Malibu Open Wakeboarding Recap on WakeWorld.com

WakeWorld.com posted their recap of the wakeboarding portion of the Malibu Open yesterday. Got to WakeWorld.com to read about the event and view the photos.

Team Malibu swept Malibu Open wakeboarding. Malibu Pro Rider Phillip Soven took top honors in Men's wakeboard and Malibu Pro Dallas Friday captured the No. 1 women's spot.

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Battle at Wakestock's Malibu Boats Expression Session

Team Malibu Pro Rider, Phillip Soven, showed up in Toronto, Canada for Wakestock still pumped from his Malibu Open win. Already a front runner for the WWA World Series title, Soven had plans to dominate the Malibu Boats Expression Session, but there were a few other riders that had something to say about that.

WakeWorld.com reported that Rusty Malinoski, Soven, Aaron Rathy and Andrew Adkison ended up in a four man super final. Malinoski, Soven and Rathy each stood up strong runs and double-ups making the scoring tight; Malinoski stuck a backside 7 off the double-up, while Soven stomped a toeside 9 and Rathy hit a heelside 9. The difference, though, was Wakestock’s big, technical rail course, which played to Malinoski and Rathy’s strengths. Both posted smooth, impressive slides over the three big 100-foot rails. Malinoski was able to stay close to Soven with big wake tricks to take the win by a decisive 12.5 point margin, while Soven nosed out Rathy by 3 points. Andrew Adkison struggled with a fall off the big double- kinked A-frame rail and was never able to get back into contention.

Surprising to see Soven in second, but we all know he won't stay there long. Congratulations on another great performance, Phillip. We are all rooting for you. Good luck this weekend in Japan.

To read more about last weekend's Wakestock wakeboard competition, pulled and sponsored by Malibu Boats, visit the WakeWorld.com web site.

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Check out these images from the Malibu Open!

Check out the 2008 Malibu Open images we just uploaded to Flickr.com. Keep an eye on the Malibu Boats Flickr.com gallery and this blog for more post Malibu Open coverage.

To see what other sites are saying about the 2008 Malibu Open visit our list of Malibu Open bookmarks on deli.icio.us.

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Malibu Open Coverage on WakeboardingMag.com

Wakeboarding Magazine has posted some great videos and extended coverage of the wakeboard action that was witnessed at the Malibu Open. According to Craig Kotilinek, writer for Wakebaording Mag, "We saw probably the most exciting pro mens finals all year at the Malibu Open." Check it out...

Phillip Soven's winning Malibu Open run caught on video.

Coverage and video of the Pro Men's final at the Malibu Open.

Dallas Friday's winning Malibu Open run.

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Malibu Boats Recognized for Outstanding Customer Satisfaction

The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) announced Malibu Boats as a recipient of the annual 2008 Marine Industry CSI Award. Malibu Boats, the world’s top selling wakeboard and ski boat manufacturer, will be recognized for excellence in customer satisfaction, as part of NMMA’s Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) program at IBEX in October.

Malibu Boats is being honored for their efforts to increase customer satisfaction levels in the wakeboard, ski and family boating industries. They are joined by Indmar Marine Engines, powering all Malibu boats, who was also announced as a CSI award winner.

Malibu Boats and Indmar will be formally acknowledged for their accomplishments in customer service during the annual Industry Awards Breakfast at the 2008 International Boat Builders’ Exhibition and Conference (IBEX), taking place October 6-8 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

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Official Malibu Open 3-Event Results

U.S. water ski athlete Freddy Krueger won the men's jumping title at the 10th Malibu Open Water Ski & Wakeboard Championships Sunday in White Lake, Mich. Krueger leaped 219 feet in defeating Canada's Jaret Llewellyn, who jumped 212 feet.

In other action, Great Britain's Will Asher won men's slalom, scoring 6 buoys at 39-1/2 feet off, and Australia's Emma Sheers won women's slalom, scoring 2 buoys at 38 feet off.

Take a look at the final results at the 2008 Malibu Open.

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Dallas Won at the Malibu Open Too

Dallas Friday won Women's Wakeboarding at the Malibu Open in Michigan. I posted earlier that it was nearly a Team Malibu sweep with our pros taking three out of the 5 water sports events at the open. Well we just found out that Dallas bested the girls to finish first in Women's Wakeboarding. That victory puts Malibu one more step closer to a full sweep, 4 out of 5. Go Team Malibu!

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