This past Saturday (5-3-08) the entire SKB Team joined forces once again to fire up some TVF laps @ the USNWC.  Seeing how we only would get 21 TVF per each lap our team strategist, Stuart Everett, came up with the brilliant ideal of combining our sexiness and power into Topo Duos for the laps!  It was a ton of fun!!

Here were our official lap stats for the day:

Laps 1-5: Steve & Scott in Topo Duo

Laps 6-10: Stuart & Wesley in Topo Duo

Laps 11-16: Matt & Brian in Topo Duo

Laps 17-21: Steve & Scott in creek boats

Laps 22-26: Stuart & Wesley in Topo Duo

Laps 27-31: Matt & Brian in creek boats

Laps 32-35: Steve & Scott in creek boats

Laps 36-41: Stuart & Wesley in Topo Duo

Laps 42-46: Matt & Brian in creek boats

Laps 47-51: Steve & Scott in Topo Duo

Lap 52: Brian & Scott in creek boats

52 laps x 21′ per lap = 1,092 TVF for the day!

Notable highlights:

• Scott & Steve, on there first set of laps (1-5), had a minor incident that required them to exit their boat in an upside down underwater matter.  Do not mistake this for a swim!  The great Leland Davis says, “Swims out of a topo don’t count…”  Since we know Hollywood is always keeping it sexy, Scott must have missed a brace and caused them to flip over above ‘M’ wave in the Big Water Channel.  As always, Hollywood was trying to keep it sexy and do an off-side roll to get Scott back upright.  Well Chief was just trying to keep it pro and roll on his on-side.  Needless to say both of their efforts working against each other!  Scott decides to bail and Hollywood not knowing the fate of Scott attempts to roll again.  He discovers that his boat is quickly filling with water and he is not going anywhere, but ejecting from his cockpit.  They did manage to rescue themselves and their gear in a timely manner and get moving again.
• Stuart and Wesley were the first and only SKB Team members to fire up the Competition Channel.  They completed 4 laps with a combined total of 4 successful combat rolls in the Comp. Channel (2 @ Kodak Wave & 2 @ Big Drop).
• Stuart and Wesley also did a really cool typewriter move (thanks to some fancy paddling from Stuart) across the left side of Shutdown Hole to keep from running over another kayaker who was getting worked in the hole from an unintentional surf.
• Matt & Brian were the only two SKB’s to have a dry hair day in the Topo Duos.
• Brian fired up his PFD of the Comp. Channel with success!

  

  

Overall it was a great day for the SKB Team!  We have 8 official days logged for TVF now and all we can do is replace days now.

SKB Team TVF Competition Stats. to date:

Day 1 -Wilson Creek:  3,850 feet

Day 2 - Watauga:  1,012 feet

Day 3 - Little:  3,200 feet

Day 4 - Wilson:  5,500 feet

Day 5 - Tellico:  3,380 feet

Day 6 - LBC & Greenbrier:  874 feet

Day 7 - Tallulah:  429 feet

Day 8 - USNWC:  1,092 feet

Total = 19,337 TVF for the East Coast Arena

We only need to replace our Tallulah day with a 1,092 TVF day on anything, but Wilson Creek to break the 20,000 TVF Goal for our team.  This coming weekend is the final weekend of the comp, so we have to do what we can to reach the goal.  Wish us luck and pray for rain!

Keep it sexy & pro in all you do!