¶ Wake Surfing Discussion With Sam and Jake
It has been said that wake surfing is a sport of movement , balance and trust . It's not just about the moves , it's about being on the wave with someone who has your back . My guest today is professional wake surfer Sam Studi . We are about to drop the rope with Sam . Hello everyone , my name is Jake Bushman and I am the host of Journey with Jake .
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak with professional wake surfer Sam Studi this week . Sam caught my attention by wake surfing on a three-foot stilt board . From wake boards , skim boards and coffee tables , sam can wake surf on all of it . Get ready to go wake surfing with Sam Studi . Welcome to Journey with Jake .
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After all , it's not a lot about the destination as it is about the journey . Welcome back to another episode of Journey with Jake . We are on episode number 83 today and I'm super excited for everyone to hear my conversation with Sam Studi , who is a professional wake surfer and content creator .
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Let's go ahead and get to my conversation with professional wake surfer Sam Studi . Well , I'm excited today because I have Sam Studi with me today . Sam , welcome to Journey with Jake .
Good to be here .
A few weeks ago I had Tucker Ballmer , who's an 11-year-old wake boarder the first time I've had anybody who ever's done wake boarding and he and I touched on wake surfing just a little bit because I really didn't know what it was and he kind of gave me a little tutorial on what it is .
But now I actually got a wake surfer here and I'm excited to talk to you about that . But before we jump into that , I'd like to know a little bit about who you are . So if you don't mind , tell me a little bit about who Sam is .
All right . Well , my name is Sam Studi . I am from Minnesota , about 45 minutes west of the Twin Cities , started wake surfing back in 2017 . Well , a little bit before that , but I got a boat in 2017 . So that's when I really started getting a lot of time on a wake surf board .
And then from there , I started competing , became a professional wake surfer , and now I compete in wake surfing as well as just make content around action sports . So pretty much professional wake surfer and action sports enthusiast , I guess , is the way I would say it .
That's a good way to describe it . Action sports enthusiast that's who you are , plus a wake professional wake surfer . So I'm excited to get a professional on the call here today , which is exciting 2017 . I mean , that's not that long ago , six years ago .
Yeah , not too long ago , I grew up going to Florida a couple times , like one or two times a year , and so I would always skim board in the ocean down there and I would try shove it and other tricks like that , and so that translated to wakes surfing pretty , pretty well .
Very good . So you had some time going to Florida , because when you said Minnesota to , I'm thinking that doesn't seem like a type of I mean , there's lakes , there's tons of lakes in Minnesota , so I guess it works out that way .
But I think you know , like Tucker who I add on a few weeks ago he's from Florida , you know he lives in Florida and so it's like he's got a lake right there and boom . I'm guessing you said you got a boat six years ago . Do you have ? Are you right on a lake or what's the situation like ?
Yeah , so I live on a lake . If you look at some of my videos , I haven't really shown it too much , but it's like 40 feet from my back door . Right lake , there dock , there , boat sitting there . It's pretty sweet .
As far as growing up , you grew up in Minnesota . Do you have any siblings or what's kind of the family situation like for you ?
I have one older sister who's just under two years older than me . That's it .
You guys are the all American family boy and a girl . And boom , there you go . Yep , so Minnesota , have a lake right out your back door , 2017 , I guess . What I'm asking , I guess is how old are you Like when ? How old are you when you started ?
I'm 24 . So when I started wakesurfing , yeah , I was like 17 , 18 . That's when when I really got a lot of time to like learn wakesurfing and stuff Very good .
So how did it begin , though , did you ? You said you skimboard a lot , so I think maybe that was probably part of the intro to it . Did you just ski behind boats ? Did you wakeboard ? What did you kind of do to get into this when ?
I grew up I had a inboard outboard which is like an IO , so that's not something that you can wake surf behind . Now they have some that you can wake surf behind that have inboard outboards , but mine was a Sea Red 185 .
