Author: wakecarro

Good morning! I’m a little jetlagged so I keep waking up at 6 am (today I slept til 7) but I actually like it. The morning is my favorite part of the day. Today I could barely get out of bed though since yesterday was my first time riding in a while and wow, did my wakeboarding muscles protest! I feel like I’ve grown some completely new abs and my arms definitely popped one size bigger today.

Namaste ♥

Yesterday was such a great first day though. Waking up at 6 I grabbed my yoga mat and went up on the roof for a little good morning routine. Then Charlotte woke up so we had breakfast (yoghurt and fresh fruit) before walking the 300 meters to the cable. Since it is a brand new 6 tower clockwise cable they haven’t had time to build all the obstacles yet but they have a crazy kicker and a tabletop. Since I hadn’t ridden in so long I barely heard what the very nice thai staff talked to me about as I signed the waiver and got my wristband. Put my bindings on and jumped out on the water and after half a lap I crashed off the kicker. Took off my board and ran back to the dock with a big smile on my face and did another half lap before I crashed again. Just playing around riding doubles with charlotte getting my airtricks back and trying my ankle out was such a great first hour of the day! Then we decided to get back to their system 2.0 and learn some new tricks. Riding with her really pushes me and we started to try this trick that we both want to learn. After a couple of cartwheeled faceplants and hysterical laughs I decided to commit to it and guess what, I learned a new trick! (even though I cheated a bit and threw it in the corner of the system) this was the trick I thought I would have to spend all trip trying but sometimes things just click and it wasn’t as hard as I had imagined. Charlotte came so close to the same trick so I’m sure she will land it today and then she’ll keep pushing me to take it to the full size cable. Like yesterday when I told her I’d love to learn a backmobe and asked her if we could practice those on the 2.0.

“Nah, you just got to do it on the full size cable, man up and take a back edge”

Charlotte of the kicker

Yeah, do I need to say that she is hardcore? It’s so much fun getting pushed though since I’ve been stuck in my comfort zone for a while. After taking a lunch break and ride a bit more our arms we’re telling us to stop so we headed back to our apartment, passing by a little local marked as we went. There we showered and got ready for the night which ment a promo beach party for MILF sunnglasses (Made In La France, what did you think it stood for) After laughing a bit at the name and enjoying the free drinks while representing Anthem Wake Park along with Lior Sofer and his girlfriend Hanna, my jet lag started to hit me again. So I asked lovely Rebecca Leek who’s been taking care of us here if I could go back home and sleep. After hearing the others comments about being a party pooper and them teasing me about it.. I still went home and went to bed at 10 pm. (:

Today is a new day and I can’t wait to hit the cable! Even though my abs disagree, time for morning yoga again after finishing this post for you. Oh and guess what! I can now call myself Auntie Carro! My brother and his lovely Madeleine just had a baby boy! I woke up to photo’s of him and it made my eyes full of tears, such an amazing thing and the cutest little boy! Big congratz to you both!

Lot’s of love

C

On my way to Phuket to meet up with Charlotte Bryant and train at Anthem Wake Park for 2 weeks! So excited to try my new Blanc out!! Thanks again so much to my whole Aussie Family, including Double Up. Without any of you guys I wouldn’t love Oz even half as much! Let the adventures begin!

Comes from Aussie talent Bec Gange who’s not just one of the sickest riders I know but can scowl a VB faster than you can say Buffalo. Check out the steeze! (:

So excited to have received my invite back to Indonesia and another World Cup stop on the 3-5th of May. Since it’s pretty far to fly for only 4 days of competing I’m going to stay for a week or two and see Bali for some surfing! Now, I’ve never been there before and I’m a pretty inexperienced surfer (I love 3 foot swell 😉 ) I need your advice! Where do I go? Any good surfcamps to check out? Do you wanna come with me? I appreciate every piece of advice I can get. So excited to get to see the island now since I missed out on it last time around. Life is good!

xx Carro

My friend and Xtravel team rider Made Wick knows how to hit the waves

Just had the best Sunday! Started off by having breakfast with D at a café (coffee and banana bread) then went to the beach for about an hour, swimming and lying in the sun reading a magazine. Came home checked my emails and answered a few before an hour yoga practice in the back yard. It was around 30 degrees today so I stayed in the shade. This followed by a salad for lunch and then a slow jog/walk on the beach before going home, showering and picking DC up from being out coaching. We headed to my “aussie family” and had pizzas on their deck. Almost everyone was there and wow, I’m going to miss you guys so much! Great Sunday though, I love this thing about not waking up hungover.

The other day my friend, who happens to be a physio, Ella came over to have  a look at my ankle. After a few stretches and a bit of massage she asked me if I’m scared of needles. “To death!” I replied but after a bit of convincing she pulled out her sterilizing kit and a bag of acupuncture needles and start to stick them in my calf. The reason is that my muscles have been so clenched up after the accident since I’ve been walking really weird to try and relieve pressure from my ankle. She left them in for about 20 minutes and we kept chatting away, even though it felt really weird with needles in my leg. It didn’t hurt but just a really weird feeling. After a few minutes I could feel some of my muscles starting to twitch and some of them just letting go and turn really relaxed. The day after my ankle was so much looser but there is still one spot which holds me back. She’s coming back today so hopefully we’ll work on that (: Thanks Ella, you’re amazing!!!

I could’t watch as she put them in so I asked D to take a photo so I could look at it once the needles were out

Ella was happy (:

So wrestling got dropped from the Olympics and now there is a wild speculation in which sport will take it’s place. Cable Wakeboarding is one of the candidates and I got an E-mail yesterday with this link. Apparently I’m crashing on Aftonbladet’s website today!

Klick on the picture to read the article

OMG! Give me everything! Specially the dress at the end, definitely time to suck up to the O’Neill peeps in Sweden when I come home! 😉

We woke up early this morning to have time for a wake set before Bucket (the man, the myth) had to go to work. I was so excited since I hadn’t ridden sine the Double Up team trip and I was hoping that maybe I could do something more than grabs this time. After watching the others throw it down, D trying out his new board, I was up. And I couldn’t even jump wake to wake! I had the worst set ever and I would lie if I would say that it doesn’t matter, that it was all good. The pressure I put on myself also goes in my riding and I left the lake feeling like the worst person ever. As my day went on I started reflecting over what had just happened, I’d just been with some of the greatest people I know, in sunny Australia, back on my board. With my friend Cianne passing away and the texts she wrote before it happened it makes me think about her every day. In her texts she would always finish with “just, breathe” because something that we take for granted, like a long deep breath, was something that she would have traded her right arm for. So that’s what I do now whenever I feel upset, I breathe and remember the important things.

Later on when Bucket was finished working we all went down to the lake again for a second set. With only the intention of having fun and taking care of my ankle I rode again and had the best ride since my accident. ♥