Blog November 2011
We just got back from a cable trip down to South Florida, and it was an epic time. The Warhol brothers, the Cohen brothers, and myself packed up and left Orlando last Friday to travel down to Fort Myers and Deerfield Beach, FL. We first stopped at Revolution. This park was totally new to me. Although a bit old school, it was still pretty fun. They could definitely use some new obstacles, but their a frame wasn't bad. We really just had a lot of fun doing air tricks. That night was topped off with some wings and of course karaoke. Julian Cohen really shined as the "class clown" during this spectacle with his loud, off key shouts. We found out later he was actually trying a technique he learned in voice lessons, and we all agreed he should probably ask for a refund.
The next day we went to Rixen. Rixen had added so many new obstacles since I was there last, I was blown away. It completely changed the look of the cable. We all had a great time here. The pull is great for air tricks, and the new features kept us entertained the entire time. We loved the rooftop and the transfer box. Both of them were pretty wide and great for pressing. They have a new pipe rail however that was only half done, so it was hard to lock in. Everyone killed it on airtricks, s mobes, mobe 5's, 515's, all around….we had a sick time. Stay tuned on my Twitter and on Alliance for the video coming soon.
25/11/2011
The next day we went to Rixen. Rixen had added so many new obstacles since I was there last, I was blown away. It completely changed the look of the cable. We all had a great time here. The pull is great for air tricks, and the new features kept us entertained the entire time. We loved the rooftop and the transfer box. Both of them were pretty wide and great for pressing. They have a new pipe rail however that was only half done, so it was hard to lock in. Everyone killed it on airtricks, s mobes, mobe 5's, 515's, all around….we had a sick time. Stay tuned on my Twitter and on Alliance for the video coming soon.
25/11/2011
I have been off the water for quite a while now. Beginning of August I did a medical test including a cycle test. In cool down fase my heart failed. It stopped for about 20 seconds.
This was very shocking news, doctors told me I couldn’t ride at Cable Call. So I watched along the side of the lake to see the girls shred at Protest Cable Call. Which sucked, but I was happy to be there, happy I was still there and not in the hospital.
For about two weeks I had this machine on me that rated my heartbeat and all that kind of stuff, after that I did different cycle tests but doctors couldn’t find anything weird.
But they kept telling me I cannot ride within the next 5 months. Which meant that I was not allowed to ride my wakeboard until beginning of January. I was upset and could not believe that this would be the first year of my career in wakeboarding in which I couldn’t join the Dutch and European Championships.
Months past and last month I finally got a second opinion from another doctor from another city. This doctor tested me again. He did several tests to see what’s going on with my heart. At the end he did not find anything weird and so he made it official and said I do not know why you shouldn’t be wakeboarding. I now allow you to ride again.
This great news made me go insane because I have spent too much time at home this year. I'm happy at home as well, I did find a great job at the Dutch company “Fresh Today” which is helping me a lot to keep my head clear. Also I got my driver’s license, never thought I would even get it.. But I was very convinced that I should go on a wakeboard trip as soon as possible. The Wake Park World Championships 2011 was my chance to make my come back.
Lucky I got the doctor’s results before this comp. I did not hesitate and booked flights to Hip-Notics leaving last Thursday for one and a half week to train. Then on the 5th of December I’ll be flying out to Abu Dhabi to join the Wake Park World Championships 2011. This will be the only chance of me either defending my title or at least get a good result at this comp since I missed all the other competitions.
I'm very excited to go ride at Hip-Notics in Antalya, my friend Sjors is coming along and hopefully he can learn me some cool tricks to put in my run for the Worlds. More information coming soon, hope you'll keep checking out my fan page since my website is not working at the moment. Cheers Max
24/11/2011
This was very shocking news, doctors told me I couldn’t ride at Cable Call. So I watched along the side of the lake to see the girls shred at Protest Cable Call. Which sucked, but I was happy to be there, happy I was still there and not in the hospital.
For about two weeks I had this machine on me that rated my heartbeat and all that kind of stuff, after that I did different cycle tests but doctors couldn’t find anything weird.
But they kept telling me I cannot ride within the next 5 months. Which meant that I was not allowed to ride my wakeboard until beginning of January. I was upset and could not believe that this would be the first year of my career in wakeboarding in which I couldn’t join the Dutch and European Championships.
