dude, I'm 34, went to the Wakeboard camp last season (actually this season), had a blast, (and planning to go back early '11) but I went during the last week of Feb, and it was freezin' cold, and the way this winter's shapin' up already, I can tell ya; it's gonna be another frozen one as far as conditions go here in FLA, so bring a GOOD wetsuit, it'll be tough to trunk it, believe me. but who knows you might get lucky.
you get your room/board paid for in your stay, 3 (20-30min depending on how many other ppl are there w/ya, but 20 min's is standard time) pulls behind the boat Monday- Wednesday, Thurs. you get 2 pulls behind the boat in the morning, and then after lunch they head over to OWC for some cable time, unless you want to opt out and stay with your time on the boat, a coach will usually stay behind to give you a sesh behind the boat and some one on one stuff, but when we went to O-Dub our dinner afterwards was taken care of and we hit up Performance Thursday afternoon so that was cool too, saw Brandon Thomas and Harley Clifford pickin' up some gear there. and Friday you get 3 pulls from behind the boat again.
Every pull you get is 3 times daily (2 in the morning after breakfast, and the last after lunch (depending on what the weather does, it can get sketchy here in Florida sometimes), and some of the coaches might get in on the action too and put on a good show for everyone in the boat. which is a plus) 'cept Thursday when they hit O-dub; again unless you opt out of it.
first day (monday) you get Kyle comin' in to give you some stuff to think about if your new to the camp and new to riding in general, and then on the first ride he checks you out on how you ride to see if you've got any bad habits that need correcting, and then works up from there. all the coaches are great: Chad, Kyle, Bob Sichel, Billy Parks(those guys were there when I went, most everyone else was away either for a contest or visiting family) oh yeah and can't forget Brandon Judd he'd just moved there and started with 'em (oops sorry Brandon didn't mean to almost forget ya man), and all the coaches have a unique teaching style ('specially Kyle) and push your riding further than you might not expect. plus they're really awesome in the boat and some random crazyiness is almost always goin' down @ one time or another.
overall it was a great experience except for the weather (rained a few times, but hey this' Florida after all ) and the cold, but awesome none the less, planning to go back first week of March in 2011 but we'll see. A big plus was when Danny Harf, and Kevin Henshaw showed up to shoot some film on a project that Bob (Sichel) was workin' on that I helped him finish building, it was some kinda double box thing (the vid's up on Vimeo somewhere),didn't get to see Danny (think he left just before we got back to shore from our sesh) but Kevin was there so I spoke w/him for a lil bit, I heard Parks showed up for a few minutes too and spoke w/Danny, but wasn't able to stick 'round very long either.
myself, though, I Haven't tried The Projects, but heard good things 'bout 'em, or the Boarding School (Shaun's school), I've heard great things about them, (lookin' forward to tryin' some time w/them) but they've relocated earlier this year out to the same lakes that the projects are on, definitely about havin' fun there, so I wanna polish my skills more with TWC and then try TBS w/Shaun, Travis, Kyle Rat, and Josh Palma, I think Keith Lyman pops in from time to time too.
So yeah, go for it man, don't worry 'bout the age thing, it's just bs, that's just the average ages they have for the students that usually show up to the camps, I think this one guy that's a regular when he's in town was like 38 and he rode out there, throwing some sick hammers for his riding level.
do it! you're riding will improve, guaranteed!
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