So 18 and a half foot boat , I believe , really good for tubing wakeboarding , basic level stuff , no ballast , no fancy technology or whatever . So pretty much had some time wakeboarding , had some time wake skating and just doing water sports in general .
But the technology wasn't great with the boat so it was really hard to become like a master of anything behind that boat . And then eventually I was just hoping to upgrade and I had some time on a wake boat with one of my buddies Right as I started wake surfing .
I could 360 and shove it within the first couple of times I was wake surfing and I was like , oh man , this is really fun . And I used to . I don't know when you were talking to the previous wakeboarder if he wakeboarders think wake surfing is kind of lame because it's less intense , which I used to be more of a wakeboarder .
So I also kind of thought that . I kind of thought like , oh , you can't really get a whole lot of air , you're not going very fast and I still think like being a professional wakeboarder is cooler than being a professional wake surfer . But it's way more gnarly .
Like you're gonna like a lot of knee injuries , a lot of hard falls , where wake surfing it's more . It takes a lot of patience , like you're going to fall all day long to land one trick .
I would say you still , there's still a lot of precision and a lot of effort that goes behind these tricks that we do , even though it's not quite as gnarly or risky as wakeboarding .
Well , I think for me , part of it is I watch wakeboarders and it's the airtime and stuff like that . I mean they're just , they're fast and they're getting air , whereas when I was watching your videos , I enjoyed it though , because you're doing these little intricate things and you kept saying . You kept saying , shove it .
You got to help me out because I'm old and I don't . I don't know what that means . What does shove it ? What kind of trick is that ?
Basic tricks would be like a 360 is just where you spin around a 360 . A shove it is where you jump and you spin the board 180 degrees and then you land back on it . And so we do all sorts of stuff . We do three shove , where the board spins a 360 and you land back on it .
Five shove , where the board sends in a 540 degree spin and then you land back on it . A couple people can do 720 shove , it's where that's two full rotations and then you land back on it . Wow yeah . And then there's one other trick that I mean . So I'll just say the two other kind of basic tricks . It comes up later in the podcast .
But so the next two kind of basic tricks would be a body varial , where body varials , where you jump , the board stays where it is and you land back on it like 180 or 360 . And then a big spin is where you spin a 180 and the board spins a 360 . Or a five big would be you spin a 180 and the board spins a 540 .
And that's the thing of when I was watching you , on some of your videos there's a lot of intricate things you're doing too . I mean there's just in your kind of at the back of the wave . Then you come towards the front and then I mean you're just .
There's a lot more movement , a lot more to it , I think , than people think , because you see the wakeboard and , like you said , it's gnarly , it's like high flying action , whereas your stuff , I think it's a little more intricate . I think you got to be a little more detailed .
Maybe that's just my perspective , I don't know for sure , but that's just what I noticed .
Yeah , both I mean both take a lot of skill . I would say wakeboardings more similar to snowboarding and wake surfing is more similar to skateboarding , Although skateboarding there's some people doing some really crazy stuff . That is definitely more risky than wake surfing .
That is one of the awesome things about wake surfing is it's really attracted a lot of new people to the water sports community because you're going 11 miles per hour , so falls don't hurt nearly as bad , there's not nearly as many injuries and just letting go of the rope is one of the coolest feelings and everyone always idolizes surfing and it's one of those
things that not a lot of people get to try or do or experience . Wake surfing is kind of a little taste to that . Yeah , it's just a blast .
It looks like it . It looks like a lot of fun and I think from someone like me who's a little older I'm not young like I used to be I agree there's no way I could do wakeboarding right now . I'd break a bone , probably just the first time . But wake surfing , you know , like you said , 11 miles an hour , creating that wake , I fall there .
You know , I've got the water to cushion me . It won't be quite as bad . I wouldn't think it looks like a lot of fun . For someone from the outside looking in , like me , it looks like a lot of fun and you look like you're having fun . I see you out there with friends , with family , with whoever , and it looks like you're just having a great time .
