In the meantime, Zane, the remaining crew and I got set up on the shoreline with the new '04 CWB wakeboard range in preparation to film. Zane started off by showing the equipment you need to wakeboard, moving on to beginner boards up through to Pro boards. This was where I got to make my first appearance and talk through my choice of ride the CWB Pure. Not a good start for me, as we had to take ten takes before I could get the words out without laughing. But nevertheless I came up trumps and managed to make a pretty good job of it. So after all that I definitely needed to take a night out and unwind! Roll on the Keg party!
With plenty of beer, pretty looking girls and banging of hip hop music, I finally managed to retreat to my hotel at gone 4.30am. Not so clever when, as organized, Richie Fisher came knocking at my door at 5.50am to make sure I got my ass out of bed and ready to cruise over to Andrew Adkinson's house.
On meeting up with Andrew it became obvious I wasn't the only one that had to be dragged from my bed after a long night of 'fun'. Therefore Andrew and I both got the greatest pleasure from making the crew feel bad.
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Once we were ready and functioning, Andrew and I rode one after another. It soon became clear to me just how much other riders shadow him. He had spins, Mobes and a smooth nice style to boot, not to mention his suicide Raley! After riding and inevitably breakfast, all the other U.K riders, Stew, Will, Louise and Dan turned up all ready to shoot the on-land coaching and the profile sections. On top of the usual posse we also had European Champion, Caroline Jansson show up to join in.I never realised before how long it takes to do a shoot. Beside the oddles of retakes, you need the right light, sound checks, tape and battery change over etc. All in all it took 8 hours to get about 20 minutes of footage. Never the less we finished the day exhausted and we all needed a good meal and a fat comfy bed.
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