doubs!

i just got an email from simon strohmeier with pictures from la malate. thanks man!


la malate is a small village at the doubs in northern france and inhabits one of the biggest waves in europe. unfortunatel it only runs a few days a year as it needs quite a lot of water.


we hit a perfect level a while ago where it was an awesome green wave next to an enormous hole.
it was scary as hell, i had never dealt with holes of this size. but once you got used to it you could catch some serious amount of air. i´m still stoked when i look at those pictures. enjoy.

the winter is gone...

okay, i have to admit that this site wasn´t so busy in the last months. it was wintertime here in germany, and though it was warmer than average there still was no water.

we did some boating, but it was only on the eiskanal, augsburg or eisbach, munich, nothing worth writing about.
and even now no picture updates, but soon, very soon..



nevertheless we competed in the 10th International Filmfestival in Rosenheim and placed 2nd in the newcomer class with our movie "besessen". i´m still pretty proud of that. maybe our clip will be published on Jens Klatt´s new Painkillerz movie, we´ll see.

i´ve also completed two new sponsorships for 2007.
i liked my robson kit last year, but it was not totally what i wanted. thank you robert for supporting me throughout the last year though!

so from canada on i´ll be with riot kayaks and i´ve already recieved my shiny kober paddle.
thanx to arnd schäftlein and thomas funke for that!
i´ve had arnd´s astro 54 for a while now and really like it, even though i think i´m just a bit too big for it. i´m really looking forward to test the astro 58 and the flair 57 in montréal, this will be so much fun!
from kober i´ve chosen the spirit, which is a rather classic shape. it´s really stiff and the blades are big, sweet paddle with lots of power. and i got a prototype colour - from the outside it´s silver, but as soon as light shines through it turns orange! this is a straight shaft right now, but i´ll get one with a bent shaft soon.
artistic still supports us, they´ve redesigned many products such as drytops, drysuits and pfds for 2007. we´ve had a few prototypes last year and the new material is awesome.

now back to kayaking!
as i said, the winter seems to be gone. i just returned from france where we had five days on some of europes biggest waves, la scie and la malate. actually i was really scared by the sheer power of those monsters. Nevertheless it was some of the best wave riding and biggest air i´ve ever had. i´ll post some pictures as soon as i get them. The ones in this update are just two impressions of our tour, i didn´t take any action shots, that was simon´s job...


later,
sven