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It may sum up a lot of things that we are all familiar with about the social network generation, but they might have a point. Going to festivals, going riding, having a good time with your mates, it’s what it’s all about right? It might be the product of a Twitter feed hungry generation, constantly uploading pictures of food and blurry party photos. Forever searching for likes on a Facebook post might not be the way any of us want to go, nor hashtagging every single word in the dictionary after certain social sites, which could be a good thing, maybe they have a point in some weird way? Should we really abbreviate every single action in our lives so we can converse in a few letters just what we feel? Maybe not but -bringing like-minded people together, or those in a similar situation does have value, even at the sake of a hashtag, and that’s what we hope to do in creating Hybrid. That morning after, when you are feeling like your brain has been microwaved or you took on and tackle the recovery, could this be #YOLO’s moment? Getting up and getting on with things is often the best thing to do, it could be it’s time to shine. The Hybrid team have had a all the time. This issue was a lot of fun - it might be a little late, but then again - who wants to As Bob Dylan once sang “The Times They Are A’Changin’”. Well, we look forward to the change and everything that the hashtaggers have to throw at us. Our thanks to the contributors this month: Louis James Parker - Vision Ricky Monti/Wake Line, Adam Walker - The Jambo Jose Gonzalez/Venezolion - Jordan Darwin Adam Walker, Scott Taylor, Nik Green/WSW - Road to... Chris West - A New Era Ben Hannam, Sim Bradley/AMP - Ben ‘N’ Terry’s Chris Garrison, Christian Pondella, Robert Snow, Red Bull Content Pool, Marc Rossiter - Wake Open Jamie Burke - Glastonbury Josh Hillman - Hot Spot
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Following the Annie Mac approved Summer 2012 smash Through The Night, Drumsound & Bassline Smith are back with their dancefloor filling new single One In A Million featuring the sensuous vocals of Fleur. One In A Million dropped via an Annie Mac Special Delivery on Friday 8th March and has been gaining serious support ever since which has led to it being playlisted on the BBC Radio 1 B-List. The official video has also been added to the MTV Dance B-List. Soaring 80’s synths and Fleur’s infectiously catchy vocals fire One In A Million straight into dnb anthem orbit. On One In A Million Drumsound & Bassline Smith show off where their strengths truly lie, making great music that appeals to the masses. This is highlighted by the views picked up on UKF with the official video getting 227k+ views in 6 weeks! Hot new 22-year-old talent, Fleur, is fresh off vocal duties on DJ Fresh’s recent Nextlevelism tour, where she was introduced to DJ Fresh’s main support act, Drumsound & Bassline Smith.
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They have also dropped another new track entitled ‘Chunky’ has already been picking up radio love from BBC Radio 1’s B.Traits and it’s clear to see why. 90’s piano chords and shuffling garage percussion is complemented by a deep bassline that drives its way through the heart of the track. Reverb-laden eerie glue the track together ready for any club or warehouse rave these two show up at. In two words, this one’s a club banger! Oh and did we mention it’s free?
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Dance music titan Laidback Luke teams up with Majestic for a largerthan-life new single ‘Pogo’. Following the release of the ‘Dub Mix’ earlier in the year a full UK release drops in May featuring the full vocal mix as well as remixes from heavyweights Chuckie, Congorock, Deorro, H.P Vince and Twinz Beatz
‘Pogo’ is a high-octane thrill ride of pounding kicks, elasticated synths and heavy bass, which rebound with pent-up-energy. In the vocal mix, London MC Majestic ramps up the energy with his infectious rhyming style. Racking up thousands of plays in a matter of hours when Laidback Luke uploaded a clip of the instrumental to his SoundCloud, ‘Pogo’ has since spread like wildfire and is guaranteed to be filling dance floors across the globe into the summer.
Taking ground across the clubs and soundsystems of Leeds, bass-duo Mak & Pasteman have garnered serious respect throughout clubland. Releasing across labels including Shifting Peaks, Senseless Records & Sounds of Sumo, as well as extensive radio-play from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs, Redlight, B traits, Toddla T, Nick Grimshaw, Kissy Sell Out and Rob Da Bank, they have laid down the foundations for the future sound. Alongside their Juno chart-topping 2012 EP Do The Same, it’s their deft edits and reworks of artists such as Larry Heard and Tyga that
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If that isn’t enough to satisfy your thirst, the single comes with a selection of remixes, which take the original and reshape it into many forms. Dirty Dutch don Chuckie, dynamic electro house master Congorock, rising LA native Deorro join Dutch producer H.P Vince and Miami bad boys, Twinz Beatz, together catering to a heady array of musical flavours. There is no denying that Dutch maven Laidback Luke is continuing to make waves. His dynamic fusion of hyper-drive-house-step & ghettojack-trance-bass is the sound of ‘now’ shows no signs of slowing down! Blasting your speakers with blockbuster beats, stirring things up with his hybrid house styles and his unlimited gusto resulting in exhilarating live sets and on-going anticipated studio hits.
