Monday, August 1, 2011 9:39am PDT

Windells Session 5: Sun and Fun at Hood

By: Heather Hendricks

Every week just like clock work, Windells sends the latest and greatest information from the most recent session of summer shred camp. As the weeks wear on, so does our jealousy from reading about all the awesome things campers and pros are getting into.

Session 5 just wrapped up and Eric Willett, Austen Sweetin, Jonah Owen and Cam Pierce were the purveyors of fun and spent their days lapping the park and sending it through the concrete jungle.

Sounds like they had a blast, and it's clear things are still popping off at Hood, so read on for all the action you may have missed.

Words: Windells
Summer's more than halfway over and at Windells, we're trying to figure out where the time has gone (it probably has something to do with all of the snowboarding and skating we've been doing the last two months). It's sunny out, there's tons of snow, and each week the park keeps getting better and better. Session 5 just came to a close, and if you missed it, here's what went down.

The Windells Diggers went all out with the park for the session, building lines of inventive features. The top of the park had a skatepark feel to it, with a plethora of rails and transitions: flat bar to stairset, perpendicular 't' tubes, and a corner line off the side of a jump with a pole jam to down rail.

Each day campers and pros lined up alongside one another to ride the towrope and get as many laps in as possible.

Eric Willett, Austen Sweetin, Jonah Owen, and Cam Pierce were at camp, snowboarding, skating, and paling around with the campers. During the day, they lapped the park, hitting the top jump and rail set up.

Not a rail, jump, or bonk was left untouched by these talented shreds. Eric and Austen put on a jump clinic one
afternoon, teaching campers grabs, spins, and backflips.

Back on campus, the activities were endless. Whether it was wet or dry out, there was skating to be done, dodgeballs to be thrown, and games to be played. Austen
skated for at least four hours every night. We're not sure where he gets his energy,
but it could be the multiple iced coffees and Red Bulls we saw in his hands every
day. Eric held a game of "back tag," where campers had to stick stickers on each
other to win gear--campers tried to best Eric in the game, and even though no
one could beat him, Eric still gave out tons of prizes and everyone was stoked.

The pros took over the foam pit in BOB one evening for a jousting competition, where
campers chose the rider they wanted to compete against. "I can still get beat up
by twelve year olds, even though I'm twenty years old," said Austen. "A lot of the
campers wanted to hurt me, but I think it was in a good way."

Session 6 is the Rome Session. Stay tuned to www.windells.com for updates and
more!

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