wOODwARD wEEKeND

A few friends and I were off to Woodward for the weekend, I had no idea that there would be a massive southern Ontario presence there when I arrived. After everyone was settled in to where they would be staying either at the lodge on Woodward grounds or the Inn a few minute drive down the road from Woodward. So as the kid inside took over, everyone raced over to the nearest indoor park to get riding. The days were pretty much filled with lots of different riding. Everyone road everything which was good to see people who road the rails and flat banks were also huckin into the foam trying new aerials and I followed suit.

It was weird to see all us Canadians dropping like flies. It seemed as if the long winters took its toll on us and we were not in shape to make it through a Woodward weekend, haha. after the first day I had a horrible pulled muscle in my left arm and lots of others had their own issues from whiplash to sprained ankles. Everyone was kept in good spirits though, which I was glad to see. We were in such good spirit that the last night there all the dudes from the lodge wanted to drive over to the Inn to mess around with the other Canadians staying there. So we packed a van with about 10 people and we were off! No plan is sight just a bunch of random ideas getting thrown in the air as to what we were going to do...So we get to the Inn and decide to walk right in and someone decided to start a shoe throwing fest and screaming "were coming back" as to scare the people staying at the Inn thinking that someone was coming back in the night to do something, it was weird but whatever. As all that went on something hit the ground and shattered so we all jumped back in the van and boogied out of there.

Everything turned out fine, nothing went wrong and we got away without getting into trouble. It made for some funny conversation that night and the next morning though. Some look at Woodward as a place of dreams or a training facility to progress their riding, in some ways I guess it is both of those but I see it as a place to have fun with friends, meet new ones and come home with lots of new memories.