Tuesday, June 02, 2009
This week in Nottingham gave us more information than many weeks of standard research.
We were able to talk with some of the best athletes in the World, coaches and even other boat builders. The most impressive thing was how friendly we were welcomed, we felt that there is room for us in this market, and we will take the oportunity.
now is time to go home and do some homework, and go back later in the seaoson with some improvements made.
In the meantime we assured our first top athlete TIM BRABANTS assured that if he ever paddled slalom he would do it in a NELO!!!
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Season has taken off, the athletes were going down the course all day,so we were digesting the whole experience and even managed to catch some feedback from the most curious that were already trying our boats today.
The Nelo team here consists of myself ( André), Chico ( the Wookie) and Ivan Lawler (as 6 times World Champion). Today we have been centered in understanding the diferent shapes and on how they affect the behaviour of the boats, even tough we don't have the insigh view, the combination of our pragmatic view and the feedback we hope to receive from the best in the World, will surely bring us awesome results.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Today was the last day of training, great oportunity to see what is going on . Weather was not nice at all in the morning but in the afternoon it got better and we could follow the demo runs without freezing.... And yes there was a Nelo boat during the demo run, Fiona Pennie Olympian in 2008 for Great Britain, has been trying our boat for some time now and used it during the opening run.
We were also able to catch up with the Portuguese Team, fans of our kayaks and a young and promising team. ( in the picture Ivan Silva)
Tonight we took a break of Salom and had dinner with Olympic Flatwater Champion Tim Brabants, good food, great company and soccer!! Great combination.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Europeans in Slalom will be our first official appearance in a Slalom race, the only word we can think of is "CHALLENGE"
For the moment we are only as well known as our name is written with 2 L's, surely our perserverance and knowledge will make us more familiar in this spectacular sport
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