Tabla de contenidos para May 2016 en WAKEBOARDING

Like anything, wakeboarding ebbs and flows with the tides. Rampant progression, levelings- out and declines are commonplace year after year as pro riders and new faces discover and reinvent new ways to ride their wakeboards. Along that road, the ladies of wakeboarding have always played a key role — sometimes quietly pushing their side of things, other times making louder noise than anyone can ignore. From the old days of Leslie Kent hitting rails that most guys wouldn’t to the years of Amber Wing landing a handful of first-evers for women, female riders have always proved that their riding was on par with the current landscape of the sport. Our cover girl Dallas Friday’s unrelenting domination of the women’s competitive scene is also woven into the fabric of wakeboarding’s history,…

L e t ’ s face i t : When wakeboarding becomes a part of y o u r l if e , i t creeps into your rel ationships too. To what exte n t , we didn’t know for sure. So we reached out to our Facebook audience to see just how deep wakeboarding ran into t h e i r l ove l i ves . T h e results came f l ooding in with surprising fervency . L ove i s i n t h e a i r , f o l k s ! (WINNER) I PROPOSED TO MY FIANCÉE LAST SUMMER WHILE RIDING DOUBLES . # winnings Congratulations, Ted and Kinzie! Not only have you found true love, but you’ve also won…

Have you ever been so excited about something that you completely forgot about some of the required preparation? Well, that’s exactly what happened to a few riders last summer in Austin, Texas. They set out for a maiden voyage on their newly rebuilt, 15-year-old family boat after it had been sitting dormant for a few years. They had been working tirelessly getting their vessel back into tip-top shape, both mechanically and cosmetically, so it was beautiful inside and out. As you can imagine, their excitement level was off the charts to see their boat back in the water and get to wakeboarding again. After charting out a glassy area, the first rider geared up and hopped in. But as soon as the driver put the boat in gear, something went…

People leave home for all sorts of reasons — college, starting a career, pursuing a passion or even joining the army. Not many, though, leave at age 11. An adolescent Meagan Ethell did; she packed her bags and went from Illinois to Florida in pursuit of a wakeboard career while the rest of the kids were watching cartoons and playing tag. No, she didn’t get in a huge blowout with her parents, run away from home, and hitchhike her way to freedom; it was a little more calculated than that. She was into wakeboarding, really into it. So much so that she left to stay with family friends in the wakeboarding mecca, Orlando, to get coached by the best and follow a pipe dream. It would be easy to assume…

After taking the 22 MXZ for a spin, I really want to take one of these home for myself. First of all, the size of the boat is great for the everyday wakeboarder. It’s not so small that you can’t fit all your buddies in it or load it down with ballast, and it’s not so big that you have to slam it with ballast to perk up the wake if you’re running with a thin crew. The size also puts the wake in what I like to call the “Goldilocks zone” — not too steep and not too rampy, but juuust right. Next up is the tech in the digital touchscreen dash, which turns any driver at the helm into a good driver. Seriously, all you have to do…

“At the time, everyone was struggling with how to make the perfect surf wave. Even I remember going out and really struggling. I wanted to find something that could take all of that away.” — Danny Gasper, VP of Product Development at Malibu Boats Take a look: MALIBU SURF GATE Push a button; make a great surf wave. That was the not-as-simple-asit-sounds task facing Danny Gasper on Merced, California’s Lake Yosemite in the fall of 2011. Malibu’s vice president for product development was desperately searching for a way to pull boating’s wave-making process out of its current listed-toone-side, cram-everyone-into-the corner predicament. The fin system on which Gasper had been toiling was producing mediocre results. In testing the system, however, he noticed a 15-inch-tall wall of water emanating from the hull.…

TARAH MIKACICH H a p p e n i n g s a s o f l a t e w i t h M r s . M i k k e r YOUR LAST... Person you texte d : Abby Delgoffe Thing you ate : A banana S e t : About 30 minutes ago N e w t r i c k : Melon toe back 1 G i r l y o u taught how t o r i d e : This girl named Anastasia from Canada. She got up first try. Pa r k s e t : Freedom Wake Park Major purchase: Dodge Ram truck in July TV show you watched: New Girl G i r l w h o i n s…

PEAKS AND VALLEYS It’s not every year we see a female rider grace our cover. In fact, the most recent female rider to get a shot on the cover was Amber Wing in October 2010 (see p. 40), and before that, Dallas Friday in August 2005. Dallas has been through more than her fair share of injuries since her cover just over 10 years ago, shattering her femur in 2006 and tearing her ACL, MCL, PCL, meniscus and patella tendon in 2010. Despite these major setbacks, however, she always seems to bounce back into the spotlight and make an impact in women’s wakeboarding — as evidenced by this timeless shot of her and her Ronix Limelight (see p. 73) on the cover of the first-ever Wakeboarding women’s issue. FOR CUSTOMER…

