Jason Wynyard
WORLD CHAMPION AXEMAN
JASON WYNYARD, of Ngati Manu hapu, Ngapuhi Iwi and Ngati Maniapoto, Tainui Iwi. Jason with his wife Karmyn and their three children resides in Waitakere City, Tamaki Makaurau.
1990-2001 Jason, was the huge drawcard to the Annual Ngati Manu Axemen's Chopping Carnival Event held at the Ngati Manu Marae, which was always the 1st Saturday in the New Year - (Opononi still holds and starts the 1st Axemen's Chopping Carnival for Northland Circuit, on New Year's Day).
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Wynyard in a walk
New Zealander takes ninth title at STIHL TIMBERSPORTS championship
ESPNOutdoors.com
SALEM, Ore. -- It's an odd sight watching a man hold a hot saw above his head and scream. Even in the hands of a seasoned lumberjack like Jason Wynyard, the chainsaw modified with a snowmobile engine looks out of place.
But there's no script for winning a ninth STIHL TIMBERPORTS championship, so Wynyard just did what came natural. Not to mention the fact that he had just cut through a massive white pine log three times in less than 6 seconds, so something like that comes with adrenaline."I'm getting up there in age a little bit and these things aren't getting any easier," said the 36-year-old New Zealander who, along with countryman David Bolstad, has accounted for the past 14 championships. "It's been the premier event in the world for a number of years, and I'm very fortunate to have won it so many times."
The STIHL TIMBERSPORTS Series celebrated its 25th anniversary this year and is the second longest running show on ESPN behind SportsCenter. The format has changed slightly throughout the years -- including a few years as a part of the Great Outdoor Games -- but the purpose of the show as endured; Find the best lumberjacks in the world and send them through six traditional lumberjack disciplines to see who's best.
Wynyard won three of the six disciplines at the Oregon State Fair on Sunday and never finished worse than third (out of 12) in any event. That third-place finish came in the first event of the day, the springboard. Actually, after three events, it was looking more like Bolstad's day than Wynyard's.
But in event four, the single buck, Wynyard started putting a hurt on the wood that made the trees on Mt. Hood quiver with fear. He won all of the final three disciplines, creating a margin of victory that surprised even himself.
"It's tough to beat some of these guys who specialize in events," he said. "I really had to knuckle down and do a lot of training to get myself in good shape. It hasn't sunk in yet, really."
He attributed most his success this year to a more organized training schedule geared toward doing well at this event. He focused more on endurance, and built up his workouts gradually to avoid injury.
"This is very unusual for me, but I kind of planned ahead a little," he said as he packed up one of the more than 20 axes he brought. "I used to just train kind of week to week without a plan, but I can't do that stuff anymore at age 36. You can't be carrying nagging injuries into an event like this, and I was able to avoid that."
"That's the fantastic thing about this series," he said. "It challenges you in so many ways and it makes these wins incredibly gratifying."
A young girl approached Wynyard mid-interview and asked if he would sign a poster for her friend Jenna. "Hi, Jenna," he wrote after double checking how to spell her name. "Jason Wynyard, STIHL champion, 2010."
A reporter commented that if he wrote down all the years of his championships, the interview might never end. Wynyard did his usual smile, which seems to go more across his face than up at the edges.
"I've been fortunate," he said.
STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® 2009 World Championship in Switzerland
New Zealander is World’s Best Competitive LumberjackThe world’s top competitive lumberjacks have crowned a new champion at the 2009 STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship: Jason Wynyard of New Zealand won four of six disciplines with axe and saw and thus the overall title.
A total of nineteen athletes from the same number of nations competed in this athletic event in Brienz, Switzerland in front of 5,000 spectators.Brienz, 13 September 2009. A total of 19 competitive lumberjacks comprised the starting field of the 2009 STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship in Brienz, Switzerland.
All participants numbered among the world’s elite, but the fastest and technically most perfect in this competition of the best was Jason Wynyard. Already for the second time since 2006, the New Zealander triumphed over the competition. He won four of six disciplines to take the overall title.
The top international athletes set a total of 20 new national records before a sold-out crowd of 5,000 enthusiastic spectators and thus demonstrated the high general level of accomplishment in this competition series. Athletes from Sweden, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Austria, Germany, the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia travelled to Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland district for the international season finale of the elite division of lumberjack sports.
World Champion Jason Wynyard was happy about his victory: “After getting off to a weak start in first ax discipline, I did pretty well. It was hard work, but it was a great competition. Brienz is incredible, the people were incredible, and I am proud to have won here. It is a special moment for me.”
At the end of this year’s competition, it was announced that the next STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship will be held on 4 September 2010 in St. Johann in Tyrol / Austria.Six disciplines enthralled Swiss spectatorsThe STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® SERIES consists of three disciplines with the ax and three with the saw. The six technically demanding disciplines revolve around the athlete and his handling of the sports equipment and the wood.
Pictures of the STIHL® TIMBERSPORTS® World Championship are available on the Internet at http://presse.stihl-timbersports.com/(access with press / press).
NOTABLE RESULTS UPCOMING EVENTS 2010
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