Year 2020 ended up with following state of Casting Jihlava casters>
- Adam and Vojta started 2nd year of casting. Record of Adam was 205 points, record of Vojta was 328 points in pentathlon.
- Vincent, Honza and Petr started first year. No competition yet.
- Kristýna casted her first 400 points pentathlon, 5th in national champ and gained bronze medal at arenberg.
- Zuzana still trained with Jihlava because there is a looong way to get to maternal Ostrava place.
- Tomáš returned to casting after 29 years.
- Jirka decided to compete too.
- Karel enjoyed left hand casting so sometimes he casted with rod in left hand although he is right-handed. Personal record is 419 points in pentathlon.
Year 2020 had almost been destroyed by Covid and beginning of 2021 looked similar. Indoor season was cancelled at all, start of outdoor season did not allow full training. Then it was solved by weekend trainings for whole day. Came at 9:00 and ended at 19:00, weak and mild.
But finally the season started well.
First action at Kroměříž at the end of May. Looked like training was good. Adam overcame his record by 92 points.
Vojta did the same and overcame his record by 50 points. Kristýna did not have so much training but she casted more than average result of 2020 season.
Zuzana started with 100p at fly skish and 19p of targets loss. Karel did similar, 15p of target loss but double handed events problem appeared.
Tomáš and Jirka did set their first results for overcoming.
Next competitions at June. 1st league competition with support of Milan Sepekář (Žirovnice) hosting. After 9 years we competed team for 2nd league too.
Team of 1st league placed 6th position, Team of 2nd league placed 3rd position (of 3 teams).
The second day after league boys competed in district round of Zlatá udice. Placed under positions nominating for national round.
Week later another competition at Bohumín, championship of Moravian-Silesian district. Only Adam, Karel and Jirka competed.
Great time. Adam had new records in fly events and overcame 300 points in pentathlon. Jirka had also his record, with his fly distance casts made other caster nervous. Some of them shocked that Jirka did it with his own hand-made rod. Also new record in pentathlon very close do 350 points.
Not so good action for Zuzana, bud first 100p cast in spinning distance. Double handed events problem of Karel did continue. Pentathlon and heptathlon were not good enough.
Czech republic Grand Slam as next competition. Adam casted over 300p again, just a little bit behind the new record. Vojta overcame his record very close to 400points.
Kristýna was not lucky, somehow she could not hit the fly skish targets.
Zuzana had a problem at fly skish, settled her down to 3rd position. Karel had 4p target loss and placed 2nd position at pentathlon. Problems with salmon made him happy for at least 4th position at heptathlon.
Jirka did a miracle at fly skish... and ruined it by spinning skish. But the result of pentathlon over 300 points again.
Tomáš did great and did cast over 400 points. Being happy by that result he decided to cast double handed events for his first time and got over 100 points in each event. So he got over 600 points in heptathlon, firstly in his career.
A week later national championship of children placed in Kroměříž. Adam, Vojta and Kristýna competed. No medal gained by boys but new pentathlon record of Adam increased by 10 points and two finals of Vojta, placed 6th and 4th positions. Kristýna got 5th position at pentathlon, two finals and 1 bronze medal gained.
July and another competitions of World cup and special training camp for talented young casters. Vojta was there for whole time, Adam and Kristýna competed at control competition, prepared for last day of camp. Adam increased his record by another 12 points, Vojta did cast over 400 points for first time (over 420 points).
Special action during camp. Two fathers of casters against Zuzana and Karel. For giving them a chance, Zuzana casted with left hand and Karel with left hand and on knees. Also got a special plug with eye in the middle of side part and with metal balls inside the plug. Interesting casts flying direct on target and moved directly down and right 3 meters in front of arenberg.
Finally, fathers won with 4 points more than Zuzana and Karel duo.
World Cup 2021. Because of covid there was a decision of having also 2 competitions in Czechia and 2 competitions in Slovakia. This allowed 7 casters of Jihlava to participate the cup.
Petr participated the last competition and although he was casting over half of year, he gained 2 points for last position in juniors (15th place). Vojta could participated only the first competition and gained 11th place so he got 5 points. Adam participated 2 competitions in Czechia and gained 8 points.
Kristýna participated 3 competitions and she was not bad but she could not participated the last competitions with doubled points so sever casters got above her. She gained 15 points.
Zuzana trained hard and the training helped to got 3rd, 1st, 2nd and 2nd places. With that she won the World cup 2021 for her first time.
Jihlava men enjoyed the cup. Tomáš coming back to casting after 29 years participated the first competition and made his new Personal record. Furthermore he got in touch with double handed events. Jirka never casting before was more fighting against castings events than other casters. But second Czech competitions was great, setting his new Personal record. Karel participated 4 cups of World cup for very first time. Twice he gained 2nd position and one time he was at 5th place. At the final competition with double points he won with great luck and therefore he was winner of World cup 2021 for his very first time.
August - time of training camps. One week camp of south Moravia district. Also preparation for Zlatá udice - cognition of fish, fauna and flora around rivers and lakes. Special magnetic gifts were prepared for all. Boys were very diligent, no gift left.
Control competition and the end of the camp. Honza made his new arenberg record not beaten during rest of season even getting close. Petr made new Personal record in pentathlon with 50 points more. Adam was attacking his events records. Kristýna made her best pentathlon result of the season.
Of course, adult guys trained hard too. Jirka had his send best result of fly distance single handed, the best result of spinning distance single handed and he had his best season cast in spinning distance double handed.
Second training camp. At Moravian-Silesian district. Jihlava guys allowed to participate.
Training more intensive than at the previous camp. Better results gained after the camp.
