Me, My Life & Armwrestling ♥: Rochefort, Belgium 2011

Monday, 1 August 2011

Rochefort, Belgium 2011

The weekend was fabulous as always! we arrived in the early evening time on Thursday around 6pm DIDN'T miss the ferry this time! :) first was to the weight in! i entered 70kg left hand and right hand 70kg and 70+! exciting, i actually didn't want to pull left as it is hurting as always since 2009! but i did, the way i see it is i rested it long enough and it ain't getting no better so i pull with it less than normal and hit the weight training harder to build muscle around the joints to help support them.
buuut anyway, we weighted in then went to the all famous Buffalo lunch restaurant, its the only place when we are at this comp for every armwrestling teams there, we had a nice meal met with my crazy Pierre haha saw the Swiss and dutch team aahhh the dutch one of my favourites!, then all of the guys come in!
Friday was competition day for left hands! not one for me to panic about i never expect to do well with left but i actually surprised myself! i beat lots of women and there was loads in the classes more than double in my class than at worlds senior level!!! it was incredible! and the level was so high! Kazakhstan,Swiss, Germany all great countries for women armwrestlers. so with left overall i took 3rd!
next day was right and i was entered into 2 classes the open class had 16 women in!!!!! that is incredible i was shocked!!! i had a AWESOME competition in this weight class i beat so many and had long hard fights, i even TOP ROLLED!!!!! i won too! i top rolled and won a match, i still don't believe it myself! just incredible
i really had the best comp of my life, fighting and thinking, using techniques and powerful!!! i really learned a lot and no i did not win the comp either class, but i don't give a shit, i gained so much here! and I'm so so happy with my performance, you will have a video coming soon!!!
then we had after party! was not as good as always had some nice meals, and lots of drinks and talked a lot to all the other armwrestlers and just enjoyed life and our sport!
thanks to everyone who supported me and wished me luck! i really done my best and you should be proud, it was great!
Love
Joanne

RESULTS

Woman Right 70+ 1 SWI 7 JUILLERAT LAURE

Woman Right 70+ 2 GER5 SWIENTEK GINA

Woman Right 70+ 3 GER7 CAMILLA KATTSTROM

Woman Right 70+ 4 GER11 TANJA KILLMAIER

Woman Right 70+ 5 ENG 2 POOLE JOANNE

Woman Right 70+ 6 GER8 LAURA BRANDING

Woman Right 70+ 7 NED36 VANDERVEEN CHANTAL

Woman Right 70+ 8 ITA2 DAPICE CARMELA

Woman Right 70+ 9 CZE11 SLOVAKOVA MONIKA

Woman Right 70+ 10 NED25 PATER DALI

Woman Right 70+ 11 HUN6 BUTI ANNA

Woman Right 70+ 12 NED13 HAKVOORT MARIJKE