Friday, October 26th, 2007
On Friday, October 19th the AST Dew Tour Wakeboard Rail Jam made its appearance on the backside parking lot of the Amway Arena (Home of the Magic) in Orlando, Florida. Squeezed in between FMX, BMX Dirt and Skateboard Vert were two very large portable pools making up a step down miniature rail park for ten professional wakeboarders to exploit their skills to a very curious crowd.
[Videos after the break]
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Through day two of three in Cancun, Mexico Philip Soven leads the skins format in the pro men’s division of the 5th annual Tige Pro-Am Wakeboard Championships. Soven once again overpowered opponents to position himself as the top seed going into tomorrows final round.
Friday, October 12th, 2007
Over the past few weeks we’ve been releasing content covering Surf Expo 2007. This was the very 1st event that DailyWake has ever covered, and we were pretty happy with the results. In this final entry, we’ll let you know everything we covered and give you links to it as well. Think of this wrap-up story as a table of contents or index of all the content we covered during Surf Expo 2007.
[Directory and links to all our Surf Expo 2007 stories after the break]
Friday, October 12th, 2007
UGP further solidifies itself in the wake market with yet another strong lineup of soft goods, shoes and accessories that are meant to get wet, not dirty. The cutting-edge clothing company has always had it’s roots planted deep into the BMX community, but it is nice to see that their wake line is just as comfortable, stylish, and innovative.
[Video and gallery after the break]
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Mastercraft had one of the biggest boat booths at Surf Expo showing the industry that they are still one of the top manufacturers. They were segregated with wake on one side of the aisle and waterskiing on the other showing further separation between the two sports than years past. There wasn’t much new at expo as far as models, but aesthetically the boats were even more dressed up than last. Director of Marketing John Behling sat down in front of this years cool graphics on the X Star to give us a small scoop on whats new for 2008.
[Video after the break]
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Boardstock Promotions [Press Release]
OCTOBER 5, 2007
LAKEPORT, CA, BoardStock XII culminated the five-stop World Wakeboarding Association’s World Series with Phillip Soven being crowned the Series Champion behind the power of the Centurion Enzo boat. BoardStock is the world’s largest extreme water sports event in Northern America. Now in its twelfth year BoardStock has been a part of the WWA World Series for three years. Shawn Perry of the WWA said, “This was the first year that Boardstock has culminated the WWA World Series, and it ended with Phillip Soven becoming the first rider in WWA World Series history to win all five stops. Phillip has been riding unbelievably well all season and he made it look easy once again at Boardstock XII. Soven’s heroics netted him a $19,000 dollar payday – not bad a day’s work for the seventeen year-old phenom.
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
You would assume after decades of watersports, handles and ropes would become dull and stagnant. Well, each year companies are finding new innovations that help revolutionize the life-line that connects you to your vessel. Straightline is towards the top of the food chain with their new innovative handle technologies. For 2008, Straightline has a new logo and a new look, but when you look deeper into their product-line you’ll notice that aesthetics aren’t the only changes for 2008.
[Image Gallery and Video after the break]
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Skier’s Choice is climbing the inboard boat market hierarchy with a third in sales for 2007 for both their brands Moomba and Supra combined. This company has come such a long way in the past years and made its name in wake as a high quality wakeboard boat brand. Michael Littman sat down with us in the Moomba Mobius XLV Gravity Games Edition at Surf Expo.
[Image Gallery and Video after the break]
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
After wading through countless boats, beautiful booth babes, and crazy salesmen trying to tell me why their product was best, I found the Ronix booth. The booth had none of these things. Hell, the booth didn’t have a single board, binding, or salesperson in sight. Ronix was represented by a basic tent that you could find at a simple neighborhood picnic. After talking with team rider Reed Hansen, we got the details on the whole ordeal.
[Video interview after the break]
Monday, October 8th, 2007
With a company the size of Quiksilver it was hard to cover the entire line so we decided to sit down for a “quik” interview with pro team rider and wake team manager Ben Greenwood instead. Ben has built a strong team of stand out athletes, stand out maybe not in contest results, but in riding prowess. You’re sure to recognize names like Randall Harris, Collin Harrington, Jeff House and young ripper Jacob Valdez and they sum up a small but impressionable team. Let’s see what Ben has to say about his crew, next year and Quiksilver.
[Video interview after the break]