Category Archives: vaulting

Apr2

Saumur / update 2

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Saumur / update 2

Yesterday, arrival at 21:00. we left deauville at 18:30. shortest ride to saumur so far. pretty nice! so on our ‘wij zijn de mannen van de nacht’ & ‘de soup is aangebrand’ way we had to arrange a place for me to stay cause i had only arranged a place for fri. sat. and sunday. rob called and i text some people. that didnt work out until we arrived. i got to stay with the belgian team for a night. im very thankful cause otherwise i would have to pay another 75,- for the night and i was thinking of spending those on food & drinks. glad i worked out this way. this morning i walked throught saumur for a while and after i went to see the vet. check. all dutch and belgian & brittish horses got through. bien! after that everyone went away getting their horses back in their box or went for training. i decided to go and have a look at the training and fortunately the current european champion just jumped on the horse. watching him do his training taught me some things i will remember. he left and i sat there atleast for another hour when i decided to go. after being outside for 4 hours i got pretty cold and wanted something warm to eat or drink. lucky me, it was raining. so before i arrived i got soaking wet. i just finished my hot chocolate with cream and enjoyed the time being alone thinking about random things and ofcourse writing this!

soon more to come:)
a tout

//update 2
So…. I simply did not have time to update anymore since there was too much going on. In short; i had a great time. This year Saumur was great. Met some really nice people and enjoyed. Friday night was the bomb haha!(sory patrick :P ).

Saumur 2011?

Mar22

The End?

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The End?

After many days of thinking what to write for my dear readers of the sometimes weekly, now monthly news posts, I’ve finally come up with some points.

First of all I’d like to inform you all that I’m sitting in the sun writing this on a peace of paper without a shirt on! Yes dear readers, the sun is that nice. Not to make you entirely jealous, I won’t walk around like this cause the wind is still pretty cold. No picture tho cause that would make you entirely jealous ( ha-ha )

Saumur is coming up and for the ones who don’t know, It’s an international vaulting competition. I’ve been asked by the Belgian team to help them out with their compulsories since one of them is injured. Well.. asked.. It sort of happened automatically. Rob and I have been training for a while now but last week i was getting nervous already. It’s weird cause I’ve never been like this before a competition. The reason is I know I can improve so much on some exorcises in a short period of time. I know cause I’ve been better and this period I’ve been abroad I’ve worked a lot on my physical skills. Ah well.. 1,5 week to go.

Which reminds me, after Saumur I’m planning on going home again. I’m in need for money ever-since there is another great trip ahead. So “The End?” NO! I’m also a bit done living with just a few pounds and euro’s. I do want to continuous vaulting when i come back, so if anyone in the vaulting world is reading this… I’m also looking for a well paid job. (attention! well paid is underlined)

Some business talk: Robs website is going great. It’s really looking good and working nice. I’ve finished the logo for theDutchdesigner.com and the website itself is starting to shape up as well.
Afbeelding 3
Any good?

Clouds are forming, the sun is away, my t-shirt is back on, so a good time to stop writing. Might be the last greetings from France…

Ps. It will be nice seeing everyone again.

Mar2

Progression

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Progression

Horse is arrived! Well… actually 2/3 weeks ago. We’ve been working with him since and he’s doing really well. Now i just need to start vaulting normal again.. haha. I still don’t feel like my old me even though im showing some progression. It’s probably because of the new horse too but still. I want to be vaulting like my old me again. And better.

The family found me last weekend. My mom and dad came for a visit which was really nice. Friday was their arrival and i showed them around. As good parents do, they gave me presents anda big survival pack:P. I’ve had a lot of food i liked to eat in Holland. Also my sis and uncle and aunt gave me a small survival pack. (mostly candy though..;)) I’d really like to thank my sis for the small ba(rt)cardi bottle though, didn’t use it yet but i will soon:P. After all that we went to have a look in Deauville that and night and had something to eat. Saturday it was Tour the France day. We jumped in the car and went straight towards Honfleur, stopped there for a while and walked around town. After we went on to Trouville, same again and on to Deauville. At night we watched a movie and in all between we chatted about everything and nothing. The weather on Sunday was terrible. We planned to go to Trouville in the morning. Every Sunday morning there is a market but the weather really could have been better.. So instead we had a lazy morning and about 11 my parents drove back to Holland again. It felt really weird because that night i was talking on the phone to them when they where back home again and it felt like they’ve had never been here.. Too quick, tooooo quick.. Again in 2 months?