Do you remember the first time you got up and surfed behind a boat and what that was like ?
Yeah , I mean , I saw it back then . It was like a way different sport . It was before . Well , I think so . Now there's shapers that come out of the boat that form the wave , and the waves are way bigger and more clean than they used to be more defined .
Back then we used weight and you would just put a lot of weight on one side and that would create the wave .
When I first started it was , there wasn't a whole lot of room to do tricks and I just remember getting up and my very first time I just remember getting up throwing the rope , feeling like it was really cool and it reminded me of skimboarding the ocean and I remember trying to 316 to shove it and not being able to do it , but like I was close where it
was , just giving me a little taste like a lot's possible here . It was a . It was a fun time .
¶ Professional Wake Surfer and Competitive Journey
So how did this lead into you starting to compete and become a professional wake surfer ?
Essentially , there was another family on the lake that I live on that competed . They were some of the first wake surfers . They were super big into the sport , super big into water sports in general . The dad has a slow on course outside their house and so they were just huge fans of water sports in general and their kids were wake surfers .
And their daughter , who is the great above me but just I don't know like six months older than me or something she competed in wake surfing and she was also a pro . I would ride with them and that kind of Once you start landing a couple of tricks and you see what other people are landing . I was like , oh , like that would be fun to compete .
I competed in snowboarding when I was younger and it was just . I like board sports and it's fun competing with and just making friends with all the other competitors . So that's kind of what led into . I wanted to meet other people in the in the water sports world as well as just kind of show off what I could do so .
It sounds like it's a pretty tight community . Then wake surfing .
Yeah , all the pros , and I mean all levels . The competitions aren't huge , so everyone knows each other and we all get along great . That's part of the fun , and going to competitions is just as much fun as it is outside , or I guess it's just as much fun outside of comp competition as it is at the competition .
So it's that's part of the experience and part of the attraction of why compete .
Can you take me through what a competition's like ? Like how does it work ? Is everyone fall like the same boat ? Like do you ? How do the judges work ? How much time do you have to do tricks ? Like how does it ? How does it all work if you don't mind ?
Essentially there's a lot that goes into it . I'll try to keep it simple and short , but it's usually like a two day competition where there's anywhere from like eight to 10 riders and you ride one day . You have the courses about anywhere from like 35 seconds to a minute long .
You get one pickup so you can fall once you get picked up if there's space left in the course . They have two big buoys out there . You essentially just try as many tricks as possible as you're going and then you get a down and a back . So one minute down , one minute back , and that's a pretty long course .
Usually they're about 35 , 45 seconds and so essentially the judges have a couple of things to look at and look for and they write down all the tricks and then they compare you and score you to the other guys or girls , depending on what division you're competing in . And then there's also surf style and skim style .
Skim style is going to have the larger fins and more of a surf ocean surf style board , and skim style is going to be like more of a skim board where it's either one fin or no fins . Most people ride no fins and skim style .
Then after the first day there's a certain amount of people that go to finals , and then there is usually like a LCQ , which is a last chance qualifier , and then that'll be the last person . If you don't make it on the first day that will decide who goes to the finals out of the people who didn't make it .
Essentially , you just do it again the next Saturday or whatever day , and then they choose who rode the best and you have podiums .
When you go into a competition , do you kind of have a plan ? You're like , okay , here's what I wanted , here's the tricks I want to pull here . Do you kind of do that ? Or are you just like free will in it ? What are you doing ?
I usually I have a competition run that I've been doing for a while . I practice that run , so I have it in my mind and then , depending on sometimes you'll fall , sometimes you'll land everything , but sometimes it changes if you fall on a certain trick . But some people do wing it .
There are pros that just go out there and they know what tricks they're putting down , but they don't know exactly what order .
Wow . They just kind of how they're feeling and what's going on and just interesting . Okay , so you've been . Have you been competing for the last six years then ? Is that what it's been about ? Roughly , or a little less than that ?