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Since then it’s grown to five rooms and played host thousands of world’s best DJs and club brands featuring, circus performers, carnival characters and stunning dancers as well as welcoming a melting pot of International party animals from A-list celebrities, VIPs and even royalty, to music lovers, and those that just can’t the unique decadent atmosphere. The White Parties of 1976 where guests would get naked, the Flower Power, La Gran Corrida, Def Mix, Renaissance, Defected, Wonderland, F*ck Me I’m Famous and Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel are just a fraction of the parties which have helped it remain the godfather of the Ibiza clubs. Did somebody say cocktail on the terrace?
To celebrate this impressive landmark Pacha Ibiza is releasing a 4-disc, 77 track trip through Pacha’s rich history, Pacha Ibiza 40 Years - 19732013. Working backwards from the present day CD01 gets you in the mood with current and recent anthems deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember; David Guetta - Just A Little More Love (Wally Lopez Remix); Eric Prydz – Pjanoo, Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin - Don’t You Worry Child; Otto Knows – Million Voices and the future summer 2013 anthem Breach – Jack. We then step back to the 90’s on CD02 featuring nostalgic tunage from Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy (David Morales Remix); Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives; Age Of Love - The Age Of Love; Nightcrawlers Push The Feeling On and Ibiza anthem X-Press 2 – Muzik Xpress. CD03 takes us on a ride though the 80’s including shoulder pad busters; Frankie Knuckles ft. Jamie Principle - Your Love; Inner City Good Life, the dance floor devastator Black Box – Ride On Time and The Adventures of Stevie V – Dirty Cash. Finally CD04 arrives at the beginning featuring seminal tracks, which changed our world forever. Chic - Le Freak; Sister Sledge - Lost In Music; Giorgio Moroder – Chase and the ultimate dance track Donna Summer – I Feel Love will have you digging out your vintage flares and swinging off a glitterball. This musical time capsule is topped off with a pull out booklet featuring pictures and flyers depicting key moments from Pacha’s colourful evolution. So, whether you’re a club music fan or someone who can’t see the cherry logo without wanting to book a flight to the White Isle then Pacha Ibiza 40 Years - 1973-2013 is the perfect summer soundtrack. About Pacha Ibiza Pacha Ibiza was opened in 1973 when brothers, Ricardo and Piti Urgell turned an old Spanish Finca, located in Ibiza Town, into intimate venue so they could ‘meet pretty girls’.
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Food Music, the new label making waves from Shadow Child and Kry Wolf, present the fourth and possibly most anticipated release courtesy of the ‘Errrybody Like It’ EP from kings of 808 bass Kill Frenzy and Sacha Robotti. Belgian producer Kill Frenzy is yet another member of the Food Music roster who is quickly scaling the bass music ladder. His recent brand of pulsating booty-clapping funk has earned him a reputation for tearing it down when it comes to the club. ‘Errrybody’ is a heavy slice of undisputed dancefloor business, and the remix by Tom Flynn and Shadow Child goes just as hard whilst adding a new dimension to the new track. Sacha Robotti, another Belgian artist, has been consistently wreaking havoc in the dance music arena for a few years now. Classically trained and having studied with Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos, he has released a slew of world-class tracks ranging from deep house to techno. Both artists found themselves together in the studio in spring 2012 where they produced two tracks in as many days. The first track became ‘Go To The Mo’ released last autumn on Claude VonStroke’s label Dirtybird to critical acclaim. Now the second track of the release ‘I Like It’ sees a release on Food Music. German producer B-Ju is on hand to rework the track into a thumping new piece of dancefloor weaponry.
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Nico, tell us a bit about what brought you to this point and how the journey came about ... Well my dad founded Sesitech in the breath on I was part of wakeboarding in some way. He was running a cable park near to the place where I was born in Southern Germany so as a child I was there pretty much every day riding on someone else’s shoulders before I could think. From age six I was put on a wakeboard and since then I never stopped. Obviously with my dad...
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...and his company in the background it helped me a lot - on the one hand I grew up at the park and then when I got kinda better I got a lot of opportunities and was going with him to places where he put up cable parks especially when System 2 came out. I was able to go to some events that were there because of System 2 so I could ride and get my name out there so that was awesome.
