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PAU FREESTYLE SHOW

On the 12th last June I organised with the Stade d’eaux vives Pau Pyrénées the first PAU FREESTYLE SHOW edition . Here you can have a look at it.
Thanks very much for this crazy event: truc de fou (thanks Sylvain); duemstuff (rok and andraz) and thanks to Abyss kayak shop
Let’s meet again next March for the next edition ; which will be the fkt first round

pau freestyle show 2010 from Benoît LECOINTE on Vimeo.

ALPES TRIP

At the end of May, I made a course for creeks in the Hautes Alpes and Italy with Pierre Lemoule. Germanasca – Mastalone – Egua in Italy. Onde – Gyronde – Gorge de la Durance et guil in France.

Artoust Pyrénées Buddies Race

We organised with Clarisse, julien and eric the first edition of the Pyrénées Budies race course of extreme kayak in Pyrénées.

 Here you can watch the video made by Stefun pion and kayak session report  from valentin Thanks to all partners.

report: http://www.kayaksession.com/pyrenees-buddies-race-1.php

Pyrenee Buddies Race 2010 from Kayak TV (Kayak Session Mag) on Vimeo.

 Pix off duemstuff party, THANKS to  ANDRAZ and ROK for your prises:

see you!

next time summer report.

nicolas

The nice weekend full of paddling and parties is gone. Under the dam – Lipno on the Vltava river is ussually competiton in slalom, rafting, wildwater canoing and mainly: extreme kayaking!

I participate first freestyle competition in Czech republic in this season.

We have Czech rodeo tour, which consists of 3 competition – Sopotnice, Prague, Pilsen. But unfortunately we have to cancel event in Prague this weekend (13.-15.8.), because the small flood is continuing in Czech republic. And the slalom course in Troja is under the water.

Jonas Savšek stomping

After the freestyle competition we moved to the Jahmp™ training. I don’t know if the reason was the bad weather or just the mere size of the ramp but only 9 men and 3 women decided to try themselves in big-air competition.

This trip is my second way to Norway. I was there before 3 year for walking. This part of our planet is beautiful. This Year i have a chance to paddle there…

We have a group of 8 kayakers. Two cars and a lot of food, bud not a lot of beer, how we saw in the past :-D

Our trip start on Sjoa river, where have been in next few days Sjoa River Festival, where our Czech friends Zajíc and Palo „Čuňo“ Andrassy has first and third.

Our first part on Sjoa river is Playrun. This is for me something new, because of quantity of Water. We have paddle without problems. Second part was Amont, this is more „downhill“ paddling. Nice part, and paddling to our cam place. There are our friends from Hydromagazin.

Next day we paddle Store Ula with their slides and waterfalls. This river was great…. Our next river was Driva Gaura, that is next nicest river in Norway for me. We make party and 3 of us have paddle Grove river.

Upper Rauma was with their Little Huka Falls something new, technical river with slides etc… We want to paddle, so we pay Bomb weg and paddle Lower Jori, we have not enought Water but…

Tacen Extreme is currently the biggest freeride kayaking event and the only freestyle event we hold each year in Slovenia. It is organised by a bunch of freestyle and creeking enthusiasts from Ljubljana area, leaded by Jonas Savšek, a former KK Tacen slalom competitor.

Tacen Extreme is well on its way. As you may have heard Duemstuff is one of the main sponsors of the event so you can expect some nice looking gear is going to be awarded ;)

Jan Bregar is taking it old school Duem style

So my summers started good! I headed to Prague for a weeks training before moving on to watch the last world cup in Augsburg watch was awesome. After that i had a few days here which was great as i ain’t had much time on there training and it’s the kind of course you must learn which is why the Germans are amazing on it. I was feeling pretty good with how things have been going so i was looking forward to the getting home to race.

Cardiff is the first of the new whitewater courses to open before the London games and it’s a very good setup. Like a small Leipzig or DWD It’s fast and pushy so you have to feel your way down it rather then fight which suits the way i like to paddle. It was a cool race and had that foreign vibe about it.I had pretty solid runs and finished 1st which i’m pleased with. Now I have a bit of time before the next set of races so i have a few things planned which i’ll post as they happen. Adz

Hi, I´m back from Norway.
The temperature is about 35 degree in Czech republic. It´s terrible. There were nice weather without rain and the temparature 25:).

We paddled in Sjoa, Otta and Driva valley. I was there with my friends from Prague. We drunk many bottles of alcohol and we had many funny situations on our trip.

I tried new style of competition….
I was in adrenalin cup, which is the biggest competition in extreme relay in Czech republic. It was in czech mountains Beskydy on the river ostravice.

In summer time now in japan!!
Here is realy good spot.usually this wave spot is a lot of paddler coming from all japan.

Luka Stricelj had a dislocation of his right shoulder.It happend one day before TEVA EXTREME OUTDOOR GAMES started.This is his second shoulder dislocation.His paddling season is over.Becouse slovenian health sistem is not working as it should be,he has to wait till september to have an operation.Lets hope,that he will get beter as soon as possible.

Luka chilling in his garden,with slalom course in the back.

Reality check was harsh after returning from New Zealand in February. A lot of work to be done on my college final paper, a job and short cold winter days meant not much paddling was on horizon. Furthermore, compared to last year, this winter wasn’t as generous with snow and not much water was coming down the Slovenian Alps this spring. Yes, this spring sucked for me from a kayaker’s point of view. Nevertheless I did join the white-water rescue training programme and I got to train as an instructor under supervision of Slovene water rescue guru Urban Herzog. If I don’t feel my best as a kayaker at least you can rely on me to be more accurate throwing stones at you when you get stuck in some sticky hole. Keep that in mind when looking for a companion to some crazy creeks this summer!

Safety crew

I spent 14 days in travelling with Palo, Eva, Zajic and many others from Czech and Slovakia.

First stop was World Champinoship of extreme kayaking  – Teva Outdoor mountains games 2010. The river Chuisella had low water level then last year. But in the evening the water rised and it was fun and pushy.In long race I was 4., because I paddled across the rock twice:(.