Young lions are ruling in TWP!

Yes riding in TWP is so great! In the beginning it was strange to ride without wetsuit, I felt myself so light! Just training to make everything to blind.))) Two full days riding and I feel myself ... not so flexible... like a Pinocchio.
I can't shoot photos of my riding, but I shot some photos of local young lions; San and Victor. If I feel myself like a Pinocchio, they are gazelles or young lions like I wrote in the title. They have a lot of new tricks and every day they are landing something new.

San

Victor

It's rain season and there is water afield already, let's hope it's not rising too much.

This is Thai Wake Park 9am just before start! Would you like to jump?

 

Here I am Bangkok!

YEAH I got here! Weather is for sure better than in St. Petersburg.
Actually here is rain season and it means that it's raining sometimes)))... mostly nights and evenings when is already dark.

Here still in Helsinki Finnair Lounge before flight...

Trafic jams are terrible... worse than in St. Petersburg.

Elephant somewhere far away from ThaiWakePark.

Some Kanchanaphisek Bridge (Bang Phli-Suk Sawat Expy)

At last in the hotel, with my tool bag..., but I don't tell where.))) Soon to ride!!

Okay next time wakeboarding for sure!!

Video clip from Lazurnoe "Miami Wake Park"

Just normal Sunday in September in St. Petersburg; windy, rainy etc...

I was riding in Lazurnoe and only after riding I saw that Kirill Karnov had had camera on.
Yeah I got some material for this short clip!

Calendar September 2012

Every month I'll publish new page for 2012 calendar. Save it, print it and tape to your wall! ;-)))))

It was season closing in Ukkohalla Finland.
It's funny that almost the whole season was necessary to ride with wetsuit, but then it was possible to ride like this in the northen most Rixen cable in the world, when they closed the season.

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

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!