Take Your Momma to CIE Spring Ride 8

Malibu Boats (@MalibuBoats) has been chosen, once again, as the official tow boat for CIE Spring Ride 8. Everyone and their mother will be at the Bass Lake Pines Resort May 6-8 with CIE as they kick off the 2011 west coast wakeboarding season. Mothers Day weekend 2011 marks the 8th Annual CIE Spring Ride.

Every spring, hundreds of wakeboarders from all of the country attend the CIE Spring Ride to wakeboard, meet new friends and watch their favorite professional riders charge massive double-ups for greenbacks. For the last seven years, Spring Ride has hosted the biggest professional wake contest in California. For 2011, it’s the only pro contest on the West Coast.

The event will start Friday with a dodge ball tournament and BBQ hosted by Hyperlite. Saturday morning the double up contest begins, followed by tug-o-war tournament hosted by CWB and a raffle with thousands of dollars in prizes.

Like the previous two years, the 2011 event will be hosted at Bass Lake Pines Resort. This venue offers comfortable cabin-like accommodations in a deep-woods setting. There is plenty of parking, boat slips for rent, excellent food and friendly staff.

The invitation-only rider list includes Andrew Adkison, Gabe Lucas, Rusty Malinoski, Malibu Boats' Phillip Soven, Tony Carroll, Trevor Maur, Derek Cook, Jason Callen and prior Spring Ride champs Ricky G and Axis Wake's Randall Harris.

CIE Spring Ride is sponsored by Malibu Boats, CWB, Hyperlite, Phalanx, Chucktronics Audio, NVS Tower Speakers, Crispy Bikinis, Twisted Candi Bikinis, Wakeroots Ride Shop, Front Side Films, CIRE Boardshorts and the Pines Resort at Bass Lake.

Check out video of past Spring Ride events at CIEwakeboarding.com. For general event information and sponsorship, please call (510) 931-9895.

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World's Best Riders at Relentless Wakestock

Malibu Boats (@MalibuBoats) is towing the World's best riders at Relentless Wakestock in the UK July 4th weekend. British Malibu Dealer D2 Marine will have boats on the water for Europe’s largest wakeboard music festival, July 2nd, 3rd & 4th. Relentless Wakestock is combining the cultures of music and the world's fastest growing water sport a weekend of high-octane excitement!

The festival began in Abersoch, North Wales in 2000, when it was a wakeboard contest with a party in a car park for 800 people. It has grown to become one of the coolest, most revered festivals in Europe playing host to some of the industries leading bands and DJ’s, along with the biggest wakeboard competition in Europe. In 2010 the festival enters it's 2nd decade so make sure you book tickets now!

Over the past ten years Relentless Wakestock has established itself as the World’s leading independent wakeboard event, and for 2010 they’ve joined forces with the World Wakeboard Association (@TheWWA) and sanctioned the event as part of the Wakeboard World Series.

The focus will be firmly on North Wales as the best riders in the world descend on the Llyn Peninsula to battle it out in front of thousands at Pwllheli Marina for a piece of the prize money and the sports most prestigious crown.

Relentless Wakestock will be the third stop on the WWA World Series which is held in 6 locations, in 6 different countries and across 4 continents! The World Series is the richest prize purse in the sport with over $200,000 up for grabs over the course of the Series.

The best riders in the world will be traveling to the UK for Relentless Wakestock and will be giving it their all as they compete for the title of Relentless Wakestock Champion.

Learn more about Relentless Wakestock and the Pro riders who will be battling it out behind Malibu Boats at http://www.wakestock.co.uk/abersoch.

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Malibu Towing World's Premiere Wake Event

Malibu Boats (@MalibuBoats) is pulling the world's premiere professional wakeboarding/wakeskating event, Wakestock (@WakeStockCanada), part of the World Wakeboard Association (@theWWA) World Series of Wakeboarding. Wakestock is also Canada's largest annual action sports and music festival featuring one of the biggest music line-ups of the summer, plus skateboarding, surfing, kiteboarding, and country's largest action sports expo and marketplace showcasing youth action sports lifestyle clothing, gear and accessories.

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One of the most progressive and richest events in pro wakeboarding and wakeskating for 12 years running, Wakestock is globally renowned as an innovative rider’s event that showcases the best in wakeboarding, wakeskating and the action sports lifestyle including incredible live band line-ups and legendary parties.

