Monday, January 24, 2011

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Together with French friends from the North side of the Pyrenees we united forces to create a new crew of paddlers Pyrenees, together events we gonna Organize, Organize and Participate in competitions around the world kayaking expeditions, adventures by Documenting All Our articles, videos and photos.
Our To follow the adventures and met the paddlers of our team, visit the PEK webpage .


with French friends on the north side of the Pyrenees, we have decided to join forces and create a team of kayakers, jointly organize events, participate in competitions and organize kayaking expeditions around the world, documenting all through articles, videos and photos. To follow our adventure and meet members of the team, visit the website of PEK . (click Pek).
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From Left to Right. Thomas, Aniol, Gael, and Eric
PEK The abbreviation, in French means "crazy", which describes perfectly the mindset of this group of kayakers!
PEK means "crazy "in French, this word perfectly defines Our Style!
Eric Deguil, enjoying a perfect waterfall
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And to start the blog, here I leave you with a video of PEK rowing team the best from Mexico!

Here is the 1st video of the PEK team, enjoying the beautiful and exciting rivers of Mexico!



made Video by Thomas Thabarant. 
Paddlers: Aniol Serrasolses, Eric Deguil, Fabrice Pueyto, Gael Caride, Bastien Dantin, Eneko Yarza, Iker Beristain.


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Mexico trip 2010 Big Banana Falls Overall

It’s almost one month now since I left Mexico, anyway, there’s not any day I don’t think about that country and the people I met. This have been one of the best experiences I’ve ever had, my trip has had ups and downs, with lots of serious injuries that kept me away from kayak for a while, and changed my initial plan (Mexico – Costa Rica), so I had another point of view in this trip, enjoying more the place, the food, the scenery and the people , who is incredible.
Cobra in the Bukaki slide.
Mexico is the fifteen biggest country of the World, with a surface near to 2 millions of km2. In 2010 Mexican population was around 112 millions of persons.

Big city life! Mexico DF the biggest city
I've ever seen with 27 millons of persons!!

Best dates: Season starts in October and goes to February, as the season keep going the rivers lose lots of water. Best months, October y November.I flew with aeroméxico  company, only the go 700 euros!!! As good thing they only made me pay 44 euros for a heavy kayak over 60 kg. the plane back home was way cheaper and I it cost me 430 dollars, cool! But the whole ticket was so expensive, next time I have to do it better!

Beautiful Mexico!
MAIN KAYAK IN MEXICO
Cd. Valles, San Luis Potosí:  Beautiful scenery and crystal water rivers, “saltos de micos” is the perfect place for everyone who wants to run a drop for the 1 st  time. It becomes more sketchy as north you go, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León… keep your eyes open out there!

Tlapacoyan, Veracruz:  Little town and the Mexican gem of white water. Waterfalls and slides are all around the are. This is my favourite place of Mexico and where I paddled some of the hardest and biggest waterfalls ever.

Kayakers owning the streets of Tlapayork!
Jalcomulco:  A really big part of the rafting  companies are based on the rio Pescados and Antigua. Good place to visit as well.

Chiapas:  Is far from everything but some of the best rivers are hidden in this area. Sto. Domingo is the most pendent river ever kayaked. Give work to the local people as driver, or staying in a place,.. makes everything easier with the zapatistas, things have to be done carefully!

Le  Pek team  in the best aguardiente factory of the area! 
INJURIES:
2x visits to the hospital
1 st  place:  Eric Deguil (FRA), broke his back on tomata I at low low water… 15 ambulances, 3 planes and 6 hospitals before to arrive back home…
2 nd  place:  Aniol Serrasolses (SPA), broken ribs + noise + and a big haematoma in the pelvis, it have been 2 months now without do anything! I’m doing recuperation for the ribs and hope to paddle soon!

