Board Up Miami is back for its 4th annual competition as one of wakeboarding’s signature events and, this year, there are some new additions, including a skateboarders dream.
Board Up Miami is a pro-am wakeboard competition that allows the world’s best pros to compete against some of the top amateurs looking for a chance to score their first professional contracts and the glamour that comes with it. This year’s prize purse will be over $10,000 with competition for both male and female riders of all divisions…Â More info
Festival will feature more than top music acts.
The 2009 Tempe Music Festival, taking place at the Tempe Beach Park, will also feature a wakeboarding competition and exhibition.
The Red Bull Wake Lab according to the music festivals official website “will elevate the sport of wakeboarding to a level unparallel to any wakeboard event ever seen in Arizonaâ€. The Wake Lab is describe as a floating skatepark for wakeboarders… More info
So you want to learn to snowkite? Here’s a list of must-haves to get you started: a kite, some skis or a snowboard, a generous expanse of smooth ice and a jumbo-size serving of courage.
Local snowkiting maven Rachael Miller insists the relatively new sport isn’t as terrifying as it looks, but it’s understandable if thoughts of getting swept out to sea on a violent tempest creep into a beginner’s mind. Miller wants to prove to you that anybody can snowkite, and if you don’t want to leave the ground, you don’t have to… More info
FLYING down the Murray River on a ski at 160kmh is second nature for Hamilton’s Mason Vaughan.
The 17-year-old apprentice builder is facing one of the ski racing calendar’s most gruelling events this weekend, the Southern 80.
This year’s race comes after a rigorous six-months on the water and in the gym for Vaughan where he has been building the leg strength needed to handle 125 turns between Torrumbarry and Echuca.
Today he and ski partner Rhys Duggan, of Ballarat, will race behind a Melbourne-owned boat called Spinal Tap in the single motor, open cockpit (SMOC) class, alongside 20 other boats…Â More info