Last weekend of July I took part first competition of Czech rodeo tour 2010.

Sopotnice is unique artificial playspot. I like this hole and the event too. There were other supplemental competition – ramp jumping and slope style. Slope style menas jumpinmg, turning and sliding on special wooden railing.

I competed in women category with 3 Slovak girls and I won the freestyle competition.

Next freestyle event of czech tour will be canceled, because unfortunately the small flood is continuing in Czech republic.

thanks for photo – Petr Prause and Hanka Bubnikova

In the end of June I tried other boat from Pyranha… more preciselly – Pyranha Master.
I competed in Adrenalin cup. It is the biggest competition in extreme relay in Czech republic.

Our women´s team Technika Extreme Ladies was on 2.place. The competition was composed from running (Tana Metelkova), paragliding (Pavlina Herberova), biking (Pavlina Cerna) and kayaking (me).  The water course wasn´t so hard, but there were some gate. It was funny events and new experience for me.

On Saturday Marlow Canoe Club hosted the 2nd BCU Freestyle League Event, held at Boulters Weir. The results of the summer league will determine the British Champion and count towards GB team selection for 2011 World Championships.

It was a great day to be out on the water in the sunshine. Pyranha paddlers Jamie Burbeck and Bren Orton paddled well, winning 1st place in their respective categories.

Matt Tidy even took a break from his hectic work schedule  to come show everyone that carthwheels are still super cool.

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Hannah Kertesz throwing down in the Salida Hole where she ended up 2nd in the Junior Women’s class!!

Read on for more results and photos from the last 4 days at Colorado’s oldest & biggest whitewater festival.

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Demshitz spent the last weekend in Colorado competing at the Lyons River Festival and doing a paddle session on the Poudre River with our friends from Rocky Mountain Adventures in Fort Collins.

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Here is a video update from our last few weeks in Colorado.  Right now rivers are flooding and the weather is hot.  I believe today’s temperature is going to break some records as far as heat goes here in Colorado.  I am working on a video from our surf sessions on the Glenwood wave so stay posted.  Next stop for Demshitz is the Lyons Mt. Games and Rocky Mountain Adventures in Fort Collins CO.  Be sure to stop by.  Paddle with the Bros starts Sunday,  high noon at Rocky Mountain Adventures.  Click here for the video

Friday and Saturday we competed in the Prelims and Semi-Finals for the Freestyle kayak event at the Teva Mt. Games in Vail.  Unfortunately nobody made it to Finals to compete in the somewhat terrifying flooded hole that was not only tricky to stick moves in, but also hard to avoid large logs and root balls.  Due to this high water level, Day 4 river events, including the the 8-ball Boatercross were cancelled.

Read on for more results and photos

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Today concludes the first day of the Teva Mt. Games in Vail.  Here are some results and photos from the Homestake Steep Creek Race.

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Boating season has is well under way for most up here is Norway, despite the currently cold nights and low water levels.

For me, I have to wait and train up a few more weeks before trying anything too exciting after a back operation, but I have paddled the rafting section of the Raundalselva

Which brings me to the subject of saving the the Raundalselva.  One of the worlds most beautiful rives is under threat from hydro projects!!

Check out the Facebook group created by Voss Kayak Club here -

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=511904939#!/group.php?gid=119108778099266

http://raundalselvi.invoss.com/

As anyone who has been to Norway knows this river is a gem, with its crystal clear water, raging waterfalls and scenic beauty there is no way in hell you could ever live to see it damed.

At the moment a dubious play has been layed out presenting 10 different ideas for hydro developments, but the most poplar project from the developers side of the table would involve taking water out at the the start of the ‘Rime’ section and delivering it back right down near the airport near Voss.  The minimum summer flow left in the river is said to be around 6.5 cumecs, and about 2 or so in the winter – This is obviously not good for any river users, be they fishermen, kayakers, fish or animals after the fish.

Voss Kayak club have been leading the debate and opposition right now and doing a great job at prompting discussion.

To find out more about this and get involved you should head over the to FaceBook group and join in – everyone can help!!

This past weekend Demshitz hung out in the biggest little city at the Reno River Festival.  Fun times were had racing in the Open and Collegiate Nationals Boater Cross, freestyling in the Open and Invitational Rodeo (video of Dave’s competition ride here),  gambling, and eating at Taco del Gnar.

Check out the report and photos.

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Check out these two videos from our last few weeks on the road killin it!

Demshitz and the Paddlebillyz at NOC and more!
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Demshitz playing the Molan’s at Galloway beach WV

Demshitz is selling Demshitz shirts for 15 bucks in blue and grey with the logo above (DS logo with fish saying demshitz) on the back. Get one today!

check back next week for an update from the Reno River Fest and Demshitz in Cali!!! DEMSHITZ!

Well last weekend saw the second GBR training weekend, two beautifull summer days combined with great organisation and coaching made for a great weekend on the water.

Saturday saw the team meeting up at the rugby club and being split up into work shops. The work shops on offer ranged from learning or perfecting a specific move with Sam Ward to planning a competition run with Ross Montanadon, “Sneaky Pete” and Dennis Newton. The workshops were fantastic and every paddler took away something to bear in mind from each workshop. In the evening Matt Chadder aranged games of dodge ball and basketball, with teams split up into north and south and juniors versus seniors, which proved to be highly entertaining.

Sunday was another day of paddling and taking part in workshops missed on saturday. Team training finished for the weekend at 3 oclock with a demonstration on how to improve core strengh.

A huge thank you must go to Matt Chadder and the Freestyle Comitee for arranging the weekend and also to the coaches who gave up their time to come and help.

