world cup heerenveen...

2nd world cup event of the year was still not so good for me...1500m was 4sec slower than last year and my 5000m was 6m58 so my slowest time of the year....something is going wrong and i have to find the solution quickly...

so on saturday evening i got new blade to try... and on sunday i was already better with 1m12.69 in the 1000m...finally i got more speed back as i could do a lap of 26.7 , my fastest for this year...in the afternoon i did team puirsuit and france finished 11th...

next week end i go to moscou...for 1500m and 10000m...
(thanks to desg.foto for the picture...)

berlin world cup 08

first week end in berlin was not so good...i was kind of slow in the 5km with a 6m53...
on saturday i didn t recovery good from this long 5km so i got a 1m51 in 1500m....still not good enougth...compare to last year and compare to my training times....
next week end in heerenveen....

video salt lake city training camps

back in holland

i m finally back in holland inn hotel in wolvega after 6 weeks in salt lake city. i was a pleasure to skate in thialf again....it s nice to feel the atmosphere here with so many skater 1 week before their national championship...
i spend lot of time before and after training to do resistance stretching with roger. it give me good feelings.

test in salt lake...

so after few test in salt lake here are my time for now...
6m57 in 5km
3m56 in 3km
1m52.6 in 1500m
1m11.7 in 1000m
37.5 in 500m

tuesday i m going back in europe...

traveling pictures...

1000m test race.....1m11.71

yesterday i race a 1000m in 1m11.71 , that s my second best time ever...so i m pretty happy about it. on 3km i race 3m58 so there is still lot of work there to do....

bike training....

yams at starbucks....

a classic day in salt lake city

6m57 for 1st test

ok first test was not so fast...really not...so let s keep working....and let see if it get better when i m use to the salt lake city altitude...

one week in salt lake already

i m in salt lake city with sietse and roger since a week now...we find a cool appartment to stay only 10min from the oval...here is few picture...

it s really good place to train, yesterday we went biking in the moutain...2h uphill for a 3h ride...really nice...

3rd week in berlin

thing are going good in for the 3rd week in berlin with roger sietse and steven. my neck pain is gone and we have lot of quality and fun in training on ice and bike.
sunday i will race the coniX race in berlin (then i can meet again my cool teammate from powerslide), then i drive back to france...

2nd week in berlin

training is belin is going good... steven is still here to train us for running habilities and core training.... soon some video of training coming here...

FIRS video to promote inline

1st training on ice

already few days in berlin, and all seems to be fine, i m training with roger of course, and also Sietse (and the bear) now, a sprinter form netherland...
few bonus guys and girl join us for more fun....Jan a skater fom switzerland, thierry (surprise by the toger)my short track coach and mathilde....

steven our conditioning coach arrived yesterday.... so we already start with some cool exercice ...so creative what he plan....

here is few picture from training...

on the road to berlin to train on ice

life picture of how it look way i travel...waiting for the train to go to the airport...

zurich world inline cup: 9TH

sunday i was in zurich for the world inline cup. i finished 9th from this 43km race.
i breakaway in a group of 14 in the 1st lap of the race.
you can find a race summary at :
www.powerslide-racing.com

zurich is normally famous for a massive sprint but it seems 110mm change the rules and the race was much harder than before...

now i go train on ice in berlin...

nice blog Wouter Hebbrecht

hi dear all,

just to let you know the adress of a good blog from another skater... Wouter Hebbrecht , he is actually one of the fastest for sprint...

http://wouterhebbrecht.blogspot.con

good luck for world to you Wouter

training in holland

for my holiday time i m back in holland inn hotel in wolvega, here i keep training with a full program with core training, resistance stretching with bob cooley, and general physical preparation with steven.

spadunya

thanks Spadunya for helping me with quality product. since 1 year i use this product during massage with my physio. i love to use purple color oil after training it give me good feeling and help to recovery.....
the red one is really cool before biking...i got lot of energy from it.

more info: www.spadunya.com

picture to support association in france

here a picture i did with all sport in france which need to use a helmet... in my career i had few crash and my helmet was really usefull...so this is here just to remember you to use a helmet..and to support people from UNAFTC association in france...

picture from the month for me

here is one of the picture from my 500m in gross gerau, i was in semi final with kwinten tas...in the last corner i kick my skate and loose control...i went straight and almost crash in the turn...i was lucky that this metallic protection was here, i could hit that and go back on the track....
on this picture it s nice to see the face of the people behind the protection...

really good for motivation

rennes, really a nice race...

last week end i finished in the pack in rennes world cup. since 110mm are majority in the group it s going so so so fas, that s really nice feeling. a 15 guys breakaway went and pascal ramali from powerslide phuzion finished 10th....that s good for a young gun from our team...

