Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Contest weekend: Sunday (Toksovo Cup)!

Like I wrote busy weekend with contests and on Sunday it was Toksovo Cup.
Toksovo is my favorite place, I have started my wakeboarding there. This is now 3rd year when they have reverse cable and nowadays they have there already 3 home made cables.
Cables are very long and moving a lot when you're jumping from kickers. This makes it really difficult, especially spins.
Air tricks are quite easy to make near of the starting place, there cable is tight and high.
Format was so that 4 air tricks by one cable and then by other cable was possible to make 2 times kicker and 2 times slider. I took part in Masters category.
Me and S-bend to blind, which I unfortunately made only in qualifying run.
Free training session
Denis Suhanov and S-bend.

Ilya Parshin and railey. (Junior)
Faruk Ishmurzin and massive Crail
Faruk and double S-bend
My runs went well, I didn't fall down any run and cable didn't stop any time during my runs, so flow was good.
My run in final:
Air tricks: Front flip with indy, Sw backroll to revert, Toeside railey, S-bend (in final I couldn't turn it to blind)
Obstacles: Nosepress and to blind out, Tantrum, Scarecrow with mute, Sw gap 270 to tailpress.
I made everything clean and big.
Some pics from my run:
My S-bend
My nosepress
My tantrum
Scarecrow with mute
Sw gap 270... to tailpress...
...tailpress after sw gap 270
I was second!
Winner Vladimir Vorobev had stronger flat because of one blind trick.
His air tricks: Sw railey grypt, Backroll to blind, Frontflip, Sw backroll
His obstacles: Sw 50/50 on slider, Scarecrow, Straight air with indy, board slide.

My oppinion is that there wasn't so big effect to points, what you did on obstacles.
Anyway I got nice presents from sponsors of happening: HYBRID, RADICAL SPORT, ХОЛОДОВЬ DENTIST
Free teeth cleaning etc... in Volodov Dentist and 5000 rouble from Hybrid Board Shop.

I was really happy for my riding, because it was totally clean and especially my qualifying run, when I did also big and clean S-bend to blind.))



Juniors: 1-киреев никита 2-паршин илья 3- овсяников леша

Women: 1-ишмурзина эля 2-рогачева алена 3-иванова анастасия 
Masters: 1-воробьев владимир  2-нурминен аки 3-кожевников денис

Open men: 1-гамаюнов ал-р 2-киреев никита 3-ишмурзин фарук 

Toksovo Family

Monday, August 27, 2012

Contest weekend: Saturday!

It was the last weekend of August and two contests. I hate contests, but this kind of (not too serious) are always nice. Only it takes lot of time; day started 10am and finished 10pm and mostly waiting.... not riding.))
On Saturday was Miami Wake Picnic in Lazurnoe. Later I will publish photo report from Sunday Toksovo Cup.
So first Miami Wake Picnic:
Whole wake family!

Working uniform of Miami Wake Park!

Anna Moskal on starting place. Home made 2.0 cable, 2 kickers and one slider.

Nikolay Kulagin  and smile of the day! (He had also birthday)

Anna Zhakova and Stalefish

Redbull girls
My frontflip with indy grab.

Anton is better rider than I'm shooting photos.There was grab, but I didn't get it to photo.((

Stanislav Belousov made amazing air tricks (e.g. switch 2 and half (900) Hinterberger), but failed in final.

Judges told that nosepress is good trick, so I tried to make it.

This picture brings to my mind Jesus or John the Baptist! (Иису́с или Иоа́нн Крести́тель)

Nikolay just after baptizing))))
He can't yet walk on water, but siting on water already works.
Anna Moskal on slider and blind out.

Pro men winner Ivan Kochukov and Dum dum.


Dasha Dunchenko, nice costume and grab

Anna Moskal and railey

Alena Rogachyova and railey




OPEN MEN                                        OPEN WOMEN                                   PRO MEN
1 - Cоболев Лев                                 1 - Рогачева Алена                              1 - Кочуков Иван
2 - Зайцев Александр                         2 - Марковская Мария                        2 - Моисеенко Антон
3 - Воробьев Владимир                      3 - Москаль Анна                                3 - Нурминен Аки

My run: Nosepress blind out, Hs Bs 360, S-Bend, Scarecrow with mute, Switch 270 to tail press blind out, Sw hs fr 540, sw backroll to revert, Front flip with indy. My weak point was in air tricks... nothing to blind. (3rd place in pro men)

 Me and Anton with medals and wannabe Anatoly!)) Ivan; Winner of the pro men is too shy for potos.

Thanks Anna Moskal and Kirill Karnov for some of these photos!

"Näihin kuviin, näihin tunnelmiin!" These images, these moods! 

Monday, August 20, 2012

Ukkohalla wake cable !

I had a chance to go to Ukkohalla cable park Finland, before they close the season. It was actually the last weekend when the park was open in this year.
I arrived on Friday morning and weather was unbelievable great! The sun shines, water like a mirrow, no queue and feeling really relaxed and peaceful.
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Сезон катания заканчивается  и я решил съездить в Уккохаллу на Риксен в Финляндии на закрытие лебедки. Это были последние выходные работы парка. Мне повезло, погода была  солнечная, вода – зеркало, и совсем без очереди!
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In the morning when I was driving to Hyrynsalmi (Ukkohalla) I had to stop to shoot photos! Road goes over the Seitenjärvi and it was totally like a mirror!

Seitenjärvi
I have a lot of pics, which you can turn up side down. You can just decide , do you want darker sky or water.
Some of my friends had arrived to Ukkohalla already earlier, I got place in their cottage.
Riding was so great!
My best moment was after Ukkohalla Sauna World!
Park is situated just front of the spa, where is also at least 4 different kind of sauna. One of them is just floating in the water about 5 meters from starting place of cable. I was after riding just in this sauna and came out to little bit cool down, when I got idea and asked, could I ride just only in shorts.
Of course they let me to do it! Ukkohalla has so great free atmosphere!
In the beginning my plan was just to jump couple times from the kicker, but after all I did more than 10 rounds by one start and almost all my tricks from flat and some tweaks and bones from kicker.
Thanks to Jaakko Saarenpää for shooting!
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На Риксене я остановился в коттедже у друзей
Парк расположен рядом со спа, где есть несколько разных саун.  После сауны, конечно было жарковато)) и мне разрешили кататься только в шортах)) без шлема и спас жилета, потому что в  парке очень свободная и дружелюбная атмосфера.   Я сделал все свои трюки, спасибо Jarkko Saarenpää за фотографии!






Of corse we did also some other activities.
From the left Slope and Park Manager Mikko Törmälä and cable operator, current Finnish Champion Teemu Muhonen.
Speed of cable 50-60km/h and then start jumps! Who get the longest jump?
This is liane or swing!
Just climp to pillar and then one little bit shorter rope connected to highest point and then you're Tarzan.
There were lot of some professional photographers!


This is Ukkohalla at its best!