Fluid Kayaks Team

After another sick competition season, Natalie and I headed over to the infamous M-Wave for a little photo shoot. We took our friend Jordan Poffenberger and his dad Ned. Levels were pretty sweet, but they could have been a tiny bit better. The best time to be there is when the wave is green all the time, but for us, there was a little pile that came and went. We still managed to have a total blast, and we got a bunch of fun photos. Enjoy!

Jordan perfected a technique that I'm calling "UFO-ing". I really have no idea what he was doing to get into this position.

This was the biggest kickflip that I did that day. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I figure my sprayskirt is about 5 or maybe even 6 feet off the surface of the water.

Still airborne on that same trick.

On one ride, Natalie's bow caught, and she threw this loop. It's hard to tell since the shot is so tight, but she really is totally flat with her head that far out of the water.

This was one of my favorite shots of the day. Just frontsurfing this wave can be pretty cool.

Natalie found this cool angle for shooting kickflips. In this sequence, you can see me not taking the stroke that would make me continue the kickflip, then somehow sticking it anyway. That's the still photo equivalent of movie magic. They are actually two different tricks, shot from the same angle. And nobody will ever know.

I did surf the wave once or twice, too. I'm nowhere near as good at that as local boy Alex Hotze is, though.

The photo credits are all a big jumble, since we traded off the camera a lot. Most photos were taken by Ned Poffenberger, but a fair number of them were taken by Natalie Kramer, or myself; Leif Anderson.