5th in wolvega world cup

nice, i got a top 5 in world cup last week end in wolvega...2 years i didn t make it...so cool it happen there in front of all my friend from hotel holland inn , and yves and bob...

STEENWIJK: holland inline cup

tonight is the race in Steenwijk, the 1st holland inline cup of the season. 50km race in a 2km lap...with a little uphill...probably a lap that Arjan Smit know very good as he lived close to here. Steenwijk is near Wolvega, so that's nice to race close to TEW center.

more resistance stretching

from 12 to 18 of may, Bob Cooley will be back in wolvega, nl for more resistance stretching. if some of you are interested to follow a one week session you can contact Yves from TEW :

Total Energetic Wellness Wolvega
Hotel Holland Inn Wolvega
Steenwijkerweg 52 8471 LC Wolvega
T: 0561 - 612949 / 06 - 21854824
F: 0561- 618591

thanks Gross Gerau

i had really cool week end in gross gerau. powerslide phuzion team was looking for a good result after the "not so good" race in Zug. so now it s cool , i think we did really nice team race and bring Kwinten Tas on the 3rd place of the Gross Gerau criterium.

really nice for our team... you can get more information on powerslide web site:

http://www.powerslide-racing.com/

powerslide phuzion international team in ZUG

hi dear all , here is a picture of my new team for this season 08.

we all meet for 1st time in Zug... result are not here yet but it s gonna come soon...

3 pistes

after a 3 weeks break and few weeks of resistance stretching, i restart training one week before 3 pistes. anyway i race there to get some felling for racing and too meet my new team mate in powerslide germany team.

now, they also come to nantes to train with me, thomas boucher and benjamin douchin . we are not so lucky with the weather for now....but we have lot of fun ^^

thanks TEW and Bob Cooley

thanks to my partner TEW to make possible this 2 weeks of training with Bob about resistance stretching

resistance stretching with Bob Cooley

after a 3 weeks break, i restart my training by working with Bob Cooley. he is the master for resistance  stretching. we are working on biomechanical level with stretching technics using resistance. 

soon a special report about this is coming...

before that you can get information in his book available at this website:

http://www.meridianflexibility.com/

world cup sprint in inzel

last week end was my 1st time in inzell...really nice place close to the mountain...it s really good to be there. i raced 500m and 1000m... 500M is still a problem and i can t really start fast , my opening is like 10,7sec so i need to work much more on this.
2Nd day 1000m get better with a time of 1M13sec9 ...but still this opening problem...
now season is over for me...it s time to make a break...

world cup in hamar

hi,
hamar was really not good for me....just 1m51.05 in 1500m and a terrible 14m27 in 10km....
baselga next week end can only be better ^^

world championship sprint

last week end i race my 1st world sprint championship in heerenveen. WSC is made of 2x500m and 2X1000m. sprint is good for me to train the opening of my 1500m as, starting is still my weak point on ice.
1st day i did a pb on 500m: 37.00sec (37.55sec before)
1000m: 1M13.4

2nd day:
500m:37.4sec
1000m:1m13.04

next week end is the world cup in hamar: i race 1500m and 10km

european championship

in kolomna, i finished 24th from the EC. 500m was really not good as i hurt my groin muscle the week before, so i couldn t really make correct start....opening was then 11,3 in 500m with a lap of 27,4.
5000m :6m47
1500m: 1m50.85

final ranking:24th

finally got my visa....

today i finally got my visa.... as embassy was close for christmas holiday i was not sure to get it on time to go to kolomna. the organising comitee and some friend (gerrit van keulen) help me greatly to get it. thanks everybody.

now i will fly friday to kolomna from dusseldorf... and i will race saturday and sunday...