WakeCarro

We made it!! I am so thrilled to be back on my board in one of my favorite cable parks in the world! I’ve now been here at CWC for two weeks and I’m feeling better than ever on my board. Sure my body was pretty sore after my three month break but thanks to Britta at The Swedish National Sports complex my ankle feels amazing.

I’m also so excited to be back with my boy again and we’ve been spending our days mostly wakeboarding until we literally are too tired to hold on to the handle (well until I’M too tired anyways). There are so many amazing people here from all over the world that I feel like I’ve known for years and everyone are so focused on progressing their riding, its contagious.

We celebrated new years yesterday with the whole park and after having a few beers, a bit of dancing and watched the fireworks on the beach JB and I went for an early night at 12.30. Today I’m letting my body rest for a day before attacking the massive list of trick goals I’ve set up for the next 3 months. Hopefully I’ll get better at updating my website along the way 🙂

Photo: Nicola Butler

In Sweden we have this expression called ”Jante-lagen”, it’s an unwritten law about that you never should stand out too much. Obviously not many people wanna show their worst sides to the world but also, In Sweden it is frowned upon if you come across to cocky or successful. Today with everyone posting their proudest moments online before they call and tell their mothers this expression isn’t used as much anymore. One thing growing up with this unwritten law meant was that if someone ever did stand out, did claim something he/she was proud of or did talk themselves up, a lot of my friends (and myself) felt the urge to immediately talk that person down. For the record, let me just add that this was around the time where I used to ride my yellow bike to school and my biggest concerns was how I was gonna get the whole collection of N-sync bubble-gum stickers. I am hoping that both myself and my friends has grown up and gotten a bit further in our personal development since then.

Anyways, today when I look at the direction wakeboarding is taking, I can’t help but to be right back on the school-ground. I don’t know why it is that lately there has been so much negativity blowing up within the wakeboard community. I don’t know if it’s because it makes us feel better about our own riding to talk other riders down when they are doing things differently than us? Maybe it’s the newest ”trend” within wake to call out everything we don’t like and it’s a phase that will pass. Maybe we’re trying to impress the ”cool kids on the block” by hating the same things that they hate? Whatever it is, I believe it is bringing wakeboarding down.

Let me clarify:

I’ve spent the last 5 days working with Max Larsson and his crew from Husky Motion on our latest project for Lifeproof. Here are some shots from our first day of filming in Stockholm but now we’re up in Åre shooting something a little bit crazy. I can’t wait to show you the rest of the project! Stay tuned…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxn92mS_LkM

I’m so excited to share the news of my latest partnership with Lifeproof! Being someone who is very clumsy with her phones, this could not have been a better company for me! I’ve been using Lifeproofs cases (the Fre and the Nuud) since March and believe it or not, my phone is still alive, the screen is not cracked and it’s not water damaged at all! I’m not even scared to bring my phone with me in the boat anymore or or throwing it in my bag full of we bikini’s. I look forward to an awesome 2016 with this company!

This week I had my first ever COVER of Wake Journal Magazine along with an article I wrote named “The importance of moving forward”. Making it onto the cover has been on my checklist for a while now and I’m thrilled to have landed on one  with this photo taken by JB O’Neill!

As most of you probably know, I’ve been working my way back from a sprained ankle for the past eight weeks.  It has meant countless hours at the gym, ice packs and healthy eating plus having to take about six weeks off wakeboarding! I was so thrilled to finally get back on my board about a week ago and now I’ve been in intense training mode to get ready for Mexico next week. Usually my days look like this:

8 am – Wake up, get dressed and go for a bike ride around the neighborhood
8.30 am – Quick yoga/stretch to wake up my muscles and get rid of some of the soreness from the day before
9 am – Breakfast (Usually yoghurt with granola and chia seeds and coffee)
9.30 am – Emails (Can’t wait to tell you about some exciting projects I’ve been working on!)
11 am – Taking the boat out with Oscar and JB for as much riding as we can handle
3 pm – Lunch (by this time I’m usually starving but sometimes I throw in some protein shakes or trail mix on the boat) usually salads with quinoa, chick peas, celery, cucumber, hummus, rice crackers, goat cheese and a ton of water.
4 pm – Either heading out to the cable at Next Level Ride or hitting the gym for ankle rehab
7 pm – Dinner, sometimes veggie burgers at the cable or something home-made in front of a movie.
10 pm – Bedtime

Repeat.