My first competition was like 2018 or 2019 .
Okay , so you've been competing for for a few years . Is it a ? It's a national thing . Is it regional ? Like , how does this work ? It's national . Okay , so you go all over to do this .
Yeah , I have never gone out of the United States but a lot of other competitors have . It's big in Russia , ukraine , japan and I don't even know a lot of places , you'd be kind of surprised and Canada , but it's it's biggest . I would say it's probably biggest here . Okay , there's , there's a competition out in Dubai dang okay .
And how do you get designated as a ? As a professional , is it certain you have to insert competitions , a certain amount , you get sponsored . How does this work so ?
there's a couple divisions . There's juniors , which is , I believe , 13 and under , and then there's amateur outlaw , pro , and then masters . Masters is , I think , 35 and older . Now to get to become pro you have to . You have to place , I Think , top three in the division or to move up from .
So amateur outlaw and pro , there's no age requirement or anything and there's a couple different leagues . So not TK has their own league , malbu has their own league , centurion has their own league , supra has their own league .
So there's I'm not super familiar with all of them , I'm familiar with this and cheering league because that's the one I usually compete in . Then there's no age requirement for amateur Outlaw and pro . It's if you place high enough then you get moved up , and so to become a pro you have to essentially do really well in outlaw .
The year before when I became pro , it was I did well enough in outlaw . There weren't as strict of requirements . So I pretty much just ended up signed up for pro because I was doing well enough in outlaw , where I thought I would do well and pro . So I just signed up for it .
But that was right before they made the rules , where now they also have to Agree with you moving up essentially the league does interesting , okay .
so they got to kind of say , yeah , you are a pro and there you go , kind of thing Okay and I'm guessing you get sponsors along the way as well .
Yeah , a couple sponsors here and there . I've been a little careful with who I choose to be sponsors and I've also kind of held off because the last year I've really put a lot of time in social media and networking and so I think that my Ex like I don't know the followers have followers and views have kind of been exponential .
So it's kind of tough To make a deal when in a month or two that deal might be under what you should be Kind of like going for shooting for . So I've been a little bit hesitant to Make deals because I plan on having some exponential growth by next summer and stuff like that .
But my main sponsor right now is swell wake , so well , wake Okay they've been really good to me . They make some good products , which is another thing I look for . I really like I don't like to Partner up with companies that don't have a great product , so but yeah , swell swells been really good to me . They're really fun to team up with .
They have fun ideas and they make good products .
So and that's smart of you . I think you're smart kind of doing that your , your social media , is doing well , so you might as well keep tabs on that . Like you said , you don't want to undercut yourself . You don't want to pick up , pick up products that aren't Good enough for you or what you , you know , think is worthwhile .
So I appreciate you sharing that . I'm just trying to understand how it all works , so I appreciate you sharing that . Let's get to some of the fun stuff , though . If you have any stories of any maybe it's a competition or any particular trick that you lander , I know you've been all kinds of places to . You go all kinds of places to do this .
So if you have any stories that you wouldn't mind sharing with us , there's so many I don't even know .
I would say night surfing is One of the funnest things . I think that's always been a highlight . Depending on where you are , the legality is kind of it can be .
There's different rules everywhere , so it's not always a great decision to just do it and you got to know the lake and I Always know the lakes really well if I'm doing it and making sure that I'm following the rules . But wait , night wake surfing at night is very fun . Usually get some glow sticks and just have fun out there and surf . That's one thing .
That's always a blast . Like you mentioned , montana earlier , I went out with Montana wake Co and that was we were wake surfing through 300 foot canyons . That was it was . I would have been happy just being in a boat out in that canyon . It was so cool .
But I also got the chance to wake surf through it and we saw bears , we saw Deer , we saw just beautiful , beautiful scenery . So that that was one of my highlights for sure , one of the prettiest places I've ever wake served . Another pretty place of wake served .
