Wakeboarding Shenanigans.

With the 10,000 lakes claim to fame, Minnesota is an excellent state for some serious time out on the water, so I wanted to write a blog about how great it has been wakeboarding a ton this year, a share some pictures of the ridiculous times.

My family owns an old 70's style boat but unfotunately the motor doesn't work, so summers for me are spent on my friend Ben's boat. It has a smaller wake but is still fun to butter around behind and try new tricks. It is especially fun to butter because the wakeboard I have is designed to be a snowboard on water. It is a Hyperlite Roam and has no fins, rocker camber, and the shape of a short, fat snowboard as you can see on the right.

There are many lakes for us to choose from here in Minnesota, but the one we always go to is out by Ben's house called Linwood Lake. I think it is in East Bethel, MN but I'm actually not sure.

Sunday was a particulary nice day, so we headed out to the lake early (we planned on being there at 10 but didn't get there til 11). The usual crew of people were there, Ben and my friends Lorrie, Ryan, and Joe. The day started off with me wakeboarding and Ben trick skiing, when Joe had the ridiculous idea of two person wakeboarding... on one wakeboard. The following pictures are of this ridiculous endevour. Enjoy.

Joe and I

Getting Situated

Attempting...

Again...

And again...

And again...

Epic attempt

It finally working