“In the beginning it was just about four cables and tough years for sure”
When Sesitech started up what was your dad aiming to do then - was his goal always to use cables and System 2 - was that always in your mind? My dad was working for Rixen Cableways when he was younger- I don’t know for how long and at some point he wanted to form his own company because he saw the potential and that is what he had been doing his whole life. In the beginning it was just about four cables and tough years parks were something that pretty much no one knew of. In the 2000s parks like CWC in the Phillipines and a lot of other great parks all over the world more and more. Then with System 2 that was an idea he came up with again
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in 2008 I think he built a two tower No one knew the potential of this back then, when there were maybe two rails in a cable park and that was the only one in the country maybe. Making The Debut with Andy at the moment, how do you think that will impact where you are going and the rest of the community? The Debut plays a very big role for my wakeboarding right now because
Tell us a little bit about the project from your point of view, how you got involved and how the project has developed... I was doing Notes from Thailand with Andy- that online clip that was kinda the beginning of online clips. I think I can say it was a pretty good one - how he edited and how he put the focus on a perfect landing of the trick. Andy is a perfectionist you know that’s for sure! He wants to be a director sometime, but has always had the dream to make a grew up with. the work for one good video park. It is something I was looking for for a long time - that is why I did many cuts for the internet to work on the more freestyle video side of wakeboarding and where you can really focus on making the most legit riding and get your hardest tricks on video instead of just grabbing from contest to contest.
Obviously he wanted to be the best one that he could think of because he is coming at it from the perspective not only from wakeboarding, but from he told me about it I was like - “yes we got together. He showed me a concept he had already. He had plenty of ideas in his mind - what riders he
With The Debut, Andy gave me the me be part of one of the best videos that is probably going to be made.
to look like etc. I tried to help him like getting more concrete - thinking about budgets, locations, about sponsors we
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could contact and it took a pretty long time to .. We were not sure it could be made ‘cos all the camera equipment for example was super expensive because he obviously wanted to use the best one on the market. It was not made a video yet on the one hand and wakeboarding is still not like snowboarding and none of the riders’ name is Travis Rice. It took a pretty long time and then Unit Parktek decided to produce the Wasserski Langenfeld we could get the How long ago did you start the project? I think when he got to me it was the end of 2011 and then I was on a Thailand trip so I think it was February/March 2012 when we spent hours in front of the computer on Exor trying to put up how much money I would need and what equipment he would have to buy and taking insurances whatever so that’s when it
year. in Jakarta in December and then for another week in North Carolina in a System park and there I was with Felix Gerogii and Kevin Henshaw. In Jakarta it was just him and me trying to get as
Going to the one spot with the rider and really focussing on that rider to get 100% out of them. Who else was involved with it behind the scenes or was it just Andy? I am not really involved with it anymore - I was helping him in the beginning and then as soon as the much Andy doing everything; camera man, camera assistant, director and he designed the website. He made pretty much everything and he obviously gets sponsor contracts and whatever. Tell us a little bit more about Sesitec and about the work you’ve done surrounding them and the company as a whole. I think Sesitec was founded in 2008 and I don’t know when we started work together but at some point we had more and more parks coming up System 2.0 so we were really busy and we were making obstacles before as well so it was almost too much to handle everything so we were partnering up with Unit selling their obstacles and
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that I would love him to present it to my dad. My dad really liked the idea and now Sesitech is sending out that another level. What will be the feel that you would like to get from your section of the The Debut? My section, obviously, will be a good one that is why I try my best to make it that way - focussing on really good rail riding, on interesting setups that we came up with and perfection and
working with them to build more cables. Unit then got me personally as a team rider as well which was really awesome so I could design a rail with them. It’s a great company which comes up with things like Wake for Life or Red Bull Rising High which will be another cool event. It is pretty cool what they did for the sport as well. Monster is the title sponsor at the moment - has there been any involvment with them or only support where you have needed it? When Andy and I were speaking about what friends to ask for support for
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that it worked out because they are has been a lot of work in it so far, so I happening. people will remember. We saw the trailer or teaser - at Wake for Life so how far along is production? so, obviously, we are not done with
because we started in December and we will probably have to the end of this year and then post production starts all the editing.
