7/30/2013

Doing good!


I have my own board again thanks to an amazing friend from Germany who helped me out! Been wakeboarding out there with more power than ever. Most tricks were landed first try, including switch Tantrum. Though the regular one took me at least 10 falls due to rushing, haha! 

Then about two weeks ago being over-excited I rushed one of the switch Tantrums badly and landed heavy on the second wake on my left ankle, hyper-flexing it and putting a bit of strain all the way up to the knee. Not a big deal, but I could feel the pain when I had to bend it on take-offs or landings in the gymnastics hall. This means hundreds and hundreds of 1 wake spin drills until my leg would get well again. They went so good and I was happy to land all four FS 360's in a row, since I could never do any TS 3's without over-rotating (and all attempts of a 5 always have been under-rotated, haha!)

Yesterday I started going bigger again and when I fell after my warm up jumps, my dad drove up to me and said 'hey, looks like you lost your switch toeside!' to which I had to reply 'nope, that was regular! Switch was the one that went wake to wake no problem!'  Had a good laugh at it and spent the rest of the set getting my toeside jumps fixed and a bonus at the end, landed a two wake TS BS 180 first try! Spin drills paid off, yay! 

A crazy training at the gymnastics hall in the evening and I'm stiff just about everywhere today!