Kayak and Canoe cross 2009

Ahoj ,
takže pomaly sa nám blíži sezóna 2009 a s ňou aj preteky a festivaly. Týmto rokom máme novinku a to kajak cross cup na Slovensku. Sú to 3 crossové súťaže a to na Beléj , Liptovskom Mikuláši a Čunove. Na prvý z pretekov sa je možne už aj registrovať na stránke kayak.sk
kde je samozrejme viac informácií o podujatí.
Takže vidíme sa čoskoro na Belej.
Peter

First sunny days

Thursday evening we got a massage from our friend, who lives in Trencin, they have a great wave there. We were surprised, because we never were there. Their river Vah had flood which made three rapids under dam.


Depends of high level there are various playspots, but normally there is not enough water. When we come, water has drop from last day but still there was a cool wave. We spent there hole day and had an awesome session.
























Next day water drop again and wave was shallow for paddling so we moved to Plattling. Plattling had high nice level so it was very bussy during the weekend. We met there our Czech friends who had there qualifications for World championship. Weather was perfect and we felt like on holiday.













Even our dog Puko loved it there. Running and playing outside all day long was like haven for him. We trained four hour a day and in the evening we fell to beds. But we really enjoyed it and didn’t want to leave home.




I hope that now when weather is warm, snow will melt and rivers will rise a little and we will have again some great waves for surfing like in Trencin.
See you on waves.
Nina

First training on the Kuchl

When we discussed date with Austrian guys for they training on Kuchl we expect a warmer weather. We were driving on highway and how we were closed to Salzburg we saw more and more snow around us. But we were sill claim and we hoped that at least in village is everything melted. When we came we were shocked. We couldn’t park on the side of road because there were still 30cm of snow!

Friday wasn’t very nice. It was chilly and sometimes raining. We took our dry suits and paddled for 1,5 hour. Just me and Peter, we were quite tired but we enjoyed surfing so much. In the evening we waited for Austrian guys in the apartment. In the morning we woke up to sunny day! Everyone was looking for paddling. After a warm up everyone jumped to water. Two and half hours were guys and one girl paddling in upper wave.

After that we made a break for lunch. Peter showed them a video from paddling and explains what is good and what they need to improve. After lunch we had second session. Guys were getting better and better, sun was still shinning and snow was melting.

At the evening we had good feeling from nice day. But Sunday morning wasn’t sunny. It was raining all day long but it didn’t make us sad. Peter had again two sessions with the guys.

They made a second session in lower wave. Water was rising because of raining and lower wave were getting better. It was colder than Saturday but thanks ours drysuit we stayed totally dry hole day! I love it so much, it is great to know that you can paddle and you will be not ill. But I still hope that I will not to use it long time and I will switch it for short comboJ

See you on water.

Nina