great performance of his was awarded wit 3rd win in World Cup making him overall champion! There was small ending ceremony afterwards. After  it most of people left home or for Gauley Festival.. We went back to our place to celebrate and chill with friends and prepare for leaving at Tuesday.

For some up of trip wait you have to wait one more week! In 2 weeks we will be holding youngster camp in Prague by Pirate-Production! Catch us there!