Wakestock was the first pro wakeboarding tour event to include rails, wakeskating and winch pools and consistently attracts the biggest spectator crowds in the world. Past Wakestock champions include legends like Team Malibu's Darrin Shapiro, Parks Bonifay, Brett Eisenhauer, Jeff Heer and current superstars like Team Malibu's Chad Sharpe (@ChadESharpe), Shane Bonifay, Daniel Watkins, Keith Lidberg, Team Malibu's Brian Grubb (@BrianKGrubb), Reed Hansen, George Daniels, Stuart Shinn, Rusty Malinoski, Team Malibu's Phil Soven (@PhillipSoven) and Aaron Rathy.

Wakestock is one of five events, including the WWA World Championships, that comprise the 2010 WWA World Series of Wakeboarding, the world’s richest pro tour. The defending Wakestock Billabong Wakeboard Pro Champion is Aaron Rathy. The defending Wakestock Malibu Boats Wakeskate Pro Champion is Brian Grubb. Wakestock also features Canada’s largest grassroots amateur wakeboarding and wakeskating contest presented by Malibu Boats and sanctioned by the Water Ski & Wakeboard Canada.

Music Festival
Wakestock features two days of incredible bands on the Monster Energy Music Stage and nightly shows at local venues. Past Wakestock music artists include the Deftones, Social Distortion, RZA and GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, De La Soul, Metric, Goldfinger, Classified, Hot Water Music, Lupe Fiasco, Dead Kennedys, Rise Against, Reel Big Fish, Andrew WK, Alexis On Fire, Sloan, Dillinger Escape Plan, USS, Story Of The Year, Silverstein, Boys Night Out, Bedouin Soundclash, ill Scarlett, Silverstein, Closet Monster, No Use For A Name, Gob, Moneen, Social Code, Kardinal Offishal, Protest The Hero, Die Mannequin and many, many more greats.

Visit http://wakestock.com for more information on this event.

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Malibu Boats Pulling CIE Spring Ride 6

Malibu Boats (@MalibuBoats) has been chosen as the official tow boat for CIE Spring Ride 6.

The CIE Spring Ride attracts wakeboarders from all over the country to celebrate the kickoff of each wakeboarding season. In its 6th consecutive year, the CIE Spring Ride continues to host the biggest double-up contest on the West Coast for professional wakeboarders. It is a meet-and-greet atmosphere that is offered for everyone’s enjoyment.

The Malibu Wakesetter 23 LSV will be churning-out double-ups as the Official Tow Boat of the 2010 CIE Spring Ride. $1500 cash goes to the biggest air and another $1500 goes to the best double-up!

The 2010 event will be hosted again at the Pines Resort on the majestic Bass Lake. This venue offers every accommodation for Spring Riders with allotted parking, dock space, and chalet rooms. The staff is professional and friendly, helping to assist in anyway possible.

Spring Ride 6 will again attract some of the biggest names in Wakeboarding to compete for thousands in cash. Best and Biggest are the title’s to be captured behind the slammed Malibu boat as the company displays its latest wake-creating machines. Wakeboard manufacturers like CWB, Hyperlite and Phalanx will be onsite with 2010 products as the Wakeroots Ride Shop has every accessory you may need for the upcoming season. Crispy Bikini will have there girls showing off the latest swimwear as boat audio enjoyment will be displayed by Chucktronics and NVS.

Following the double up contest, CIE will begin raffling off thousands of dollars worth of wakeboarding gear, clothing, boat audio equipment, wakeboarding instruction and a lot more. Two lucky Spring Riders will also have a chance to spend Sunday morning with a professional rider. The CIE after party will have the crowd saying “UHHHH” as the drinks flow and the exclusive DJ brings the noise!

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Malibu Boats Towing WWA Pro-Am

The WWA Australian Pro-Am has confirmed that Malibu Boats (@MalibuBoats) and Red Bull energy drink are on board. Book your Australian accommodations soon, because the WWAA PRO AM is just around the corner. Stoney Park in NSW is going to be run off it’s feet with most of Australia’s, and some of the world’s most talented wakeboarders when the Australian PRO AM takes to the water on the 29th of Jan, 2010.