I’ve been trying to eat as healthy as I can, get a lot of sleep and work hard during the days and I feel like it has been paying off. Every time I ride I feel a huge improvement from the last time and I wake up full of energy (even though my muscles are aching from not wakeboarding for a while!). On Sunday Oscar and I leave for Cancun to represent team Sweden in the IWWF Worlds so we have a couple more days to ride before new adventures! Excited! 🙂

So I thought I’d write a post about women who fascinate me. In today’s society it’s so easy to follow people’s lives on social media so here are some of my favorite instagramers to stalk:

Lindsey Vonn

67 World Cup wins speak for themselves. Throw in an amazing comeback after a blown out knee and a drive that never seems to end and you have Lindsey Vonn. If you haven’t seen her documentary “The Climb” you should definitely look it up, I’ve watched it three times already and it’s definitely showing that anything is possible if you want it bad enough.

Coco Ho 

There’s something about female surfers that inspire me so much. Maybe it’s because surfing is another passion of mine (even if I never will be even close to the level of the female pro’s) and because they live a life similar to mine with travels, contests, best friends with your toughest competition and a healthy lifestyle. Coco Ho is one of my favorite surfers to watch as she rips along with sharing some awesome and personal moments on her instagram. I’m simply amazed by the life she seems to be living and I’m guessing none of you missed her amazing feature last year in the ESPN Body issue?

Ronda Rousey

I’m not quite sure why but I’ve been obsessing a bit about Rhonda Rousey lately. Being in a sport so different from mine and with the most competitive mentality I’ve seen I don’t identify with her at all but there’s something oh so interesting about her drive. I guess drive is the keyword in what makes her so inspiring because she seems to be incredibly focused on beating the crap out of her next competitor every time. Her cocky attitude blows me away and I can’t other but inspire how openly she expresses her feelings, even though sometimes it might end up a scandalous headline.

Jamie Anderson

Jamie Anderson is living a life that I miss sometimes living the endless summer. THE. SNOW. I love snowboarding and growing up in Sweden my dad always took us on snow-trips around Europe. Getting a glimpse of Jamie’s life makes me long for the snow and her creativity with Gopro pictures inspire me to try and copy her when I’m wakeboarding. (She also seems to be having a blast skinny-dipping in lake Tahoe and simply enjoying life)

Who inspires you? Comment below!

This past weekend I flew out to Orlando for Surf Expo and the Wake Awards. Its always such a fun time of the year as people travel from all over the world to be there and you get to catch up with friends you haven’t seen in ages. This year I knew my Double half cab roll would be in the mix of tricks submitted for trick of the year so I was a bit nervous when the 2015 Wake Awards started. Being kinda new to the WWA scene I’ve always been a bit shy at contests and events like these so as I took my place next to JB way back at the awards I had little butterflies in my stomach. I had a feeling that the award was going to go to Anna Nikstad, who earlier this year became the first female rider to land a Pete Rose 540 but a little voice inside my head kept wishing it would be me. As the rolled the “Trick of the year-reel” I saw Annas and my own submissions next to Angelika Shrieber and Meagan Ethell and I was actually pretty proud just to be up on that big screen.
As of in a dream I heard my friend Ben Greenwood up on stage saying (in my head it was slow motion) “and the winner is.. my girl Carro Djupsjo!” followed by JB’s voice in my ear “Holy crap, you won! Get up there”. Making my way through the crowd to get into the VIP section my knees felt like jelly and as I came straight from the expo I felt a little out of place in my torn jeans and sneakers next to the high heels and dresses. I got big hugs from Ben and Aaron up on stage and ramled a thank you speech I barely remember. I still almost can believe this as it’s been a career long goal for me and the night got even better as I got to share it with the “Male best trick” winner and my friend Cody Hesse for his triple flip!

All in all, expo was so much fun this year and thanks everyone for your well wishes!!  See the full results of the awards here: LINK

Had the best weekend in Kungälv för the Swedish national and ended up taking my 8th straight national title! Besides riding in this event I was also acting Chief Judge and it definitely made me grow some experience. Big thanks to the organizers for putting on a great event and to all the riders and judges, see you next year!