The second you start watching this video you know you're in for something special. This video has a legendary soundtrack and features riders such as Greg Nelson, Billy McCaffrey, Scott Byerly, Shaun Murray, Mike Weddington, Cobe Mickacich, Erich Schmaltz, Dean Lavelle, and others as they...
The Eric Perez Interview by Tommy Phillips - In 1989-90, while managing my store in Colorado, Tony Finn of Skurfer called me and we talked about taking the sport up a notch with a real televised event for Skiboarding. We had finished my little backyard event...
Check out this killer video of the one-and-only Darin Shapiro doing an S-Bend. There are many riders doing this trick but in our opinion, Darin does it best. Thoughts? ...
Dear Wakeboarding enthusiast! I am so proud and excited to serve as President for this inaugural year of the Wakeboarding Hall of Fame! Since 1981 I have been active in this wonderful industry and bought my first wakeboard in 1983 from the Australians at IMTEC in Chicago. Little did...
The Andrea Gaytan Interview (by Dana Preble) (WHF) Take us back to the beginning of your wakeboard career and where all of the magic started. (A.G.) Wakeboarding came to me as a huge blessing from the universe. I was one of those things when all the stars...
Dana Preble Interview for the Wakeboarding Hall of Fame December, 2014 (WHF) Dana, take us back to the beginning of your wake career and where you started? (DP) I started waterskiing on Klinger Lake in Michigan when I was 3 years old. From that time on, I spent...
Growing up a surfer in South Florida had its ups and downs. Warm water was always a plus but the amount of swell the area saw was far from good. So at the age of 16 he was introduced to Ski-Rixen in Boca Raton, Fl....
Fish has been around the water all of his life, whether being towed on water skis or old surfboards behind his grandfather’s boat in the tidal rivers of Virginia or ocean surfing in Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks at the tender age of 8, his love and...
Tony Klarich has had a lifetime of involvement with all aspects of towed watersports at the highest levels. His breakthrough move was a front flip on a slalom ski in 1984, and in later years he invented more than a dozen new freestyle moves on...
Born in 1960, Jim Emmons was first introduced to boating in Tennessee as a young deck-mate on a 52’ houseboat learning marine fundamentals and boating safety from his grandfather. The early induction caused Jim to develop a passionate desire for water sports led by his...