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Training In the Penrith

Aaron Osborne — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:06:09 +0000

My time in Australia has been pretty cool learning from other people, cultures and other countries work towards high performance. It seems more and more work is being done around preparation and recovery from training. Therefore they are able to get the most out of training! I have spent a lot of time this week stretching and some stuff around balance.

Some news from other Raiseys Sports Supplements athletes. Dr Stephen Pritchard won the Oceania Bench Press Championships last weekend with a 270kg bench!… That is quite a bit!!! He has been using some Honey and Whey and he loves it! Good luck for the worlds in Texis! Also Shea might be off to India for hockey but again most sports teams are hesitant to go there due to possible terrorist activity.

Elidon, Penrith, Home……..

Aaron Osborne — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:25:24 +0000

Ah yes on the road again! Well yesterday kicked off with a nice ride to the airport followed by loading 23 boats onto the plane. Only thing slowing us down was the 3hour delay on our flight. Not to worry as we wouldnt like that to keep us down we got $15 bucks to spend on food.. After a nice flight home and a 2hr drive I made it home 2am…. Today Will arrives from Australia and tomorrow we will start training here in Rotorua before our first race this weekend. Whist I have been in Penrith and also Elidon I have been playing around with photoshop a bit and made a couple of photos…. They are my first ones so they should be getting more creative and cooler soon. If you have and ideas be sure to comment and ill try piece something together. Once I learn how to use the programme that is…

I would like to say a big thanks to those people that made the trip to Australia a great success. I dont think we have had such a smooth trip like that before and all the top results shows canoe slalom nz has a bright future. I have uploaded a few pics from the trip check them out here, Australia Photos.

Im also going to order some new G POWER paddles in the next couple of weeks so if you are keen let me know asap.

Fire Festival, Training, Chilling.

Aaron Osborne — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:46:13 +0000

Well I have been rather slack with updating this, not due to lack of time, just lack of internet. We have moved out to the apartments which are really sweet and only 5mins away from course. Trainings has also been going well with some good sessions before nations training…

We also went to the local fire festival. It was a rather crazy experience. Im pretty sure they have no regulations for fire or anything here. We were warned by the Aussies to wear old clothes and something to cover your face. We were a little under dressed compared to most people, but we ended up being ok… First of all we were gathered around a stage where some lady cooked young kids who turned into devil like things who ran around with a spinning and over sized sparkler. Then the crowd was pushed through town where they had set up fire works all over the show. Pretty much ended up in the same place as it started, funny thing is a tree caught fire, we thought it was part of the show. Turns out we were wrong.

Johan has been playing around with his camera and these are some pics that he has taken.

Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France

Aaron Osborne — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:43:32 +0000

After the Slovenian Open we decided to stay in Ljubljana for another night and then make our way south towards Spain. We were in no hurry opting for a more tourist type trip. Photos Here

Johan was chief navigator choosing google maps as guide. Funny, that it took us on the looong way round. Over two huge mountains and under a hand full of ski fields. However this scenic route was really really nice, with absolutely awesome views, will put more photos on soon.

We also stopped by Lago di Garda, in Italy. Its a huge lake (similar to lake Taupo). We found a nice spot to eat our lunch and admire the view… That was until some dodgy Italian man dressed in tight speedo like attire came up wanting some euros for us to sit there. So we decided it was time to go for a dip and walked a 50m down the beach and went for a few cannon balls.

After our killer mountain drive we ended up in Bourg-Saint-Maurice eager to sleep. We tried to find Ciaran but couldn’t get hold of him. So tired we crashed out in some raft base for the night, waking up surrounded by mountains and a sweeet river.

Today caught up with with Ciaran Heurteaus and went for a paddle on the course. It is one of the funest courses I have been on. Big white water with some sweet waves, eddys and holes to play in! Our journey south to Seu continues first thing tomorrow….

Prague Town, Again….

Aaron Osborne — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:39:45 +0000

Well today we went into town to check out some other parts, found some pretty sweet places on the hill looking over Prague Town. On our way back we saw a bit of a Police chase. Being typical kiwis we got our cameras out rather than running away. Not sure what they were getting chased for but pretty cool under Charles Bridge. Photos from Prague Town…

Today was also the U23 European Champs, Congrats to Vavra and Matej for taking it out!! Also the Australians had a race off for the 3rd spot on their mens team to race at Worlds. Congrats to Sam Lyons for winning this spot.

Tomorrow morning we are off at the crack of dawn, 5am! Should be good to see another river for a couple of days then we are back here.

I have also been playing around with the Photo Gallery, let me know if it is working or not…

Prague Zoo and Gardens

Aaron Osborne — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:02:48 +0000

Well today we got up rather early to whip out some full length runs. Once they were out of the way we walked down the road to Africa, Indonesia, India and pretty much around the world. Prague ZOO and Botanical Gardens. Steph was rather excited checking out all the animals and plants etc. It was a pretty wicked day with Mike even kissing a girl…lol

Red Bull X Fighters

Aaron Osborne — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:00:05 +0000

So yesterday we went out with Vavra as our VIP to watch some X Fighters do some lazy back flips etc. After this we were lucky enough to get let into the VIP section at a new club in town. It was pretty sweet as we say. There was also a bmx show. Pretty cool day really!

Photos

Aaron Osborne — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:45:59 +0000

Some photos Mike took… More in Gallery

Prague Town

Aaron Osborne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:22:40 +0000

Today we went for a bit of a cruise into Prague city. Ya it was pretty cool, went to Charles Bridge, had a pizza with Vavra and saw the clock thing where people are supposed to come out every hour. Well we were expecting more, but it was all good… Steph reckons it was like Shrek 2.

We also had a photo shoot on the way home, Mike the mad photographer nearly got hit by a tram, but his cat like reflexes kicked into gear and he performed a dive roll out of the way. Pretty close really. He also took some great snaps of me paddling which should be online soon.

More photos of Prague

Prague and Slalom on Sky TV

Aaron Osborne — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:12:17 +0000

We have settled in a bit here in Prague boat house. There has been a lot of flooding recently throughout all of Europe and so the bottom of Prague is flooded. Its all good though as we still have to top 2/3rds to train on and the water levels are slowly dropping to normal. Check out this Article. I had my first session on the white water and it was pretty sick. Steph has picked up some sort of bug, Prague belly+something random with her hand, might go see doctor today…

Check out a video of the Boater X in Augsburg.

Good to hear the Slalom World Cups are going to be on NZ TV!!!!!!!!!

Slalom World Cups are on sky….

Sky sport 2 or 3 Channels 31 or 32

Wed 15th Jul 7pm SS2

Thurs 16 Jul 2.30 pm SS3

Sun 18 Jul 8.30 am SS2

Sun 18 Jul 6pm SS3

Mon 20 Jul 3pm SS3

Wed 22 Jul 7pm SS2