EP 15 | Girls Wake Camp - Copenhagen Cable Park

This one is different. Instead of an online interview, this episode was recorded live at Copenhagen Cable Park during the Girls Wake Camp — a sold-out two-day wakeboarding event for women, organised by Frederikke and Louise, two local riders who wanted to bring back the magic they'd experienced at the girls' camp in Aarhus the year before.Just about thirty women showed up. Beginners who had never touched a kicker. Riders coming back from major injuries. Mothers on maternity leave taking two days for themselves. Women who drove four hours from Aarhus just to support the movement. What unfolds across this episode is something harder to describe than a regular interview — it's the sound of a community being built in real time. Frederikke and Louise open the episode with a conversation about commitment, taking space, jam sessions, the metal fence story, and why 90% of any trick is mental. Then Sasha moves around the camp talking to the women who showed up: Maria from Girls Who Wake Aarhus, who drove four hours to be there and dreams of connecting female riders across every cable in Denmark; Carolina from Portugal, who came back after injury with a completely new relationship to falling; Karen from Norway, in her first wakeboarding season, who left with a jump start, new obstacles, switch riding and a huge smile; Renuka, who moved from the US back to Denmark and found the culture of support was the same on both sides of the Atlantic; and Mathilde, on maternity leave, who spent two days doing something just for herself — and found a group of fellow wakeboarding mothers to ride with going forward.A warm, funny and genuinely moving episode about what happens when women make space for each other in a sport that doesn't always do it for them. 🌊Follow Girls Who Wake: https://www.instagram.com/girlswhowake/Follow Mermaid Mode: https://www.instagram.com/mermaidmode.pod/Visit Copenhagen Cablepark: https://ccp.dk/Chapters:00:00 Introduction — live from Copenhagen Cable Park01:42 Behind the scenes from the edit — how the day actually went04:07 Meet the organisers — Frederikke and Louise08:30 Why they brought the girls camp to Copenhagen12:00 What it feels like to be a girl at a male-dominated cable park15:20 The jam session and why you don't have to land the trick19:00 The metal fence story — the switch raley that started everything22:30 Michaela's transfer attempt — four crashes and one tap that changed everything25:00 Taking space — and why every level struggles with this28:00 Friendly competition and hyping each other on the dock34:32 Meet Maria — Girls Who Wake Aarhus38:00 Why girls don't travel between cables — and how to change that43:00 Girls Who Wake — the Instagram, the memes and the dream45:58 Meet Carolina — coming back after injury49:00 Falling as progress — a new relationship with failure52:31 Meet Renuka — from the US back to Denmark56:00 Danish reservedness vs. extreme sport culture58:12 Meet Mathilde — two days on maternity leave, just for herself1:03:00 Finding other wakeboarding mothers at the camp1:05:00 Taking space — the wider conversation1:08:00 Closing thoughts from the dock