So far last weeks news!
Don’t worry, be happy

ps. Dankjewel Pap, Mam, Jos, Ar, luc, zus en zus, Gromelauw & opa Aart voor alle lekkers en gifts. heeeel lief
groetekes

Feb13

Bad week

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Bad week

First Rob and i was next. I’ve been ill the last couple of day’s. Well i was ill on wednesday. Yesterday and today i felt a lot better but still weak. Now today i’m feeling a bit better then the days before. Lets hope for me i’ll be the normal me again at the beginning of next week. If the wind is coming from the south you better stay in cause it’s not such a nice flu.

Good news after bad news.
A Belgian horse is coming tomorrow together with the owner and her daughter of the owner which is one of the Belgian vaulters. I dont know for how long they’re staying but i’m looking forward to there arrival. The horse will stay so Rob and I can train the horse for the Belgians and at the same time it will be some training for me too. Must feel a bit weird jumping on the horse again but i’m looking forward. Now all we need is some good weather, a horse with a good attitude and no more flu’s.

So where were we.
Tour the France round 2&3, and a new bourne foal! The little guy is round 2 weeks old now and it’s a special one. It might be one of the or the most special frisian horse out there at the moment. His mother has one of the most rare blood lines there are and same goes for his father. Lets hope for the family the little guy becomes a beautiful stallion.
Remarkable things in round 2 of the Tour de France. A beautiful old building in center of Trouville. 15000,- Ferrari kiddy car in a toy store. One “forbidden don’t go any further than this” sign isn’t enough, three should do the job. And I found a bakery whom sold ham&cheese croissants. Enjoy the pictures!

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Final thoughts.
I’ve been thinking about a certain subject which is playing at the moment and it made me realize that the core of man kind is getting taught what to do, some years ago work and nowadays school and work afterwords. Even when i was at home i realized that there are so many things to see or do on earth. Everyone knows about it via radio, television & internet but still sooo many people stay at home start working, build up some sort of a career and a family usually follows. I would suspect that ever-since the possibilities are really becoming endless that at-least half of the new generation would go abroad and travel or work and travel. And by traveling i don’t mean going to Australia for a year (No offense for the people who have done or are doing that). I do to want to go to Australia but the point is what keeps us so…. boring? Where is the curiosity, our number one characteristic? Why does everyone always have to think about their future and in the end money? You dont have to get your son a 15000 ferrari, he’ll enjoy a ball or a bike probably more..

Nov9

2 month anniversary!

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2 month anniversary!

balloons

a toast! the 7th of august i left my country proud and stout! 2 months later im still alive and ready for some more!

this month will end the 2 months of not earning any money. tomorrow i will help phil out on a job. i have no idea what i will have to do but it involves some muscle power which is good! he will probably need my help a couple of days (lets hope so!) and then i’m hoping to finish a website which will provide me of some more money! thumbs up for me cause i’m already spending it in my mind haha.

last week one german left and another one arrived! wenn dein deutsch gut ist kannst du alischa’s blog auch reden! niet dat mijn duits zo goed is hoor :p. i had to google it up a little bit.

i believe this was on thursday. i found some sparklers (sterretjes :D !) and if you put your shutter speed really slow on a professional camera you get something like this. je weet wel de klik die je hoort als je een foto maakt? als je je camera lang open laat staan dan krijg je dit. dus vanaf het moment dat je klikt op de knop van de camera en dan een seconde of 8 later laat sluiten: _MG_1620_MG_1625_MG_1623_MG_1624_MG_1621_MG_1626

we need some more practice but its a nice first try!

friday the water pressure was decreasing… phil went to have a look if there was something wrong with the water pipes. what seemed to be was that another landscaping company tried to build a pond and hit the main water pipe of this area.. (easiest way to build a pond obviously) so the next day we where out of water. and no its not that nice not having a shower after vaulting.. during the day it was ok. but around 10 at night the horses missed there water as wel. so we where running around with buckets of water, giving the horses there daily needs. then at 11 or so, a big truck with a tank of water (16000 liter) filled up every tank. then on sunday i had a nice warm shower again! the end. haha. too bad though because we wanted to have a fun night out on saturday which now we didnt. we did watch a movie instead and it was alright.

training vanavond maar niet zo’n zin.
in verband met spierpijn van gister,
geen goed begin.
rijmen vanavond een nieuw gewin.
daar maar mee trainen,
voor dat toekomstig lekkerding.

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