Day 2 at Surf Expo is starting off a little slowly thanks to some off campus activities last night after the Wake Awards. How is one supposed to pass up an awesome deal like a bucket of 5 Bud Lights for $6? They might as well having been giving these things away. I had a great conversation with some drunk idiot sitting beside me who was trying to tell me that nothing good ever came from Canada. Apparently this genius hadn’t of either penicillin or basketball.

The show itself seemed to be busier today with lots of action in the wakeboard area. There was always a large crowd gathered around the pool jam anytime it was firing, but I never strayed to watch the show. I was kind of surprised to see a pool jam at the show this year; is it 2006 or something?

I managed to wander out of the wake zone for a while to check out a few other parts of the show. The skatepark was busy with demos going a couple time a day with a few big names ripping around like Corey Duffel, Ronnie Creager and Justin Brock. The apparel/clothing area was busy as well, but their booths are by appointment only.  I had a good chat with Oakley team manager Matt Swanson; he was pretty pumped about his boy Rathy cleaning house at the Wake Awards from the night before. He’s also got a billion ideas about what he wants to do with Oakley and their wakeboard team; you guys are going to be pumped about what’s coming down the pipeline.

Jimmer and I left the show early so we could grab a bite to eat before the Parks Documentary that started at 8. I wanted to get something close to the hotel, but Jimmer wanted to go to Universal where the movie playing. Despite my better judgment, we went joined the thousands of tourists at Universal. We ended up at the Hard Rock Café for dinner. The Hard Rock is usually pretty cool, but this one was over the top tacky. I’d describe it as a post-apocalyptic rock and roll dinning experience. Their hiring policy must be to find the freakiest-looking people as possible. I nicknamed our server Rick Flare for all of the accessories attached to various parts of his outfit. The food was good, but we got out of there as quick as possible because we didn’t want to be late for the movie.

Everybody in the wake industry, both young and old showed up for the movie. I’d talked to Shane [Bonifay] about a month ago and he was hyping up the film pretty hard. I was hoping it lived up to expectation, but it went way beyond that. If anyone ever had any doubt how much influence Parks has had, and continues to have, on this industry, they need to see this movie. Hell, everybody needs to see this movie anyways; it might be the most important wake film ever made; yeah I said it! There’s so much to say about this film, but I feel like I need some time to fully digest it so I’ll come back with a full Parks documentary blog tomorrow.