Andy, after getting some of the title sponsors on board, what was your next step in planning the movie? Well, even before we got the sponsors I already had an idea of where I wanted to go, with who and when. That was pretty much set so as soon as we got the sponsors and in that case, the money, we started to order all the equipment. It was a big deal ‘cos we’ve got a lot
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Jakarta and then we started...and since and it didn’t stop since! So is this only the beginning of the shooting? No, I would say it’s probably half-time. We could pretty much make a movie now, but I want to make it even better
Tell us a little bit about your ethos behind the movie and what you are trying to create. What I am trying to do is, not only have tricks, obviously, but cover riders’ stories and just the places they go to and the lives they live. I think you can see from the trailer that we have some beautiful shots - travel shots you could say the places we have been to and the things we have seen. I am trying, in terms of tricks, to capture each trick how it should be captured. Since I have been into wakeboarding and wakeskating for twelve years, I know all the tricks and how they look best and all out of every trick I can, you could say. Is there any part of it which hasn’t worked out and you have had to shoot Obviously I am learning every day and I am still making mistakes every another day ‘cos it turned out in the evening when we were looking at the shots and it turned out it sucked and so we had to re-shoot it another day or another month even. Then, obviously, you re-shoot every failed trick or every slam and Nico is a specialist in having a lot of attempts for tricks so in Jakarta we went home with hundreds of clips every day ‘cos we were primarily hitting rails and it was all round pipes so it was really hard to get the full pull. two times before he got the full pull on that pipe. I am not even sure that that shot is even going to make it into the movie ‘cos I don’t really like the shot anymore - but he doesn’t know that hahaha!
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It is always fun with him ‘cos sometimes he slams really hard three times and the fourth time he sticks it perfect sixty tries. The good thing is that he still keeps going even if he is tired or whatever. Since I know him that well I can always We know that Nico is not any fool on the board - it is just because of the crazy setups that you’re using? Yeah, the setups are challenging and with Nico and myself, I want to get the perfect shot - obviously - and Nico
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wants to get the perfect trick ‘cos it is going to be in one of the biggest scale wakeboard movies, so we would rather always do it again if it is a little sketchy rather than using the sketchy trick in the movie. What has been the biggest challenge since starting to shoot the movie? Weather is, I guess, a big challenge always ‘cos we weren’t lucky in the U.S. ‘cos they had a really bad spring, and in Asia it wasn’t really perfect either so weather is always a big challenge. I I don’t really mind the look of the shot when it is cloudy, but sometimes it is
and we did not know that before getting there. It is just everything - I could name so many things that went wrong so yeah.. it is really hard, but in the end I think it is worth it. I am sure your labour of love will bear fruit! What excites you most about this project at this stage and, other ing ahead what is the most exciting part of it at the moment? Other than having the movie, which is going to be a really great thing I hope, I guess. It’s just - I wouldn’t call it adrenalin - it is just that feel when you get that shot - when the rider, when we have been working for a trick for it and he is super excited and I get the shot - I am super excited and just super happy. That feeling is really good. And also getting the chance to spend a lot of time with these guys - they are all my friends pretty much and travelling the world with them is a great experience.
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Quality Control Episode 2. Impact Vest Test
The next stage of the Hybrid Quality Control series was taking on impact jackets. With so many jackets on the market and so many different styles available it can be hard to know which one to go for. Some are Coast Guard approved, some are zip ups, some are over the tops, some are nylon, some are neoprene, the list goes on. For our money, the best jackets for riding tend to be the ones that are comfortable, fit well and of course, stop you from being winded every time you catch a front edge‌maybe not every time. We chose to take on the over the head fit jackets for a fair and truly Hybrid style series of tests. Straight impact, unexpected impacts, jacket integrity (does it stay on in a big stack), pin point impacts from edges of rails‌or paintballs and finally stretch. With a day at Club Wake Park and a bunch of willing testers, we set about testing these jackets to destruction. hybridwakemag.com 51
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Belly shot Swinging an oversize football into the stomachs of our testers, this test was set to find out what direct impact on the belly would feel like. Something like when you fall and manage to catch the full brunt of the fall in your gut. Whether the impact is intended or not, these things happen - and sometimes you might catch a low flying ball in the belly or chest..who knows!? Anyway, our helper Toby Oliver was more than happy to hurl the test ball at full force into the bellies of our volunteers. Overall performance on this type of impact should be very good as it is what the jackets are designed to do. Winner: O’Neill/Mystic
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Spit roast
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Sometimes a life jacket or impact vest can look great, perform well, fit well and everything else‌then two months later, it falls apart.. not great. So this is where the spit roast came in. Lifting up a human with the help of a scaffold bar and two helpers we were able to see, and hear the quality of the vests. While we expected some more tears and tears they all held up pretty well with less initial damages than expected. One or two did make some funny noises as we loaded them up but all took a good minute of hang time. Winner: Ion
