Author: wakecarro

Last day at Xtreme Gene for this season. It’s been the such a great summer and season. I can’t believe that it’s thanks to my appendix bursting that I even discovered this place. I was so devestated that I would miss the world cup and therefore not afford to go and train in Orlando which was my original thought. Then this job offer presented itself and I decided to take a chance. I’m so happy I did, I’ve met so many amazing people, both riders, photagraphers, coaches and Becky. 😉

This season I stuck both the dream tricks I had when I started wakeboarding. Well they’ve changed a bit now and were no longer my ”dream tricks” but it still feels pretty damn good!
I had my first injuries when my knees started spooking up on me which made me take up Yoga and for the first time I fully apreciated what an impact it had on my life.
I almost ran this really great wakeboarder over when I was driving chase boat for him and he ended up becoming my boyfriend and has helped me so much when I’ve felt stressed or down due to upcoming competitions.
This amazing girl who in the beginning was just my room mate (and didn’t complain about my exploding bag) helped me so much with my riding and my mood when I was hurt and couldn’t ride a big wake. I loved our girls boat early sessions with ”I come from a land down under” and five blasting in the speakers.

Riders like Jordan, Dylan, Frenchy, Andres, Sian, Davie, Lauma and so many more has inspired me this summer and I never would have spent this much time with them if I hadn’t been to Xtreme.

I’m so thankful for the great weeks of summer and I already miss everyone. Thank you Matt, Debbie and Andres I can’t wait to see you next year!

The moment when you go to Maccers to get a mcflurry and the mashine breaks in the middle of yours and the whole jar of smarties rain down in your ice cream. Love it!

 

We went out yesterday and shot some photo’s with Luke. Unfortunately there was something wrong with the settings of the camera (which only Luke can see 😉 ) so we are going to have to do it again some time when this rain stops. Anyways, here is two photos, one of me and one of DC pulling of stalefish grabs, which one do you think is the best one?

DC

Me

Had an awesome time coaching the young irish shredders that are here today. Time went so fast and due to the daylight savings we lost an hour of our day. This didn’t really hit us when we at 6 loaded up to boat to go for a ride. By the time I was on the water I was struggling to separate the sky from the lake. This made me come around on a new trick I’m trying and introduce my knee to my face. Thankfully it missed my nose so I’ve just got swollen cheek and a headache. Moral of the story: don’t ride when you can’t see the wake.

10 tricks with Jose is almost done now, just finishing up the last few things. Here’s a screenshot from it (:

Haha, I don’t know why I rode so bad today, I’ll blame it on DC driving the boat, umm or that I had wayy too much hot chocolate or… I don’t know. Kept crashing on 180’s and everything in the book. For some reason I’m still happy though, might have been Jack Hammersly’s awesome attitude in the boat or just that I don’t see the point in getting stressed anymore. I found this picture and absolutely love it! I totally did give a 100% today, it was just not what a 100% normally looks like 😉

This made me laugh

Me and the Geisha at Deja Vu’s home page (: Check it out! : www.dejavuski.comI remember being scared to death of stingrays when we took those photos since my friend Scotty Green got stung one of the days during the team shoot. I couldn’t believe how calm he was discussing “Weather or not the poison was leathal” with a beer in his hand and his foot in a under a running tap of hot water. I would have been kicking and screaming for someone to take me to the hospital and run every test in the book. 😉 Scotty was fine though and rode again later that day.

Dylan is leaving Xtreme Gene to head back home to South Africa on friday so we all had a last night out with dinner and drinks in Cordoba last night. I’m going to miss the shredder, it’a been so good riding with him and he really is one of the best coaches I know. Last night was epic and today the rain is pouring down so we are all taking it pretty easy chilling in the sofa.

Last night…

The Psycho 3 came on for the first time this fall in Spain. Getting cooler…

 

Done filming 10 tricks! I’m stoked on how the material turned out and now Jose is about to edit it until next weekend. I’m super excited to see it so I have to pace myself 😉

Besides from wakeboarding we spent some time on shooting a bit of yoga. I can’t believe how big of an impact yoga has had on my life recently. The things I learnt about myself in my 10 days of bikram yoga stretches wide and even when I’m on my wakeboard I can relate the feelings I feel on the yoga mat.

We have so many thoughts in our heads limiting us, telling us that we aren’t strong enough, that we are scared, that we can’t do it. We have to break free of the image we have of ourselves in order to achieve what we really want. You are so much more than you think and you can do so much more than you think you can. Whenever those voices start telling you to stop cause you are not good enough just acknowledge that they exist but give them the finger.