Im finally back in Orlando and I went riding yesterday with Ben Greenwood out in Clermont. Mike Schwenne was out there as well. I was a little bummed to have to put a full suit back on. I havent ridden in a wetsuit in awhile and Im not a fan of it either. The water temp here in central Florida is about 64 degrees, so its not too bad. However, I think we are all looking forward to spring, which for us is in about 2 or 3 weeks where we can ride in shorts again. Anyhow, its just nice to be riding back in FL again and im looking forward to a good 09 season.

Corey

So after leaving Australia, I decided to fly into the hotlanta, where im from. I flew in Tuesday and pretty much did nothing for the first couple of days while i slept off the jet lag. On Friday, I went out downtown Atlanta for my buddy Diamond’s birthday. We went to a red bull party at this bar, Door 44, which is a cool bar right in downtown. I ran into Ryan Lamos who is the Red Bull wake team manager. He just happened to be up here for the Atlanta supercross, which was awesome, more on that later. Needless to say, Friday and Saturday night were both really eventful and epic nights. Probably the best nights Ive had in the A.
Supercross was sick too, James Stewart won as usual. He’s nasty on that new San Manual Yamaha ride hes got this year. In the final moto, Stewart lead the race every lap.

Anyhow, overall it was a great weekend, and Im flying back to Orlando on Tuesday and it will be my first time home in 56 days. What a great start to 2009.

Corey

I wish I could have blogged a bit more from the land down under, but unfortunately there is a lack of internet flowing though the country side of Australia. Anyhow, this has been an awesome trip, and an experience of a lifetime.
Yesterday, Harley Clifford, and his brothers Ty and Ethan, and myself went to a contest at a cable park in the sunshine coast, which is an hour north of Brisbane. The park is awesome, there are 17 different rails and kickers and it seems like every lap, you can choose a new line. Every rail is so sick, it seems to be the closest to a skatepark that you can get for a wakeboard. Anyway, I entered the contest expecting no good results, cause lets face it, cable contest turn into kicker contest, and I just dont hit kickers often. To my surprise, I made it through the first round and into the finals. In the finals, there were a few local boys, Mitch Langfield, Harley Clifford, and myself. It was a really fun format. There were 10 carriers on the cable and each person had a carrier and did 6 laps. If you fall, you had to get to shore and run back to the dock. It was really fun for me because I had never done an event like that. However, I must say it was a bit embarrassing because all those cable guys were doing 7′s and 9′s off every kicker, and I was doing 3′s and 5′s. So needless to say, I didnt podium, but I had a bunch of fun and you could possibly see me entering more cable contest in the future.

So I am still in Australia at the moment. I have been here for about 5 weeks now and I am leaving to go back to the states next week. The last few weeks have been super busy with the pro tour and clinics. But this week, I am getting to relax and wakeboard a bunch and surf. I just got done riding on the river with Harley Clifford, and before we went out, I told him that I had to learn something new today. Well I did just that, I learned a HS BS off axis Indy 540, and a HS BS off axis indy 720 all wake to wake. Ive do the BS 7 off of the double up a lot, but never off the wake, and I have never done a off axis BS 5. So my set this morning turned out pretty well. I tried to post pics as well on my last post but it turned out not so good. I will work out the bugs and post pics of Australia soon

Corey