Shane Licari Finishes 2nd

Camper Shane Licari finishes 2nd in WA State finals. Congradulations Shane...we're so proud. Keep up the hard work.
If you have any major accomplishments, email us...we'd love to post them.
Mike Schwenne

NEW FOR WAKEBOARD CAMP THIS SUMMER

As with any summer, there are always tons of things we change to improve your wakeboard camp experience. We even are already working on improvements for summer 2011.

NEW LAKE HOUSE
We picked up a lake house at a bank auction last fall. It’s a killer 3 bed, 2 bath with an amazing valley view on over 2 acres. It’s also less than a 4 minute drive to the launch ramp. Those campers staying multiple weeks with us will get to stay at the lake house over the weekends. The lake house is also available to rent during the week, for your parents if they need a place to stay close by. The Monday through Friday vacation rental cost is $1400. Campers family and friends receive a $500 special discount, making the rental only $899.



NEW CUSTOM BOATS
MB sports is being recognized by the industry as one of the best and biggest wakes in the industry. After realizing that the 21’ Tomcat has the best wake out there, 2009 wakeboard tour champion Aaron Rathy asked MB if he could join the team…and they said yes
MB has been known for their custom craftsmanship over the years, limiting their production to under 200 boats a year, whereas their competitors pump out up to 7000 boats a year off the assembly line. To take advantage of their unique ability to hand craft boats, we’ve asked them for a special favor.
The goal was to design a boat after a high end luxury sports car. To do this we had to search the every product offered from multiple venders to find just the right combinations for the job. It’s all top secret until the boats are finished in a few week; but don’t worry you guys will be the first to see the finished product. To top it all off, our boats will be the first to have the MB Wake Plates installed. We’ve been told this won’t be available to the public until 2011. Our boats are being built as the 2011 Models.

Pick Your Price -CAMP BOATS FOR SALE
You choose how much you want to pay and the boat is yours. We are selling these boats starting with 1 hour for under dealer cost! With all the custom work and options, these are $75,000.00 out the door. The boats will start out at $49K. We will be dropping the price $1000.00 EVERY WEEK!!! as we use them Starting June 15th. That means by the end of august the boats could only $39K. When the price gets to where you want it…take it home! We reserve the right to sell to highest offer. Colors: 1)Solid black 2)solid cream 3)solid white. You may also notify us ahead of summer and reserve your boat at your price. Good luck campers…don’t “miss the boat on this one.”

Wakeboard camps coming soon

Hi campers,
It’s been a long and wet winter, and you know what that means…the lakes will be full this summer. Regardless of the weather much of our staff has been training every weekend together(Mike, Mon, Trever, Alyssa, Jake, and new coach Jermey Twelker). We’ve put together some cool new videos from over the winter
Coaches video:
http://www.alliancewake.com/wake/meet-the-west-coast-camps-coaches/
Winter Riding:
http://www.alliancewake.com/wake/winter-session/
Jetpilot Promo:
http://wakeworld.com/news/videos/mike-schwenne.html


Since we are on the topic of videos, we’ve been watching all the weekly camp videos from last summer. Looking back, there were so many great times shared with you last summer. So we’re declaring April 24th as the national watch your week video day. That’s right it’s a self declared national holiday. I don’t think it’s going to get you out of school just quit yet though.

new wakeboard lessons video

West Coast Camps lessons from trever maur on Vimeo.

New York, New York!

New York!!!

Back in America! We were SO happy to be in our homeland! New York was still very foreign to us west coasters! Taking the air-train to the subway and the subway into the city we explored the monstrous city of NY, NY!!! Our "self-guided" tour started by going on the free ferry to Stanten Island, through the financial district, ground zero, Broadway, Time Square and Central Park!

IRELAND

Dublin, Ireland

Getting from the airport into Dublin was the usual bus ride into the city center followed by a walk to the hostel. Our stay in Ireland consisted of taking a walking tour around the city, train ride to a nearby coastal town and a full day journey out west! The best part of the trip was by far our trip out to the West Coast! From Dublin we took a bus to Galway (4 1/2 hours) then another 1 hr 45 minute bus ride to the cliffs of Mohar! After spending 2 hours exploring the cliffs we got back on the bus and made our way all the way back to our hostel in Dublin!

PARIS!

Paris!

Our flight into Paris was not really into the city Paris but a good 1 hour train ride into the city. Since our flight got in late we stayed at a local hotel and in the morning we began our journey into Paris. After looking at several maps we decided on our route to get to the train station...no more taxis! We walked to the bus station and stared at the schedule for a long while in order to make sense of how to get to the train station. Once we had found out the time we were to catch the bus we ran into the grocery store near by. We almost missed the bus! Got on paid the fare and tried to ask the French speaking bus driver which stop to get off at for the train....no communication occurred. Thankfully a kind soul heard us talking with the driver and in broke english he said "you need train?" Come with me" He literally took us off the bus! He walked us all the way to the train station. From there we managed pretty well. Took the train into the city center of Paris, the metro close to our hostel and then walked to our hostel with few problems getting there.










We spent the day looking for my relative's, Victor Hugo, home...only to discover that Victor Hugo did not live in Victor Hugo Place but clear across town....the Victor Hugo Place was a square dedicated to him...not where he lived! Opps! We then walked along the river, saw the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, etc.! Lots of beautiful festive lights for Christmas time!

The next morning we got a hold of our friend George from Tahiti (who happened to also be in Paris for Christmas!) and he took us out sightseeing. We saw Notre Dame and toured Victor Hugo's real home! It was pretty cool to see! There was also a "Hugo Cafe" on the corner! That night we relaxed and then went out to a delicious dinner!

Christmas eve we spent touring the Louvre. It is huge! Amazing! It took most of the day. yes we saw the Mona Lisa and I was actually very impressed with the size (so many people say it is small). We could easily have taken days or weeks to explore the Louvre! After our Louvre adventures we met back up with George and his Mom, Marjorie. She cooked us a spectacular meal for Christmas Eve!

On Christmas Day we met with George and headed to the top of the Eiffel Tower! Only after waiting an hour in the longest line possible in freezing cold weather! The view was pretty cool. You can see over all of Paris! Due to the cod weather we spend the rest of the day in George's apartment relaxing.

Our flight to Dublin, Ireland was early the next day so we turned in early to pack and get some shut eye.