Cords’ staff day out - snowboarding and flowriding
Hey!
I posted this in my trip report thread, but mizu suggested I could post it in the social pages, too. Its a little vid I made with the gopro footage from my work day our here in Sweden from a few weeks ago. Made mostly for my colleagues to enjoy but some of you may get some enjoyment out of it too. Take note of some of the funny flowrider stacks and how much my boss shreds on it!
What! No barrel section on the flowrider!! That’s just a waste.
I’m a bit lost as to why you would bother with a flat flowrider? But then some of those beatings looked hideous, broken bone hideous!
I would love to give that a go!!!!!
And yeah, some of the face plants looked pretty damn heavy!!!!! 
Is it soft at all under the blue surface?
I recently tried that exact same Flow Rider when I was at Wet N Wild. It was a 30 minute session shared with 3 other guys. It’s a lot harder than it looks. I spent most of my time taking beatings as well. Trent is right, it’s super soft underneath and it’s almost impossible to hurt yourself (super soft texture and very spongy). My neck was a bit sore the next day from all the whiplash but I don’t really see how someone could properly hurt themselves on it. There’s definitley a “getting used to” period and you slowly improve the more minutes you spend on it. It’s very different to any other boardsport, at least in my experience.
Great video, cords. Looks like you guys are having an absolute blast over there. Chasing your dreams indeed! 
haha! That was great - especially the girl who fell off and was all - i will just walk away. then face plants!!
So wow everyone of your team at work is a snowborrder?
Also how come there was no footage of you on the flow rider or Freddy??
Your boss looked awesome but wonder if he could carry it off in the real surf! You have to get him to visit you in aus now!
Especially since the flowrider creates such an epic tube.
Those Swedish names are like the heavy metal version of English names.
oz - Freds and I are in it the vid. In Sweden, I go by Maggan and the swedish nickname for Fredrik is Freddan…If I introduce myself as Margie then no swedes understand that and if they do, they pronounce it wrong with a hard G (like the g in marge simpson, instead of the like the g’s in egg) and I grew up hating my name being pronounced that way….so easiest just to avoid it all together!
Nearly everyone in the company skis, but people were mostly snowboarding that day because the boss organised us to be able to hire boards/boots/bindings for free and then we ran a beginner snowboard lesson. The one-foot relay race was part of that lesson. Its mostly t-bars around here so people really need to be able to balance and ride one foot.
As far as the boss being able to carry it off in real surf, it is pretty much a completely different kettle of fish. The feel of riding this thing is a lot more like wakeboarding, than surfing or anything else, I think.
I dare say he’d pick up surfing relatively quickly though, of course once he’d paid his dues in understanding how the ocean works. Pretty sure he’s already been to Indo and surfed already anyway?
Wow, how are some of the snobby comments? Why would you bother, no tube etc! haha. I’ll tell you why - because it is fun! If you can’t imagine how being able to throw buckets on that thing like my boss did might be fun then we’ll have to agree to disagree! Especially when there aren’t many other wave riding options within coo-ee!
Another reason it is worth bothering is because the boss organised for us to have the flowrider to ourselves for 2 hours at no cost, as well as use of the pools/slides/spa/sauna afterwards. No complaints!
I think I need to give a bit of context here, maybe…The flowrider is attached to Experium, which is a massive, on-snow, family oriented leisure/entertainment centre (bars, restaurants, bowling alley, cinema, shops, day spa, swimming pools, slides, sauna etc) in Lindvallen, the main part of Sälen. It is also a good 2 days of straight driving from anything vaguely resembling decent surf which almost no one in sweden knows anything about, anyway! Its marketed as and aims to be, a family fun experience, not a hardcore surfer dude one. People here don’t know what a barrel is!
The blue stuff is soft underneath, a little bit foamy, but you still get plenty sore from the beatings the day after. ‘Proper’ flowriders with barrels are fairly well known for the injury tolls that even pro riders riding them have sustained. Broken ankles, dislocated shoulders and the like from either landing awkwardly on airs or from being tossed over the falls and landing awkwardly on the much less soft surface.
Those Swedish names are like the heavy metal version of English names.
haha yeah I guess so. I’m used to them all now so I don’t notice it anymore.
Top 30 baby names in Sweden in 2011 (2012 hasn’t come out yet). Some pretty interesting ones in there that wouldn’t come close to making the top 1000 in Oz! The two friends of Fred’s we know who recently had baby boys went with Hugo and Elmer.
Boys:
1. William
2. Lucas
3. Oscar
4. Hugo
5. Elias
6. Oliver
7. Liam
8. Alexander
9. Viktor
10. Emil
11. Axel
12. Anton
13. Erik
14. Leo
15. Filip
16. Vincent
17. Olle
18. Arvid
19. Theo
19. Ludvig
21. Charlie
22. Isak
23. Edvin
24. Albin
24. Gustav
26. Elliot
27. Nils
28. Adam
29. Melvin
30. Wilmer
Girls:
1. Alice
2. Maja
3. Elsa
4. Julia
5. Linnéa
6. Ella
7. Ebba
8. Molly
9. Wilma
10. Emma
11. Nellie
12. Alva
13. Isabelle
14. Olivia
15. Agnes
16. Klara
17. Elin
18. Emilia
19. Ellen
19. Freja
21. Lilly
22. Nova
23. Moa
24. Ida
24. Stella
26. Alma
27. Saga
28. Amanda
29. Alicia
30. Astrid
30. Astrid
Next female Alpaca should be called Astrid I am thinking 
That was awesome cords!
Love some of those stacks, but they bloody look painful!
Not snobby about bothering to ride it Cords, snobby about why they would build one without a barrel, I don’t reckon the costs would be any different and everyone knows the barrel is the holy grail of surfing!
Haha everyone except 98% of the population of Sweden and 99% of the clientele of this particular flowrider.
touche’ haha