Remembering Summer: wake boarding

This summer I spent quite a bit of time at Cedar Bluff Reservoir near Ransom, Kan.

I usually went with a few of my friends — Jerod Horchem, Travis Schafer and Jon Flax — along with the occasional family member in town for a weekend visit.

Horchem has a boat, so we would take it out and go wake boarding. I never did get up and out of the water on the board, but I had fun trying.

Once time when my brother, Troy Vogts, came out for a visit, he bought a tube to pull behind the boat. That worked out a lot better for me, but I still wish I could wake board. I mean, it just looks cool.

I enjoyed these times out on the lake a great deal, even though I admit I am not the strongest swimmer and often hold my nose when jumping into the water.

On one such day at the lake, I videoed the wake boarding of my three friends so later in life I could look back at it and laugh, and trust me, they are worth a laugh.

The videos are as follows. I put them in order of worst to best:

Jon Flax

Travis Schafer

Jerod Horchem

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Todd R. Vogts, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of media at Sterling College in Kansas. Previously, he taught yearbook, newspaper, newsmagazine, and online journalism in various Kansas high schools, and he ran a weekly newspaper in rural Kansas. He continues to freelance as a professional journalist from time to time. Also, Vogts is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the Journalism Education Association (JEA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), among others. He earned his Master Journalism Educator (MJE) certification from JEA in 2022. When he’s not teaching or writing, he runs his mobile disk jockey service and takes part in other entrepreneurial ventures. He can be reached at twitter.com/toddvogts or via his website at www.toddvogts.com.