Date registered: January 3, 2012
03
Sep
Finally, I’ve been able to drive to Lipno/CZE for the annual dam release of the Vltavou River, which creates some of the best wildwater sections in the Czech Republic and attrackts hundreds of paddlers from basically all over the world. I’ve wanted to go there for years, but somehow it never worked out; now I’m …
10
Jun
Last week the annual Teva Race – now called “Eporedia Active Days” – took place in Valchiusella and Ivrea/ITA. The individual competition consisted of a downriver race down the shallow and rocky Chiusella River and a sprint and boatercross race on the slalom course in Ivrea with better water levels. One of my two downriver runs …
24
Apr
Thanks to quite a bit of rain here in southern Germany within the last weeks water levels are rising and I’m enjoying it a lot! It was therefore time to take my new Shiva out for a couple of more sessions on some of our classic runs in the Alps. The photos of the action pro …
04
Oct
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 …
14
Jun
From June 9th June 12th 2011 edition of the Freeride Worldchampionships took place in Valchiusella and Ivrea, which is in the beautiful Piemonte area in Italy. As the Kaiserklammtrophy in Austria in April was cancelled due to low water levels, this was the first extreme race on my calendar this season. The Teva event consists …
05
Oct
Last Saturday I was able to reach the 3rd rank behind Sam Sutton/NZL and Michele Ramazza/ITA in the 2010 edition of the adidas Sickline Extreme Worldchampionships in the Oetz Valley/Austria, which I’m absolutely happy about. 150 competitors from all over the world absolved a tight qualification race first to determine the 48 kayakers who were …
07
Jul
Last Sunday the 2nd edition of the Eiskanal Boatercross as part of the Slalom World Cup took place in Augsburg. Organized by Jakobus Stenglein and Arnd Schaeftlein and supported by Teva, Sandiline and OptimalRad (local bike shop), 32 men and 6 women from 6 nations participated, including several national slalom team members. Wolfgang from Kanu Treff …
22
Jun
Here are the promised photos of the Teva Extreme Outdoor Games 2010: Team Germany scouting  Boatercross  Sprint  Downriver Race  Slalom All photos by Uwe Eichfelder, thanks!
16
Jun
Last week the Teva Extreme Outdoor Games 2010 took place in Valchiusella and Ivrea/ITA in order to find the new “Freeride Worldchampion”. The kayaking event – which was one among many others, including mountainbiking, bouldering, paragliding and running – consisted of a downriver race, sprint, slalom and boatercross. Around 65 paddler took part in this …
14
Jul
Last Saturday the first invitational boatercross race at the Eiskanal took place here in Augsburg as part of the slalom worldcup program. Organized by Arnd Schaeftlein and Jakobus Stenglein, incredible paddlers like Mike Dawson from NZ, Dejan Kralj (SLO) and Fabian Doerfler (GER) took part and fought for the 1st prize: a sweet mountainbike! In …