Tempe Town Lake soon will be transformed into a watery skatepark of sorts for a new competition to be held in conjunction with the Circle K Tempe Music Festival April 3 and 4.
Red Bull Wake Lab made its debut in Orlando, Fla., in September as an experiment to stretch the boundaries of the sport of wakeboarding, organizers say. Rather than having boats to tow wakeboarders, the lab or wakepark uses a system of overhead pulleys and features a mix of hand and transfer rails, sliders, an elevated pool and a 16-foot wall quarterpipe.
“Red Bull Wake Lab is pretty much a skatepark on water – something that’s never really been built before… More info
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