Months past and last month I finally got a second opinion from another doctor from another city. This doctor tested me again. He did several tests to see what’s going on with my heart. At the end he did not find anything weird and so he made it official and said I do not know why you shouldn’t be wakeboarding. I now allow you to ride again.
This great news made me go insane because I have spent too much time at home this year. I'm happy at home as well, I did find a great job at the Dutch company “Fresh Today” which is helping me a lot to keep my head clear. Also I got my driver’s license, never thought I would even get it.. But I was very convinced that I should go on a wakeboard trip as soon as possible. The Wake Park World Championships 2011 was my chance to make my come back.
Lucky I got the doctor’s results before this comp. I did not hesitate and booked flights to Hip-Notics leaving last Thursday for one and a half week to train. Then on the 5th of December I’ll be flying out to Abu Dhabi to join the Wake Park World Championships 2011. This will be the only chance of me either defending my title or at least get a good result at this comp since I missed all the other competitions.
I'm very excited to go ride at Hip-Notics in Antalya, my friend Sjors is coming along and hopefully he can learn me some cool tricks to put in my run for the Worlds. More information coming soon, hope you'll keep checking out my fan page since my website is not working at the moment. Cheers Max
24/11/2011
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Unfortunately my skiing season for this year is over, the weather is bullying me, haha.
Now it is a task to keep up my condition and training my muscles to be strong. I am busy at the gym and training with my dirt bike, for the experts an MX2 Bike.
Besides that I am helping my dad with his ski school, teaching kids of elementary schools and high schools. I am teaching them how to ski, and when they really want to I teach them to barefoot. When I am not working at the ski school I work at A Volvo And Landrover Dealer as a mechanic. I follow school in the evenings. It’s a combined education of working and school.
This year of skiing was a pretty good year for me. All the results were good, for the point in my career where I am at now. I participated in the Dutch nationals in Belgium. This competition was combined with the Belgium team. But the main thing was training focusing on the worlds next year, and my inverted jumping (that’s jumping over a ramp like superman).
Next year is a busy year with a lot off competitions, The nationals, the Worlds in September in Texas, and some international competitions (Meridian Challenge). I hope for some good results, and podium places.
This was my blog for now, speak to you guys soon.
Ps, visit my site www.barefootholland.nl for more information or visit www.jobesports.com for all my blogs, pictures and results.
23/11/2011
So finally the season in Europe is really over. We had some extremely nice weather the past weeks and together with some friends I took the full benefit of that! Two weeks ago we planned our “waterski camp”. It has nothing to do with water-skiing but for some reason we still love to call our wakeboard weekends like that. Those weekends are the most valuable to me because this is what wakeboarding is about if you ask me. We are all really close friends and although we don't see each other a lot during those weekends we have so much fun. This is because we all have the same passion for being on the water and we can push each other really hard.
Normally we try to visit a nice cable park in Germany to ride there and chill in the mobile home of my buddy Rens but this year we decided to do it a little different. We were riding the Teva Blue Line park at Down Under cableway and we slept in my house. Besides wakeboarding we played a game of squash and some football. It was just a great weekend with great friends. Daan Rigter edited a nice video about this weekend. CLICK HERE and check it out!
Last week I tried to ride one more time but I have to admit that it gets too cold here. So no more riding in Holland. I almost put my board away already but then Maxine called me last week if I would join here to Turkey to go to Hip-Notics. She will be there to prepare for the WWA Worlds that will be held in Abu Dhabi in the beginning of December. Right now I'm looking for tickets to Turkey so I can join her. I won't be competing during the Worlds myself. I would love to go there but I decided to focus more on obstacle only contests. Those contest are giving me such a boost because it's all new. With the two tower cable systems (like the Sesitec System 2.0) it's so much easier to bring the sport to new places. This gives a lot of new options and I want to take full advantage of that. It worked out really well for me and I hope it can bring me even more in 2012.
I hope it works out with booking a ticket so my next blog will be about my stay at Hip-Notics ;)
Bye!
Sjors
23/11/2011
Normally we try to visit a nice cable park in Germany to ride there and chill in the mobile home of my buddy Rens but this year we decided to do it a little different. We were riding the Teva Blue Line park at Down Under cableway and we slept in my house. Besides wakeboarding we played a game of squash and some football. It was just a great weekend with great friends. Daan Rigter edited a nice video about this weekend. CLICK HERE and check it out!
