Winching is Fun

Best winch spot ever!!......

       So it seems that we have a knack for choosing terrible spots to winch.... whether it be spots that have water so disgusting that it can't even be categorized as water anymore.

This is water

    To spots where the water is so "quicksandy" that carrying a picnic table through it is impossible. It's not always the spots that are bad though, more our ideas at these spot. We like to carry 100 pound objects through thick forests and poop water just so we can hit them maybe four or five times before we carry them all the way back. But after all those spots, what we did this last Sunday takes the cake as the worst idea/winch spot we've ever done...

      When we first drove up to this spot and got out of the car we saw a nice clean 10 foot dam with a great island to put the winch on. So we drove across to the other side of the river to get to this island.  The closest parking spot was a little over a mile away from the dam. We decided to just go through with it and wheel the winch down to the dam. We hadn't had much luck earlier in the day with finding a place and we didn't want to waste the whole day by not winching anywhere. Chase took the winch first while I carried both of our boards and some other things. 20 minutes or so later we reached the dam, and realized our lives were gonna suck for the next hour...

"What have we done?"

    In order to get to this island that we planned on putting the winch on, we had to carry the winch down a rock wall.......... this is no easy task.

The rock wall

      So we half carried, half threw the winch down this wall and then proceeded to wheel it through waist high weeds. Once you make it out of the weeds you move on to the rocks where you just try and power your way over boulders while slipping into cracks and repeatedly braking both your ankles.

    When we finally did get to this island we found it was currently inhabited by a strange species of flies that will stop at nothing to fly inside of your ear, mouth, nose, and eyes. Rocks were everywhere so it was impossible to stake down the winch like we normally do to keep it from moving. So we found all the biggest rocks we could carry and piled them on top of and around the winch. After two hours setting up the winch chase hit the gap.

    After that we packed up and proceeded to carry the winch up the rock wall and another mile to the car, all with a bent, flat tire on the winch. Despite it being hands down one of the hardest things we had ever done we both honestly say that we would rather do this all the time, every day, then spend another minute inside a mutha effing school...

Summer Teaser

 Here's a little video that just shows a little of what we've been up to for the past few weeks. I thought it would be cool to start out the first video of the new year with the last video of last year in reverse. With summer well under way we're going to be riding and filming as much as we can. More videos will be coming soon.

New Years Resolutions

Its a little late but here they are:

1. Wakeboard every day this summer

2. Make more videos

3. Make every video end in a dramatic way

 4. Survive the winter

5. Survive 2012

6. Survive sketchy winch spots

7. Do a Darkslide on a wakeskate

8. Do a Darkslide on a wakeboard.....

9. Learn to do anything while riding behind the boat

10. Convince chase to start taking his medication again

Landon Oda

Chase Byerly

Introducing Mr. High Definition Himself

Random, Pointless, Clipsss

July was a slow month for us....We barely got to ride at all. But we did finally hit our first gap last Sunday. It was sick, we only got two hits each but still it was pretty awesome. This is just a little video i put together with some random footage i had sitting around enjoy.