DailyWake

Friday, October 5th, 2007

One of the worlds largest grassroots watersports leagues is having their national championships next week in Louisiana. The INT is a league for wakeboarding, waterskiing, kneeboarding and wakeskating and has been around since 1993. They hold regional events, so if your looking to get involved in the competition scene for yourself, your children or friends this is the place to start. They are known as the little league of watersports but have divisions available for all ages and skill levels.

The national championships is a season ending competition that joins all the qualifying competitors from the different regions together to battle it out for national titles in their respective principles and divisions. This years 10th annual event will have close to 500 competitors for both ski and wake combined to make this the largest competition held each year in the world for watersports. Competition starts on October 10 and finishes on the 13th with an awards banquet and dinner that evening. The event will be held closer to the east coast this year at Bennett’s Ski School in Zachary, LA.

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Friday, October 5th, 2007

Just as we found out that Tony Smith left Alliance we found exactly what he is up to next. It seems he is collaborating with long time friend Chase Heavener to bring the world Fiction. Charles Bergquist joins the two to make a pretty awesome team each contributing their own separate talents and skills to potentially produce some amazing work. I can’t wait for their first release in the wake industry.

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Go to the Fiction website [externallink]

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Sean Kilgus and his production company BFY Productions has spiked on almost every website’s radar the past few days with the release of a teaser video showing off his latest 16mm film “Drive”. Though only half done, this teaser shows you what to expect.

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Liquid Force has every angle covered again this year for wake. Their vest line is extensive, their board line is adaptive and the bindings are innovative once again.

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

With all the recent momentum Tony Finn and Liquid Force decide to launch their own clothing brand for 2008. It sounds like they are licensing it out to a company with more than 20 years of experience who has even handled some big brands like Rusty. We took a second to find out the scoop from brand manager Allison Millenacker.

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Malibu, Moomba, and Supra all just announced special edition boats.

Malibu once again has teamed up with Chevrolet to build a special edition Corvette boat. The boat will be offered with either the LS7 or the legendary Z06 engine package. The good news is that the 512hp Z06 option will be in a wakeboard friendly Sport-V boat, unlike the old Corvette boats they made in the past, which were geared towards smaller-wake skiboats. Go to story

Moomba just introduced their Gravity Games Edition Mobius XLV boat. Unlike previous special edition boats, this new Moomba is not only cosmetically different, but also performance enhanced. Go to story

After inking a longterm deal with the WWA to be the official towboat for the Wakeboarding World Championships, Supra has decided to flaunt their new official towboat title with a World Wakeboard Championship Edition boat. The special edition package is available on several of their boats, and adds quite a few features. Go to story

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

If you don’t know who Colby Turner is, then maybe you should read this. Colby is a fellow wakeboarder that suffered a severe injury wakeboarding back in June. Colby has been in a coma ever since. As you can imagine, the medical bills are really starting to add up, and Nor Cal Mastercraft is helping sponsor a fundraiser party for the cause.

The event will be held October 13th at Nor Cal Mastercraft. Many companies are already involved. To see what you can do, follow the story link below.

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

After helping launch Alliance Wakeboard Magazine, Tony Smith, the editor of Alliance, is moving on. Alliance broke the story on their website yesterday, and didn’t really give many details on the big change. This is the second big shakeup in the past few weeks for the publication side of the sport of wakeboarding. Just a few weeks ago, WakeBoarding Magazine’s long-time editor, Matt Hickman stepped down, and was replaced by Kevin Michael [externallink]. Tony has been a long time fixture in the sport of wakeboarding, and hopefully he’ll land somewhere else in the wake industry that he worked so hard to build and influence.

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

The JetPilot booth was walled off giving their 2008 line of clothing, vests and rubber an elusive presence at this years surf expo. We managed to get inside for a quick interview with Brian Jellig, Vice President of Marketing and Design, to look at a small part of their 2008 line.

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Monday, October 1st, 2007

Wakeboarder.com has secured an interview with top wakeboard freerider Keith Lyman. Keith talks about his new signature ride with Liquid Force*, and the normal what he’s done and where he’s going type of stuff.

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*See our video interview with Jimmy Redmon talking about the new Lyman Pro Model board [externallink].