On the 17th – 19th of June the third Husqvarna training camp was held in the Netherlands. There where 28 participants from eight different countries competing. It was a mix of WLC experienced loggers and professional loggers who were about to enter their first competition.

The atmosphere during the training camp was great and the experienced competitors helped and trained the less experienced loggers. The result was that the less experienced competitors made big steps forward in improving their techniques and results, while the more experienced loggers where able to fine-tune their skills.

The Japanese team (all using the 576 XP) had their first experience with the five different disciplines. It was surprising to see how they picked up the different techniques and improved their skills enormously.  The best Japanese score was made by Tomohiro Maeda, with a total of 1 207 points, which is very good if you keep in mind that he had only two days of training.

The training competition held on the Saturday was won by the Dutchman Arian Essenstam, with the remarkable score of 1 622 points. His score in the limbing discipline was the most impressive: 440 points. Olle Kjaer from the Danish team finished second and the Belgian David Bergen had his best result ever with 1 552 points when he reached the third place.

Jean Michel Petitqueux from the French team had a very good score in the tree felling discipline, only 3 cm from the target and reached a score of 657 points. Hitting the board in the precision bucking discipline kept him of a very high score. On the precision bucking, Hugo van Bijsterveldt was able to cut of the disc completely without hitting the board and the other disc was just 2 mm from complete separation. This gave him the very high score of 247 points on this event.

The Dutch training camp was the last of the three hosted by Husqvarna. Now all the participants are prepared to perform their very best at the World Logging Championship in Croatia this fall.