Last week I tried to ride one more time but I have to admit that it gets too cold here. So no more riding in Holland. I almost put my board away already but then Maxine called me last week if I would join here to Turkey to go to Hip-Notics. She will be there to prepare for the WWA Worlds that will be held in Abu Dhabi in the beginning of December. Right now I'm looking for tickets to Turkey so I can join her. I won't be competing during the Worlds myself. I would love to go there but I decided to focus more on obstacle only contests. Those contest are giving me such a boost because it's all new. With the two tower cable systems (like the Sesitec System 2.0) it's so much easier to bring the sport to new places. This gives a lot of new options and I want to take full advantage of that. It worked out really well for me and I hope it can bring me even more in 2012.
I hope it works out with booking a ticket so my next blog will be about my stay at Hip-Notics ;)
Bye!
Sjors
23/11/2011
Hi all!
This is my first blog and I'm really excited about it. I'll first give you an introduction about me. My name is Nancy Chardin, I'm 23 years old. I've been in the Open French waterski team since the age of 18. I've been living in Louisiana for now a year in order to be able to ski and study at the same time. It's been a great experience being here. This allows me to ski every day because I am part of the university ski team and we have a lake 5 minutes away from school. Our team is pretty good, we were National Champion last year and got second this year. Individually I won trick both years, and last year I also won overall and got second in jump.
There are no more tournaments this season so I'm skiing a bit less, just few times a week, working on new tricks and on my technique in slalom and jump. I also work out 4 to 5 times a week. This year wasn't my best season, but this makes me want to train more and come back stronger! I've been thinking about it and I remember that I was skiing a lot better when I was working out more. I am convinced that if I focus more on my workout during the offseason I will come back better than ever! I will have a phone conference on Monday to talk about it with my team captain and figure out my winter planning.
I'll keep you posted!
Cheers
Nancy
22/11/2011
This is my first blog and I'm really excited about it. I'll first give you an introduction about me. My name is Nancy Chardin, I'm 23 years old. I've been in the Open French waterski team since the age of 18. I've been living in Louisiana for now a year in order to be able to ski and study at the same time. It's been a great experience being here. This allows me to ski every day because I am part of the university ski team and we have a lake 5 minutes away from school. Our team is pretty good, we were National Champion last year and got second this year. Individually I won trick both years, and last year I also won overall and got second in jump.
There are no more tournaments this season so I'm skiing a bit less, just few times a week, working on new tricks and on my technique in slalom and jump. I also work out 4 to 5 times a week. This year wasn't my best season, but this makes me want to train more and come back stronger! I've been thinking about it and I remember that I was skiing a lot better when I was working out more. I am convinced that if I focus more on my workout during the offseason I will come back better than ever! I will have a phone conference on Monday to talk about it with my team captain and figure out my winter planning.
I'll keep you posted!
Cheers
Nancy
22/11/2011
Hi everyone,
As the season is coming to an end in England and its freezing in the water now I have stopped riding for the winter. I am letting my ankle injury recover by having a few months off the water so I will able to ride and compete lots next year. As I’m not riding I am spending lots of time training in the gym at lakeside with Neil Shannon who is helping me stay strong and fit so I will be in good shape to get back on the water next year.
I’m also going to start climbing as it will be a fun way to keep fit over the winter and I need to find some things to do over the winter when I’m not riding as I go a bit crazy when I don’t do any exercise! I’m planning on going away around March or April time to Thailand or Oz to get back into riding before the season starts.
That’s about it for now but I’ll let you know next time what things I’ve found to keep me occupied over the winter!
Kirsteen
21/11/2011
As the season is coming to an end in England and its freezing in the water now I have stopped riding for the winter. I am letting my ankle injury recover by having a few months off the water so I will able to ride and compete lots next year. As I’m not riding I am spending lots of time training in the gym at lakeside with Neil Shannon who is helping me stay strong and fit so I will be in good shape to get back on the water next year.
I’m also going to start climbing as it will be a fun way to keep fit over the winter and I need to find some things to do over the winter when I’m not riding as I go a bit crazy when I don’t do any exercise! I’m planning on going away around March or April time to Thailand or Oz to get back into riding before the season starts.