I would say my top five probably are wake serving in Montana , jackson Lake , right by Jackson Hole oh , very cool . I am out in the background , snow and everything . Bear Lake , which is cut in half by Utah and Idaho .
Okay , I live in Utah , so I know where Bear Lake is just north of me . So very cool . Okay , you wake surf there as well , okay .
Kool-aid blue water . It's beautiful , that's . That was such a cool lake Downtown Nashville . I surfed the Cumberland River through Nashville , cool Miami , with the skyline in the background . That was pretty cool too , were you ?
on the bay there , yeah , right on the bay , and that sounds just very , very intriguing . I mean Nashville , going down the Cumberland River right through Nashville is really cool . Miami , I mean Miami , that's a picturesque landscape , as you know . The downtown landscape there is awesome . Yeah , you've had some quite the experience .
Jackson Hole , I mean that's pretty neat . I do want to ask you , because you are from Minnesota , I know it's the land of 10,000 lakes or whatever , so you got plenty of lakes to do this on , but it gets cold there . And what do you do when it's cold and frozen , or even when it's just cold ? Do you still wake , surf when it's cold ?
I don't really mind wakesurfing the cold , put on a wetsuit and ride as long as we can . I would say the season is usually from like May 15th to September 15th is like comfortable Wear a wetsuit top , nothing else , and it's warm enough to enjoy it . After that and before that it's pretty cold and it's not quite as fun .
But other than that , when it gets cold I either head south and wakesurf or skim board or enjoy the south . Otherwise I also love snowboarding . So go out to Montana or Utah . I've never snowboarded in Utah but I'd love to . But go out west and snowboard or snowboard at some of the great terrain parks here .
So do you feel like doing that snowboarding like in the winter ? Do you think that helps keep you up for for your competition season in the following summer ? Does that help at all , or is it just something to do ?
I think it helps with style . So when you watch different wake surfers they all have different styles . I think that you can see it in my style of riding . With wakesurfing you can kind of see other board sports mesh into it . But it doesn't . I wouldn't say it directly relates to wakesurfing , but I mean riding switch , opening up your hips and all that .
I'm sure it does some stuff . It's definitely it keeps you in shape a little bit too .
I would say OK yeah , helps you keep , keeps you active . Do you ? Do you skateboard at all ?
I don't . I can ride a skateboard . I ride a longboard . I have had a lot of time on it like a downhill longboard and in college I got around on a electric longboard . So oh , wow , OK .
So you've done a little bit of that , but just kind of casually .
I was just curious because I know you were into board things and so and any kind of crazy wild sports , action sports that you seem to enjoy Something that's fun that I love about your social media you do all kinds of fun things with your videos with , which I think is why it's so good and why I enjoy watching it .
One of the things I saw you do is you wrote on a table like a coffee table Tell me about some of the fun things that you've done just for your videos and social media .
Yeah , so the the table . I was at home , austin Keane , who is one of the most , I would say one of the most popular wakesurfers , also very talented ocean skim boarder . He wakesurf
¶ Wake Surfer on Social Media
to table . Way back when I think he , like 360 did and did some other stuff , and so I was like , oh , that'd be fun to wake surf a table and I want to try to do a couple of other tricks If I can find the right table . I don't even know .
I went on Marketplace and I found a table that I was like , oh , I mean , if it has the right amount of surface area , I can wake surf it . It doesn't matter what it is . I mean I don't , I won't even I don't really know .
I would say generally like 20 inches wide , about 45 inches long , or like I would say actually like 18 inches wide , 40 inches long , and you'll be able to surf it . And I've wake served a snowboard , I've wake surfed a wakeboard . I've wake served a boogie board you name it . Essentially , back to the table .
I wanted to try to land a shove it on the table , which I did . That was kind of my goal and , yeah , it was a blast .
