DailyWake

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.

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Monday, October 8th, 2007

We didn’t get a chance to get the inside booth scoop at surf expo but wakeboarder.com [externallink] has a good story you can check out to find out info on the 2008 line of products and changes.

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Monday, October 8th, 2007

Just a reminder… The WWA World Championships are on Fuel TV tonight at 9:30PM.

Friday, October 5th, 2007

A decent sized booth gave the impression that you would see a bunch of new product from Obrien. Once inside though, the product from last year really just got a cosmetic makeover.

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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