Sabrina Cakmakli: Oktober 2013

It's been a while I wrote my last blogpost. The last time I uploaded a blog was right after my knee surgery, right now I'll tell you guys about me being back on skis after a 6 months rehab.

Since I had knee surgery in February I've been really busy with a proper rehab. I had Physio 3-4 times a week and a lot of different kinds of training to get my knee strong again. Once again I could reckon myself as a very lucky person because my knee progressed really fast right after the surgery. I walked on crutches for like 7 days, started cycling after 10 days and could do a bunch of stabilization exercises way faster than the average.

Lucky me, I was supposed to finish school this summer, which gave me not really a lot of time to think about skiing. So while I was busy in school, I did a lot of training and fortunately the time went by really fast.
When I look back right now, I'm kinda "satisfied" that I got injured otherwise I wouldn't have been able to graduate that good in school as I did => Everything happens for a reason.

So after a couple of crazy weeks in june in school and some smashing parties, I was almost ready to get back on snow.

But before I was supposed to go back in the cold I granted myself a little bit of summer holidays.
First stop was Italy with all my girls from school, it's been an amazing graduation trip and I'm so happy about the last two years spending with those girls.

Then I've been to Turkey for one week with my best friend which was absolutely amazing. Getting a little bit tanned ;-)

Last stop before New Zealand was Italy again for a little bit of mountain biking with my mum.

Straight after Italy I had to go to Hintertux for an Intersport shooting, which was also my first day back on skis. It felt great to be back on skis and I'm so happy to be on Head skis for the upcoming season :)

Two days later I headed out to New Zealand for 2.5 months.

I mostly skied rails the first couple weeks down here just to get my knee used to all those impacts again.

As soon as the first germans arrived, my coach had the idea to show me some basics in Halfpipe skiing. Right within the first couple runs in the Pipe I had loads of fun and kept on pipe skiing for the upcoming weeks. Exactly a day before the official training for the Halfpipe Worldcup my Coach surprisingly registered me for the Worldcup just for the experience and to get some FIS Points for the Worldranking. I obviously couldn't keep up with all the girls, who doing it for ages, but I was happy with my run and ended up 20th. That's ok for my first ever Halfpipe Worldcup. Thanks Coach for your support and for showing me that Halfpipe skiing is so much fun :)

Sven & myself => the german halfpipe team ;)

Right after the Worldcup I took part in the Parklife Invitational in Queenstown. A Rail jam in the middle of the town and a pretty big event over there. Unfortunately things didn't go my way and I ended up 2nd behind my girl Isabelle. Happy though about her win and about such a fun time skiing the rail setup with all the boys and girls.

Next event were the New Zealand Freeski Open. I decided to compete in Halfpipe again because at this point I still wasn't ready to do Slopestyle with my knee. The day of Halfpipe qualification was amazing, we had great weather, kinda spring conditions and a perfect pipe. I could step up my run a bit since the Worldcup and ended up 11th in total. Thanks Coach Caja for your support and for such an amazing day up the mountain :)

After skiing bike tour,-amazing view!

Right after the NZ Open the German Team unfortunately headed back home. At this point I want to thank my Coach Thomas, Sven, Caja, Lisa, Bene, Sebi and Flo for your great company down here and for the amazing time we spent together. Glad to be surrounded by such amazing people and such a great team.

And here are some impressions how I spent my last few weeks in New Zealand.