El fin de semana pasado se celebró la primera competición de la Copa de España de Estilo Libre en LLavorsí, Lleida. Lo bueno de esta prueba era que además es selectivo para participar al Cto. del Mundo de Rodeo en Thun.
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La competición se disputó en la pequeña ola delante de RocRoi el sábado a causa del nivel del Noguera, pero el domingo pudimos remar en la ola de la Rentadora gracias a la lluvia que cayó durante la noche.
Aunque no había mucha gente la competición fué entretenida, y muy bien organizada comparado con el margen de tiempo... gracias a los organizadores por querer organizar esta prueba para que no tuviera que ser cancelada. Al final acabé 1º en K1 y 5º en C1...
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Last weekend we went to the first Spanish Freestyle Cup competition that was held in Sort. The good thing about this competition was that along with two other events will decide the Spanish Team that will go to the Worlds in Thun!The competition took place on a little wave just in front of RocRoi on Saturday and on the Washing Machine wave on Sunday due to the rain during all night long, yeaah!Thanks a lot to the organizers that did such a good job with so little time to do it, and for organizing the event after no one wanted to do it, so it wouldn't be cancelled.
However there wasn't so many people it was a good event and had lots of fun. At the end I placed 1st in K1 and 5th in C1...Looks like rivers are getting higher and higher!! snowmelt is just starting!
Hasta la próxmia!
See yaa!
Photos by Baldo Pro
La semana pasada nos fuímos con Parra a remar un poco a Francia, la idea era estar en el canal de St Pierre de Boeuf toda la semana, que justo lo inauguron el finde pasado después de varios meses en obras, y hacer alguna sesión en Lyon si estaba bien de agua. De momento la ola que han querido hacer en el canal de St Pierre no funciona, y el antiguo rulo tampoco del todo, ya que al sacar las dos piedras de detrás la espuma que éste forma con el caudal de agua que había era muy pequeña, además que se tocaba e todos lados, rulo, suelo... preguntarle al codo de Parra!! jaja
Last week we went kayaking in France, we were really looking forward to paddle in St Pierre de Boeuf, cause there's a great spot and we wnated to see how the channel looked like after they've worked on it for the last few months. Unfortunately teh wave they've tried to setup is not working, and the waterlevel was really really low, so it was really shallow everywhere, and rocks in St Pierre are pretty sharp!! (ask Parra's elbow! jaja!). As they removed the two rocks behind the hole, it doesn't have much foam now, and you have to be really careful with the bottom!
Después de remar en St Pierre nos fuímos para Lyon. No encontramos la ola de noche, así que dormimos dónde pudímos y a la mañana siguiente la encontramos! Allí estaban Seppi y Simon Strohmeier y Martin Koll, de Alemania. Según parece, el agua de este invierno ha echo que la contra de abajo se llene más de sedimentos, con lo que la ola no funciona con caudales medios, ya que está bien verde. Así estuvimos esperando a que bajara el agua hasta la noche, para poder hacer una mini sesión, ya que no se veía mucho... aún asi, la ola lo merecía!
After this session we drove to Lyon, but couldn't find the wave in the night!! so we slept somewhere I don't know and found the wave next morning!! There we met Simon and Seppi Strohmeier and Martin Koll from Germany. As long as I know, the wave changed this winter, so it's not running on medium levels, so we had to wait all day long!! Luckily we had really nice weather and ate good food!! We had a little session in the evening, when the water dropped and the wave had foam on top. It was really cool however it was really hard to see anything in the dark!!
A la mañana siguinete hicimos otra mini sesión, y decidimos irnos a Millau. Millau no resultó ser lo que esperábamos, el rulo no estaba nada bien, pero sobretodo hacía una gran tormenta de lluvia y viento, así que decidimos volver para casa. Lo mejor fué que cuando llegamos a casa el sábado por la tarde, el río de Girona, el Ter estaba de crecida, y podímos hacer uan buena sesión en el mejor rulo de Girona, que aunque le faltaba agua estaba bien! y es que hacía unos 4 años que remabamos allí! El domingo el río ya estaba bajo otra vez...
We had another little session next morning and then we decided to move to Millau. Millau wasn't as good as we expected, it was really cold windy and raining a lot!! After a morning session in Millau we were tired and bored of not finding a good place to kayak, so we decided to go back home... The best thing of the trip was that when we arrived home on saturday afternoon the river was on flood and we had a wicked session in the best Girona's spot!! (last session we had there was 5 years ago or so, so we were really lucky!!! (It was already low on sunday...).
Aquí va un pequeño vídeo de la semana...
Here is a little video of the week...Esater 2009 in France from Gerd Serrasolses on Vimeo.
Aunque no había mucha gente la competición fué entretenida, y muy bien organizada comparado con el margen de tiempo... gracias a los organizadores por querer organizar esta prueba para que no tuviera que ser cancelada. Al final acabé 1º en K1 y 5º en C1...
Anyore
Last weekend we went to the first Spanish Freestyle Cup competition that was held in Sort. The good thing about this competition was that along with two other events will decide the Spanish Team that will go to the Worlds in Thun!
The competition took place on a little wave just in front of RocRoi on Saturday and on the Washing Machine wave on Sunday due to the rain during all night long, yeaah! Thanks a lot to the organizers that did such a good job with so little time to do it, and for organizing the event after no one wanted to do it, so it wouldn't be cancelled.
However there wasn't so many people it was a good event and had lots of fun. At the end I placed 1st in K1 and 5th in C1... Looks like rivers are getting higher and higher!! snowmelt is just starting!
Hasta la próxmia!
See yaa!
Photos by Baldo Pro
