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I am road tripping right now. Driving from Orlando to Atlanta for two days then Knoxville for four then to my hometown in Michigan for my birthday. Then some clinics in Fargo then back to Wisconsin for the second stop of the Mastercraft Pro Tour. Should be a good couple weeks. Let me know if you in any of those cities. Better to be bus than bored right.

Just wanted to let everyone know you can enter to win yourself a pair of CWB patented Hinge tech boots of your choice on my blog. Check it out and enter the contest. You will probably win. I can’t guarantee it though. Good luck. Go to www.derekgrasman.wordpress.com. Or just click the picture below.

We were doing the clinic series last week in Winter Haven Florida. Steve Bates parents live in Winter Haven as well so lucky for me I never have to drive more than five minutes during that week. The problem is two riders live an hour away from Winter Haven and are not stoked about having to make the drive every morning. But hey 80 percent of the team lives in the Winter Haven area now so whats the point of making us all leave. Heres Andrew, Stu, and Zane talking about something unimportant. Andrews happy. He’s a newlywed.

Andrew got it right. It was a good day. 87 and not a cloud in the sky. The only problem was the sun shining off of the glassy rollers coming into the double up and making it nearly impossible to see. Although glassy water is never a problem. And we only had two fat side sacs in the boat.  But what kind of people would we be if we let this bother us. We had just as much fun on the small wake today and we would’ve had on a behemoth one. Rad day for sure.

Wow its been what seems like forever. The truth of the matter is I forgot my password and it took me this long to get back into the account. Its boat show season right now and I spent all last week in Knoxville for CWB slinging boards. And next week I am actually getting the chance to ride a train to Miami for a rail jam with some of my close friends. It’s going to be rad. I love rail jams. There rad. And Mastercraft is unveiling there new yacht they came up with. It’s going to be rad. Im pretty excited. Hope to see you guys there. Keep checking this blog updates and check derekgrasman.wordpress.com too. Later brodos.

This whole past week has been all about CWB for the whole team pretty much. Doug Cannon our product designer got down here last Thursday to work on the new Faction board. And I must say it is one of the most fun shapes I have ever ridden. It’s super rider friendly and just fun to ride. Almost more so than any other wakeboard I have ever ridden.
Then on Friday our team manager Steve Bates got down here to do some clinic dvd filming for our 2009 product dvd. Here at CWB we tend to do things a little different. Every other board company tries to make it all serious and cool. And we feel that takes the fun out of it. Which is what were all about. The FUN. If you guys get a chance to check out the product dvd you should because it’s going to be a good watch. Not your average boring clinic dvd. Lot’s of funny and goofy stuff going on that we came up with. A couple riders couldn’t make it but the riders who could were Bryan Hutton, Corey Bradley. Stuart Shinn, Andrew Adkison, Zane Schwenk, Trevor Hansen, Jimmy Trask, and myself. A good time was had for all and I think we would all agree we pushed the boundaries of what was capable on a wakeboard. And not in the average way either.

Not the new Kanye song. So don’t get your hopes up. I am talking about what looks like it may be a cold winter. We had a cold front here in Florida these past couple days and it has been chilly. This is probably the earliest I have ever had to bust out the old fullsuit. This may have been since I just got an awesome new fullsuit from Jetpilot. It blue and I love it. So comfortable and flexible. The past two days have been mid 60’s and it’s hard to get excited to go ride. Although as soon as I get my boots on I am psyched again. Even though it’s cold it’s really fun. I hope it doesn’t get to cold though. It already hurts the hands to hold onto the handle. I guess living in Florida has made me a softy. Keep it real everyone. Not too real though. Im outty.

DG

It’s finally here guys. After a good summer that may or may not have gone by to quick it is finally the end of the season. Unlike snowboarding and other sports wakeboarding never really has a true off season. Thats because in Florida you can ride all year and because wakeboarding is awesome. This is the time of the year that I am pretty sure is every pro riders favorite. Some riders favorite may be spring but this is mine. It is my favorite for many reasons. The first is that we get a break from flying every week and the second is that we get to come home and do what we love the most. Wakeboard and lots of it. The water is still warm and the sun is still shining. And it’s always glassy. This is the time of the year that I always see the most progression in my riding. So let’s hope it stays the same this year. And besides when I used to live in Michigan this would be when I had to put my board away for the year. So screw that. I want more wakeboarding not less.

Hey MBB.