That’s about it for now but I’ll let you know next time what things I’ve found to keep me occupied over the winter!
Kirsteen
21/11/2011
Here we go again. It‘s the time of year where nobody wants to go out and ski. Yuck! Too cold, too windy and toooooo dark... The last couple of days it was so depressing because in my hometown (Feldberg) we had the worst fog in years.... It’s no fun to wake up in the a.m. and look outside and see this „beautiful“ weather!
Anyway, what to do with this unnecessary time you have when you can‘t ski. WORKOUT!
What I do is work out in the gym or outside. There are a lot of good workouts for a slalom skier to be confident for the next season.
I prefer squads, bench-press, pull-ups, sit-ups, leg extension, hamstrings, butt exercises, every exercise for the back and anything which supports the muscles for water-skiing.
I‘m also having lessons and exams in being a Fitness coach. I graduated in my B-License. So I‘m an official Fitness coach which helps me a lot to see and improve in techniques of my exercises.
It‘s funny to walk into the Studio every day or every second day and see people work out the wrong way. I always help them and tell them how to do it the right way.
If anyone is interested check out my homepage and write me an email. I always like new exercises. If anyone knows something let me know.
I tell you people. If you don‘t want to get on the water next year and can‘t walk or talk the next 3 days. I know the way to stop that.
Have fun working out!
21/11/2011
Anyway, what to do with this unnecessary time you have when you can‘t ski. WORKOUT!
What I do is work out in the gym or outside. There are a lot of good workouts for a slalom skier to be confident for the next season.
I prefer squads, bench-press, pull-ups, sit-ups, leg extension, hamstrings, butt exercises, every exercise for the back and anything which supports the muscles for water-skiing.
I‘m also having lessons and exams in being a Fitness coach. I graduated in my B-License. So I‘m an official Fitness coach which helps me a lot to see and improve in techniques of my exercises.
It‘s funny to walk into the Studio every day or every second day and see people work out the wrong way. I always help them and tell them how to do it the right way.
If anyone is interested check out my homepage and write me an email. I always like new exercises. If anyone knows something let me know.
I tell you people. If you don‘t want to get on the water next year and can‘t walk or talk the next 3 days. I know the way to stop that.
Have fun working out!
21/11/2011
Hi everyone! Because this is my first Jobe blog I will give you a little introduction. My name is Guillaume Duvernoy, I’m 22 years old and just graduated in Hospitality management. I live in Baurech in France and I am one of the slalom athletes from the Jobe team. I am really happy to be part of the team!
The 2011 season was really successful for me! I achieved a new personal record with 1@10,25m in slalom skiing! I had some good results at 10,75m as well. At this rope lenght (10,75m) I start to be more confident but I have to work on it to run it more often. Besides that, I had my first selection in the open national team for the Europeans in Norway from the 17th to the 21st of August. I entered the top ten Europeans with the 9th place!
In Europe the season is almost finished (now it's cold), but it's time for me to try some new things. I work on my technique to improve it. I want try to be more fluid on my 2,4,6 (on side) because I turn a bit too hard and I lose my rope a bit.
I work a lot with video training, I helps me to see what do right or wrong. For training in this period, I really appreciate my wetsuit with this cold water (13°).
Ok, it's time for me to say goodbye now. I will keep you posted about my training plan for the winter in the next blog!
Guillaume
14/11/2011
The 2011 season was really successful for me! I achieved a new personal record with 1@10,25m in slalom skiing! I had some good results at 10,75m as well. At this rope lenght (10,75m) I start to be more confident but I have to work on it to run it more often. Besides that, I had my first selection in the open national team for the Europeans in Norway from the 17th to the 21st of August. I entered the top ten Europeans with the 9th place!
In Europe the season is almost finished (now it's cold), but it's time for me to try some new things. I work on my technique to improve it. I want try to be more fluid on my 2,4,6 (on side) because I turn a bit too hard and I lose my rope a bit.
I work a lot with video training, I helps me to see what do right or wrong. For training in this period, I really appreciate my wetsuit with this cold water (13°).
Ok, it's time for me to say goodbye now. I will keep you posted about my training plan for the winter in the next blog!
