Ride'N'Slide 2007 will not go down as the sunniest ones on the record, but we had flat water 25 ryders and some new obsticals the main Ingredients for a wake jam so what the hell.
First up were the kids, lots of new faces this year and some great riding and also some spectaculor crashes as most of the kids are not used to the fat Superair wake so good skills groms.
Kids results
1st Phill Sweeney
2nd Danny Gregory
3rd James Brookes
Crash of the day Indo board went to Elliot Brearey (ouch)
Ladies out next and here's when the rails and kicker start to come in to the game , big wake tricks frontrolls backrolls, 360's and lots of big grabed 180s, It was a close one to call this year
Ladies
1st Jenna McAvoy
2nd Beccy Hall
3rd Anna Kirby
The Open Men Division always a big feild with big tricks, as ever some sick riding and some comedy moments , resulting in Matt Royle Rich Leech Andy Slater going through to meet past winner Chris Woodhead and the rest of the Pro's in the finals
Open Men
1st Matt Royle
2nd Rich Leech
3rd Andy Slater
The Pro finals which was a sick display of wakeboarding with 3s 5 s and sevens..raleys spins on rails on and of them, By this time the heavens had opened and 3rd time winner Chris did most of his set in the driving rain but still manged to pull off 1st place stealing the cash for yet another year
Finals
1st Chris Woodhead
2nd Simon capell
3rd Rich Leech
4th Andy Slater
5th Matt Royle
6th Solid Jim
Big thanks to O'Shea for the prizes and to indoboard for best crash prize. Off The Hook! The Saturday night band in the ski bar (they just rock!!) Whitenosugar Productions for the premier of the winching documentry Northern Exposure, Buzz for the judging skills and to Loz from Working Class Hero's for the Photo's. So Till Next Year or unless we find another excuse for a Northern Monkeys get together Adios Amigos!!!
