DailyWake

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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Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Alliance [externallink] is reporting on their homepage that Thomas Horrell’s 1991 Jeep has been stolen. Apparently the 300,000 mile beast was taken in broad daylight in front of his Miami residence. The picture below is not Thomas’ ride, but it is roughly the same year, make, model and color of his Jeep.

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Three prominent professional wakeboarders are now on the injured reserve list due to some incidents on and off the water.

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

The Book Wakeskate Instructional DVD box set has dropped in price. The once hefty $70 set has now been reduced to $54.99. The packaging and contents all remain the same. The set is still over 4 hours long, and still contains all three of their wakeskate DVD titles (Wakeskate Basics, Intermediate Tricks, and Advanced Tricks).

The price change should be reflected at your favorite wake DVD retailer shortly (if it hasn’t already), or you can go directly the manufacturer’s website [externallink].

To see sample chapters, go to their video page [externallink].

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

While we were walking around covering surf expo we had a rare sighting of long time professional wakeboarder Leslie Kent. Leslie was a stand out womens rider for years and was know for her “ride like a guy” style. She faded off the scene a couple years ago and started her own jewelry company which has always been an interest for her. Strangely enough she was there working for one of her sponsors, Sector Nine Skateboards, and did mention that she was interested in getting more involved again. It would be nice to see her give the girls a good push again like she did back when she was fully involved and winning contests.

Go to the Leslie Kent website [externallink]

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Parks Bonifay’s “Double Or Nothing” competition, arguably the biggest double-up competition of the year, has brought out the best in wakeboarding’s elite once again. The DON comp showcases the most technical tricks and biggest airs in the wake industry. This year’s event proved no different with 20 of the top riders going for it all with 1080, backside 900 and double back roll to blind attempts.

When the waters calmed down and the boats were back on shore, it turned out that Shane Bonifay came out on top for the Best Trick award with his Toeside Backside 720 [video of Shane previously doing this trick after the break]. Shaun Murray did edge out Shane though with the Biggest Air award. Shaun’s Air Raley was up in the air for 53.5 video frames, which is roughly 2 seconds of air time.

WakeBoarding Magazine has the full story…

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Thursday, September 27th, 2007

The 4-event Wakeskate competition known as the “Toe Jam” is now in the books. The 4 different disciplines of wakeskating on show were wake, rails, winch and cable. The overall winner was Brian Grubb. The winners of the different disciplines are as follows…

• Wake – Brian Grubb
• Rail Park – Ben Horan
• Winch – Clint Tompkins
• Cable – Reed Hansen

For more detailed stats and the full story check out WakeWorld’s coverage of the event…

• Day 1 – Wake [externallink]
• Day 2 – Rail/Winch [externallink]
• Day 3 – Cable [externallink]

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Same ole’ booth, tons of new product. Despite impressing patrons with a flashy new booth Hyperlite decided to stick with the same booth from last year and relied on impressing them with three new board series and completely redesigned bindings for the 2007 surf expo.

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