TOP3 C O U R T N E Y A N G U S R e c e n t f av o r i t e s w i t h t h e l a d y f r o m O z Songs before a set: (Nothing but gangsta ups) 1. “Trophies” by Young Money 2. “Wimme Nah” by Vic Mensa 3. “Blowing Money Fast” by Berner Movies to watch on an airplane: 1. How to Be Single or anything else starring Rebel Wilson 2. Southpaw 3. 8 Mile Women to follow on social media: 1. @Julia_Rick: crazy skills 2. @Melissa_Marquardt: always having an awesome time 3. @MaxineSapulette: raleys Web edits of all time: 1. Graeme Burress’ Home 2. James Windsor and Graeme Burress in the Philippines 3. Coalition Vol. 2…

SPECS Length w/ o Platform: 22'8" Length w/ Platform: 24 ' 8 " Width (Beam): 102 " Draft : 27 " Weight: 4,70 0 l b . Seating Ca p a c i t y : 16 Fuel Ca p a c i t y : 6 5 g a l . Ballast: 3,200 lb. After Supra Boats’ stellar inaugural year of pulling the PWT in 2015, the company announced it’ll be switching things up a little for 2016. The big change? The tow boat. Last year the SE550 took control of the Pro Tour in pretty commanding fashion. Event after event, the top riders in the world, like Harley Clifford, Cory Teunissen and Mike Dowdy, were landing double flips and an insane amount of technical tricks behind the SE,…

MASTERCRAFT X23 A substantial steering wheel with a right-flanked touchscreen, crowned with brightly lit gauges — you would think we’re talking about a Mercedes, but it’s actually the X23’s automotive-inspired helm. Just about everything is billet aluminum with impeccable machining. The analog dials and throttle knob are stout and responsive. Tweeters stick out of the dash for a big sound that’s best enjoyed at the plush captain’s chair, which is about as comfortable as it gets. Everything about the X23’s helm is classic MasterCraft overstated practicality. MALIBU 23 LSV It’s a pleasure to helm this redesigned mainstay in the Malibu line. A 12-inch touchscreen does everything but steer the boat, and the auxiliary screen has in-depth settings that perfect the driving experience. The traditional bow is exceptionally well-balanced from front…

SPECS Length: 24 ' 5 " Beam: 102 " Dry Weight: 4,660 lb. Fuel Ca p a c i t y : 5 8 g a l . Seating Ca p a c i t y : 14 B a l l a s t : 1 , 8 0 0 l b . Standard Power: 350 hp Max Power: 380 hp This was the first time we’ve been behind a Four Winns boat, and while we obviously had our doubts when it came to the wake performance of a sterndrive, we had some pretty interesting take-aways after a day of testing and trying out the brand’s watersport-specific model. The TS242 is powered by Volvo’s new Penta forward-drive system, which puts the boat’s propulsion more comfortably under the hull so…

EXECUTIVE DECISION Has anyone seen that movie? It’s a good one. Anyway, Corrie Wilson made history back in February. She became the first-ever female executive director of the World Wakeboard Association. She’ll be focusing on the growth of wakeboarding all over the world . She has one of the best styles on a wakeboard of any female out there , so if you didn’t already think Corrie was a badass, you should know that apparently she kills the game in an office setting too. SURPRISE, SURPRISE For the most part, all the photography you see in this magazine is from photographers we wo r k w i t h o n a regular basis. Staff photographer Bill Doster and some of our goto senior photographers are mainstays when it comes…

If you want to go higher in the air once you hit the wake, the secret is in your edge. When you are edging, pressure from the water flows against the bottom of the board and propels the board along its edge. The more pressure against the bottom of the board, the faster you will go on edge and the higher you will go when you hold that edge through the wake. This pressure can be increased by simply leaning harder onto your edge while your body is in a tall leverage position. Think of your body as a long lever, or as the handle of a shovel wedged under a rock. The longer the lever or shovel handle, the easier it is to lift the rock. Now cut that…

Being the f irst to do something has alway s h a d i t s m e r i t s . N o t o n l y d o y o u prove t o t h o s e f o l l owing in your f o o t -s teps that i t c a n b e d o n e , b u t y o u c a n a l s o f o rever claim your stake on being t h e f i r s t t o d o i t . H e re ’ s a f e w s t o r i e s from some of the women who were the f…

What do you get when you combine a few insane features from today’s leading inboard-boat companies? The Frankenboat! In our second installment, we bring you four features from four dif ferent boats that we re a l l y l ove for 2016 . Check them out! [ 1 ] Despite its value-class pricing, Moomba has a lot of things to contribute to the Frankenboat, and we’re going to call out the Mojo’s bow. Why would a bow make the list? Because it’s a hybrid between wide-nose and traditional that enhances the boat’s wake performance and compromises as well as anything else on the market. Moomba was one of the first companies to jump on the deepboat revolution, and for good reason. There’s really no downside to a deeper hull…