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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Oakley ponied up with a strong bounty for the 2008 Move Of The Year Awards, to be announced on Friday, Sept. 12 at the Wake Awards event at Surf Expo in Orlando.

The rider to win the Move Of The Year (MOY) award in both wakeboard and wakeskate categories will each win a custom engraved Oakley Minute Machine Diamond Dial Edition watch with a retail value of $3,500.00.

Special thanks to Oakley and its Sports Marketing Manager, Matty Swanson, for supporting this progressive award which is known as one of the most coveted achievements in all of wake sports.

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Orlando, Fla. - Action-sports fans can catch all the high-flying, rail-sliding water-sports action of wakeboarding from the comfort of their home, as FUEL TV is set to air the fifth contest of the 2008 King of Wake series, the Tigé Pro-Am Wakeboard Championship, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink. The championship showdown will premier on Tuesday, August 26 at 8:00 pm Eastern Time (5:00 pm Pacific Time), and will re-air seven more times throughout August and September.

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Monday, August 25th, 2008

It looks like Reef and Boardstop have teamed up and given wakeskating.com 6 pairs of Byerly III wakeskate shoes.  Apparently they are giving these shoes away on a weekly basis by challenging your intelect by doing some trivia on the legend.  So, if you don’t know what the Byerly “Hook” is, you should just give-up now, but for those of you that are informed, you might want to check out the details of the contest HERE.

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Brian Grubb just edged out Nick Taylor and his Toeside Wrapped Nosegrab Backside 180 at the third stop of the Bylery Toe Jam events.  The event was held on the Nottawasaga River in Wasaga Beach, Canada.

For more on this event including picture galleries…

• Rockstar Wake Jam - WakeboardingMag.com
• Grubb Earns Rockstar Rail Jam Win at Wasaga Beach - Wakeskating.com

Monday, August 25th, 2008

So there are no INT tournaments this upcoming weekend.  I guess after 17 straight weekends of competition across the US, the league deserves a little break.  It appears that next weekend will be the last competition of the year until the league championships in October.

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Malibu Pro Team Challenge: Quick Results

Overall Champions - Team Hyperlite

Boat Comp

1st Place - Aaron Rathy - Hyperlite
2nd Place - JD Webb - Hyperlite
3rd Place - Bob Soven - LF

Double-Up

1st Place - Danny Harf - Ronix
2nd Place - Jimmy Lariche - Hyperlite
3rd Place - Kevin Henshaw - LF

Rail Jam

1st Place - Jimmy Larich - Hyperlite
2nd Place - Bob Soven - LF
3rd Place - AJ Racinelli - Gator

AllianceWake has the story and some photos for this event.

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

If you are looking for a 21 foot wakeboard boat, and you aren’t sure the Supra Launch 21V is the boat for you, then you might want to check out the new Malibu 21 vRide.  This is Malibu’s entry-level boat based on polished-up version of an older, but proven Wakesetter design.

Press Release:

RIDE LIKE A PRO FOR AN ENTRY-LEVEL PRICE

The new 21 vRide wakeboard boat from Malibu Boats is your ticket to professional-level wakeboarding without an expert’s price.

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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

An important part of any boater’s arsenal is a good cell phone.  Of course these days it seems any phone just won’t do anymore.  Ever since Apple threw it’s hat into the cell phone arena, people have been flocking to it’s new “touch” interface.  With their newer, faster, and cheaper 3G model now available, and several other worthy contenders now on the market, I figured it was a good time to compare some of the most popular models.  Since we are setting the Apple iPhone as the benchmark, we’ll throw in 2 (almost 3) other phones that have a touch interface into the mix.  The other phones are the Samsung Instinct and the HTC Touch Diamond, which are both Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 smartphones.  The other contender that is still on the outside looking in, is the upcoming “Google-phone” running it’s new Google-developed software called “Android.”  Google hasn’t officially announced a release date yet, but we do have a video of the software running in an almost finalized version.

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