Cobrita getting drunk to calm the pain...  
BEST CARNAGE / CRAZY LINES
Cobra: 4th run tomata I (broken ribs)
Evan Garcia: Tomata II (broken kneee) –
Todd Wells: Mandatory Falls, (knock himself alter a big impact on his head)
Rafa Ortiz: Tomata II ( no injuries for Don. Sánchez)

Cobra going for the line of his life, broken ribs!!
BEST RAPIDS RUNNED
Tomata II
Texolo falls
Big Banana falls
Silence rapid

Rush Sturges cleaning tomata II with absolute steeze.
photo by lucas gilman
NATHALIES
Cobra (1x silencio drop, 1x Tomata I, broken rib)…  2
Iker y Rafa (Topo duo Big banana section)…  2
Gael Caride (2x silence drop, 2x tomata, 1x micos)…  5  
EG (1x tomata II, 1x Jalacingo)…  2
Thomas ( 2x big banana section, hombro dislocado)…  2

Bootie day!!!
The number, the quality and the variety of rivers in Mexico, makes of this country a true creeking paradise. If you go to Mexico get ready for a incredible experience in the jungles with lots of waterfalls to run and high quality sections!

Cobra contemplating an ugly rapid that we
all run in the rio Jalacingo. 
Rivers I couldn’t run, to be done next year
Río Verde
Río Santa María
Lower Jalacingo
Sto. Domingo
Agua Azul River
Ahuacate section

Enjoying
Jalacingo the river, one of Veracruz gems.
1st Descents, NEXT TRIPS
House falls
Eyipantla falls
Jentaxki falls
Encanto falls, how tall is this thing?
BEST OF:
Best Waterfall : Big Banana (128.6 feet)
Best Rapid : Tomata II / Meatlocker
Best boof : Silencio drop
Best line s: Big Banana & Texolo waterfall
Favourite river : Alsesseca
Best day of kayaking : 1st full banana section / tomata’s day
Favourite beer : Modelo
Best place to eat : Comida corrida, everywhere!
Party : Jalapa and Halloween in Mex DF
Best food : fish and meat tacos
Place to stay:  Tlapacoyan, aventurec!

The crew enjoying Vel-Vic tacos, the classic spot in Tlapacoyan. 
THANKS TO:
I have to thank a lot of people after this trip, because without your help nothing in my trip could have been possible.
Family Ortiz and Beristain, Mexico City and all crew, thanks for all the help DURING Given my trip all you guys are awesome, go kayaking with you it's always laughs and fun.
these rats! they are cool!
To Rush Sturges, thank you for your boat and Gave Me Everything else you did for me!
Antonio Reinoso of Aventurec for all the help provided in my return to Tlapacoyan y durante el accidente de Eric en el hospital.
Gael, Nina y Netta for all this good moments in Aventurec.
And thanks to all the other people with who I had the pleasure of kayak, or shared good moments, beers and wine.

Rats enjoying their meal!
Viva Mexico! The new creekboating paradise!

Useful web pages:
Do you want to learn kayak in Mexico? Contact with the best
professionals:

Red Bull Athlete Web Page:
Working for Aventurec rafting company
and paying my stay in Mex.
Searching for a place tos tay in Tlapacoyan? Aventurec is the place!

Two weeks more of recuperation and hopefully I will start kayak again, really motivated with the upcoming season wich can be the best ever If everything goes right!!! Keep checking the blog, next update, creek expedition in Portugal, let's see what we find!

                                                               SPANISH VERSION

PHOTOS by my friend  J oel Kowalski  .

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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This is a belated update from the past month of October. My first week in Mexico was completely crazy, hucking lots of waterfalls with the best creekboating crew I’ve been. Anyway, we don't missed the party and we had really good benders and funny moments in the 2 weeks we spent together.
In my 1st day kayaking in Mexico, we hucked Tomata I, next morning we hucked tomata I and II, and the next day kayaking was Texolo waterfalls ( 30 mts.) people started to get hurt since the second day, with EG fucking up his knee in tomata II and Mr. Todd knocking himself on a blind 50 ft. In the 3 rd day. Anyway we where super fired up and ready to go scout the Big Banana waterfall, the one everybody was talking about…

Happy crew, after lay treats on tomata's.
Deep inside the jungle of Veracruz, hides a 128.6 feet tall waterfall. It has never been paddled before, it’s dark and after a scary gorge only scoutable and accessible with your kayak or rappelling into it. It’s got a tricky entrance, with an auto-boof just at the lip that makes everybody feel scared. Land this drop flat would be fatal for your back. It looks massively big from the top, there’s a perfect pool below the waterfall a bit undercut wall on the left but all good to go.