The organizers of the WWAA Pro Am are jumping out of their boots with excitement after confirming a tow deal with 2009’s Industry nominated, most popular Wakeboard boat company – Malibu. The 1st ever WWA Australian PRO AM will be starting out on the right foot, by choosing Malibu to tow their January World Title qualifying event. Malibu will be bringing three brand new 2010 VLX Wakesetter’s and will tow every division from the un-weighted <9’s all the way up to the fully loaded PRO Men and Women. The new hull design of the 2010 Malibu VLX is set to raise some eyebrows with the early response to it’s re-designed wake shape gaining unanimous acclaim with all those that have already had the pleasure of riding behind it.

In addition to our brand new tow partner, we are also wrapped to announce that we will be working exclusively with Red Bull again in 2010. For almost a decade, Red Bull have been the dominant force in Energy Drink supply for the entire Action Sports industry, and it is our pleasure to have them on-board in 2010 to support the 1st ever WWA Australian Wakeboarding PRO AM. Other sponsors confirmed to be in for the PRO AM are, Jet Pilot, Yamaha Australia, Dragon, DeJa Vu & Fluidcore.

The official website is now online and we are expecting the entry nominations to flood in with big name such as former APTW champion Dean Smith, Aussie and US Pro Tour Champion Harley Clifford, Mens 1 World Champion Sam Thomson, and World Junior Champion Bradley Teunissen all confirmed to be riding in the Australian PRO AM.

Record crowds for Stoney Park are expected for the January 29-31 weekend with Live bands, FMX demo’s and wakeboarding expo sites already set in stone for the event along with all the action expected to take place on the water.


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Soven Wins China World Cup Stop

Team Malibu Boats (@MalibuBoats) Phillip Soven (@PhillipSoven) beat out Harley Clifford and Rusty Malinoski in Liuzhou City, China over the weekend. Overall World Cup Champion in 2008, Soven was determined to take the Chinese stop and get himself one step closer to an overall victory in 2009. Soven struck first blood in the finals with a whopping score of 75.44 points. Clifford landed a huge 720 off the double-up, but that move was only good enough for second. Soven took the victory and added to his super-human World Cup win total over the past five years.

Team Malibu's Dallas Friday scored second in the Women's Wakeboard competition and Team Malibu's June Fladborg took home a 3rd-place finish in Women's Jump.

Way to go Team Malibu! We're proud of you all! Congratulations on a another win Phillip!

Visit iwwfed.com for a complete recap of the Waterski And Wakeboard World Cup Stop In Liuzhou City China.

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Malibu Wakeboarders Make INT Regionals Family Affair

The Cleburne Times Review recently posted an article featuring long-time WaterSki America customers and Malibu boat owners, the Cain Family. These Cleburne, TX wakeboarders recently competed in the INT Southeastern Invitational tournament in Little Rock, Ark as a family.

Marcus and Matthew Cain and father, Scott, all Texas state champions, competed against state champions from 10 other states. The event lasted three days.

Marcus Cain, a Cleburne High School student, won the first day of competition.

“The competition was stronger than anything I have encountered before,” he said, “but the atmosphere was very laid back and fun.”

The second day of riding brought a change of boats.

Marcus Cain stood up his first pass and landed his first toe-side 180 spin.

He had some trouble adjusting to the new boat’s wake but was one of the few riders to almost complete his second pass without a fall.

At the conclusion of the tournament, Marcus Cain held off a strong surge from the rest of the field to secure a third place overall finish.

“It felt really good making the podium at a national tournament,” he said.

He is sponsored by Malibu Boats and Waterski America and rides a Hyperlite board. He is coached by JoJo Lemberg and Scott Flanagan of the Wakeboard Coalition.

Matthew Cain, one of the youngest competitors at the event, secured an honorable mention award in the mini outlaw division.

“It was scary standing on the dock waiting for your turn,” he said, “but you just have to go through it.”

“We’re so proud of Marcus and Matthew,” said the boys’ mother, Chris Cain. “Watching from the shore, I was probably more nervous than the boys,” she said.

The INT is the world’s largest amateur competition for wakeboarding.

“Despite the rain, the riders had a great time,” Scott Cain said. “For me, it was a once in a lifetime event. It was great riding with my boys.”

The Cains plan to continue to wakeboard until Thanksgiving.

“Now that the competitions are over, we have to start training for next season,” Marcus Cain said. “I’m working on a back roll and some new spins for next year.”

When he’s not training, Marcus Cain spends his time on the water teaching others how to wakeboard.

“Marcus does a great job representing the sport,” said Scott Cain.

To read more about the wakeboarding Cain Family in the Cleburne Times Review.

Congratulations, Cain boys! Keep it up, Malibu Boats is cheering for you!

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