Baby Time!

My wife, Kerri, and I just had our first this past Sunday, June 22nd. Hayden Rose Murray was born at 5:13 pm and weighed 5 lbs 13 oz. Earlier that morning, around 2 a.m., Kerri jumped woke me up with a pretty loud "SHAUN! MY WATER BROKE!" That'll get you moving pretty quickly no matter what time it is. Later that day I was right there as she was about to enter into the world when our doctor asked if I wanted to deliver her. "Yeah!" was all she needed to hear and she was showing me where to put my hands, how to hold her head, when to pull and where to put her when she came out. Needless to say, it was an amazing experience and continues to get better every day.
She ended up being two weeks early and I have been trying to get to my camp since students are booked until our original date of July 7th. The students have been really understanding that I couldn't be there like normal, but I did my best to get some good coaching and good times in while they were there. Travis, Kyle and Robby have all been great too, covering for me while we make doctor visits and discuss things like the color of my daughters poop. Which, by the way, is turning yellow and that is a good thing!
I have been getting some time on the water in the in between times and having a great time. Most likely because I am not competing until nationals in Aug. and there isn't any pressure. Yeah, I still get nervous at comps, in fact, probably just as nervous as when I first began. One thing I have learned is to not try to push the nerves away, they will only get worse if you do. You gotta embrace them and let them help you focus and kick it up a notch at the same time.
It's pretty hot here in Florida, but it probably is most places this time of year. It rains nearly every afternoon which is good because we really need the rain to fill our lakes back up. People are always surprised that our lake are normally about 10 feet deep, so if we are down a couple feet it really makes a difference, especially in shallow spots.
I'm rambling, so I'm gonna go now. Thanks for checkin in.
Shaun

June

It's Friday afternoon and I'm loggin in from The Boarding School's computer. TBS is my camp. Not the tv station, TBS is the acronym for The Boarding School. I was trying to type less by using the initials, but it's just not workin out since I had to type all this to explain. Anyhoo...most of the riders have left for Texas to ride at the 2nd tour stop. I planned on being there, but I sprained my right knee tryin a crow 7 about 3 weeks ago. Almost made the spin, but completely compressed my heel into my butt. Taken it easy on the water for a little while, but will be back soon. Next week is the Minneapolis stop and hope to ride there, but will see what happens when I get there.
Been traveling quite a bit lately. Went to the Atlanta tour stop and then straight to Charlotte to hang with some of the NASCAR guys. Robby Maschhaupt, yeah crazy last name, is the Gas Man on one of the Pit crew teams. Not like the Gas Man from dumb and dumber, if ya know what I mean, but he is the guy that puts the gas into the car while it is in the pit. Did you know they change all four tires and put 12 gallons of gas in there in under 12 seconds. It only takes 6 seconds for all 12 gallons to go in. Now that's the kind of gas fill system we need on our boats.
I digress.
Super fun time with those guys. Ben Greenwood rode doubles with Kyle Busch. Nice.
On another note, my wife, Kerri, and I are excpecting our first kid July 7th..ish.
It's a girl!
Check y'all later.
Shaun

Photoshoot

A bunch of the Hyperlite team is in Greensboro, GA training for the Masters coming up this weekend. Along with the team was photographer Aaron Katen. After a few sets of practice behind some of the 230 Air Nautiques, they decided to do a few shots for Aaron.

Both JD Webb, and Aaron Rathy were riding in the tube helping Aaron out with the flash, as Aaron ran alongside in the chase boat. Riding for some photos were Chris O'Shea, JD Webb, and Aaron Rathy.

Check out some of the pics!

On the Road in Nor Cal

On the road with Joe Sassenrath, Nor Cal Hype rep, heading to CIE
springride. An event I haven't been to but wanted to check it out.
Will let you know how it is when I get back.

Rode in Wakegames last week. Tied for fifth and my team won first!
Good times.

This is all from my phone so I will drop a few more details when I get
on my computer at home.

Later
Shaun

April 30th

Well it has been a really crazy week. It started off with some really good filming with Ronnie Romero for his new video. It was wakegames weekend and that was pretty fun, but Sunday night was my 21st.  Redbull threw me a really big party in downtown Orlando on the 16Th floor of this building looking over lake eola. It was an open bar Brandon Thomas was the DJ and I had the sickest cake ever I ended up wearing it by the end of the night. Redbull got me this really sick quietflight surfboard with my jdw symble i couldn't of been more pumped on the night. This week is kinda slow I'm going fishing tomorrow and and then start training for the Atlanta pwt. So we will see how that goes have a good one im out. JD 

Hard Work is Paying Off

This month I have been super busy getting ready for the start of the season. I've been riding 3 or 4 times a day and riding my dirtbike at least once a week. I hurt my ankle back in December, so I've been rehabing that as well.

A few weeks ago, there was a little local contest in Windermere. I ended up winning and it was an awesome way to start off the season. The season officially started this past weekend here in Orlando out at OWC. I rode 27 times from Monday morning til my winning run at Wake Games. It felt good to win the first event in the King of Wake series and to know that all my hard work is paying off.

This next month I'll be traveling a lot more. This weekend I am going to Vegas for the last Supercross and later in the month I'll be going to Fresno, California and Acworth, Georgia for the first tour stop and Masters.

I'm really looking forward to the release of my new board the "Marek." I'm stoked for people to get a chance to ride it... I love it.

Hyperlite Dominates '08 Wake Games

What an incredible weekend for Hyperlite.  Hyperlite riders not only took the podium, but won almost every single division.

Junior Men’s had Jimmy LaRiche taking first overall yet again. First, Board Up Miami, and now Wake Games! He had some tough competition with Bob Soven, but Jimmy’s nose grab crow, batwing, huge floating bs 180, bs 5, dum dum, and very solid backside lipslides put him ahead of the competition as the clear-cut champion.  

Brian Grubb had an incredible finish to his final run to fend off Danny Hampson and Reed Hanson for first place. After a fall on his first pass, Brian put together a clinic of a second pass landing including a shuv-it indy, shuv-it indy 180, and a bs 3. The whole riders dock was pumped up seeing him dominate his second and final pass to take first place as the Pro Men’s wakeskate champion.

Rusty Malinoski had as close of a finish as you could ask for with Phillip Soven in the final heat of the Wake Games.  Rusty came out charging in his final run with a melon crow, heel 7, a huge bs 1 way out into the flats, 270 transfer on the transfer box, stale glide, switch malto mobe, nuclear backroll to blind, and nailed a huge heelside backside 7 off the double up. Rusty stood up both passes and edged out Phillip by one point. And when the announcer called Rusty’s name for the Wake Games Pro Men’s Champion, the crowd went crazy, and Rusty walked up to the podium displaying his Marek 146 as his weapon of choice as he continues his quest to capture the King of Wake title for 2008.