my greatest memory wakeskating in 07 was........

[Raven]

well ......let's hear it. If u can pick a single something that stood out the furthest, what would it be. Please do tell.



with so many, it's dificult to narrow it down to just one.

i'm going with my man t-rex, a nice day skating on the pocomoke river, turned out to be a journey. the best adeventures take place on a whim, i don't know why, it just seems to happen that way. On a whim, reaching the drawbribge, and deciding to cross over to the southside of the river, little did we know we had embarked on a 50+ mile roundtrip wakeskate extravaganza, just the 2 of us, that will never be forgotten. From pirating some random persons boat from their lift to clean out our jet drive, to running down river with barely enough gas to make it there........not even caring that we had no gas to make it back. From bartering gas from crabbers and golfers, to eating crab cake sandwiches while watching the chesapeake glass glisten under the afternoon sun. From t-rex's ginormous shuvs, to my sensual fs flips. The bi-level was benevolent this day. A very happy birthday for my man t-rex, and a very soul satisfying end to my wonder........ what is it like at the end of the pocomoke river.





Bliss!


Happy new year to all, gotta go get naughty. Cya in 08. God bless.

[chriscut]

I cant pick just one.

I didn't get to ride as much as I would have liked this year because of an injury and surgery. But thats okay, I still loved and am thankful for every minute I did get to wakeskate over the past 12 months.

riding / shooting with lemons&the LA crew on the amite river.
ocean winching with awatts
bringing in the new year in oregon with the OTT crew
night winching a rail at nor cal convergence 4 in the fog
ncc4 and ncc5, cant beat good times with a group of friends.
watching grant progress, even though i couldn't ride, it was still awesome to see him shred.
landing my first shuv, and other tricks after my surgery and rehab. It felt damn good to ride again.
Getting to go to the Integrity factory and riding the first 08 proto

Have a fun and safe new years everyone.

[knox]

man, so much stuff.

Landing the 3-shuv was pretty sick, great feeling.

Having nick come over and completely humble me with his waterdancing skills

Meeting Yuri, cause now i have someone to ride with whos not a strapper, and has a sick style.

My cousin michael and i waking up super early in the morning twice to take a freezing cold, but o so satisfiying set and then cannonball into a hot tub.

Lota fun, but i think 08 is guna be even better

[mattttt60]

Learning to wakeskate was the best part

[PHF]

mattttt60, sure thing!!!

i just started riding this year..and will never stop!!!!

[wakemitch]

I've got to agree with Chris Barcellos about the convergences. They were so much fun. Barcellos is the man. And I finally met Dave! Watching Keaton and Grant progess was insane. Those guys are so good and are good guys to have around a camp fire.

Riding with Chris O all year was amazing. I progressed so much and had the time of my life. we pushed each other so much but had a great time every set, even if it we woke up super early and it was super cold, windy, and i ended up being the only one to ride:smash: the winching was so fun in the back yard. I miss ya buddy
Cant wait for you to come back over summer

and riding with Josh Rossi out at Lake Berryessa behind is boat was always a blast. He is always down to ride and keeps the good vibes rollin. We go dumb in the bay

Going up to the woods to Chad's house is always so fun. Rollins might not be the greatest lake but its always so fun to ride with him. Sandy is a pretty badass dad, If you ever had doubts on what a rusty trombone is ask him

Also scott was around a lot this year. Shooting photos and later filming. He definitely adds a lot to each trip. Someone's got to bring you back down

Without those guys I probably wouldn't even wakeskate. It sucks to have a perfect condition malibu wakesetter sit in my back yard but my dad takes it out twice a year and refuses to let me take it out.

I owe everything to my friends, and 2007 would be nothing without them.

[NotSoBueno]

Theres alot of great happenings for me in 2007....in fact many have already been mentioned, but my number 1 is a stand out and head and shoulders above the rest.

November 2, 2007. Landed my first ever shuv. And my second.


BLISS.

[cheezin]

i went on a journey one time with my all time riding buddy j schwalls (lake wier ocala, FL) one day...it was crazy....we went to take the normal set and turned out not to be so normal...he had already rode and i was jus finnishing up and we wer on our way back and the jetski happpens to quit....and it starts sinking!....we wer in the middle of the lake with half of the jetski sunk and it starts pooring rain...so we swam it in cuz it finnally stoped sinking for some wierd reason....we get to some random shore and its like 8:30 and we dont have a phone or nething to call and tell his parents that we're stranded so we have to walk to his lake house...takes us till like 9:30 to get to his house and we're freezin cold from the rain i have rocks and mud all in my skate shoes (THE MOST uncomfortable most thing ever!) and we meet his dad going out the door with his flashlight....his dad went raging on us and cussing us out like crazy and thought we lied and that we broke the ski...he was furious...theirs more to the story but ill leave that unsaid but it was a long night for us...good memory though..