Another thing that really did well , I gained probably five thousand subs , or I don't even know exactly how many like subscribers and followers I gained , but probably a thousand to two thousand on TikTok , like five thousand on Instagram and probably like three thousand subscribers on YouTube was the Stiltboard video , so that I was just watching videos and there's always
been stilt skiers . For some reason , these Florida guys put skis on with some stilts and they see how high they can go on these skis . I was like , oh , that'd be kind of fun to take two wake surfboards , put legs on them and make essentially a double deck wake surfboard , which I called the Stiltboard . I did a foot high and that was pretty easy .
I could 360 that , I could shove it . And then I was like , you know , I want to try a three foot . So I did a three foot and I was out with my buddy , tyler Stewart , who's also one of the best wake surfers in the world , and we just rode the three foot stiltboard and that video went super , super viral .
I mean , I guess not super , super viral , but like three million views on YouTube shorts , tiktok and Instagram , so like nine million views total . Mark Zuckerberg liked it on Instagram . A lot of people recognize me as like the Stiltboard kid when I'm just out in Minnesota around wake surf boats and stuff .
So that's how you got me actually . I think I came across that video and that's how I was like , well , I'm going to follow this guy . He looks incredible . So , yeah , I think I think that video paid off for you . For sure , it paid off for me because now I got you as a guest . So I think that's fantastic and it was fun to watch .
I mean , you just you're very creative , you've got a great personality for these videos and things . You're not just , you know , a professional wake surfer that just does his thing .
You have a good personality , I think , for social media , which I feel like a lot of people need to have in order to kind of get that message across and , you know , relate to people and things . So you do a great job of that . I congratulate you on that . It's a lot of fun , fun to watch .
What have been some of the challenges of being a professional wake surfer , trying to get into the social media thing ? I mean , what kind of challenges do you face ? Have you ever had any injuries or anything like that ? That's put you out ? What kind of challenges have you faced ?
I've been very lucky to stay away from injuries . It's one of the Good things about wake surfing is there's not a whole lot of injuries . But I mean we're cliff jumping and snowboarding and all that stuff . There's injuries there , but I've been able to stay away from them , usually pretty careful . I really like to think about stuff before I do it .
I have some friends that definitely send it a little harder than I do . They'll throw down some crazy tricks and stuff that I'm a little bit more hesitant to do . I would say the hardest thing . I mean , for a while I wasn't really pushing social media to its full extent because I just didn't know exactly what route I wanted to go in life .
I didn't know if I wanted to post a bunch and to grow on social media you kind of have to show personality , kind of like you were talking about earlier . Showing personality can be a little bit scary when people can obviously pick that apart and comment things . There's always going to be negative comments , which I kind of think they're funny .
They never really get to me , but when I was younger it wasn't always exactly like that . I wanted to post a perfect video and now I kind of realize there's no perfect video and you just got to post it and have fun doing it .
I don't know , I haven't really faced a whole lot of hardships with that , but it's more just choosing to pull out the camera and video everything and then , after a nice fun day , actually just digest an hour of content into a minute , which is pretty tough .
Talking about hardships , I wouldn't say it's a hardship , but there's difficult things with going through an hour long . You have to watch an hour of content and then you cut it down to 30 minutes and then you have to watch 30 minutes of content and then you cut it down to 15 and then you watch 15 minutes .
So you're an hour and 45 minutes there and you're just shrinking it down . But all those videos that do super well are usually like I mean they can be 30 minutes to an hour of content , shrunk down to 30 seconds to a minute long video .
There's some difficult things with that , but I wouldn't say there's a whole lot of hardships with what I've been doing , which I guess I've been very fortunate for that .
What do you think the future holds for you ? What are you looking to do ? Moving forward I know you want the social media thing to go , or you still want to just keep being a professional wake surfer . What do you want to do ?
I mean , I guess that's another thing that's kind of difficult . Is you kind of have to ? For me , I don't have as much time as some of the Florida guys or some of the other wake surfers that I have to compete against . They put down a lot of time on a wake surf board , and so what they're doing is crazy .
