Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Vests, vests and more vests! Oh wait, and some ropes and handles too. The Helium Booth gave surf expo the impression that they only want a piece of the vest market with wall to wall coverage and a broad selection of Mens and Womens vests made of different materials and styles.
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Surf Expo wasn’t the only thing going on this past weekend. WakeBoarding Magazine’s 4th annual Wake Awards took place this past Friday immediately following the first day of Surf Expo at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL.
The event started off with some industry recognition awards like Manufacturer of the Year and Retailer of the Year before moving on to the main 13 awards known as The Wake Awards.
Rusty Malinoski and Brian Grubb took the top spots as Best Wakeboarder and Best Wakeskater. Move of the Year was no big surprise with Chad Sharpe taking it with his sick Double Indy Toeside Back Roll. Best Women’s Rider put Amber Wing on top once again, adding another accolade to add to her impressive resume.
To check out all 13 winners, follow the story link below
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
The good thing about starting from scratch as a wake only boat company is you don’t have to satisfy both skiers and wakeboarders or you aren’t just altering or adding on to boats that were ideal for skiing to keep up with the growing demand for wakeboard specific boats. Epic Boats has definitely designed their line specific to the needs of riders everywhere from the birth of the company in 2002. With that said, lets check out the most innovative boat feature in the industry in our book for 2008 taking a back seat but making a loud statement on Epic’s 23V.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Connelly Wakeboards made another great showing at expo with their team riders backing the booth full bore. With the booth split by an aisle it forced expo patrons to walk straight through the booth as they navigated to their destinations.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
A small booth makes a huge impression this year for Byerly Boards. For its second year Scott Byerly and his board division of Hyperlite has really let the wake industry know that they are serious about their place in both the wakeboard and wakeskate market.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
It seems that very prominent skate and snow brands are finally getting the picture when it comes to recognizing the growth of the wake industry. Bern Helmets is yet another helmet company looking for a piece of our pie. Bern is know for their stylish designs and has taken some of their best selling snow and skate helmets and adapted them to water application.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Surf Expo 2007 has finished it’s invasion of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The past weekend was the equivalent to “New Years Day” for the wake industry. Almost all of the new 2008 products were unveiled for the first time. For many of the big companies, it is a chance to really shine and show why they are on top. For the smaller guys, this is their big chance to make some noise and break into the industry with a big bang.
We caught up with most of the top manufacturers and got the skinny on their new line of products. We also were able to corner some of the top pros and most influential people in the industry and force them to do a video interview with us. I think when it is all said and done, we secured about 30 or so video interviews. Keep checking back with DailyWake over the next few days, because we’ll be releasing more and more content on the event.
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
The WakeWorld Rider’s Choice awards have grown each year in prestige. Now in it’s seventh year, the Rider’s Choice awards have definitely found it’s place among the top achievements in wake.
While the top spots in Top Woman Wakeboarder and Top Wakeskater remain practically unchanged from the previous year (with Dallas Friday and Brian Grubb on top), some of the other awards saw quite a few changes. Rusty Malinoski jumped 4 spots to become the Top Male Wakeboarder. This achievement also granted him the award for Most Improved Wakeboarder. Also, in their rookie year, Ronix has made a huge impact by knocking Liquid Force off of the top spot of both Wakeboard of the Year and Binding of the Year.
Follow the link to see all of the winners and runner-ups.
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Apple showed off their new lineup of iPods earlier today. There were many changes across the board, and they finally introduced the long-awaited touch-enabled widescreen iPod dubbed the “iPod Touch.” Details on each model follows…
Friday, August 31st, 2007
The ShareWake BETA [externallink] has finally launched. For those of you not geeky enough to know, BETA means that we are currently in an almost finalized ‘test’ mode. Since the website is community based and driven, it is hard to make all of the final refinements until people start populating the website.
So what is ShareWake? Well, it is basically just like YouTube [externallink]. ShareWake is a place for you (or anyone) to post their videos, and view other people’s videos. The site is designed to be “wake-related”. In other words, the site was designed to be a source for people to put their wake-related videos. But that’s just the beginning.
We will be providing a lot of exclusive content from riding clips to news stories and even some event coverage. The ShareWake site will go hand in hand with our DailyWake site as well. This fusion of the two sites will be even more apparent when we cover both the 2007 Surf Expo and Wake Awards this September. We will cover these events with both our DailyWake and ShareWake websites. With the birth of ShareWake, we should be able to take our news coverage to the next level.
Stay tuned for more details.
