By Adam Errington
Published: April 23, 2009
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So, it's been quite some time since I last wrote in. Let me just catch you up on what I've been up to.
During the winter months, Team Nike 6.0 decided to take the whole team (plus various photographers and videographers) to Camsur Watersports in the Philippines. We were there for almost 2 weeks filming and shooting photos. Despite the long flight, we all had an awesome time! It's really great to see the cable industry growing!
After the Philippines, I headed to New York with fellow Red Bull athlete Brian Grubb to compete in a celebrity soccer match. We played a mini game right before the main MLS game, it was pretty cool being down on the field in that huge stadium. Grubb and I got put on different teams. In the end, my team came out victorious with the winning goal assisted off my head.... hahaha I'm not kidding!
I flew home from NYC, and then headed west to the California Delta with my good friend Jimmy La Riche for a Fox photo shoot. I was there for three days shooting on the water and indoors for the upcoming Fox catalogue.
After our California trip, Jimmy and I headed straight to Tempe, Arizona for the 2nd Red Bull Wake Lab. Now if you didn’t see the first one, it was on Lake Eola in the middle of downtown Orlando at night. The 2nd stop was a daytime event combined with a big music festival. Red Bull definitely knows how to throw an event!
This time around, there were some new rails so everyone was dying to get out there and test them. All the top riders were there so the qualifying rounds were really intense. The finals came down to J.D. Webb, Parks Bonifay, Aaron Rathy and I. We all walked away with an award which was awesome!
- Overall Winner - JD Webb
- Most Progressive - Aaron Rathy
- Best Trick - Adam Errington - backside lip slide, backside 270 out on the quarter pipe.
- Best Line - Parks Bonifay - Switch board slide backside 450 to front board, 90 out on the M gap, backside lip slide over nose slide on the angled hubba ledge.
That’s all for now - Just at home getting ready for the Wake Games, which is at OWC this week!
Crazy how fast things come up.
See ya on the water!
Adam
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By Adam Errington
Published: January 30, 2009
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So what’s up everyone?
Things have been really crazy over the past few months. I’ve been super busy with contests and photo shoots and more.
First of all I want to say congrats to Rusty for taking first at worlds, also Aaron Rathy who was a close second. I had a great time at worlds unfortunately I was a little burned out as it was the end of the year and didn’t do as well as I hoped. Not to worry there is always next year.
After worlds we were all getting ready for surf expo and Redbull’s wakelab. Surf expo went well I spent most of my time there in the Ronix booth, helping talk shop with all the dealers about our new line of boards. Things are looking great for 2009 and if you haven’t seen our new line of boards be sure to check out ronixwake.com for more info. Then came wakelab, an incredible truly awesome event put on by Redbull. I can’t express how glad I was to be apart of this event. If you haven’t heard about it by now we basically built a floating skate park for wakeboarding, picked the top 15 wakeboarders in the world and had the biggest blow out rail jam/contest that has ever been done. Thank you so much to Redbull for supporting this because we truly changed the sport of wakeboarding and took it to a level that will help our spot grow and grow.
Now I can take a little break from the hectic life we as wakeboarders live, its coming into winter and much is slowing down. The water is cooling and the days spent on the lake are getting shorter. All I can say is grab a full suit or even a dry suit and spend as much time as possible doing what you love.
Hope you all have a great winter and I will be in touch soon.
As always
-Adam-
By Adam Errington
Published: September 8, 2008
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After nationals Ronix had a photo/video shoot lined up for us at Radar Lake. The guys who were there were danny Harf, chad Sharpe, Parks Bonifay and myself. We had a few new rails built and were filming for Parks' documentary. We also got to check out the new 09 line of boards from Ronix, I am so pumped on all the graphics and new boards. The new boots are all crazy light and super sick looking. Chad has a new board this year called the Viva which was a really fun ride. Parks and Dannys board have a few changes for this year along with new graphics. As for my board, the Mana, its the same shape with a clean new look. I couldn't be happier.
From there we all went up to the Malibu team challenge. A contest where all the top board teams compete in 3 different areas of the sport, for the overall title. From our team Danny ended up winning the double up part of the event with a toeside backside 720, Team Ronix ended up coming in second place at the end of the day. It was a really fun event and we all can't wait to go back next year and go for the win.
I am now back at home getting ready for the world championships, surf expo and WAKELAB. A rail event which Red Bull is hosting In downtown Orlando on Lake Eola. This is going to be the most insane, biggest, and best rail jam/event/contest/party that there has ever been! So if you're not there then you will miss out big time.
Well thats it for now ill be in touch soon.
Thanks for reading
-Adam-
By Adam Errington
Published: July 23, 2008
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So here I am finally home after almost two months of solid traveling. I've been to all of the Pro Tour competitions, Masters, the Tige Pro Am, Lake Powell Brostock, and UK Wakestock. Not to mention all of the photoshoots and filming in between. Some of the places I've been to this year in the U.S. are: Acworth (GA), Callaway Gardens (GA), Phoenix (AZ), Reno (NV), Dallas Ft. Worth (TX), Twin Cities (MN), Portland (OR), Snake River (Wash.), Lake Powell (AZ), and Key West. It's been great traveling with my fellow team mates and friends. We've had lots of fun and met some amazing people along the way. I hope you managed to come to at least one of the contests - they were a blast on and off the water. If you didn't make it, you missed out on some insane riding!
I want to congratulate my buddies Phillip Soven and Jimmy LaRiche for winning the Pro Tour titles in Pro Men and Jr. Men respectively. And a huge congrats to OWC's own Nicola Butler for winning the Pro Women title! As you can imagine, I'm stoked to walk away with 4th place my second year pro. I followed three incredible riders, Phillip Soven, J.D. Webb and Rusty Malinowski.
Between two of the stops, Alliance Wakeboard Magazine flew Aaron Rathy and myself over to the United Kingdom for a photoshoot and to ride in Wakestock. Wakestock is also home to a huge music festival featuring the U.K.'s top pop artists Duffy and The Streets. I had the time of my life, everyone was super nice. Despite bad weather, I took the title! I can't wait to go back next year! Straight from Wakestock, Garrett Cortese from Alliance and I flew to Newfoundland to join Parks Bonifay and Josh Sanders. Redbull had planned another unique photoshoot - this time we were jibing icebergs. I cannot tell you how amazing it was. I definitely needed a drysuit though - luckily, Bill Porter from Performance came to the rescue and hooked me up with a drysuit, gloves and booties. Check out pictures on Redbull.com it's featured under "wakeberg."
I also got hooked up with a new sponsor - Nike 6.0 - they have a great team of up and coming riders and I'm proud to be part of it!
Anyway, I'm home for about a week so catch me at the cable!
