Getting ready for the Polar Bear event, we had some great sponsors help us provide a luxury houseboat from Lake Oroville Marina to Stage on. For more information on the Polar Bear Wakesurf event, please visit:
So we have been working on techniques for teaching others to wakesurf for quite some time. We teach a lot of people, mostly kids but many adults also. In this podcast, part of the “How to Wakesurf” series we show several techniques in detail for teaching others how to wakesurf. We had a couple of my nephews visit from Texas, they are 9 and 10 and non-boaters. They each got up and surfed with the rope after just a handful of tries. Stay tuned for the next podcast in this series, “Going Wireless”.
When people watch these videos, there are often lots of questions, and we want to help, but its tough to stay on top of all the emails. So go HERE and feel free to post any questions, and feel free to post pictures of your results, we LOVE to see them.
Here are a bunch of great pictures of the day:
So its time for the first wake9.com Quickie. What is a Quickie, well it is basically a quick contest where you submit video. On this quickie, you can win one of Wake9.com’s special industrial Camera Mount for your boat and your handheld HD camera. It works on any camera that has a tripod mount underneath. We had fun with this video/podcast, I guess we like to be stupid on occasion, maybe too often. 
NOTE: No need to BEAT RJs video, its just an example of a great recovery. We want to see your recovery vids, and we will judge them apart from RJs for the prize. You may submit up to 7/6/2010. Have fun!
Here are some pictures of the camera mount and how we mount it to the fiberglass, it is rock solid. You will win a BRAND NEW one of these, minus the camera.
If you would like to provide a prize and sponsor one of these quickie contests, feel free to contact me. We will be doing them several times through the summer.
Just Use the Contact form at the bottom of this post, after the video to submit your video from any service like Vimeo, Youtube, Google, etc.
Please use this form to submit your recovery video to us.
So we RJ, Dennis, Chase, Farrah, Dave and Maddie had a great time surfing the V226. It had a great wake on both sides. The pocket seemed a little shorter than the RZ2 but I didn’t hear any complaints, everyone enjoyed it. I heard the goofy wake may be a bit better than the regular, but both sides were good. Watch the video and check the photos section to see for yourself. I have to apologize in advance for our intro.
Jesse just turned five about 30 minutes ago. Whitney woke her up, and she is sitting down in my big chair and eating some peanut M&M’s. She says that this year she is going to practice, so that next Spring Festival she can compete in the women’s open.
Cocoa Puff turns Five!
Had some fun testing the new RZ2 with some extra weight in the boat. We filled the in hull rear tank on goofy side, then added a 1000 lb sac in the locker stuffed up to the ice chest on the goofy side. When riding, we had the rub rail touching the water. 5 of us in the boat, no one up front so we filled up the front ballast on goofy side up with about 150 lbs to knock down the curl a bit, we normally ride with at least one person up front, but it was a bit chilly.
Sorry for the bad audio with the wind. When I am showing the camera, I am trying to explain that we have a new wide angle lens for the portable Aiptek HD cameras, so that we can now mount the camera in the back of the boat low, instead of up higher, by the tower. This allows for an unobstructed view of the surfer, and a flattering angle for the surfer and wake. Hope you enjoy!
Pay attention to the podcast, for extra giveaways for competitors. We will giving away at least 1 1000lb fly high vdrive sac with tsunami pump, and we have a basic FAE (Fresh Air Exhaust) system worth $440 also. Another reason to make sure you register to compete in the contest. Prize money, and great giveaways.
We will be posting map links and last minute registration information later tonight, so stay tuned.
So here are some great photos we took at the event, stay tuned for more video!
The 44' party barge was a HUGE hit, and is a must for this type of thing. We are loading up.
This was us getting ready to go. We had 2 tige's setup goofy, and frank's sanger setup regular. We would wakesurf for about an hour then come in, compare notes and move boards around. I think there was about 20 boards.
The conditions? Almost as good as the incredible Halloween Tige RZ2 demo. About 60 deg in and out of the water, sunny with calm to 5mph winds. We were in an area where the boats could go in 3 directions without disturbing each other, and we all had walkie talkies to comm.
Beautiful
So we don't have many pics of surfing, mostly video, but here is one of clay on the IS Red Woody from CMS.
After some surfing, Amy setup some snacks at the bar. Bre smiling as usual.
Back to surfing, here is RJ on the chili pepper. RJ really liked this board, light and fast.
Maddie on the lakewakes grom, light fun board and a great value.
Between runs we all discussed what we liked about various boards as you see clay and roger doing here.
The barge had a slide with a lake water pump on it, and I dared dennis to hit it. Clay went first.
Then dennis, these pics crack me up.
SlimJim was NOT to be outdone. I thought SlimJim was a funny nick name for a big guy. He really was slim, he was 6'6\
RJ will not be schooled by dennis.
Maddie suited up, just to do this.
Clay goes head first.
OK, I have to set this picture up. I was on the boat with frank and roger. Great guys, I enjoy their company. So frank puts on his life vest. He is nuts, no wetsuit. He surfed without one all day. So on goes the vest, and since he has lost a bit of weight, the front overlaps a bit. But the funny part is that his nipples perfectly pop out of each side. On top of that, it was COLD. Frank could of poked someone’s eyes out. I was laughing so hard. It almost looked like his vest was designed to be specially REVEALING. What a crack up. So frank posed for me and I snapped this with my iphone.
Frank firing the guns
The Barge, you can see the slide on the back.
SlimJim (240lbs) riding the TWP 5.3 Bullet, or the Goofy board.
Jim on the TWP Bullet
SlimJim on the IS Red Woody supplied by CALIFORNIA MARINE SPORTS in Suison City, CA.
Clay from PROPS wakesurfers on the same IS Red Woody.
Now don't be alarmed, but sometimes in an event like this there is a certain amount of danger. Stuff happens and you have to be prepared for it. This is the only picture I can show you, the others are just too gruesome. This is just before the medivac chopper landed on top of the barge and got SlimJim to the urgent care he needed.
RJ and Whitney took a tip from surfdad and video’d themselves working it out. The video speaks for itself. They definitely fumble their way through, but seem to have a good time doing it.
OK, so this is a bit of a knock against wakesurfing, but its funny, so I like it. Nice job on the voice and background music.
