Author: wakecarro

Sunsets are pretty incredible here. Saying good night after a day full of girl power and back to the basics. Both Becky and Emma progressed their riding and I went back to messing around and riding a really small wake. Been the best day in a while taking it easy with my riding and not hurting my knees or my foot. Stoked!

Lately my body has been hurting A LOT whenever I ride. It’s not just my foot but my knees, the inside of my left leg and my hips. Yesterday when I lay stretching in front of my computer Andres asked me how much I’ve been letting my body rest. I realized that I’ve only been off the water about 5 days since I got here, over a month ago! I guess you cant push your body too hard or it wont cooperate with you. I’m planning on taking a few days off riding next week to go and do something else and until then I’m just going to work on my foundations and spins.

I never told you how moby dick week went btw! After throwing a ton of them I felt how I progressed a lot and on sunday I was sure I was going to have it. Especially after DC went out and landed his first moby dick in 4 years. I had given up but after he did that I strapped on my board again and went to throw some more. Getting so close but still not stomping it but it’s like one of my old coaches used to say: “It’s not a failed goal, you just estimated the time wrong” so I’ll keep charging it. (That is after my body stops feeling like a worn out flip flop. (:

 This is what legs look like when you’ve turned 21…

The whole team took a day off and we went touristing in Cordoba. Walked around a lot til our flip flops were burning and then had dinner at a sick asian restaurant. Body feels soo much better now!

DC, Mason and Emma (:

Sushi!

My ice cream

Mason’s Ice cream.. haha

 

Sometimes I start thinking about what my life would be like if I didn’t wakeboard. If my dad hadn’t made me try it when I was 14 and made us enter that wakeboard camp. Usually these thought come up whenever my friends asks me if I can do something with them during the summer. Like go on a weeks party-trip to Ibiza or just come to their graduation. I almost always have to turn down these kind of things, cause I’ve got wake-events to attend instead. Don’t get me wrong, I love those events but it’s just interesting to think about what I would’ve done if I didn’t ride. I prob wouldn’t have visited these many awesome places, maybe I’d have a “normal” job or start studying this year or maybe I’d be a professional frisbee golfer.

I mean, almost everything I do, I do because of wakeboarding, I can’t imagine what life would be without it. Random saturday thoughts.. Now lets go ride again! (:

 
I probably wouldn’t be hanging out in only O’Neill stuff either…

that moment when you forget to time your eggs and you trust your instincts and they come out perfect!

Looks like my Moby Dick week had a small stepback today. Last week I thought I sprained my ankle when I landed a bit weird after a tootsie attempt. Today one of the campers, who happened to be a foot doctor, took a look at it and told me she thinks it’s cracked. Since it’s been several days there is not much to do about it but she recommended that I take at least one month of boarding(!?!!) well thats not going to happen, I’ve been riding ever since it got injured but I did take today off. Oh and she just shook her head when she saw that I was wearing flipflops. Now im in trainers and resting all day and tomorrow the hunt for my moby continues (: had a bunch of people land new tricks in the boat today though, makes me happy (:

The only thing I miss here is the ocean and surfing

The last pic is of Briony from when we went surfing at Wilsons Prom back in Aussie (:

So my goal this week is my Moby dick right? And to land it I decided to learn backside 3s yesterday (yes I know you should do back 3s before attempting an invert with the same rotation) only to realize that the rotatione feels absolute impossible for me. I think I took the same nose edge about 15 times in a row no matter what I tried to change. I can feel it in my neck today and yesterday was the first time in a long time I got really frustrated with wakeboarding. After having some dinner though I went to my favorite website learnwake.com and found a video which explained exactly what I was doing wrong. Stoked to try it again I went up before 8 this morning for a morning shredd, only to notice the lake all blown out. So it became a morning yoga-sesh instead and hopefully we can go out soon so that I can try it. I want this trick before the week is up!

Def over 30 degrees out today! (: