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Hope you all got a chance to watch live at http://wakesurfopen.com . If not, make sure you watch the pro finals tomorrow...

We are having a great time, great turnout, and meeting lots of new friends. We have tons of pics and video, but I just snapped a few things with the iphone and I thought I would get these up. We had more people there on Thursday night than I think we had on Saturday of the first year. So many people are just here to meet new people and have fun related to wakesurfing. Met a family from Iowa today, came just for the clinics, basically learned to surf online, so cool. Their son in the clinic was 16 years old and said he wasn't competing. I told him he had to get in, its too much fun and gets you stoked on the sport. He was very nervous so I got Chris Wolter who was in the SAME position at 14 2 years ago. I talked him into competing in Amateur Male Surf and now he is a great up and coming rider with a sponsorship. So he competed today, and had a great run, maybe we will see more of him. I forget his name, I think it was Kent, so sorry. So many names to remember, I will repost and get it right later.

Here is a pic from Thursday late afternoon. The sunsets and late afternoons on Camp Far West are unrivaled this time of year, so beautiful, and we were camping under the trees and setting up stuff for the rest of the event.



Late in the day, Chris and Korina were helping bring the boat in, I think on Wednesday here? Don't remember.



People were already camping down the cove...



Dennis showed up on Thursday with Chris' new TWP Bomb Pop with Carbon Deck, it was sick looking and Chris was beaming. Couldn't wait to get it behind the Z3.



We made a bonfire on Friday night.



OK, warning, wakesurf geek out time. In order to pull the event with one boat, we needed to find a setup on each side and get to it quickly. We had special scales under the bags to measure the column of water above the scale. Not perfect, but worked pretty good.



This is the main reason I wanted to tow the event with one boat, and my own boat, not a demo boat. I wanted to install camera and transmission system in a much better way. How is 3 GoPro Hero2 cameras, 2 on transom each for reg and goofy, and one on top of the tower for a high shot? Did I mention that we installed it into the Tige Touch Screen so that with the push of a button the driver could monitor the camera view and status of each camera?





Here is me at command central preparing for the broadcast, all set. If you watched any of it, you will have noticed how we switched between cameras, which I did all from my laptop.



Jesse rode her fist comp, did great.



After the first day of the competition we sat for dinner prepared by Gold Key Boathouse and Storage and watched some live music we had arranged for, while watching the coming sunset. I really enjoyed that, great food too, all homemade.



I am so proud of my family and partners at CMS, and all of the volunteers and judges. You guys all rock.