[addison]

i have a couple

july 18th 2007 me and my best friend got home from work and quickly went out for a set before night fell upon us he went out and just killed which got be soooo stoked so i quickly got my shizzle on went out and rode threw my regualar shizzle i also do and just having a blast so by now its pretty dark and i crave out throw a kickflip almost land it then get back up and crave out pause pop that shizzle flick it and there is that split second in the air where u no you got this shizzle...catch it with my back foot and land it soooooooo perfectly and man the feeling of that whole situation was just soo peaceful nothing else matterd right then i was soo excited and just loving life it was one of the greatest feeling in the world. so i just look up at my friend with the biggest smile on my face and he looks back at me with his eyes like this so i just screamed out and threw the handle while he turned around and jumped in the water fully clothed the stokage level was threw the roof at that point it was ammmazzing!

the other great thing were getting sponsored by L13 and just riding and chilling and filming and just having soo much fun with them we are one big happy family and it feels so awsome that our team is like that

the summer of 07 was an ammazzing year for me when ever i feel down i just think back to it and it always cheers me up 08 is only going to be better i have a better out look on life right now and i can not wait to accomplish new things.

[tad]

-Every time I got to ride with my best bros.
-Riding Doubles.
-The amazing people I met on the way and had the opportunity to ride with.
-The hospitality of all those people's families.
-Toe Jam stops
-Late night winch sessions
-Island sets
-Blast
-The first time I watched Esoteric.

Those are just a few.

[wakeskate77]

-wincing a gap with tim kov
-russells sand made pool gap

[nick]

Hundreds.

<3 all my friends.

[shuv this]

blast competition.. so much fun

[jake .R.]

when i started landing kickflips again......... i landed one before but one day i was just out skating and was like ill try a kickerflipper..... landed on it got up tryed it again and landed it..... cut out in the flats and did another one..... had em' down since

[skatergirl]

The first ride after recovering from my 2nd knee injury... it was in March,the water temp was only 58 I had just gotten my new integ team. That was the best ride of the season just being able to ride a board again.

[jake .R.]

skatergirl, that was beautiful

[mc.willz]

07 was a good year, started to ride a little more serious, but still have good times, just riding with my friends but my most important merory would be stomping a 3 shuv and watching my best friend start throwing down kickflips

[masi]

this was a big year for me....

- my first kickflip
- hanging out with ouri for the cable stop
- chilling with alexxx

[wakeshredder]

07, what a year...
All I can say is that the best experience for me was actually getting to ride. Not everyone will remember this, but I was run over by a 60,000 lb. Metro bus while skateboarding. It was one week before KC watersports opened for the season. Doc said I'd never skate or wakeskates ever again. They were gonna cut my leg off from knee down. Buy, by the grace of god, I pulled through and three months later, against the will of my doctors and the bus company, I got back on the water. I even pulled some three shoves in my first three runs. All that time laying in bed recovering there was nothing that I wanted more. Well, that did it for me. This year, i am gonna ride until I puke every day! I really know that I am a lucky bastard.

[-=AlexXx=-]

Like most of you i cant just make one.

-The time Scottyb and i got a jet ski and a house for the weekend, and we rode religously we drank beers and i got my kickies SUPER consistant.

-All the times riding doubles with Scottyb and playing skate (and he got a vflip 1st try OMG)

-Riding with Kevin Calvez and TJ down in miami the few times we did, so fun. meeting kevin.

-Frye coming down for the summer for a week, epic.

-Building a flat bar and riding it all week before work every day with top hat.

-teaching my ex g/f i/o back ones!

-going winching at all the gaps and spots we found over summer, FAU, FBAG, Dubois.

-Meeting Oury and Bobby at stoke stock, even though things turned a lil harsh after the first day of riding. Ted Nickleson is my hero.

-Hanging with everyone at rixen, WAY to many named to mention them all, but it was great meeing all the ones that i hadnt met b4 and awsome hangning and smokin some hookah with masi

-And my last major fun event of the year, i just got back from Chris Ollishuvitz house where i stayed for a few days with Vince Whiteman. Was a GREAT time, probly the best trip of the year, so many inside jokes and good time to remember. We build some crazy box haha, flourecne colors..... <3 GOOD TIME

Over all 07 was a GREAT year for skate.