Author: wakecarro

 

Head over to Slingshot’s website and check out my team profile! Got a little interview up here : LINK

 

Head over to the LifeProof Unleashed website to read more about my wakeboarding essentials! Link HERE

Excited to announce my new partnership with Slingshot! Check out this little video by JB O’Neill, can’t wait for more to come!

Photo: Arlingtone Lane  Photography

Been having a few lazy days where I’ve been trying to catch up on my online studies in athlete psychology. It’s really interesting and I find myself thinking about it quite often when I’m doing other things. I’m finding the studies quite hard though as there are almost no facts in this area, only theories but it’s keeping me occupied while I’m resting my body from riding a lot. Yesterday Nicola went back to the US, I’m really disappointed that the World Cup in Australia isn’t happening this year. I’d love an excuse to go there! This photo was taken last year as we visited our friend Hayley Smith on the Gold Coast before the competition. Hopefully next year I’ll get to head back down under again. Also I can’t believe how quickly time has passed here an that Nicola already has spent her 6 weeks at CWC. I only have less than a month left and I’m actually really looking forwards to going home to Sweden, even though being here has been amazing.

Photo by Nicola Butler,  wearing Aimn 

I’m so lucky to be surrounded by such talented people. Today I took some photos with my friend Nicola and every time she’s behind the lens I know they are going to come out amazing! I can’t believe I’ve been here in the Philippines for over two months already! Time really does fly when you’re having fun. I’ve started filming with JB for a new project so now I’m extra keen to ride and learn new things. Hopefully I can show you pretty soon 🙂

If you haven’t seen it already, check out this Behind the Scenes video from our Lifeproof project. Great job Pontus, you killed it!! The only thing I’m missing is when you guys drove off the road in the ditch or my giant survival suit I got to cuddle up in after the rides 🙂

 

 

Life is pretty simple here in the Philippines:

6am Wake Up Coffee and breakfast -usually Chia pudding or cereal
7am Morning Yoga
7.30 Emails
8.30 Morning session on the cable
11.00 Second breakfast/lunch -Banana Pancakes or Omelette
12.30 Study – I’m currently taking Athlete psychology online.
14.00 Afternoon session
15.30 Snacking – usually fruit and a protein shake or some stir fried vegetables
17.00 Working out (running/bodyweight training) or just hanging out by the cable with my friends
19.00 Dinner – A lot of the time at my favorite restaurant “Green Earth”
21.00 Emails/looking through footage/playing cards with friends/ watching movies
22.30 BED

Repeat. It seems to be a successful recipe since I’ve never before felt my riding progress this much. Now there are so many inspiring people at the cable too, like my friends Anna Nikstad and Maxine Sapulette, that help me want to push my riding. I can’t wait to see what will come from female wakeboarders this year!

   

 

 

I have so many amazing pictures from our adventure in Åre for the Defying Elements project. Also, people say a picture says more than a thousand words so I thought I’d let them speak for themselves. I will say that it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life!

After a well deserved rest day yesterday, we were back on the water this morning where I had the pleasure to try out some new boards! Hopefully I can tell you more about it soon but I had a big smile on my face going around the lake, even though this was the windiest day we’ve had yet. With whitecaps all over the lake, I spent most of my day on my computer with a huge coffee in my hand sorting out emails and paperwork. This photo really has nothing to do with my day but I found it in my inbox from a shoot I did with Airlington Lane in Byron bay. I’m so bummed that we wont have a world cup stop in Australia this year but I’m looking forwards to all the other places we’ll get to travel soon. I’ve also been trying to plan my season and decide what events and countries to go to. Let me know what comps I shouldn’t miss! Anyways just a quick update from a windy CWC 🙂

 

 

“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you or make you happy” Paulo Coelho

Sometimes life throws us a curved ball and what you thought was your reality get swung upside down. I know a lot of you have been picking up on some changes through my social media lately and I wanted to write a quick blog post about this. My past few weeks has been filled with unexpected decisions from two of the companies I’ve been representing which has resulted in two finished partnerships.

These series of events has taken me by surprise as both my team managers and myself have enjoyed working together and were looking forwards to continue that way for 2016 but sometimes things don’t play out the way we want them to. I wish these companies all the best and I’m thankful for the past years but I’m looking forwards to move on to new opportunities.