Recap of Day #1 at the 2008 Malibu Open

The 10th Malibu Open Water Ski & Wakeboard Championships got under way Friday in White Lake, Mich. The event runs through Sunday. Bad weather plagued Friday's opening round, resulting in the qualifying round of men's jumping being canceled. All men's jumpers will now compete in Saturday's elimination round. Slalom scores from Friday.

World water ski records have been broken at seven of the nine previous Malibu Open events. Male athletes are competing in slalom, jumping and wakeboarding, and female athletes are competing in slalom and wakeboarding.

Results will be posted on the USA Water Ski Web site as soon as they become available throughout the weekend.

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Soven Sweeps Pro Tour on His Way to Total Domination

Team Malibu Pro Rider, Phillip Soven, not only earned the Men's Pro Tour title again this year he swept the entire season. At the last pro tour stop in Reno, NV Soven crushed the competition with a near perfect score of 96.50. His nearest competitor finished 12 points behind that number.

Visit WakeWorld.com to learn more about the final Pro Tour Stop and Phillip's victory.

Soven is on his way to the Malibu Open this weekend, looking to keep the streak alive. A win in Michigan will not only earn him the Malibu Open title, but that victory would set him up to take down the WWA Wolrd Series of Wakeboarding as well. With a win at both the Open and Wakestock the following weekend, Phillip would definitely prove his domination of the sport.

Congratulations Phillip and good luck taking this thing all the way. The Malibu Team is pulling for you.

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Ski Bees Buzzing with a New Malibu Boat

Malibu Boats dealer, Central Texas Water Sports, just delivered a new red and white Malibu Response LXi to the Buchanan Family to be used as the world-famous Ski Bees' Official Tow Boat on Lake McQueeny in New Braunfels, TX near Austin. This promo boat will be pulling events all summer long on the lake.

Read more about the Ski Bees and Central Texas Water Sports on the CTWS blog.

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Team Malibu Wins 3rd Slalom Shootout

Team Malibu took home their third consecutive WaterSki Magazine Pro Slalom Shootout title last week. Team Malibu was pulled to victory by a 2008 Response LXi ski boat. They bested the other two competing teams, Correct Craft and MasterCraft, by more than 20 points. Team Malibu member also took home individual honors.

Team Malibu World Champion Will Asher captured the men's title, while Team Malibu Pro Emma Sheers beat the women. The 2008 WaterSki Magazine Pro Slalom Shootout was dominated by Team Malibu once again.

We would like to congratulate the Team Malibu skiers who brought home the win. Way to go Will, Emma, Nick Parsons and Drew Ross. Thanks for another win.

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Photos of the '09 Corvette Boat

Check out these new photos of the '09 Corvette Limited Edition Sport-V. This year we went with black on the vet boat. Tom King snapped these photos for our 2009 Brochure and we thought the Malibu Nation would like a look.

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Teen People Love Dallas Too

The nominations for the 2008 Teen People Choice Awards are out! Malibu Boats Team Rider and Wakeboarding phenom Dallas Friday has made the list of five for "Choice Action Sports Female". She is the only wakeboarder nominated, guy or girl. Kids 13-19 can log on to the Teen Choice Awards web site and vote. Remember you can vote as much as once a day until August 1st.

In October 2006, Dallas took an award for the top woman wakeboarder at the Arby's Action Sports Awards, and in 2004 won the ESPY for Best Female Action Sport Athlete. Let's get this added to her resume by voting for her! The polls are open until August 1 at 12am, so support our favorite female wakeboarder at the Teen Choice polling site. The awards show will air on FOX at 8:00 PM August 4, 2008.

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Will Asher Skiing For Another Malibu Victory This Weekend

Team Malibu Pro Slalom Champion Will Asher leaned past the competition last weekend in Fenton, Michigan and he is primed for similar success this weekend at the 4th Slalom Pro Tour Stop in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Yesterday, the first day of the event, Will ran 4 @ 41 off. To view this event as it unfolds visit the live web cast. Go Will!

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