Guillaume
14/11/2011
Hi all! It's been a while since I wrote a blog on the Jobe website. If you want to know what I have been up to last summer have a quick look on my website www.sjorsvandekerkhof.com. I've mainly been focussed on riding obstacles. It brings so much fun and it adds so much creativity to the sport.
The season in Europe is almost finished. I work at the Down Under Cableway in Nieuwegein and last week I've been busy winterizing the main cable. So that means no more riding on the main cable :( On the other hand I've been preparing the Teva Blueline Cable for one more weekend of shred :)
Yesterday Dirk Gideonse helped me out with shortening the cable of the System 2.0 and today we'll add the rooftop rail to the Teva park and this weekend we'll be riding the Teva Cable. We brought a crew together of all types of riders and we'll be busy filming and riding the whole weekend. I hope I can show you a nice edit really soon!
Ok, that's it for now. Next time I'll tell you a little more about my plans for next year. If you are still riding in cold Europe I wish you a nice weekend of shredding!
Sjors
08/11/2011
The season in Europe is almost finished. I work at the Down Under Cableway in Nieuwegein and last week I've been busy winterizing the main cable. So that means no more riding on the main cable :( On the other hand I've been preparing the Teva Blueline Cable for one more weekend of shred :)
Yesterday Dirk Gideonse helped me out with shortening the cable of the System 2.0 and today we'll add the rooftop rail to the Teva park and this weekend we'll be riding the Teva Cable. We brought a crew together of all types of riders and we'll be busy filming and riding the whole weekend. I hope I can show you a nice edit really soon!
Ok, that's it for now. Next time I'll tell you a little more about my plans for next year. If you are still riding in cold Europe I wish you a nice weekend of shredding!
Sjors
08/11/2011
The jet ski season of 2011 is over. This year’s results were not as good as expected. I finished 5th at the European Tour in the GP class. That’s why I am going to train hard this winter to come back stronger than ever before! In cooperation with an CIOS student I am going to prepare a training schedule for the winter. This training will help me to have more control over my powerful 200HP jet ski.
The intensive training has already begun and on the 6th of November I am participating in the New York marathon. I will run for the foundation Kids and Fun. The foundation supports children who have difficulties playing outdoors.
Friday the 4th of November I had my last school exams management accounting and on Saturday the 5th I left for New York. Now that I am in New York I will only have 24 hours to prepare myself to run 42 KM. I did a lot of races up to 30 KM in the Netherlands so I am confident to finish the marathon!
I will keep you posted!
07/11/2011
The intensive training has already begun and on the 6th of November I am participating in the New York marathon. I will run for the foundation Kids and Fun. The foundation supports children who have difficulties playing outdoors.
Friday the 4th of November I had my last school exams management accounting and on Saturday the 5th I left for New York. Now that I am in New York I will only have 24 hours to prepare myself to run 42 KM. I did a lot of races up to 30 KM in the Netherlands so I am confident to finish the marathon!
I will keep you posted!
07/11/2011
It's the off season in North America right now, which means a lot less traveling and a little bit more downtime than normal. It's been great, it’s been giving me time to learn some new tricks out at the cable that I'd like to take to boat pretty soon. The more I've been riding my board, the more I like it. I used to have a board ready to go to ride cable, then I had to have another set up for boat, and often times I had a third set up for rails. Now, I literally have one board in my car everywhere I go and its awesome. This week, I got a shipment of Austin Series boards sent to the house, which means they're officially ready to sell here in the US via my site. I seriously think people will be able to improve their riding once they try this board out.
I've also been using my time to work on fitness. I've started doing cross fit here in Orlando, and it is an insane workout. Information on cross fit can be found at wwww.crossfit.com. The idea is to shorten your workout time significantly while increasing your intensity significantly. So, workouts may only be 15-20 minutes long after warms ups, but the intensity is so high that it makes up for it. I strongly recommend this type of work out to any one, especially athletes.
02/11/2011
I've also been using my time to work on fitness. I've started doing cross fit here in Orlando, and it is an insane workout. Information on cross fit can be found at wwww.crossfit.com. The idea is to shorten your workout time significantly while increasing your intensity significantly. So, workouts may only be 15-20 minutes long after warms ups, but the intensity is so high that it makes up for it. I strongly recommend this type of work out to any one, especially athletes.
02/11/2011
