Playboating
The Playboating (English), German game boating , and canoeing Rodeo , is a young discipline of canoeing . The form of playboating competition is called freestyle . Here surf kayaker on an artificial or natural wave or roller and moved in advanced skills, his boat - kayak or Canadians - in different figures.
The practice of sport on a single wave or roller (so-called playspot ) and leaving the water at the entry point are referred to in paddler jargon as park and play ( English for "park and play"). Standing waves and rollers are suitable for this special embodiment. The canoe can be held in these places and there is the possibility of performing figures, for example loops .
Alternatively, sections of the river are driven down and waves and rollers are used to go to the canoe odeo. Kanurodeo is mainly practiced on rivers with rolling and standing waves . It is also possible to use waves on the sea or in river mouths that arise in the surf or as a result of tidal currents . Artificially created (e.g. Augsburg ice channel ) or treated bodies of water are also increasingly being used.
history
Around 1970, squirt boating emerged from the canoe slalom, a form of whitewater paddling in which water currents in shorter, very light boats with low air volume are used for figures (English: moves ).
In the 1980s, the Kanurodeo developed. Over time, the boats became even shorter for this, but their buoyancy and robustness were increased again compared to squirt boating in order to be able to navigate more difficult white water . Some squirtboating figures, especially the mystery move , in which the boat and paddler disappear completely under the (relatively flat) surface of the water, are therefore not possible in playboating. Other figures such as the candle (see below) were taken over directly and are still part of the standard repertoire here, together with figures created in the Kanurodeo.
The first loops, aerials, etc. were already performed in the 1980s by the rather unknown (because not) freestyler, but active white water paddler Volker Pönninghaus (member of the Alpine Kayak Club and HKN) with an Eskimo Topolino. These moves, performed by him out of sheer high spirits and perfect boat control in the rollers of the Augsburg ice canal, quickly established themselves in the freestyle scene.
Jan Kellner , Olli Grau and other paddlers made the sport known and popular, especially among younger paddlers in Germany.
In the nineties, the first world championships not yet organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF) took place, which were initially dominated by German drivers. The sport took a very dynamic development, which was promoted by the boat manufacturers, who in the distance of z. Some of them only brought new generations of boats onto the market for a few months. In the course of increasing international professionalism, German freestylers lost touch with the world's best. In 2005 in Sydney , for the first time in years , a German female athlete became world champion with Jutta Kaiser .
Freestyle is now officially represented as a division in the ICF and in the German Canoe Association . In 2006 the discipline was accepted as a competitive discipline by the ICF.
The canoeists Corran Addison and Eric Jackson are particularly well-known internationally .
Boats
At the beginning the boats were more than 3 meters long, symmetrically built and heavy. Very soon they experimented with new, especially shorter, shapes. The size limit has now been reached: the shortest boats are only 1.75 m long with a volume of around 200 l. Shorter boats with less volume would offer too little space for the legs and / or too little buoyancy. The boats used to have a round cross-section. A modern kayak for playboating these days has a more or less flat bottom, extreme edges to the lower ship and most of the volume concentrated around the middle.
Usual boat classes are (single) kayak (K-1; mostly in the classes women, men, juniors), single canoe (C-1) and open canoe (OC).
characters
The first character in playboating was the 'candle'. You drove the bow or stern of the boat against the direction of flow in a roller, and the pressure of the water on the end raised the boat more or less vertically. Jan Kellner expanded this into a 'retendo'. The paddler flips over after the candle and lands back on the roller. He turns the boat around its longitudinal axis with a paddle movement and lands upright.
Due to the lighter material and the sophisticated paddling technique (including the edging ), figures are now possible in which the paddler and boat are completely in the air ("aerials" or "air moves") and rotate around several axes at the same time.
Freestyle
Canoe freestyle is the competitive form of playboating. A uniform evaluation system has not yet been implemented, but there are some principles. For every 180 ° rotation there were points, e.g. B. one for a shallow rotation, two for a high rotation (over 45 °), and four vertically. The style was also assessed. Different figures ( moves ) count for the evaluation of variations , including: Blunt, Cartwheel, Kickflip (or California-Rolle ), Loop, Pan Am, Pirouette, Shuvit, Spin, Splitwheel and Surf . Since 2005, three to four referees only judge the variation in official freestyle competitions. The paddlers show as many different tricks as possible.
World Championship
World championships were initially held "unofficially", for example in Graz as the 2003 Paddle Rodeo World Championships . In 2007, the first official World Championship, directed by the International Canoeing Federation (ICF), took place on the 3 to 4 m high wave Greyhound Buseater on the Ottawa River in Canada. Since then, the World Cup has been held every two years, in the odd years. In 2009 the official freestyle kayak world championships took place in Thun from August 31 to September 6 as the ICF Canoe Freestyle World Championships 2009 for the first time in the DACH area.
Other non-Olympic disciplines in which ICF also organizes a world championship are: white water descent (in the even years), canoe polo (in the even years), canoe marathon, dragon boat racing, white water sprint (in the uneven years) since 2011) and since 2013 also Ocean Racing (surf ski).
