Marcel Bloder

New Homepage

2011-12-13T13:01:00.000-08:00

My new homepage is online.
Please feel free to visit it, it would be a honor for me.

www.marcelbloder.com

Staatsmeister 2011

2011-08-12T08:29:00.000-07:00

Da ich ja bei der Freestyle WM in Plattling nur mäßigen Erfolg hatte ist es mir eine Freude zumindest den Staatsmeistertitel im Kajak Freestyle von 2010 und 2011 mein Eigen nennen zu dürfen :)

Und meine neue Homepage ist in Arbeit und ich hoffe ich kann sie in den nächsten Wochen online stellen.

Bis dann

Uganda 2011

2011-02-17T13:46:00.000-08:00

This winter I also went again to the Freestyle Kayaker's paradise. Uganda is one of the best places in the world for the freestyle paddler to go during the rough European winter. After paying the flight you can get all-inclusive camping pretty cheap at the “Hairy Lemon Camping Island“ , that is a true paradise island... What's new there is that they have flowing water that is transported by a water wheel installed beside the island. It's feeding the showers and new flushing toilets. On the ruth of the main house are solar panels that offer the charging of laptop, camera, mobile phone and so on. It is also unlikely to miss the “Hairy Lemon Red Tail Monkey Family”, a group of around 10 -15 animals making their daily rounds on the island. Sometimes you might also see snakes, spiders, frogs, lots of beautiful birds - not the chicken :) - and last but not least the busy ants and termites … and the “beautiful”island dog Elsa!

This year my decision was – despite my family was not very happy with it – to go for one month over Christmas and New Years. Unfortunately, there were a couple of unlucky coincidences influencing my trip and cutting it down from four weeks to “just” three: first of all my flight there had a delay of 5 days (thanks to very christmas likely winter conditions at the airports in Europe), and also 7 paddle days less because I had sickness such as flu and puking (I am happy it wasn't malaria because some others had - also ear infections were very common on the island)

Well, the White Nile and his awesome waves pay compensation and it was a great trip! Most of the time I spent with my Czech and Slovak friends around Nina Halasova and Peter Csonka, but I met also a lot of other very nice people. Jason Fox and I repaired Chagga's broken paddle (one of the best local paddlers there). Now his paddle is made out of pieces of four different ones. Of course we gave it also an awesome blade design made out of tape, writing Chagga and our names on it and at the end put one Epoxy layer over it. We hat lots of fun making the design...

Most of the time there were about 40 people on the island but on Christmas Eve and New Years it was more quiet because a lot of people went up to the Nile Rivers Explorers Camp at Day 1 Section to celebrate (better known as Partycamp). I also planed to go there for some whitewater downriver paddling but since I already had lost so much time I couldn't get myself away from Nile Special and Club Wave. That's why I only came off the island two times in all three weeks, first time for going to the city (Jinja) and the second time for my one and only downriver trip at day 2 this time. The rest of it I just went for awesome big wave surfing...

At the end I want to tell you the lived and tested routine of the day of my dreams:

Weak up, breakfast, Club Wave session, chill-out that contains read, study, sleep, chess (yes I know the order was slightly different … ok ok it was rather like: sleep, chess, read and at last when my bad conscience was really pursuiting me , also studying), lunch, chill-out, Nile Special Wave session, dinner, social sitting together (play cards and so on), and again sleep...

Summarized it was a really sick trip and I can hardly expect more the next time!

A small video clip will follow soon...

Thanks to my sponsors Vajda, Sandiline and Blue and White!

Well, so: Jambo and see you in Uganda! :)

Marcel Bloder

Uganda March/April 2010 - White Nile

2010-12-15T11:18:00.000-08:00

After a long time I finally finished the movie from my Uganda travel from March/April... Uganda offers perfect training conditions for Freestyle because of more or less constant water levels and NILE SPECIAL- and CLUB wave. They are just 10 minutes of paddling upstream from the camping island Hairy Lemon. From now on I really want to go there every year for wintertraining!

Paddlers: Marcel Bloder, Linda Künstl, Mikhail Govor and Daniel Deußen

Augsburg Freestyle 2010 Team Austria

2010-06-10T15:33:00.000-07:00

Here is a small clib of Team Austria at training for World Cup 2010 in Augsburg...

Paddlers: Marcel Bloder, Oliver Hirsch, Beni Kraler and Paula Gruber

Munich Reichenbach Wave 2010

2010-06-10T10:04:00.000-07:00

Awesome weekendsession at Reichenbach Wave on 5th and 6th of June with my Austrian Team Member Beni Kraler and friends - after World Cup in Plattling was canceled due to high water level... It's so cool how my new Vajda Stealth works, soo speedy and easy to ride :) I can't wait to go for the next big wave sessions!

see you

Marcel

Augsburg

2010-06-09T04:33:00.001-07:00

Here are some more pictures from Augsburg...

My new Composite Boat from Vajda, the "Stealth XL" and World Cup Augsburg

2010-05-31T05:57:00.000-07:00

Last week on Friday, one week before the first of 2 Freesty World Cup stations this year, I arrived in Augsburg to train there before. I was lucky that my new Vajda Boat was finished right some days before it and Peter arrived at Sunday to give it to me, thanks a lot!! So I had the oportunity to train with it one week at the famous "Waschmaschine" in the Eiskanal. I was hitting the bottom of the hole a lot of times but nothing really bad happened to the boat thanks to it's good quality. On top and tail of the boat there is a Kevlar Tape that can be changed if it breaks in 10 minutes. I am so happy with that boat :) Also the colors and design are my own and i painted it on my computer before they made it.

Unfortunately I was not very lucky with my rides and I ended up just 27th out of 46...

This week will be World Cup in Plattling, this is where I sit now in an Internet Cafe at the Trainstation writing this post. I am looking forward to paddle here and to make it better than last week :) Here some pics from Augsburg and my boat. I will ad better ones when I have more time and get them from my friends.

See you

Marcel

Graz 2010

2010-05-19T11:26:00.000-07:00

Again thanks Peter for the Video!

Kuchl 2010

2010-05-19T11:25:00.000-07:00

Thanks Peter for the Video!

Hello to all!

2010-04-20T08:36:00.000-07:00

Hy!

This is gonna be my new homepage :)
I hope You will like it, and I will try to keep it updated all the time with nice videos and fotos!

Enjoy and see You
Marcel