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Lumberjacks and jitts demonstrate their climbing, running and chopping skills during 20 logging events each July at the Olympics of the Forest in Hayward, Wis.
Now in its 49th year, the Lumberjack World Championships are supported by
200 volunteers and annually attract more than 100 lumberjacks and lumberjills from
around the globe. Vying for $50,000 in prize money, the outdoor athletes test their
skills, speed and endurance in 20 events, including logrolling, boom running, pole
climbing, chopping and sawing, at the premier timber sporting event in the nation.
“This is huge, you get bragging rights from this!” says logrolling competitor Alyse
Schroeder, 18, of Hayward. “It's what we train for all year. You get ranked for next
year. It’s a huge, huge thing." From the spring thaw through August, Schroeder and
her 13-year-old sister, Lauryn, practice logrolling at least an hour a day.
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logrolling. “Logrolling is very different from other sports; there isn’t much give,” says
Hoeschler, who took up the sport at age 4. “The log is little and it spins fast and you
have another person on with you Its tiny movements and total concentration. You
can’t let the crowd or anything get in your head. If your mind lapses even a little bit,
you're going to fell.”
To add to the difficulty, competitive logrollers often break an opponent’s concentration
by wobbling the log or kicking water in a foe’s face.
Fortunately, Hoeschler has had some great teachers. Like many competitors, her
logging skills were passed down from her family. Her mother, Judy Scheer Hoeschler,
is a seven-time world champion logroller, sisters Katie and Abby hold world titles,
and brother, Will. 16, moved from the semi-pros to the pros in 2007. In addition, her
uncles, aunt and cousins all have been successful in various lumberjack sports.
“When I was a child, it was just something really fun to do with my mom and
my siblings, ' Lizzie says. “In the summer, we’d all go down to the practice center. Its
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Another “Go!” pierces the air, signaling the start of the
women’s boom run competition.
During the women’s boom runner event, Jenny Atkinson,
34, and Lizzie Hoeschler, 24, sprint across die lake on bobbing,
30-foot strings of wet logs chained end-to-end before dashing
back across to the finish line. Atkinson, a third-grade teacher
from Stillwater, Minn. (pop. 15,143), wins with a time of 15.33
seconds. Hoeschler, at 15.53 seconds, takes the loss in stride.
“Jenny and I go back and forth. I’m glad it’s that way
because it makes competition more exciting and makes
people train harder,” says Hoeschler, of La Crosse, Wis.
Hoeschler also competes in the nerve-racking sport of
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one thing that has brought my sisters and me together because wherever we were, in the
summer we’d all come home and train together. If we weren’t training together, we’d
compete with each other on the weekends.”
Of course, not every competitor has a long lumberjacking history. Brothers Shane, 18,
and Cole Sabin, 16, are the first rollers in their family. “It was my mom’s idea,” Cole says.
“I was 5 years old when I started and have been competing ever since. It's fun, it’s hard, it
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