Time for a new installment to our how to wakesurf 101 series. This is a great boat activity that doesn’t require advanced skills, and is a blast for all skill levels, and great for pictures and long lasting memories. You will need a larger board, we are using the new Lakewakes “Boat Board” and you can find more info on that board HERE.
You can view the entire HOW TO WAKESURF 101 Series HERE.
So, were hoping to have ready by the 4th, but either way we are stoked. I originally came up with some colors and then Danny from Tige asked me if he could just design something sick with a WHITE tower. That sounded intriguing. I am always up for an adventure, so I said ok. He’s hispanic, we should be simpatico, right?
Here is a slideshow, we will keep blogging as we get more pics, and then when it is delivered.
OK, I am REALLY interested to see how this tower is going to look. Has anyone seen a white alpha z tower in the wild?
So we have been having a lot of fun helping test some The Walker Project (TWP) boards and test and prototype several Lakeswakes boards. This goes all the way back to October of last year when we had our Big Guy Demo event we called the Polar Bear Event, since the water was so cold. We had a blast, and 2 boards floated to the top of the heap. Since then those prototypes have been polished they are blast to ride. There is the high performance Bazooka, a real shredder, and the tamer Lakewakes 5.2 Boat Board. We call it the “Boat Board” because it is fun to ride, still maneuverable and fun, yet with the back fin in very stable and great for all sizes and teaching new people.
Check out this podcast, and feel free to contact us with any other questions.
Here are a TON of great pictures, click the full screen icon to really enjoy.
So its time for the first wake9.com Quickie. What is a Quickie, well it is basically a quick contest where you submit video. On this quickie, you can win one of Wake9.com’s special industrial Camera Mount for your boat and your handheld HD camera. It works on any camera that has a tripod mount underneath. We had fun with this video/podcast, I guess we like to be stupid on occasion, maybe too often.
NOTE: No need to BEAT RJs video, its just an example of a great recovery. We want to see your recovery vids, and we will judge them apart from RJs for the prize. You may submit up to 7/6/2010. Have fun!
Here are some pictures of the camera mount and how we mount it to the fiberglass, it is rock solid. You will win a BRAND NEW one of these, minus the camera.
If you would like to provide a prize and sponsor one of these quickie contests, feel free to contact me. We will be doing them several times through the summer.
Just Use the Contact form at the bottom of this post, after the video to submit your video from any service like Vimeo, Youtube, Google, etc.
Please use this form to submit your recovery video to us.
A HUGE congratulations goes out to one of our wake9.com friends. He is known as SlimJim on wakeworld, and as PTown on Tigeowners forum. His little girl was born and he is coming home from the hospital today with his wife and the new little future wakesurfer,
So RJ finishes all of the competition video and stuff, and so now he has a few videos under his belt and is editing podcasts quite nicely. It is fun watching him learn a skill, he has caught on very quick. He has watched me over the years, but he still has picked it up faster than I expected. So he asks me if he can make a recap video of the entire event with music, photos and video, putting together all he learned. Works well for me, we can put it on youtube, and use it to point people to the entire Festival Archive. So he does it, I don’t touch the computer, only give him verbal pointers. He did a great job, enjoy!
We have been working on this for 2 years. It was the founding idea behind wake9.com. We are very excited to finally announce this, and can’t wait to see it play out.
