Ine Helvik

Becoming a grandmother is a great thing but not so good for my game. I lost against Sara Rocha in the 9-ball. I was not able to focus much:)

Next is the eurotour on Thursday. New tournament, new opportunities!

The draw will come here http://womeneurotouronline.com/

And the livestream will offcourse be on kozoom.com

Thanks for reading 🙂
Ine

Late last night I got a text from my son. I am now a grandmother to a little girl! Everything is well with the baby, the mother and my son. I can not wait to go home sunday and see them:)

Wow… life sure has it’s own way…

Grandma!

Finally it is my turn to play! After two days cheering for my teammates the 9-ball begins. I played Marika Poikijokki from Finland the first round and unfortunately I lost 3-7. I play again at 20:30 and now I am prepared for bouncing rails and slow cloth!

Draw and results is here : http://europeanpoolchampionships.eu/draw-results/

Livestream on kozoom.com. They are streaming 24 tables!

Wish me luck
Thanks for reading 🙂
Ine

Finally The time has come, tomorrow I go to Vale Do Lobo and join the rest of the Norwegian team for the European Championships! Saturday I am attending the General Assembly for the EPBF and monday the 9-ball starts. I can’t wait! Tomorrow and saturday I will be cheering for my teammates Line Kjørsvik and Martine Christiansen when they play the team competition and also 8-ball starts tomorrow. That means that the guys, Mats Schjetne, Ronny Oldervik, Steffen Wolff, Roger Rasmussen and Kim-Ronny Nygård is also playing. The Eurotour starts on thursday 23rd.

Draw and results for the European Championships is HERE

Draw and results for the Eurotour is HERE

Live stream for all the matches in both the European Championships and the Eurotour is on Kozoom.com!

Thanks for reading, I will be updating during the week:)

Ine

Mats Schjetne with a monster jump (with my OB Pro Lift off course:))

March has been very busy with Eurotour in Verona, 14-1 Norwegian Championships and then the Stavanger Open handicap tournament last weekend. The Easter break was much needed:)

Mats Schjetne visited our club the two days before the Stavanger Open and he had two separate sessions teaching our players practice methods, how to execute shots and also went into the strategics behind some of the disciplines. I think all the players had a great time and learned something new which is important. I learned some new drills which I am trying out now while the poolhall is closed down. I really enjoy them, this time it is mostly PAT 3 drills or variants of them and they are difficult. The more difficult the more I enjoy seeing the solutions. I have not yet gone through them prefect yet, but I am not giving up:) Thank you Mats for a great couple of days!

The Stavanger Open came and went, I had a hc of 2 and I won my first match, got demolished by Imran Majid starting on 0, lost that one 9-4 and then lost my next game the following day, feeling tired. Saturday I was stretched out with a fever and a stomach flu, no wonder I was tired. Luckily it was not an important tournament, just a fun one:) Neils Feijen won the tournament, Imran Majid came second and Ralf Suquet and Ruslan Chinahov ended on third. Other noticeable players in the tournament was Fransisco Bustamente, Daryl Peach, Karl Boyes and Marcus Chamat. Nice to have them all in my beautiful town even though the tournament was not in my Poolhall, but downtown:)

So for the good news. I got a Wildcard in the European Championships in 9-ball!!
I am very happy about that. I was going to Portugal anyway to attend the EPBFs General Assembly as the Internal Advisor and then play the Eurotour, but getting a wildcard for the 9-ball is a big highlight. I will be joining Line Kjørsvik and Martine Christiansen for Norway in the womens divison:) More information about the EC and the ET will come later.

I wish you all a Happy Easter!

Thanks for reading:)

Ine