They're very talented and they put a lot of time and effort into it , and I also don't really enjoy practicing tricks until I have them perfect as much as some of the other guys .
So I kind of want to go with the more content route , and so it's kind of a hard choice , whether it's like okay , do I put more time towards practicing tricks , try to climb back up in the ranks of pro wake surfing and maybe try to snag one of the top three spots . I don't even know if it's , it would be pretty hard .
There's some the like there's two kids I'll name Tyler Stewart and Jet Lambert . So good , it's hard to comprehend even getting that good . They also put more time into it than almost everyone too . So but yeah , it's like okay , do you see yourself getting as good as them , competing with them ?
It's possible , but I kind of have been choosing to go the more content route and make great videos as well , and I also like making content with those guys because it's fun and it's fun surfing with them . I don't know , so essentially , in the future , I would love to grow my social media .
So I'm releasing a wake surf board soon with swell wake , but I would love to release more products , merchandise and just kind of grow the community of people that love to do the same things I do . I think that would be what I would love to do If it doesn't work out .
I mean , I've always thought about going into boat sales or doing whatever you know and still being able to be in the space as well as do social media on the side and all that stuff . I mean , in a perfect world , social media grows and I continue to have fun and make content and also hopefully bring fun to other people as well .
I like that . I like that . You have a passion for it and , like you said , you know some things . Sometimes things have to align and things have to happen to make it go exactly like you like . But you still got a backup plan . As long as you can stay in that place and in that space , I think you'll you'll do well .
I know I've enjoyed watching your videos . You do have some great stuff that you put out . It's been a been a ton of fun to watch that . Since we're about to wrap up here , anyway , let's yeah tell us where we can find you on social media . How do we , how do people find you and take a look at your stuff ?
All of my social media handles are just Sam's duty , so S-A-M-S-T-U-D-E-E , and you can find me on Tik Tok , instagram and YouTube shorts . I will probably start posting on Facebook , but I don't know , it's kind of hard . I don't really know Facebook as well , but I sh . I think my username on Facebook is also Sam's duty , so you can find me there .
Awesome . So all the time that you have putting out content , competing , doing what you have to do and I know you graduated college I think I saw a post that you graduated college , I don't know two years ago or something a year and a half ago , whenever it was Do you have time to just be a a regular person , just have fun ? Do you take a lot of ?
Do you take time to do that ?
Yeah , I do . I get to see a lot of my friends from college and when I'm home in Minnesota . There's been some downtime . The last couple of weeks have been a little downtime for me .
Yeah , I would say that I could probably have a couple more videos , a couple more views if I didn't enjoy seeing some of my friends from college and high school and spending time with family and doing some other things which now the next year , I'll probably try to lock in a little more focus , more on social media , try to get I would love to get to a
point where I'd be doing weekly YouTube videos long form . Right now I'm just doing shorts , reels and TikToks . Yeah , I do get to enjoy the normal life and hanging out with friends from college and high school and family and stuff .
Got to do that every now and again , for sure . I mean I wish I could do this just a hundred percent of my time , but you know , it doesn't , can't always work out like that . So I'm with you there , sam . This was fun for me . I got to know a little bit more about wake surfing , which I didn't know a lot about . You have some great stuff .
Again , it's Sam Sam Studi . That's where everyone can find you , s-a-m-s-t-u-d-e-e , and people can find you out on social media . Hey , thank you so much for coming on Journey with Jake . Thanks for having me . Special thanks to my guest , sam Studi , for coming on the show . Remember to check him out on social media at Sam Studi S-A-M-S-T-U-D-E-E . Check him out .
A ton of fun , grateful for all the things I got to learn about wake surfing that's involved with that . He has some fantastic videos . You can learn a little bit more . See what he does and just see how much fun he's having with what he loves to do . Thanks to each and every one of you for listening each week to Journey with Jake .
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