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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

The wakeboard season is approaching, and along with it comes a handful of competitions.  Along with the Pro events that take place all around the world, there is almost certainly an amateur competition in your area (your “area” might be across the street or across a few states, depending on how large your local wakeboard populace is).  As many of you know, our sister site LearnWake.com gives our members all sorts of wakeboarding instructional videos, tips, etc.  They even have a bulletin board there where professional coaches will answer your questions.  One question that seems to be popping up on LearnWake is “How to prepare for a wakeboard competition.”  I figured I’d roll this answer into a DailyWake post, so everyone can get a little insight on these strategies.

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Friday, March 20th, 2009

Orlando, Fla. – The world’s elite pro wakeboarding circuit, the King of Wake series, has officially joined Alli, the Alliance of Action Sports. The series organizer, World Sports & Marketing, announced today its partnership with Alli – a company owned by NBC and MTV Networks dedicated to bringing together the best properties, athletes and brands globally for the fans of action sports.

The King of Wake’s partnership with Alli includes online rights, sponsorship sales, marketing and promotion. All King of Wake events will continue to air on the FUEL TV network.

“We are thrilled to be partnered with the premier wakeboarding property within action sports,” said Wade Martin, President of Alli. “King of Wake, along with FUEL TV, have created an outstanding television package. We look forward to supporting FUEL TV’s television programming with a robust online offering as part of allisports.com.”

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Monday, August 4th, 2008

INT Amateur Tour Competitions for the upcoming weekend…

• Alabama - Oak Mountain State Park
• North Carolina - Fun Junktion
• Ohio - Mansfield
• Oregon/Washington - Winlock

Full INT competition calendar via INTLeagues.com

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Defending Pro Team Challenge champs, Team Hyperlite, will try to continue their reign at this year’s event on August 16-17th.  The 3-part event will take place at Silver Lake Executive Resort in Eatonville, WA.  The 3 tiers of the event include Saturday’s traditional wakeboard pass, pool-to-lake rail jam later that evening, and then a double-up showdown on Sunday.  $25,000 is up for grabs so all of the big guns will be there trying to not only take the title, but the bounty that comes with it.

[full press release after the break]

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Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The “Girls Day Out” was created by females for…well…females.  Actually it is a cool event that makes wakeboarding more social and less intimidating for the ladies.  There are all types of things going on including wakeboard clinics, social gatherings, and even a wakeboarding competition on the final day.  This 3-day event starts Friday August 22nd.  You can register on their website.

via Stockcity

Gird Day Out website

Friday, May 16th, 2008

Just last weekend, Parks Bonifay again competed at The Projects on a recently-repaired knee to try to defend his belt a second time. The all-rail competition known as The Carnival, hosted by Pat Panakos brought out all the top rail riders in wakeboarding.

This year’s Carnival had many new rails in addition to all the obstacles from last year. Riders had a wide variety of lines to choose while riding, making the contest even better for the spectators. Shawn Watson used all of the rails to put together some solid runs in each round, making it to the championship bout against defending champion Parks Bonifay. Each rider rode well in the final, and Watson ended up coming out on top showing some great style and control on the rails.

Watson joins Parks Bonifay and Scott Byerly as only the third person to win the championship belt of The Carnival.

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

(Boulder, CO) - The nation’s top 15 collegiate wakeboarding teams will battle it out at the 2008 Collegiate Wakeboard Nationals from Boulder, Colo., May 16-18. For the third consecutive year, the Collegiate Wakeboard Nationals is part of CBS College Sports Network’s COLLEGIATE NATIONALS, a festival of events that crowns national champions in 11 categories. Malibu Boats serves as the official towboat for the event. The event will be held at the Boulder Reservoir and admission is free.

Extensive television coverage of the Collegiate Nationals kicks-off with a special one-hour program airing on CBS Sports on Sunday, May 25 (2:00 PM, ET). The show will launch eight consecutive days of Olympic-style programming on CBS College Sports Network, followed by individual sport highlight shows.

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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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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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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

UK cable-rider Nick Davies landed a switch toeside 1080 off of a kicker ramp the other night at London’s Wakeboard Under Darkness competition [video].

[via WakeWorld]

[Video courtesy of Wakestuff.co.uk]

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