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Posted by Freya on
March 4, 2008
The internet connects the world…and occassionally can bring a highly infectious virus to your own house…
At the same time I met Mr. Surf Ski
Oscar Chalupsky – the 11-time Molokai winner. He was happy to show me the nuances of the forward stroke (see last post, 4 weeks ago)…On flatwater the surf ski didn’t thrill me but in the bumps, well, I’m rather attracted to the rough stuff!
Anyway, after meeting Oscar and trying out the
Epic 18x as a possible boat for my next big expedition, I paid a visit to Alex Craven from
Oarsport, the German epic distributor in Hamburg, in order to try out one of these tippy surfskis by myself!
I tried to squeezed myself in the epic V10 – ouch! – but felt my hip bones needed a bit more room to breathe…Luckily when I sat in the wider (and more stable) epic V10 sport I felt instantly more comfi.
Posted by Freya on
October 12, 2007
Thanks to the organizer Ed Zachowski from Qajaq USA for inviting me!
In between my work to prepare my x-mas shop with 5000 items and closing down my ice-cream shops (…ahhh, and between some trip-preparations for New Zealand, too…) I headed for a quick 3-days trip to Delmarva/ USA as a special guest to give a slide show and lecture about Greg’s and my Iceland circumnavigation this summer.
Posted by Freya on
September 15, 2007
It was a great place to meet and to talk to plenty of kayaking buisiness people from all over the world!
It was a real international event, I had interesting talks to people from Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Czech, South Africa, USA and for sure from Germany, too. Who knows where I’ll be going next year…
Who ever in the kayaking industry missed this event - it is growing every year! 2008 will be even topped again with number of exhibitors and probably visitors, too. It is one of the best kayaking market places in Europe.
Thanks, Reed!
Oscar Chalupski, epic kayaks co-owner, gives me a big hug and good luck for for my future adventures, for sure paddling again with a brand new epic wing blade.
Posted by Freya on
September 11, 2007
Last weekend in Finland…
…my tiny littel kayak, not used to be a submarine…
…took 110 kg! You could tell it rolled on it’s own…
…but Henrik, you did a great job! Flexible and elegant, I wish I had a video…
…anyway: head down! :-))
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Later *I*was paddling my little submarine…
…capsize came so sudden…
Posted by Freya on
September 8, 2007
… Anglesey Sea Kayak symposium 2007…a helicopter was in the air to demonstrate sea rescue…a rainbow colored helicopter was playing on the water, too…
pictures by Nico Middelkoop
Posted by Freya on
September 8, 2007
They provided a nicely heated little pool at a service house, which just took two kayaks afloat. A perfect teaching site!
My room was just in the same building, actually the office of the club. Clas did a lovely job to host me, filling the fridge, putting up fresh flowers and fruit on the table, preparing meals, donating me a *black* (and white striped…) bathrobe, and taking me around Helsinki for sightseeing on Sunday morning. Thanks, Clas! All old school gentlemen’s style… 
Posted by Freya on
September 8, 2007
The Stockentreffen this year proved to be again the "TO BE" event in Sweden!
Plenty of participants came to Stocken to share experience and "kayak talk".
I had the pleasure to pick up Wendy Killoran and René Seindal from Kopenhagen, who are going to paddle around Sicily and Sardinia this winter. Good luck to both!
The event started with a rolling demo, after I was already busy teaching 7 students Friday afternoon! 15 more students Saturday and Sunday followed…busy times.
Posted by Freya on
September 8, 2007
This year’s Isle of Man adventure week, organized by Keirron Tastagh, proved to be an adventure with the weather - it blew nicely all weekend, and even Monday after the main weekend, which was scheduled to be the day of the first attempt of breaking my circumnavigation record was blown into the seas…only Peter Oakley foud it well worth to start, but stopped at the North tip with force 5 headwinds, and being 2 hrs behind schedule already. So my record in the Explorer is still up to be broken…Nico Middelkoop and I decided to share a NDK Triton (thanks for Keirron to borrow it to us!) and to jump into the tidal race of the Calf of man - watched by plenty of people enjoying the beautiful (windy) day out there.
Posted by Freya on
April 29, 2007
First time I was on the water again with my old paddling friend Wendy from last year’s Newfoundland trip!
I made her relaxing in Greenlandic style…
But she was excited to kiss a frog (fish…) soon!
Posted by Freya on
April 24, 2007
Pavia likes Maligiaq’s Greenlandic seal claws necklace..
…me too… :-))
balance and flexibility - makes a perfect "Freya wannabe"…
…next the balance board goes on the baseboard - and then we’ll try on your qajaq!
…ohhhh, some practice already…
But for getting points at the Greenlandic championships it should look like *that*!
Clas Hagelstam from 
