World Cup, Watertown, NY

Unfortunately I'm a little slow on the updates, I don't have one of those new style electronic equipment things (laptop) to regularly log onto the internet.

So, the 2nd of the World Cup events was at Watertown on the 9th September. On Friday we were told the event was going to be held at 'hole brothers' feature rather than Route 3 wave due to water levels. I found hole brothers to be a better feature as more moves could be done, but with only 1 afternoon to practice and a long line-up in the eddy I never really got used to the hole. I couldn't figure out how to loop in the hole, but others did - Stephen Wright and EJ, amongst others, were getting huge air loops.

In prelims I managed to pull a super-clean cartwheel out of the bag which put me in 2nd place behind Tanya Faux who got a big air loop. Unfortunately for the finals, the next day I couldn't find the right spot for cartwheels, and still wasn't getting the loop. Emily Jackson had an awesome ride with a big loop, McNasty and space godzilla, she took the win with Tanya Faux in 2nd and Ruth Gordon 3rd. Without the loop I was a long way behind, in points, taking 4th place. This put me into 3rd place in the overall World-cup standings.

Full results should be on www.worldfreestylekayakchampionships.com