                                              Synchronised Pheonix Monkeys

                                               Photo by Dale Mears

Photo by Dale Mears

This month we celebrated the third birthday event of the community website in the Thames Valley – home of the world famous hurley weir. Three years ago it was set up by Gareth Harvey – committed to re-creating that sense of community which had been missing. The site provides invaluable resources like weir guides, level updates and a community forum. Take a look at www.tvfreestylers.co.uk

Dave Wortley gathered people together and organised some fun competitions – spin to win, pairs freestyle, king of the wave. One of the competitions was a knock-out event where everyone chose moves that they found easy up to progressively harder – the format meant that people doing flat spins could compete against people doing helixes!! The whole day was all about fun – it was really laid back with nothing formal about the event. The winning move on the pairs freestyle was a sychronised kiss blown to the judge by the Mears sisters!

The sunshine helped out too – it was all round a fun day, with plenty of Molans to be found on the water. Pyranha donated prizes, as did other manufactures and the local shop (White Water the Canoe Centre). Thanks to Pyranha and other supporters as well as Dave for organising and all who turned up

Photos by Dave Wortley

Man, what a sick event!  The green race is straight up grass roots.  From the first racer out of the blocks to the bitter end of the after party.  Speaking of the after party, this was one of the best parties I have been to all year, kick ass for sure!   I, myself, didn’t go all that fast.  I hit some rocks, ran some stuff backwards, caught the notch eddy, anyway you get my point.  However, Pyranha did have three paddlers in the top ten;  Dustin, Rob, Jerry and Eric with a impressive 3rd place.  Here is a quick video showcasing demshitz.

Exactly three years to the day I watched my first Green Race I found myself in the Gallimore parking lot with my 10 foot purple Pyranha Mountain 300 listening to Jason Hale shout out his renown pre-race messages. It was amazing to see so many great boaters who have helped form the history of the Green, and humbling as well.
I had one goal for the day: to finish the race. After shoulder surgery in January, I had started running Gorilla in August only to aggravate the joint again. I had put in close to 40 runs of Gorilla when the week before the race I made the discovery that I had lost enough range of motion that I couldn’t sweep my paddle out to roll on my right side.
I swam out of the bottom of Gorilla two days in a row after a perfect season. It was devastating and brought a lot of self doubt and humiliation.
I knew I had put the time in and could run every line on the river forward and backwards.
Knowing that Tommy Hillike would be setting live bait at the bottom of Gorilla added that extra bit of confidence. I was going to come up one way or another.
At 12:52, I jetted out from the pool above Frankenstein and was off. It was amazing, my focus was clear, lungs and muscles burning, I set up for the notch. My strategy was to go left of center off the launch pad to miss speed trap at the bottom but I went a little too deep in the notch. My line off the pad was great, but when I flipped at the bottom and set up to roll, I realized my boat was FULL of water. As the live bait crew grabbed me, it became apparent I had a skirt implosion somewhere between the notch and the trough. They helped me bail my boat, plopped me back in, and I tore off to finish the race with a less than ideal time of 7:20.
After hours and hours of training, I was disappointed with the implosion, but at the same time, considered myself fortunate that I was able to finish and be a part of such a cool event.
The biggest part of me wanted to hike back up and get a redo…. but I guess I’ll have to wait till next year.

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Since 4 month to prepare only that.
To be on podium.
I won the qualification race; but i was unlucky in final…
My spraydeck opened in first drop.

We were two Pyranha brothers in final. Fabrice Poueyto and me.

First to take the lead Fafa was a sweet time in pool with…miss Tirol !

Final results:

Fabrice Pouyeto (Fra): 10

Eric Deguil (Fra): 9

To forget this bad race. I decided to go to the store and buy chocolat…

To see the race:

Adidas sickline extreme kayak world championship 2009

Next trip: The Green narrow race.

See you on the Green river.

Hi,

I have some news from freestyle.

Last week ICF World Cahmpionship took place in Switzerland. The wave in Thun was very changeable and not so big.

But the event ran over eficient and thaks for organizers.

More info and results: http://www.icf-thun2009.ch

Demshitz Stay out of jail tour was a success! Dave Fusilli Nicole Mansfield and I survived a summer traveling from state to state in the Team Pyranha van ( aka “orange bitch” ) visiting Pyranha Dealers events, rodeos, races; we went everywhere! Here is a video from our last stop on the tour in Ouachita Arkansas with Ouachita Outdoor Outfitters.

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Saturday afternoon before the Pau slalom World Cup. 42 paddlers runned the first boardercross in the new race course.  Abys canoe shop equipped most of the starters with Zone’s to help making the event a success. After a unlucky first run, i took the micro to meet a lot of spectators ( 500 ?) during the show !

In 1/4 finale, Maxime Mitaut in fight with Pierrepaolo Ferrazzi win his key for the next run !

Renaud Doby win the sweet Zone, behind Hugo Caihol ( French junior kayak team ) and Thomas Bersinger who was third in world slalom race in Prague the last week.

The girl final run…the landing wasn’t easy. Victory for Nouria Newman, like each run. Second and third Pauline Guiet and Caroline Loir. Now we are looking forward more races in Pau . See you in september !

My favourite competition was moved to Val Chiusella and Ivrea’s artificial course this year. The event took place 14. – 17. 5. First day was individual race and „Top 20“ race on really difficult part of river.

Secon day was scheduled team race. We are only me and two guys – Jan Lasko and Matej Sottner from Czechrepublic, so we competed together.

On Saturday the competition started in Ivrea with extreme slalom and after individual sprint.

The most popular was extreme slalom in national team. We positioned 3. place. and time of extreme down river and time of slalom race were counted and Czech team placed on 4. place.

Last day was in token of kayak cross.

The start was from the ramp amd two banners for the touch were in course.

In the end I was overall second in girls category.