Boarder Pass in Sarnia the closest of the 2.0 systems is 2.5 hours from my place and it was holding an event called Wake Up Call. A few of the locals I was riding with told me that I should enter... I knew a bunch of the heavy hitters from the Canadian wake scene would be there and thought I'd get killed for sure... but having a bunch of air tricks in my bag from kiting and sneaking in some practice on the rails the day before the event really helped and I managed to take 1'st place, so I was was pretty stoked on that for my first cable event!!! Results were;
1st - Craig Cunningham
2nd - Christean Primrose
3rd - Tim Nixon
4th - Dylan Rivait
Not long after a few of our friends from the States rolled in to check out some of our local spots for a little while before the Sauble Beach KiteJam kicked off! Eric Rienstra, Rich Sabo and Ryan Evans joined the crew which pretty much is a circus when Medysky, Drinkwater, Steiner and myself get together as well as Josh Pietras along with David Tran behind the lens! We didn't really get any epic conditions and it was kinda cold but we definitely had a good time shredding together again! We hit up Turkey Point Marina, Port Dover, The Ranch Wake Park, Sauble Beach and Oliphant all within about a week and then it was time for the event.
The wind was pretty light most the weekend but some of the race guys got on the water but I mostly stuck to hitting rails behind the jetski and doing some speed runs and power slides on the kite buggy! We didn't have enough wind for our biggest kites so the event was to be determined by a competition behind the ski on the features ! There was a 8 inch wide flatbar with a pretty heavy ollie on, a flat to gap to down and a incline box... you had 4 runs through and the best line won. You basically had to string together a solid hit on every obstacle one after the other or you were done. I did a nose press, tail tap to blind on the flat bar, back board, gap, back lipslide to blind on the gap rail and a switch toe front 5 of the incline and that was enough to secure the win!!! Results were;
1st - Craig Cunningham
2nd - David Drinkwater
3rd - Eric Rienstra
4th - Rich Sabo
Just want to say thanks to the Medysky family for having the whole crew chillin at their place all week and for putting on such a fun event! Cheers!!!
After the event Rienstra and Sabo came down to Port Dover for a session and then Sabo dipped back to Merca (USA)! Rienstra stuck around and we've been shooting some lifestyle stuff with Josh Pietras and are heading to the King Of The Great Lakes this weekend... with maybe a stop at Boarder Pass Wake Park and Placid Wake Park if the wind is still looking light! Either way were shredding!
Thanks to Josh Pietras, David Tran and Dave Sanford for the photos!
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