Stephanie Wamsley
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Stephanie Wamsley
- Age:
- 28
- Favorite Shoe:
- South Bronx on the water and the Troma off the water
- Current Sponsors:
- Liquid Force Maven, Helium vests, Osiris Shoes
- Grew Up:
- Orlando, FL
- Lives Now:
- Still in Orlando
- How long have you been wakeskating and how’d you get into it?
- For like 7 years now, I have always skated and grew up on the water, the two went hand in hand.
- What’s your favorite thing about it?
- Landing that trick, On a wakeskate you have to do a trick sometimes thousands of times before landing it, like kickflips; I worked on them for at least a year, but when it was finally in the bag, it was the best feeling in the world!
- Who do you usually skate with?
- My boyfriend/roommate, I like to ride with guys, they push you more and aren’t afraid to let you know when something looks bad or needs improvement.
- Where is your favorite place to wakeskate?
- Behind a winch at any gap we can find. Wincing has taken wakeskating to the streets these days and is so much fun. We dodge cops, alligators, snakes and it makes for such good footage!
- What is your favorite trick?
- Kickflips, I never thought I would get there!
- What do you want to work on getting better at?
- Flip tricks, varial flips and frontside flips. A lot of people are focused on wake to wake behind the boat. But I feel that flip tricks are where it’s at, the more skateboard we keep it the better!
- Worst injury?
- Broken Tibia (leg) it kept me off the water the longest, the broken nose was bad too, or maybe when I knocked out my front teeth? But luckily no serious injuries lately.
- What do you do when you’re not wakeskating?
- I love mini-ramps, I have a 4ft one in my front yard, sucks in Florida in the summer, but come October it’s so much fun! We have the second biggest Vans skatepark in the world here too, their spine is so rad!
- Favorite bands, music?
- Silver sun Pickups, Maria Taylor
- Favorite food?
- Red Meat
- Who are your influences?
- Riders like Tara Dakides, Danny Way and Rodney Mullin. And my boyfriend SouthSide, he rides for Gator Boards and he pushes me to the next level every day.
- Any organizations you are involved with, and describe?
- Herbal Life International, I am a distributor and wellness coach on the side. I help people achieve their best health in years.
- Where would you go if you could travel to anywhere in the world?
- The world? Well I guess like Fiji.
- If you could change one thing about the world?
- Negativity, people thrive on it! If I could make a news channel that only reported all the good things that go on in the world, I would; even though the rating would suck; It would still be on in some people’s homes.
- Plans for the future?
- I am finishing school in graphics and multimedia. I want to get in with a company in the industry designing and eventually own my own company.
- Advice for girls who want to learn how to wakeboard/wakeskate?
- HAVE FUN! Don’t let other people bring you down, the more fun you have with it, the faster you progress. And if your serious, live it! Consistincy helps! when I was learning kick flips, I painted a huge 5ft painting of my boyfriends silouette doing a flip trick, it’s rad! But mostly I focused so much on it on and off the water that eventually I had them.
- Links:
- MySpace, YouTube