Control competition too. Great action of Adam. With 2 years of casting he gained only 45 point of target loss (80 - 90 - 85). Nobody expected that from 10 years old boy. Also greatest fly distance with one cast over 35 meters. Almost whole camp was counting how many meters of spinning distance he needed to beat 400 points of pentathlon. Incredible support of Moravian-Silesian casters wishing Adam the great cast but unfortunately nerves won and 400 points border was not defeated. Never mind, 396 points of 10 years boy was great result.
Results of everyone from Jihlava were great. Kristýna overcame her best Personal record by 23 points including the season best arenberg and spinning distance results. Jirka overcame his best arenberg and spinning skish results and also Personal pentathlon record beaten by 13 points and heptathlon record beaten by 6 points. And Karel did his the only season 0-point target loss.
Well - perfect august time at all...
National championship of ladies, men and cadets with polish friend allowing to cast there. Zuzana and Karel participated.
Zuzana was well prepared, got medal in every event including 3 gold. Pentathlon winning lost by 0.01 points.
Karel showed up him self in best casting of his career. Got medal in 5 events including gold from spinning distance double handed and got 3rd place in pentathlon, 2nd place in heptathlon and won all-round. With 8 medals he beat his best Personal record of medal amount by 3. No other caster of the champ had 8 medals like Karel.
Zuzana and Karel were also members of their district teams and got one medal more.
The most important competition of the season - World championship in Hungary. Zuzana participated as national team member. Karel was not good enough for national trainer so was not chosen. But he was offered a participation as support guy by organizer and he was happy to accept that.
More about the championship is in separate article. Zuzana showed up her great preparation and got 2 gold medals. The two golds she had always wished to gain. She won multiplier distance double handed and the woman all-round. She was the only Czech lady that won any multithlon of that championship.
At the same time another Czech competition was prepared - Cup of Czech youth. Adam, Honza and Kristýna participated. Boys up to 12 year counted in plug triathlon (arenberg - skish - distance) but they could cast pentathlon if they wanted to. Adam won the triathlon, Honza was the fifth. In pentathlon Honza was better, he was fourth. Adam won the pentathlon too.
Kristýna fought at girls category and she was successful, got 2nd place.
Next week - next competition. That time in Kroměříž. Another interesting results came.
Petr begun being good in fly skish, new Personal record increased by 15 points and spinning skish new record by 20 points. Another increased results in another 2 events and in summary new Personal record in pentathlon exceeding 300 points for his first time. Adam went on line of his best results sometimes below by a few points. Pentathlon was his 3rd best in season. Also Honza tried his best and increased his results at 3 events and exceeded his pentathlon maximum by 15 points. And with second season best pentathlon of Kristýna we knew this was our the best competition of the season.
Under line - Jirka increased his pentathlon by 14 points and his heptathlon by 43 points. And Karel won pentathlon and heptathlon too.
For making the competition more attractive and funny the organizer prepared a competition of mixed teams. Two Jihlava guys got special prices.
After long 7 years Jihlava team was able to complete a team for youth league.
Kristýna did host at team of Litovel and Ostravian Nikola hosted in Jihlava team. First round was in Frýdlant near Liberec, second one was in Dolany near Hradec Králové. Especially second round results were interesting. Adam did cast his first 90 point at fly skish, Petr did cast his best pentathlon 348 points got by 4 his best results in events so far. Honza also beat his best pentathlon by 5 points more. Vojta made his casting over 400 points as standard and made his new pentathlon record too.
In Litovel team Kristýna had his best result in fly skish and second best pentathlon of the season.
In September there also was second round of 1st and 2nd leagues.
Tomáš could not participate, Petr replaced him. Was not easy to compete with the adults if you have 3 children younger than 15 years in team but the results was also good. Jirka did cast his 3rd best pentathlon in season, Adam did cast over 360 points again, Kristýna had over 400 points.
First league team consisted of Pavel (junior world champ at spinning distance - 1991), Majkl (junior world champ at spinning arenberg - 1991), Karel (no junior world champion ever) and only Aleš (junior world champ at spinning arenberg - 2011) was missing. Replaced by Vojta. Vojta was perfect - his new Personal pentathlon record over 440 points. The team gained great 3rd position of second round and 5th place in league summary.
Last national outdoor competition was in Prague.
All boys had to compete in junior category. Adam had his second best result and gained 9th position. Vojta was bad lucky and gained one position below Adam. Petr was below to but again he had great fly events and for second time he was over 340 points. And Zuzana won. Men part - no comment... :))
A special competition there - salmon cast one against one in first round, quarterfinal, semifinal and final round. Even Zuzana did casts but defeated in first round, just like Jirka. Karel got lucky to get to quarterfinaland during casting we was improving his casting so much that he got to final round and luckily he won.
For thanking the boys for their hard work and excellent results trainers decided to take them for one more competition. Their first competition abroad. A competition in little town called Winden am See.
During really hard wind condition that made a lot of problem to world champions boys were fighting more with their nerves as they never met such condition at court. Not good beginning, quite good later. Adam had 92 points at arenberg, not many adults had the same or better result. Honza had his best fly skish result and new record at spinning distance.
A special fight against Vojta and Karel, Karel casted by left hand. He had a lot of problems to had at least the same result a Vojta had.
Vojta was fighting hard, he event had 100 points cast in spinning distance for his first time.
Finally, Karel won with oonly 1.010 points more than Vojta.
Zuzana did cast against team colleagues and friend from Sweden and Austria (like Alena). Experience with bad wind conditions at court during season trainings
was advantage, Zuzana did cast accuracy well and finally she won the pentathlon.
So... saying goodbye to 2021 season was done at area of beautiful lake during sunset.