Josh's Life: July 2006

Been Busy

All is good at the moment,been heaps busy though .At the moment I have hit a bit of a slump with my paddling but Im sure ill come back in time for the start of the racing season.Yesterday I had a paddle of benny jones zigzag and im currently planning to steal it,not really but I just cant wait to get mine.

This afternoon after visiting my nan I was looking through some photos and came across this pic of me from preschool.What can i say..well all the chicks were chasing after me.Also going to see pirates 2 tonight for the second time which should be good.Been heaps busy at school and padldiung has been taking it out of me.

78 Days and Counting

Well its been a while since my last post and a lot has happened.The junior team got back from europe and it was great to see them back on home soil.At the moment I am a bit Jealous of Ben and Tash who got their new Zigzag Aska's well only another 78 days til I get mine seems so far away however I dont think ill be hard pressed making the change from my old boat to the Aska.

On Saturday I had Full length runs session in the morning which really took it out of me and at night there was a fair well dinner for peter who is leaving PWS and going to a principals job near dubbo.It was a great night and afterwards a couple of us went to duncans where we crashed for the night.Another coaching clinic on sunday followed by school work how interesting.

BACK TO SCHOOL. NO NO NO ......NO

Well I am going to kill myself.......Well only one thing can take away the feeling of going back to school and that was reflecting back on how much fun I had in the holidays.To be honest it was probably the best between school term holidays I have ever had.On saturday night Craig and I went to duncans to join him and ashleigh watch the rugby.After the rugby we played a little poker then some halo and then decided to crash there for the night.

Now its time to knuckle down and do some work(lol yeah right).This time next year I will be in my final term and getting ready for the HSC.Its a bit scary but I think of how good its going to be when i finish school.PARTY TIME!!

Some late nights

Training wise this week has been fairly tough i have already done 11 sessionjs and it is friday wioth fulls and tech on saturday and sunday.After creasing my tail of my boat last week Craig and I repaired it and is now strong as before.

Im pretty tired at moment after a couple of fun late nights.I should be using this time to rest seeing as Im about to start year 12.Anyways on monday night Gage,Tim,Chris and I went to Bloc under 18's nightclub which was an awesome night,it went off.About halfway through the night a guy who had to be on Ecstasy wanted to fight Tim because he has emo hair.Its amazing I didn;t know how much some people hate Emos.

Anyway we had to step and he ended up disappearing into the crowd.After whitewater training on wednesday Craig Tash and I went rockclimbing which was a good cross training session as always.Last night was a Pws staff dinner at Dannys on High which was a great night of scoffing free food down..After dinner Me Duncan Ash Mel Chris and some of the cafe staff went bowling which was great fun.I won of course so Duncan got cut and dropped a bowling ball on my foot missing the largest part and squashing my little toe argh!!.I was a bit cut! Anyways everything is all good Here are some pictures of Junior Team on Tacen.Ohh I wanna paddle that so jealous

All Over

The Junior World Championships are over.The K1 class was won by Mateusz Polaczyk from poland who raced two clean runs to become Junior World Champion.Dawid BArtos again from poland won the C1 class beating last years winner Benn fraker by 8 seconds.My good friend Casey Eichfeld of the US came 10th in the final well done mate.Ursa Kargelj from slovenia won the Womens class.

Well done to the australian team you did us proud.Our results in the semis were Kate Mollison 24th Rosalyn Lawrence 30th Emmie Barratt 33rd, Philip Gibbins 21st Phil Mingerulli 30th Talis and Tom 18th.

Europe Results

Here are some results from over in europe.Badluck to the C1 boys who had some fast times but touches unfortunately let them down.All our aussie girls are through to the semis.Phill Minger and Phil Gibbons are both through to the semis unfotunately benny jones 50 in his second run bad luck mate.Well done to our C2 crews with tom and talis making the semis.Well done team

Mens C1 Qualifications - Results
1st Norbert Neveu Fra 92.92 0/0 91.08
41st Jono Davis Aust 110.57 4/2 111.36
49t Ian Borrows Aust 104.92 2/50 105.41
51st Richie Merjan Aust 149.91 6/54 140.97

Womens K1 Qualifications - Results

1st Michaela Grimm Ger 99.96 0/2 98.6
20th Rosalyn Lawrence 106.58 2/2 109.22
26 Emmie Barratt 112.64 2/4 108.27
35 Kate Mollison 115.25 2/6 112.19

Mens K1 Qualifications- Results
1st Jan Vondra Cze 87.94 0/0 86.75
29th Phil Minger 93.77 0/0 93.60
38th Phil Gibbons 94.67 0/2 94.51
78th Ben Jones 94.67 8/56 98.80

Mens C2
Tom and Talis 120.46 6/4 124.30
Cj Karl 127.37 10/124.32

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Holidays are great!!!

I have been having so much fun with my mates since the holidays started.After training on Sat Gage,Ben,Tash and I went bowling for a couple hours to celebrate bens 15th bday.Afterwards we went to hogs breath cafe in the new section of the Plaza which was a great evening.IT was an early start on sunday morning with another coaching clinic which ran again for the whole day.In the afternoon session I had to much faith in myself and slightly creased the tail of my boat.It is not bad at all and should be easy to repair but still it is now a weak point in a crucial part of my boat so I might need to be careful going down last drop til my new boat arrives. Tonight a couple of us are going to see a movie which should be fun.Here are some pics from the weekends activities.