MY PERSONAL CHEFS
August 12th, 2009 adminthis is what happened at my house tonight!Â
amber wing and haley smith making dinner.
benny g at the projects.
August 2nd, 2009 admini rolled out to the projects the other morning to watch benny g have his first go at the system 2.0. ben isnt much of a cable rider not because he thinks its lame or non legit or anything like that but because he lives in clermont and never really gets a chance to ride the cable. when ben and i first ever moved to florida back in 2000 we would go to owc at least once a week, however we NEVER tried any air tricks but we did learn some pretty sick tumble turns around the corners that we were quite proud of.    Â
fast forward to july of 2009 and we find a new kind of cable system and a rider wanting to learn air tricks. the system 2.0 is supposed to help you learn air tricks a little easier and is meant to be more forgiving. and its also an AWESOME replacement for the winch if you are able to instal something that permanent and that expensive. anyhow, ben cruised out with thewakeplace.com to document his first time ever behind a system 2.0 unfortunately ben had taken a few fairly heavy edge catches the day before and had a borderline torn ab muscle which was put over the edge by his first ever raily attempt behind the 2.0. even though ben tor his ab he learned a railey, a reverse tumble turn (which was supposed to be a backroll) hahaha and a front flip. he unfortunately had quit early due to his injury. i know he is planning on revisiting the 2.0 soon so be sure to visit www.thewakeplace.com frequently and watch out for bens 2.0 experience. there is a really cool interview with him up right now. click HERE to see it.
patrick panakos operating the 2.0 for ben.
jon from the wakeplace.com
ben in pain.
2009 Nationals
July 19th, 2009 adminlast weekend was nationals, it was held in the ridiculously hot city of oklahoma city. it was a consistent 105 out just about every day. i rode pretty decent, not as awesome as i would have liked, but i basically stood up 2 passes with the exception of 1 fall at the end of my second pass. i felt i rode pretty well and figured i had beaten some of the other guys in my heat especially when one of the riders fell 3 times. however i was put in last place in my heat which didnt allow me to advance into the next round. me and a lot of other people smelt BS……. but whatever, thats how wakeboard contests go i guess. Â
anyhow like i said it was extremely hot but all around it was a good time. the whole oakley crew was there and we got to teach the fashion editors of maxim magazine and teen magazine how to wakeboard as well as get some shredding in for ourselves when the event was done on sunday. we had our oakley mastercraft there and we loaded her down and rode till dark. it was a good time.
here are some photos of the weekend.
breakfast with benny g, jeff house, and shawn watsons retarded twin brother. hahahaha just kidding, thats just how watson eats.
sort of a far away picture but here is the site from the bridge.
i believe this was jimmy larich doing a switch heel 9 off the kicker.
the heat finally got to my team manager matty swanson from oakley. his nose started bleeding uncontrollably and he went down for the count inside the o-lab. poor guy.
frickin cali drivers
April 29th, 2009 adminits amazing how i sat in traffic for about an hour and a half only to find out that the accident was ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY! how does that happen?……………i guess it was probably people like me taking pictures. oh well, hopefully everyone was ok.
whats the best way to get your knees prepared for wakeboarding after knee surgery?
April 9th, 2008 adminthis is! im only 4 months out and would not recommend many ACL patients do this unless their therapists say so.Â