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Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Orlando, Fla. – Action-sports fans can watch all the high-flying, rail-sliding water-sports action of the Rockstar Energy Drink WWA Wakeboard World Championships, presented by Supra through FUEL TV’s LIVE webcast, straight from the 2008 Worlds in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Fans can be part of the action, as webcast viewers are encouraged to email in real time direct to color commentators Nick Weinacker and “the Noise of the North” Dano Amir in the announcers’ tower. Share your comments, opinions or just give a shout-out to your favorite riders, friends and family at the event by emailing Nick & Dano at announcers@wakeboardworlds.com

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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.

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 18th, 2008

The Malibu Review E-newsletter was just released for August.  In this edition of the Review, they hit on the following topics…

• Feature: 21 vRide
• FOTOF: Illusion X, XS
• Tips: Tower Collapse
• Video: Malibu Open
• People: Tom King
• MySpace: daltxsgurl
• Events: Open Wrap
• Gear: Grunge T

Check it out here via MalibuBoats

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

It appears that 2008 King of Wake series will be sold through the iTunes store.  So if you still have space left over from The Book Mobile on your iPod, head on over to the iTunes store and check this out.

Press release:

Orlando, Fla. – FUEL TV, the only action-sports cable and satellite network in the U.S., today announced the availability of full-length episodes of the 2008 King of Wake series on the iTunes Store.

Action-sports fans are now free to go mobile and still catch all the high-flying, rail-sliding, water-sports action of top pro wakeboarders, competing in the world’s premier professional wakeboarding circuit, the King of Wake series. Fans can purchase and download their favorite individual episode on iTunes for $1.99 or purchase the Season Pass for $14.99. The Season Pass includes all current and future episodes the King of Wake series ’08. Current episodes will download immediately and future episodes will download as they become available.

The King of Wake brings together the sport’s top events and series in one ultimate season-long points chase, including the five stops on the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour, the Air Nautique Wake Games, the Tigé Pro-Am Wakeboard Championships, the Air Nautique WWA National Championships, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink and the Rockstar Energy Drink WWA Wakeboard World Championships, presented by Supra.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Some shots and details of upcoming 2009 products are starting to leak out.  Both AllianceWake and Wakeside are showing off some of the new products.

CWB Onset Wakeskate Bi-Level (Stu Shinn Pro Model) via Wakeside
2009 Liquid Force Groove Wakeboard (Collin Harrington) Spy Shot via Wakeside
2009 Liquid Force S4 Wakeboard (Phillip Soven) Spy Shots via Wakeside
What’s the scoop? via Alliancewake

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Kenosha, Wis. – Today marked the fifth and final day of the 2008 Air Nautique WWA Wakeboard National Championships, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, where seven national titles were claimed.

In the Pro Men’s Division, five riders battled it out on the water for the national title. Last year’s winner Rusty Malinoski looked to have a repeat performance in the finals, but Phillip Soven threw down a near perfect run, posting 98 points to take the top spot in the finals and ride away with his first-ever national title. Malinoski finished in second-place followed by Andrew Adkison in third.

[final day results and the rest of the story after the break]

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Kenosha, Wis. – The top wakeboarders and wakeskaters in the country took the waters of Lake Andrea at Prairie Springs Park in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. today for the first of five days at the Air Nautique WWA Wakeboard National Championships, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink.

Eight of the 16 divisions battled it out on the water today in the opening-rounds of the contest to begin their journey toward winning a national title and earning a spot on the U.S. roster for the Wakeboard World Championships later this year.

[the rest of the press release and day 1 results after the break]

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Monday, August 4th, 2008

The Standered has moved to a free online format.  This will imiidiately broaden their reader-base, which is obviously why they have jumped to the new business model. The old-school paper-mag version is still available for you kids that don’t want to wait an extra month for the free digital version.  Besides the fact that the paper-version will come out before the free digital version, Standerd is also banking on the collector’s value of the now even more limited edition paper mag to keep subscriptions flowing.

Admittedly I haven’t seen many online magazines, but I can’t imagine the implementation could be any better than the Flash-based viewer that Standerd is using for their online issues.  I found it to be very intuitive, and made browsing the online mags simple and dare I say…fun?

Check it for yourself via StanderdOnline.com

via Wakeskating.com

Monday, August 4th, 2008

The title pretty much says it all.  Melissa Marquardt will be at the Mission Bay Aquatic Center August 15th [editors note: Hey, that's my birthday!].  She’ll be the to rub elbows with the commoners, and she’ll also be signing autographs, giving advice, and yada yada yada.  She’ll also be on some brand-new Liquid Force gear, so it’ll be a good chance for some of you to see the latest LF offerings before the Surf Expo.

via FUELtv