Over the weekend the big guns showed how powerful they are at the 2011 Oceania Championships. World Cup #2 Mike Kurt came away with the victory and top honors. The weekend was stacked with good quality paddlers and its great to see such a good event held in New Zealand. Our timing system worked well and thanks to all the officals that did such an awesome job. The weekend also doubled as our NZ Team Selections. I was sitting in a good position after race one in Kawerau and felt pretty confident coming back to Mangahao. However Saturdays performance was [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2011
This weekend the 2011 Canoe Slalom Oceania Championships will be held at Mangahao near Palmerston North, New Zealand. Im really looking forward to racing here as its sweet and with a few international stars coming over it should be an awesome event! Check out a MOVIE from MANGAHAO HERE I have made a quick movie of me training here in September where I was coaching at NZ Junior Development Camp. Share on bebo Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
Yesterday saw the first day of our New Zealand Team Selections. It was a rather challenging day but the officials did their best and a good course was set for racing. Our international friends added a bit more competition with competitors from France, Canada, Poland, Cook Islands, Australia and the Czech Republic. Racing for me was interesting and a little average, but at the end of racing the results were pretty good. Since November I haven’t been able to string a period of quality training together as I have been working a lot. Therefore my game plan was to technically paddle well [ Read More ]
After a long trip home I arrived back in Rotorua and went straight out to the Kaituna River for a quick recovery session. Im still a bit tired from all the travel and coaching but should be sweet for this weekend. Here are a few pictures from Kaituna Training. This weekend we have the first 2 of 4 races as part of the NZ Team Trials. Both races this weekend will be held in Kawerau with racing starting from 12pm. Come check out the action. 8.30-9.30am Registration 9am – Course Erection 8.30-10am Scrutineering 10.30am Race Briefing & Bib Allocation 11am [ Read More ]
Well its been a while since my last update and a lot has happened. We arrived in Brisbane on the 2nd of January and headed south for 6 hours and reached the little town of Nymbodia. Nymbodia is located about 1 hour inland from Graften and has nothing….. This is the second time I had been to Nymbodia and it was a very big contrast to the first time! 9 years ago I can as part of the NZ Development Team, ready to race and excited to see the white water course. Unfortunately back then the country was in the [ Read More ]
