As many of you know me and Katy attended the French powerbocking contest held in Sarrebourg France which was held by the Hoff riser team, I have written a bit about what we did whilst we were their.
Friday - We arrived in Sarrebourg about 6pm where we were greeted by Mikael of the Hoff riser team, he took us back to the hotel where we unpacked are bags and then headed out for some food with the other people that had arrived already. This is where i got to meet the main importer of 7 league boots in france and 3 people from poland who we spent a lot of time with over the weekend, we chatted for a while and then went onto a local pub where we chatted some more then headed back to the hotel for some sleep after our 12 hour journey!
Saturday - we had breakfast at the hotel and then went on to the community center where we registered and had a welcoming from the Hoff riser team. we then had a lunch buffet and made our way outside where we all stilted up and headed to a meeting point, when we got here we were able to perform a bit infront of a small crowd and the rest of the bockers this is where we met two guys on highstriders ( neumatic stilts ) who were performing for us. we then were split into groups and sent on a treasure hunt round the city which entailed us finding landmarks and then performing challeneges at them, for example Most rotations in 30 seconds, long jump, getting up and running, basketball, hopping, two foot jumping and many more we finished around 6pm we then went back to the hotel and had a shower. we then returned to the community center where their was a lorry which had a pizza oven in so we all ate pizza and chatted at this point are table had become quite popular with people interested in us and my skips, we met Hugo who was a real funny french guy who could not understand katys accent. Their was a few people outside fire breathing as well which was pretty cool some people then went to the pub but we went back to the hotel as we were pretty tired and i had stilt issues that needed to be fixed.
Sunday - We had breakfast in town at around 9:30. Due to rain we then headed to the gymnasium which was huge and the competitions begun with kids long jump kicking things off, we then moved on to adult tripple jump and high jump. After a hour or so i got chatting to the manufacturer of Speedjumpers, him and his sons were building 3/4 pairs of their stilts and he asked me if i wanted a go i first tried the Quantum model of stilts which felt nice but had a few flaws ( main one being foot falling off the side) but i was jumping higher than on my skips he then said he would build a pair of Speedjumper pros for the afternoon for me to try. We went and had lunch at the athletics stadium and then returned to gymnasium for more fun and this is where i got to try Speedjumper professionals, and to be honest they made my skips feel like skyrunners they were truly amazing i did backflip 2 meters off the ground which was videod by a few people and according to numerous people i was jumping 2 meters 80 to 3 meters. I did a few links on them and then regretivly handed them back as i didnt have a spare 1200 euros to pay for them. I felt this was important to post as they completely have changed the boundaries of the sport the guy that one the highjump lance was on them he was a big bloke (15 stone) and still won the competition. We then got treated to freestyle competition and group freestyle which were amazing and i will upload videos and pictures when i have more time. we then watched the prizes being awarded which were pairs of stilts clothing etc we then went back to the hotel, and a lot of people left it was just us the russians and the 7 leagues importer left we went out to a local kebab shop where we had some food and chatted about the events etc
The weekend was absoloutly amazing ive missed a lot out of my post but the pictures and videos that will come out of this will show how good it was a huge thanks to the hoff riser team for making it a awesome meeting i will deffinatly be going to the next one!
Sorry if punctuation / spellings out im really shattered !
