winching!

pow! so what does that mean? well, part of our trip out west was a stop in kelowna, to visit our friend darcy.
soo, kelowna is quite the f****ed up city i can tell you. we went out to party hard, got asked for drugs all the time and the general vibe on the street was super aggressive. definately not the right spot for river hippies like us.
anyways, that's not the story.
literally beaten up (outch!) we decided to take it easy the next day. darc and his roommates had a winch with a 600ft rope for wakeboarding. so there was our plan!
we drove to the lake nearby (deepest lake in canada?), set it up and had a few testruns. the boys were rockin their skimboards and wakeskateboards in good fashion and we took our boats out.
being a bit sketched at first, as the water was pretty shallow all the way out we took it easy at first.
after a few rides of getting used to it we worked our way up to throwing tricks.
man, that thing is fun! if i'd ever be somewhere without any play, i'd get one of those.
my favourite was the airscrew, but i can see almost any trick possible, you can get quite the bounce out of the up to 17mph this thing generates.
and this is were the shallow water came in handy, we could film and shoot from so close. i was even able to use my flashlight. made for some good shots i think, but check it out yourself!

the beast!

darcy styling it!
oh, and it was not as warm as it looks.

only downside: handpaddling out 600ft for each ride: davies

neil doing his thing!

did i say flashlight?
zzzzzipppp!

who would beat someone with such a hat?

alright, gotta catch my flight to costa rica in the next minutes, gonna keep posting though!

peace out,
sven