OCTOBER 1, 2012
MATT MANZARI ADAM FIELDS / MARC SHUSTER / DEAN SMITH
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ON THE COVER By Reed Hansen Do you know what it feels like to
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smash your face into rocks and have doctors put your face back together with plates, bolts and screws? Yeah me neither, but
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after watching Matt go through the pain, suffering and frustration that goes with it, I can tell you that
The morning of the accident, Matt was reluctant to ride in the boat portion of the Toe Jam because he lacked practice coming
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ment from his peers, he ended up entering and rode first off of the dock. The contest was set up as one pass down and one pass back. At the end of the pass, there was a narrow spot in the
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lake where you would have to stay directly behind the boat to make it through. When Matt started in the beginning of the course, he had to wait a few more moments (more
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than normal) to try his first trick. Doing so, put him in a rush and pushed him down course. He rushed his first two tricks
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but by the time he got to his third trick he was coming to the spot in the lake where you shouldn’t edge outside of the wake. He figured he had enough time, so he went for a front 360. He stuck it pretty much perfect but when he landed, he
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was basically on shore. He did his best to run out the speed but he
coccyx to top his uncomfortability. It was a crazy couple of months
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tripped and went straight into the
watching his face grow back.
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rocks.
What was more crazy was watch-
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I was not first on scene but I
ing Matt’s raw talent and drive to
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was there shortly after. Matt was
ride again. The first time he rode
not breathing very well and was
was at Battle Falls where his
still knocked out when I arrived.
second trick was a big Varial Flip
thank the good Lord that you still
It was before the swelling so his
down the drop. What!? Anyways,
have a face and a frontal lobe that
face was dented inward rather
I am not telling you this to make
will let you ride. So, get out there
than swelling out. He was bleed-
you want to put your board down
and ride and shred your faces off…
ing from everywhere. I jumped
and do something safer. I am tell-
but not literally!
in the chaos and started holding
ing you this in hopes that you will
his wounds. Five minutes later, he woke up and started trying to stand. We didn’t know where he was injured but was relieved to see him awake. Off to the hospital we went where it was a long couple of hours in the waiting room, waiting to hear what was wrong. I remember the doctor telling us that it was a shatter and not a break. Was that supposed to be better? Matt ended up with his face broken in more than 13 places, 16 screws, 3 plates and a broken PHOTO: REED HANSEN
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MARC SHUSTER
HYDROUS WAKE PARK, ALLEN, TX
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Crown stop. I was determined that I wasn’t going to let that
ruin my fun. This shot reminds me of one bum knee and one hell of a good time! The whole CTRL team was out there killing it, so I put on my big-girl panties, grabbed my deck and went kosher ham on some rails. Mazel!” —Marc Shuster
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AARON PERKINS
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Body Varial 360
Body Varial before trying
slight heelside edge. Keep
“First you’ll want to learn
this Body Varial 3. I like to
your arm at a 90° angle, and
the FS 360 and Stalefish
come into the kicker with a
wait for the top of the kicker.
Reach down and grab
getting the board under-
handle and be ready to
Stalefish while rotating
neath yourself, continue
ride away.”
your body 180°. After
the rotation, pass the
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JOSH TWELKER
LAKE OROVILLE, CA
“Twelker is one of the baddest
year at the CWB
Mo-Fos this wake generation
team trip to Lake
has seen in a long time. Add
Oroville. They
to it, he’s quiet, humble and
ended up using
a stand-up class act. If you
this shot on the
ever want to be blown away
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and inspired from somebody
It was a good old fashion tube
riding a wakeboard, watching
angle with one of the sports
Twelker is a good place to
greatest, no complaints here.”
start. We got this shot last
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