After winning this year's 
Cronulla Long Boarding A-Grade Division and beating this year's State and Australian champion, Cookie will be representing Cronulla's Sandshoes Boardriders Club in the 2011 ASP Longboarding Qualifying Series (LQS). Cookie will be competing against the top professional longboard surfers from around the world, and have the chance to qualify for the World Championships in Hawaii later in the year.
The coming LQS events will take place at:
Feb 4-6: Hyundai Pro Longboard, Sandy Bay, Whangarei, New Zealand
Mar 16-20: Golden Breed Men, Noosa Heads, QLD, Aus
Mar 23-27: Malfuncton. Kingscliff, NSW, Aus
July 16-17: Whalebone Classic, Perth, WA, Aus
Wing wishes Cookie the best of luck at these events!!
Keep up to date with Cookie's progress on his website cookielovesit.com
The photos of Cookie ripping it shreds are from his last visit to Byron Bay over Christmas and New Years.
Adam Dodd Motion Pictures launches unique iphone application.
Adam Dodd Motion Pictures, a company with a long standing presence in the sport of wakeboarding and in the action sports world is pleased to announce the fruition of their latest project, a wakeboarding instructional video application titled, Wake Trick Guru. The app is based around video clips of pro wakeboarders doing tricks accompanied by voiceovers explaining how to do the tricks and the first of its kind for the sport of wakeboarding available for the iphone. The app is a free download and at present has four free video files that can be downloaded which will be added to as the apps content is added to.
“Without spending any money though users can access a lot of information from the world of wakeboarding“ says Adam Dodd the applications creator. “Users can find the wake store (like Wing Wetsuits), school or park that is closest to them, get direct access to pro riders blogs and websites, download free wallpapers, see pro event schedules and even win nice things in our regular give aways“.
Video clips are sold in bundles of four for US $1.99 at present and they currently feature riding and instruction by Daniel Watkins, Amber Wing, Dean Smith, Cobe & Tarah Mikacich, Jeff Langley, Erik Ruck, Adam Errington, Sean O’Brien, Chris O’ Shae, Josh Sanders, Scott Broome & Sam Thompson just to name a few.
Tricks are broken up into three categories; beginner, intermediate & advanced and there are two other folders that will contain clips for the total novice giving boating for wakeboarding and wakeboarding 101 instruction.
“The app will evolve with time and users can request tricks to be covered if they don't find what they are looking for, the most requested tricks will be covered and made available for purchase“ Dodd remarked. “Now that we have the app out we are working hard on enriching the content and getting more clips ready for sale”. An ipad version is on its way and will be available in early 2011 and an android version is on the drawing board also.
The app has a dedicated website http://www.waketrickguru.com/ which contains one of the apps free video clips so people interested can see what the video clips are like, it can also be found on facebook at; http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wake-Trick-Guru/137316799641034 and the itunes preview page is at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wake-trick-guru/id398954620?mt=8
Cronulla Long Boarding A-Grade Division and beating this year's State and Australian champion, Cookie will be representing Cronulla's Sandshoes Boardriders Club in the 2011 ASP Longboarding Qualifying Series (LQS). Cookie will be competing against the top professional longboard surfers from around the world, and have the chance to qualify for the World Championships in Hawaii later in the year.
