Wake Journal, Issue 86 by Wake Journal

OCTOBER 22, 2012

MELISSA MARQUARDT BRANDON THOMAS / BRODIE CHABOY / ZANE SCHWENK

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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without digesting how gnarly it

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was to pull off. There is so much that goes into it; Finding the

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spot, getting the winch into the

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zone and through the terrain,

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getting the rope around objects

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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.

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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BRODIE CHABOYA

FOLSOM LAKE, CA

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were out at Camp Far West and shot into the evening. The trick was HS wrapped Indy 540.

It’s super fun and one of my favorites. I probably did five of them, back to back until we got something we both liked. The persistence to make trick just right worked out well for the both of us.” —Brodie Chaboya

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RODRIGO DONOSO

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Discovery Bay, CA

D.O.B.

January 5, 1977

AGE

YEARS SHOOTING

NIKON OR CANON

Nikon

HAIR LENGTH

Pretty long

SHAMPOO

I always switch

PET PEAVE

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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Any course that I’m playing well. Probably Discovery Bay Country Club

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Sticky Chicken & Ribs (Ask Parks or Randall, they’ll back it)

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I have been addicted to COD in the past

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Rome was super fun... Only there for a night. San Francisco is always awesome!

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F ‘em all!!!

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There’s a few... Scott Byerly, Josh Smith, Greg Nelson, Parks Bonifay, Shaun Murray, Randall Harris, Gator, Gregg Necrason and Thomas Horrell

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Miranda Kerr. I just Googled “super model” and she popped up... she’s a real stunner!

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ZANE SCHWENK

LAKE OROVILLE, CA

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

front hand as you ride up the

it will all unravel for you. Look

wake, rock on your back foot

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

Try it switch if you feel like you

few riders that do it. The best for

laughs. I dig that.”

haven’t been smacked in a

me is that every time I do one,

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DEREK COOK

LAKE GASTON, NC

“If you have ever gotten the chance to

Adam Fields for a day

see Derek Cook ride, then you know

or two, especially when

he doesn’t just go huge, he goes huge

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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photographer, it always gets me super while Derek was riding with Adam and pumped to shoot with guys like that.

Co at the AF Wake Compound.”

It’s always fun riding and shooting with —Tyler Soden

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