OCTOBER 22, 2012
MELISSA MARQUARDT BRANDON THOMAS / BRODIE CHABOY / ZANE SCHWENK
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ON THE COVER By Mike Ennen Winching in wakeboarding D I G I TA L M AGA Z I N E www.WakeJournal.com Published every Monday.
is to what backcountry is in snowboarding. It’s the seek and destroy in skateboarding. Winching is our best creative outlet for the sport to evolve
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and grow. If you don’t have that aspect in your riding, it’s tough
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was to pull off. There is so much that goes into it; Finding the
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zone and through the terrain,
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and obstacles for the proper pull. Then there’s finding the right angle to hit/enter and exit the zone, not drowning, and the list goes on and on. Melissa is the best woman
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rider in my eyes because she can ride all three elements of the sport; Boat, rail/cable, and winching. Her style has always been well ahead of the pack
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in women’s wakeboarding but now more than ever, you need to be a versatile rider to be a pro wakeboarder. I don’t know any other girl out there that can hang with the boys like she can… and she has been doing it for years.
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This specific winch zone is one
MELISSA MARQUARDT of Nick’s (my brother) favorite
this point, she had banged off a
quickly turned on us, adrenaline
spots off of the Mt. Baker
bunch of rocks and was heading
kicked in.
highway called Nooksack Falls.
for a long jam to keep her head
Nick and his super human
There’s no messing around with
up for air. She wrapped her arms
strength, ran downstream and
its ice-cold water and sketchy
around a log and was instantly
leaped to a tree that was on the
approach. There were rocks on
pinned because her board was
bank to scale down and grab
landing and it was a quick exit to
still attached. It began with half-
Melissa. Bear hugging the tree
shore otherwise you are pin-
ass smiles, not knowing if it was
and inverted, he reached down
balling down the rocky rapids
serious or laughable. Mel was
and pulled her feet out of the
with sketchy log jams and cliff
smiling the whole time, but the
bindings, one by one. “Just in
walls. Toward the end was a
board was sucking her deeper
the Nick of time” was certainly
150-foot waterfall, just 70 yards
under water as she began to
applicable. Mel never stopped
down the river. Generally, we’d
lose her grip. When the situation
smiling.
like to stay out of that part. The “quick exit” after landing is the part that Melissa didn’t do just seconds after this photo was taken. She landed
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and rode to the left instead of the exit to the right. She took a little white water rapid ride down the Nooksack River with her wakeboard still attached to her feet. With that much water moving around her, there was no resistance to pull her feet out herself. As she was pin-balling off the rocks, my brother Nick was running along side the river waiting for a moment to snag her. At NOOKSACK FALLS, WA AUGUST 1, 2012 CAMERA: NIKON D3 LENS: NIKKOR 300MM ANGLE: BANKSIDE
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were out at Camp Far West and shot into the evening. The trick was HS wrapped Indy 540.
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January 5, 1977
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NIKON OR CANON
Nikon
HAIR LENGTH
Pretty long
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I always switch
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Performing less than my ability or underachieving
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It’s always changing... I really like shooting Derek Cook right now
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The babes are all so hot but they all want to date Jimmy LaRiche
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Anything that looks rad. So many different styles out there...
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ZANE SCHWENK
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The SLURPEE is a goofy trick that I learned at BoardStock in 1996. It’s
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basically a toe-side back roll with a backside 360, using a cuffed approach. Cutting in with both hands behind your back, you can over lean and it’ll spin you out off the top of the wake or you can stuff the tip and get whacked. You have to just lean the perfect amount. If you let go with your
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it will all unravel for you. Look
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over your head and grab the
to push against the board and
handle with your front hand
again, and BAM, you’re there.
while. I like that there are only a
someone looks perplexed or
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few riders that do it. The best for
laughs. I dig that.”
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guys like Derek are there
and adds to every trick with more style
rippin’ it up. This shot
than you might ever see. For me, the
here is one that I took
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