A Memramcook man is hoping to be the next Canadian Timbersports champion.
Marcel Dupuis has loved lumberjack type activities since he was a child, and now he trains to compete.
He is in Ontario competing at the 2019 STIHL Timbersports Canadian Championship.
He told us a few of the events he is competing in, “You have an under hand chop, which is where you are chopping between your feet, and then there is a springboard, where you put a notch in and then put in a board, and jump on the board and then chop the board on the top. Then there is the hot saw, which is the NASCAR of woodchopping, so that is the one you try to cut the wood as fast as possible.”
Timbersports is just a hobby for Dupuis. He works full time as a Moncton firefighter, but he says the two really intertwine, because you use axes and chainsaws in firefighting too.
“There are people from all across Canada. There are competitors from BC to Nova Scotia, all of the best Canadian Timbersports athletes,” Dupuis says.
Nathan Cumberland from Keswick Ridge , New Brunswick is also there, defending his Canadian Champion title.
He says it is a growing sport, one you can do in University or College, and there are Maritime circuits where you can get started in competition.
Find more information on the 2019 STIHL Timbersports Canadian Championships HERE
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