As people are always asking about wakeboard camps....

[samara]

and I've just got back from one, here is some first hand feedback about the Toeside wakeboard camp. It was a 5 day residential camp up north and was totally awesome. We did some serious amounts of wakeboarding (still aching big time!) behind their X2 as well as getting to try wakeskating & wakesurfing which was entertaining to say the least!

The instruction was seriously good, done by a guy called Ed Williams who is not just a great rider but a top guy and a reallly good teacher - gives you loads of encouragement and explains everything really well. He's been competing in all the UK Wakeboard series Open Men's categories & came first in the first stop at quayside along with some other good finishes so he knows what he's talking about.

Although I've been riding for three seasons this is the first season that I've really started to try and do anything. One of my objectives was to be clearing the wake consistently I was doing by the end of the second day......can't understand what all the fuss was about now as it seems to easy! I also got to grips with powerslides & am pulling off butterslide to 180's most times now. I've been doing some nice stalefish & indie grabs as well and was going for toeside backrolls on the last day - didn't land any but was getting quite far round.....definitely one to be practising back home! I'm pretty stoked with the way I'm riding now though.

They looked after us really well, food & accommodation were great & it was well organised as well as it being a really nice chilled environment to ride and learn some new stuff. The only thing that could have been better was the weather but that's what you get for going on holiday in the UK! :lol: Will definitely be going back next year though.