For the 5th time in a row the adidas sickline extreme kayak world championships took place in Oetz/Austria at the weekend again. Great weather, perfect water levels and organization and especially the impressive list of world class kayakers made the event as amazing as every year.

As I finished 3rd in 2010, there was a quite a bit of pressure on me. My two qualification runs were all right, putting me in 12th position for the head-to-head final on the more difficult section of the river. I was able to win my first duel against Tomass Marnics, although we both had big problems at the so called “Champions’ Killer” (see picture above), the last drop before the final sprint. This took me to the next round against Michele Ramazza. Apparently, he had a really solid run, but I struggled at the last drop again. That was it, too slow, no super final (top 15) for me this year. I finished 22nd in the end. Well, I’ve already analyzed my mistakes and am looking forward to next year, then racing in the new Pyranha Shiva! Even if this was certainly not my best extreme race so far, I enjoyed paddling the Wellerbruecken-stretch of the Oetz River anyway.

Just like last year, Sam Sutton took home the WC-belt with an outstanding final run. Mike Dawson finished 2nd, Germany’s Paul Boeckelmann 3rd – congratulations to all of them! 7 paddlers finished within only one second, which meant some really tight racing and absolutely no room for mistakes.

For more information, full results, the (re-)live webstream of the super final and more photos, please visit www.adidas-sickline.com.

 

Here are a few pictures from this summers Playboating course in France. Water levels were not that great but we made the best of it and alot of fun was had. Sadly we didn’t get any photos of Lowri’s Standing-up-on-the-wave-attempt, its safe to say she failed and got pretty wet!!

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With the final race of the inaugural King of New York Series right around the corner I thought I’d share a nice write-up from a previous race in the series.  The Black race was the first of four and did not disappoint.

Saturday October 15th, High Noon, Agers Falls on the Moose River will be the start of the final race.  With the dam on the Moose completely off-line racers will negotiate a much more “full” river than they are used to.  Hang on to your hats!!!

Check out the link below for the write-up from the Black.

http://www.paddlinglife.net/article.php?id=723

The big P Fest is just around the corner, this year is set to be the biggest and best yet, plus its our 40th Birthday Party!

Full Info and Booking

On line booking will stay open until Monday 10th.