ICF Freestyle World Cup Series take place in even years. In 2014 on 25-29 June in Millau, France, 7-13. July on the La Noguera Pallaresa river in Salt / Sort, Catalonia, Spain.
| year | Waters> place | place | country |
Results K ajak, C anadier, O pen C anoe, Squirt ;
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| 1995 | Augsburg ice channel | Augsburg , Bavaria |
 Germany
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| 1997 | Ottawa River > McCoy's Chute Wave | northwest Ottawa , Ontario |
 Canada
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| 2001 | Nantahala | Quarry Rapid (4 miles above (SW) the NOC), North Carolina |
 United States
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C1M: 1) Eric ("EJ") Jackson (USA) |
| May 26–31, 2003 | Mur > Archduke Johann Bridge> Terminator Wave | Graz , Styria |
 Austria
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K1M: 1) Jay Kincaid; ... 3) Steve Fischer |
| xx.2.2005 | Penrith Whitewater Stadium | Penrith , New South Wales |
 Australia
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K1W: 1) Jutta Kaiser (DEU) |
| April 29, 2007 | Ottawa River > (Greyhound) Buseater wave | northwest Ottawa, Ontario |
Canada
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K1M: 1) Eric Jackson (USA); 2) Peter Csonka ( SVK ); 3) Nick Troutmann ( CAN ) |
| August 31 - September 6, 2009 | Thunersee > outflow Scherzligschleuse> Aare | Thun , Canton of Bern |
 Switzerland
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K1 M: 1) Nick Troutman ( KAN ); 2) Eric Jackson (USA); 3) Stephen Wright (USA) |
| June 20-26, 2011 | Isar | Plattling , Bavaria |
Germany
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K1M: 1) James Bebbington (GBR); 2) Peter Csonka ( SVK ); 3) Stephen Wright (USA); 4) Nick Troutman (CAN) |
| September 2-8, 2013 | Nantahala | Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC), North Carolina |
United States
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K1M: 1) Dane Jackson (USA); 2) Peter Csonka ( SVK ); 3) Tomasz Czaplicki (POL) |
| August 30 - September 5, 2015 | Ottawa River > Garb (erator) wave | Lunch stop spot, Ottawa River Provincial Park, 50 miles northwest of Ottawa , Ontario |
Canada
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European Championship
In 2006 the first official European championship took place.
| year | flow | place | country |
| 2006 | Augsburg ice channel | augsburg |
Germany
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| 2008 | Rio Miño | Ourense |
 Spain
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| 2010 | Draupark | Lienz |
Austria
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| 2012 | Draupark | Lienz |
Austria
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| 2014 | Čunovo | Bratislava |
 Slovakia
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World cup
Canoe freestyle is a World Cup ( Canoe Freestyle World Cup ) held, which by the International Canoe Federation is organized (ICF). For women and men there are competitions in the categories single kayak (K1), single canoe (C1) and double canoe (C2).
National competitions: Switzerland
The River Jam , a canoe freestyle event in the Scherzligschleuse, has been taking place in Thun since 1997 .
The Straight Down Striit ( al. For dispute, competition) has been held in Switzerland since 2007 and the Swiss Boater Cross Masters (Swiss championship) since 2008 as part of the Swiss Whitewater Cup .
Austria
Boater Cross took place in Graz for the first time on June 20, 2015. Four people started on the left bank at the level of the Murinsel from a slide made of laminated safety glass . Before reaching the goal, the terminator wave at the Erzherzog-Johann-Brücke had to be overcome. The final of the competition was canceled because of the rampage in Graz . The active members of the Kajak Club Graz are designing the Mur, which has a level of difficulty I to II here in the city center , as a whitewater course.
The rollers on the left bank under the Archduke Johann and Radetzky Bridge, designed with large throwing stones by excavators, have been used for training and competitions at least since 2003, depending on the water level, the state after changes due to flooding, for rodeo with playboat and also with surfboard.
Web links
- Freestyle in the German Canoe Association
- Freestyle in the International Canoe Federation
- Website of the Playboaters Community playboaters.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ International Canoe Federation (ICF) , accessed on July 20, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Natural Games, Information Bulletin , Millau / 25-29 June 2014, (PDF file) Download from: International Canoe Federation, More on Canoe Freestyle, accessed July 21, 2015
- ↑ 2014 ICF Freestyle World Cup Series , Facebook, accessed July 21, 2015
- ↑ Freestyle World Championships in Thun: May the Games begin , 2009, Jutta Kaiser, Michael Neumann, Kanu-Magazin, August 25, 2009, accessed July 21, 2015
- ↑ 2015 ICF Freestyle World Championship Ottawa River, Welcome , accessed July 21, 2015
- ↑ 3. Power Plant to Wesser (Lower Nantahala) , Nantahala, North Carolina, USA, americanwhitewater.org, accessed July 20, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Kayak Freestyle World Championships 2005 finals day, jugsey , youtube.com (3:37!) March 29, 2007, accessed July 21, 2015.
- ↑ Date: World Championships 2007 , playboaters.de
- ↑ World Cup gold for freestyler Stephan Pätsch, May 19, 2007
- ↑ ICF Freestyle World Championships 2009 - Thun, Switzerland
- ↑ Video list from the finals of the Freestyle World Championships 2009
- ↑ http://www.kanufestival.de
- ↑ http://icf-freestyle.de/ (accessed on August 8, 2011)
- ↑ http://www.freestylekayaking2013.com 2013 World Championships, Nantahala Gorge, Byson City, North Carolina, USA.Retrieved July 21, 2015
- ↑ 2015 ICF Freestyle World Championship Ottawa River , Welcome, accessed July 21, 2015
- ↑ Ottawa River Provincial Park ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , outdoorwiki.info, accessed July 21, 2015
- ↑ Date: World Championships 2007 on playboaters.de
- ↑ http://www.redbull.at/cs/Satellite/de_AT/Event/Kajak-Freestyle-Europacup-2010-021242820701998
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- ↑ Hannes Gaisch: First Boatercross: When the Mur is boiling , Kleine Zeitung, June 18, 2015, accessed July 20, 2015.
- ↑ 1. BoaterCross Graz 2015 , announcement on facebook.com, May 19, 2015 July, accessed 20th, 2015.
