This weekend I got to spend time coaching at Minsterworth Waterski Club. The 2 days couldn't have turned out any nicer, with it being the hottest weekend yet!
I arrived there Saturday morning stocked up with Relentless Energy and CTRL boards for everyone to drink and check out. I met Rob Bartley at his house, loaded up the car got heaps of fuel for the boat and then set off to the club to prepare for the weekend. On the Saturday we had the hotter day with myself burning my forehead and having a red head for a couple of days still feel it now!
Saturday's ride was a good number there was Rob, JJ, Brendan and Justin. All of them were keen to get on the water and learn some new stuff. Rob rode first and he stuck the smoothest roll to revert he has ever done. JJ new to wakeboarding tried a couple of boards and once he had a good size and a bit of instruction his board control improved heaps. Brendan getting a lot smoother approaches and popping of the wake nice. Justin getting soo close to his 3's, very close they'll be in the bag soon!
Sunday consisted of 5 riders one of which being a girl. Zoe was improving on her approach and turns making a wake jump at the end of her set and looking more controlled on her toeside. Taggart started of with the idea that he had to kill the wake by hitting it as hard as he could, after slowing him down and sorting out his board angle and edge he was hitting the wake a lot better and more controlled. This well help him in the future learning new tricks, a good stepping stone. Kieran riding well sticking a backroll in his set and improving on his half cabs, taking a bit of a fall on it at the end but overall a decent improvement. On Kieran's last set he got a massive pop and almost got close to a front roll. Ross rode sick through out the whole day with a variation of spins, very consistant! Ross tried few 5's and got very close. On his last set we pressured him to going upside down, we slowed the boat and moved to make the wake cleaner and larger. Ross in 3 attempts landed on his board, that's one to nail in his next set. Rob was riding well the whole 2 days and after getting on my board he stuck 2 out of 2 of his 3's which he says he was struggling with, I think he was lying!
All in all the weekend was heaps fun Thanks a lot guys and girls for having me.
Nice work!!!
Thanks for comming James it was great to have some insight into the tricks.
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