Brent Starr
Brent Starr
Date of Birth: Halloween 1978
-foreword by Greg Young-
Brent, Brent, Brent. What can I say about Brent? Out of any of our team riders, I’ve gotten to know Brent the best. For five years, we spent the majority of our summer days together traveling down every backroad in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana for the Northwest Riders Summer Tour. When we left for our very first trip in the summer of 2005, I’d really only met Brent a few times previously. I’d seen him on the cover of Wakeboard Magazine, watched him ride in contests, and heard people talk about him as an elusive, near-mythical shredder that lived in the woods somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula. Brent can seem like a pretty quiet guy to people meeting him for the first time. I’d been on a couple of film trips with him before, even stayed at his house, but I’d never really spent any time talking to him before our first Tour stop. The thing I didn’t really think about before leaving for our first trip was how much time I’d spend in a car with our crew. In the early days, our Tour covered what felt like every square inch of the Northwest, some trips lasting up to 3 weeks straight. When the Tour started, all I’d really considered was how many lakes and rivers I’d get to wakeboard on, and how much time on the water I’d get to spend. What I didn’t even consider was that for every day spent on the water, there were 1 or 2 days spent traveling to get there and get set up. When the Tour started in 2005, there were four of us on crew. By the third year, because two of the guys had busy schedules at their other jobs, Brent and I handled a lot of the Tour as just the two of us. I would guess that in the first 5 years of the Tour we spent 200 days on the road together and traveled 30,000 miles...more than half of it driving in his truck or the NWR bus. Hour after hour, mile after mile...Just talking. The interesting part about spending that much time with someone that many people would consider quiet is that you quickly find out they’re not that quiet. Brent is one of the funniest people I know. There aren’t many people that I’ve talked to more than him, and even after all that we still call each other every few days during the off-season to catch up. I never get tired of joking around with him, bouncing ideas off of him, listening to him bounce ideas off of me, or laughing about all of the weird people that life on the road inevitably brings out of the woodwork.
Brent has been riding a wakeboard since the dawn of time. He’s been in countless videos, magazines, and in board and boat company catalogs. Brent is old as far as pro wakeboarders go, but the guy still rides with all of the energy of someone half his age, and still has some of the best style I’ve ever seen. I can’t wager to guess how many times I’ve driven the boat for him without seeing him fall. The guy will do practically every trick in the book every time he rides and somehow never fall. I don’t honestly know that I’ve seen him get his hair wet from a fall more than 5 times. Yet for all of the hundreds of times I’ve seen him ride, he still thanks the driver for the pull after every set, he always asks everyone else in the boat if they’d like to go first, and he humbly shakes off compliments from all of the star-struck kids (and their parents) that just watched him ride.
Not only does he dominate on a wakeboard, he’s also got a few other talents on the water. A few years ago, after a wakeboard clinic at his house, we spent an afternoon trying our hand at every activity ever pulled behind a boat. In addition to wakeboarding, the list included: doubles skiing, slalom skiing, doubles trick skiing, slalom trick skiing, air chair, knee board, skurf board, wakeskate, and wakesurfing. We even tried getting towed behind the boat on a snowboard. While both myself and our buddy Jerry could barely ride in a straight line on half of the old gear, Brent was doing flips on a slalom trick ski and jumping the wake on both an air chair and a kneeboard. Those aren’t exactly skills that anyone possessing them would want other people to find out about, but they at least go to show that Brent is freakishly talented.
I can’t talk about Brent without mentioning his wife Amy. Amy has not only been supportive of Brent enough to live with him spending so much time on the road, she has graciously opened up their home to host wakeboard clinics there. She’s just as fun to spend time with as Brent, and without her help and support there is no way our Summer Tour would have lasted for more than a season.