Rafa Ortiz rappelling down
the beast!
I knew I wanted to run this drop since the first time I scouted it. I slept really bad the night before to run It, I couldn’t stop thinking about the waterfall, I imagined myself a hundred times going in to the beast before fell sleep.

We woke up early, it was cloudy for the first time in a month and starting to rain, bad signal, I was feeling really bad, couldn’t even eat anything for breakfast. I felt better as soon as we started walking to the put-in.

The machines ready to go!
All the team went down at the pool of the waterfall to do safety and set the cameras while Rafa, Rush and myself walked uphill. It took us an hour or two to find our way to the top of the waterfall, set the rappel, camera… Once we figured out it was all super fast, gave a big hug to my friend Rafa and a few seconds later he was rappelling down to the gorge, then we loaded his kayak. Took some strokes on the mini-eddy, gave the signal and a few seconds later I saw him flying high, he stomped the line and didn’t swim, the waterfall looked even more perfect to me after that.

Rafa Ortiz 1stD of BB falls, he looks so small! 
I was really fired up to go for it, took me less than a minute to get changed and start rappelling down, I haven’t done more than one or two rappels before so I was a bit afraid about it, feels great to rappel and it’s so safe!
I got in my kayak as soon as Rush sent it to me, warm-up in the mini-eddy, and focused on what I was going to do. The gorge was completely dark, you could see the light in the lip of the waterfall.
Rush gave me the signal to go, everything was ready, I was ready, there was only one thing on my mind, stomp that shit! Took some strokes, splashed some water in my face, and immediately after that I was facing the lip of the waterfall. It was an incredible moment that I will never forget, I have that image stuck in my mind, getting out of the darkness and getting in to the light, I got to see for a little moment the most beautiful landscape ever. Held, held, passed the auto-boofer without boof, connected with the big water line, took a big breath and threw my paddle away, grabbed my Lucky Charm skirt as hard as I could, with all my body straight forward to plug it instead of boof it, one, two, three, BOOOM! It was the longest freefall of my life, it felt so long!!! The impact was brutal but nothing hurt me at all, thankfully I had a great line and I was completely forward with all my body compact to absorb the impact.

Myself running BB falls, biggest drop ever in my life! 
As soon as I rolled up I got to see my friends Evan and Todd, I was completely excited and I couldn’t stop laughing and shouting around. It was a great feeling to realize that everything went smooth for both of us, we had such clean lines over the beast, luckily we where bringing IR spray decks so It didn't implode! I got to see Later that my buddy Rafa had some blood all over his eye, but anyway nothing could make us feel bad as we had already completed the second tallest waterfall ever run in a kayak with no injuries and swimmings!

Don Sánchez and cobra stoked! Sometimes dreams comes true!
BB falls down!
After chill a little bit in the pool, and measure the size of the waterfall (128.6 feet) we kept it going with Todd and Evan to the take-out of Tomata Falls I, Rafa took-out a little bit before because of his eye. This was my first time running the BB section, wich is amazing! Silencio was an incredible drop as well, a beautiful 40 ft. with an ugly undercut in the left, you can boof it, the landing is really soft!

Styling silencio,  softest  landing ever!
It was raining so hard and when we made it to the take-out the river was getting big really fast! That was the first descent from top of BB falls to tomata. Such an epic day of kayaking that I’ll remember all my life.

Storm in the Alsesseca, great run
with young stars EG and Todd!

Nothing of what me and Rafa did could have been possible without the help of all the group, I feel reallythankful to each one of them, Evan walked all the way down to Big Banana pool with a broken knee just to be there making safety for his friends, Lucas and Matt kicked their asses during all the trip to get all those sick shots. Todd became an idol for me after paddling to the take-out of Texolo falls after knocking himself on the mandatory. Rush was always there to run the shit, record, make safety and help the team even when he was sick as shit, Israel more of the same, taking care of us all the time! And to Rafa, thanks for being my brother on Big Banana showing me the line and letting me be part of your dream, - he has been looking at this waterfall for the last 4 years, it was his waterfall even before to run it, so I felt really lucky to run it with him. Thank you all guys for such an epic trip!





Todd the player and Cobra waiting
for a ride from Israel.
Since that day I came back to BB section many more times!
 But everytime I arrive to the put-in pool I do I remember that one
day we hucked this waterfall and lots of good memories go through my mind!
I am really thankful to Immersion Research for design the best spray-decks out there, it’s great to know that if you are using and IR spray-deck it’s not going to implode.

Check  River Roots  to see the teaser of the new movie, FRONTIER coming in march 2011!




SPANISH VERSION
-Photos by the famous extreme sports photographer Lucas Gilman You Can see the footage in SPN Magazine.

-Other pics by Todd Wells and evan garcia, thank you rat! Missing Mexico and the good times!

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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technification Training and Immersion Research SBP EU


From PBS, we are taking some courses training and technical level this spring.
courses freestyle, creek, beginners, advanced, Eskimo ... all courses related to the kayak!
Contact us at: serrasolsesbrothersproductions@gmail.com


TRAINING COURSES AND CANOEING TECHNIFICATION Whitewater Rafting ALPINE - CREEK LEVEL I - BEGINNER / BASIC (III-IV +)


Download and print the complete PDF document with course content here!
Dates :02-3 April 2011
Instructors: Gerd Serrasolses Aniol and
Places: 10 places
Location: Sort Area - Pallars Sobirá (Lleida)
Course fee: 200 € per person
practice hours approx. in water: 10-12 hours
course Total Hours: 21 hours
Accommodation: Escola de Piragüisme Sort - (half board complete)

* Warning: intensive weekend with a lot of hours both in theory and in the water. We recommend bringing plenty of stamina and a bit of fitness to get the most out of course!


Objective
Course for those paddlers Class III + with a good command of Eskimo whitewater who want to start in the creek or river rafting Alpine a safe and controlled. This course aims to provide all the basics and advanced knowledge for the practice of creek and a good progression, but especially fast in a controlled, safe and informed.
The long term objective of the course is to prepare and give sufficient knowledge to paddlers completed the course once they can evolve and enjoy the creek in safety.

Program

Friday April 1
or Arrival and dinner in the School of Piragüisme Sort.

Saturday April 2
or 08:30 am: Breakfast
or 09 : 00h • Presentation of the course (presentations, program,
operation, objectives ...)
or 10:30 h ° Downward fluid from Llavorsí to Rialp. Objective: assessment of participants, familiarity with the group and instructors.
or 13:30 h · Transport and climb up Borén
or 14:00 h • Computer picnic in Borén
or 15:00 h · decrease High Noguera to Borén
or Video Review and theoretical and practical lessons in the classrooms of the Piragüisme School of
or 21:00 h · Dinner in the School of Sort Piragüisme
or 22:00 h · Video Pass creek



El Alto Noguera is a classic thing to do, about 15 km of continuous rapids.

Sunday April 3
or 08:30 am: Breakfast
or 09:00 h · Transport to Valley Tavascan
or 11:00 h ° Downward of Palomeras
or 15:00 h • Computer picnic in Tavascan
or 16:00 h · assessment and end of course final

The Palomeras, is a ravine about 500 m. with many jumps, ramps and fast fun!

Course Requirements
Land Be the RFEP.
be class III paddler with a good command of the Eskimo in water rafting.
Material: the material needed and appropriate for the completion of the course. If you need specific material contact us to enroll.
• Material preferred creek kayak (length and volume), pala-resistant, solid or integral helmet, elbow pads, protection against cold (wetsuit, dry pants. ..), anorak



Media
From SBP consider very important learning through videos, so the entire course will be recorded from our GoPro (helmet cam) and HD camcorder. In the evening we will analyze and correct the errors decrease. Of course everyone can take their pictures home after completion of the course (bring a large USB or DVD).



Accommodation
Accommodation in the School of Piragüisme Sort. More: www.epsort.com
pointing to book your chosen accommodation: full board, half board, two nights, etc and we reserve the accommodation by a total pack course + accommodation.

* The course is independent of accommodation in case you want to get free accommodation and meals.
Instruction by professional paddlers
in their field.

- The planned reductions in the Upper Noguera and Palomeras can be replaced by other sections in case of problems of water level participants recommended not to run the High ... etc.


To register send an email with personal data in compliance with the information required under paragraph course requirements.

have any questions about the course, suggestions, issues / specific issues to address ... contact us: serrasolsesbrothersproductions@gmail.com

Para más información y actualizaciones consultar:
www.serrasolsesbrosproductions.blogspot.com

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