Favorite Color:
Black
Favorite Animal:
El Chupacabra
Favorite Travel Destination:
St Lucia
Favorite Part of Wakeboarding:
Double ups
Least Favorite Part of Wakeboarding:
The irreversible effects nautical emissions have on the Nocturnal Speckled Lake Seal
Other Hobbies:
Spending time with my wife and daughter, beer tasting, beard growing
Worst Injury You’ve Ever Had:
Wakeboard to the face....25 facial stitches
My Perfect Day Would Look Like:
Tomorrow
Top 6 Favorite Movies:
ARMY OF DARKNESS, PS-19, FUBAR, MACHETE, TROLL
2, THE GATE
Most Played Bands on My iPOD:
Slayer, Rag Doll Slasher Head, The Mars Volta, Every Time I Die
Best Job You’ve Ever Had:
Northwest Riders team rider
Worst Job You’ve Ever Had:
Queen Latifah's stunt double in the romantic comedy 'Beauty Shop'
I’d Like To Thank:
Northwest Riders, Bakes Marine Center, Malibu Boats, Bully Dog Performance Diesel Parts, Sunstream Boat Lifts
Date of Birth: Halloween 1978
-foreword by Greg Young-
Brent, Brent, Brent. What can I say about Brent? Out of any of our team riders, I’ve gotten to know Brent the best. For five years, we spent the majority of our summer days together traveling down every backroad in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana for the Northwest Riders Summer Tour. When we left for our very first trip in the summer of 2005, I’d really only met Brent a few times previously. I’d seen him on the cover of Wakeboard Magazine, watched him ride in contests, and heard people talk about him as an elusive, near-mythical shredder that lived in the woods somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula. Brent can seem like a pretty quiet guy to people meeting him for the first time. I’d been on a couple of film trips with him before, even stayed at his house, but I’d never really spent any time talking to him before our first Tour stop. The thing I didn’t really think about before leaving for our first trip was how much time I’d spend in a car with our crew. In the early days, our Tour covered what felt like every square inch of the Northwest, some trips lasting up to 3 weeks straight. When the Tour started, all I’d really considered was how many lakes and rivers I’d get to wakeboard on, and how much time on the water I’d get to spend. What I didn’t even consider was that for every day spent on the water, there were 1 or 2 days spent traveling to get there and get set up. When the Tour started in 2005, there were four of us on crew. By the third year, because two of the guys had busy schedules at their other jobs, Brent and I handled a lot of the Tour as just the two of us. I would guess that in the first 5 years of the Tour we spent 200 days on the road together and traveled 30,000 miles...more than half of it driving in his truck or the NWR bus. Hour after hour, mile after mile...Just talking. The interesting part about spending that much time with someone that many people would consider quiet is that you quickly find out they’re not that quiet. Brent is one of the funniest people I know. There aren’t many people that I’ve talked to more than him, and even after all that we still call each other every few days during the off-season to catch up. I never get tired of joking around with him, bouncing ideas off of him, listening to him bounce ideas off of me, or laughing about all of the weird people that life on the road inevitably brings out of the woodwork.
Brent has been riding a wakeboard since the dawn of time. He’s been in countless videos, magazines, and in board and boat company catalogs. Brent is old as far as pro wakeboarders go, but the guy still rides with all of the energy of someone half his age, and still has some of the best style I’ve ever seen. I can’t wager to guess how many times I’ve driven the boat for him without seeing him fall. The guy will do practically every trick in the book every time he rides and somehow never fall. I don’t honestly know that I’ve seen him get his hair wet from a fall more than 5 times. Yet for all of the hundreds of times I’ve seen him ride, he still thanks the driver for the pull after every set, he always asks everyone else in the boat if they’d like to go first, and he humbly shakes off compliments from all of the star-struck kids (and their parents) that just watched him ride.
Not only does he dominate on a wakeboard, he’s also got a few other talents on the water. A few years ago, after a wakeboard clinic at his house, we spent an afternoon trying our hand at every activity ever pulled behind a boat. In addition to wakeboarding, the list included: doubles skiing, slalom skiing, doubles trick skiing, slalom trick skiing, air chair, knee board, skurf board, wakeskate, and wakesurfing. We even tried getting towed behind the boat on a snowboard. While both myself and our buddy Jerry could barely ride in a straight line on half of the old gear, Brent was doing flips on a slalom trick ski and jumping the wake on both an air chair and a kneeboard. Those aren’t exactly skills that anyone possessing them would want other people to find out about, but they at least go to show that Brent is freakishly talented.
I can’t talk about Brent without mentioning his wife Amy. Amy has not only been supportive of Brent enough to live with him spending so much time on the road, she has graciously opened up their home to host wakeboard clinics there. She’s just as fun to spend time with as Brent, and without her help and support there is no way our Summer Tour would have lasted for more than a season.
Q & A
Favorite Color:
Black
Favorite Animal:
El Chupacabra
Favorite Travel Destination:
St Lucia
Favorite Part of Wakeboarding:
Double ups
Least Favorite Part of Wakeboarding:
The irreversible effects nautical emissions have on the Nocturnal Speckled Lake Seal
Other Hobbies:
Spending time with my wife and daughter, beer tasting, beard growing
Worst Injury You’ve Ever Had:
Wakeboard to the face....25 facial stitches
My Perfect Day Would Look Like:
Tomorrow
Top 6 Favorite Movies:
ARMY OF DARKNESS, PS-19, FUBAR, MACHETE, TROLL
2, THE GATE
Most Played Bands on My iPOD:
Slayer, Rag Doll Slasher Head, The Mars Volta, Every Time I Die
Best Job You’ve Ever Had:
Northwest Riders team rider
Worst Job You’ve Ever Had:
Queen Latifah's stunt double in the romantic comedy 'Beauty Shop'
I’d Like To Thank:
Northwest Riders, Bakes Marine Center, Malibu Boats, Bully Dog Performance Diesel Parts, Sunstream Boat Lifts