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Duck hunt Of course, you might not ever get into a gun fight while wearing your impact vest, or a paintball gun fight…but you never know. The purpose of this test was to shoot mercilessly at the testers until we could identify which vests were able to take an impact and which ones weren’t. Of course, the integrity of the shooter and the hardiness of the testers were on the line too..but we were willing to take those risks and shoot them anyway. After a few courtesy shots, all hell broke loose and balls were flying in all directions. With the testers ejecting themselves into the water as soon as they had had enough, it would be a fight to the death…or just the last man standing. Winner: O’Neill 56 hybridwakemag.com
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Banana ride Sometimes banana riders will collide with each other, other people’s heads, legs and flailing arms.. where better to test an unexpected impact than a banana boat? Taking the testers to the new improved high speed impact testing zone of Ride Leisure’s new Super Air 210 was a sure fire hit. Lining them up and flipping them off on the yellow inflatable menace was not only entertaining but we got to see the jackets in their natural environment, getting smashed about and landed on from all directions. winner: Mystic
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Dock launch Loading up the cable or system 2 before launching off the dock into a glide, or drift can be fun, but we thought there is more to it than that for us. It is the perfect human canon ball launcher. Load up the cable, then release for maximum height and flight before stacking it into the water to see how much the jackets stay on after a high flying crash. Some of the testers were smaller than others, which meant we saw different flight paths but with equal results, the high fliers took more of a crash but the big units crashed heavier for sure. Winner: Jobe
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Diagnosis
With the scientific tests over and done with, the time for results comes around fast. With the jackets all being of a similar design it becomes clear which ones are stronger in each area pretty fast. With the Ion performing well throughout and not a single stitch out of place from the spit roast it was a strong contender for the construction medal. The Mystic saw strength in the bomb test with the jacket staying put throughout and doing equally as well as the ball smashing test too. The Jobe performed constantly throughout the test but was found to be a little on the thin side during a gun fight - always worth bearing in mind, but good if you like a thin vest. The Prolimit did ride up during the banana boat crashes. Whilst the O’Neill didn’t like the inflatable it performed well in the spit roast and the impact from the paint ball assault with a clear victory in the attack. Moral of the story..don’t get shot with paintball guns while you are riding.
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2600 Miles Netherlands through checkpoint Charlie and back to the motherland. Following the
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Netherlands: April 18th “If wind and water went hand in hand in the wakeboarding world, we could have been onto a winner here. Although in reality they don’t.”
We went through the ins and outs and there were only 2 rules. Rule
the wakeboarding world, we could have been onto a winner here.
up. Netherlands: April 19th had come to the conclusion; that night would be the only night spent
windy but this time with horrible showers. With this aside it was polite to check out her nightly haunts. as they were given. Who can blame them, what do Wakeboarders
was the depressing receipts along with pointless Euros.
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“After a brisk nights sleep we pack up overlooking the lake tainted with a reminder that summer was far from near.� Germany April 20th
electric heaters. Germany April 21st
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everyone was happy to ride for hours..�
industrial estate turned into a museum. We settled in to our hostel Germany April 22nd
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“everyone was stoked to spend as much time as bars all day, from arrival to dusk.�
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so good, everyone was stoked to spend as much time as possible on
with a chalet on the grounds. Everyone had decided to go hit up the early night. At 4am, they come bursting through the doors with all kinds hilarious stories. France 24th/25th
holiday cabin. France 26th end. With the dull, cold grey cloud settling in overhead, the attitude
France 27th
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“I could read what I was eating, read where I was going.. Everything made sense, it was great. �
the night went on and everyone getting looser and looser to a point the only logical answer. Belgium 28th
journey until we are back in the motherland. England 29th
England 30th
and over the trip but with the sun out and our last day together
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Jambo Unchained crossing borders to a cross over festival of adrenalin and italian sun. coupled with a flatulant team and a handful of random phrases, adventure was always on the cards
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This year Bologna, Italy gave aquatic and ramp-tastic birth, to a brand new extreme sports and music mashup dubbed The Jambo Urban Summer Festival. The world’s best wakeboarders, surfers, FMX riders, skateboarders, parkour, paint-ball, street dance and left handed only tiddley-wink champions all got allocated a socking great slice of lava hot tarmac to build whatever there hearts desired, to best showcase their sport. The event was over three stunning blue bird days and all of which was super close to the quaint city of Bologna itself (think Spag-Bol birth place). The witching hours were then left to the likes of Chase & Status, 2manyDJ’s, James Zabiela and Dizzee Rascal to name but a few, where many a cheeky carbonated beverage was split rocking out to some rather pop-tastic tunage.
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Hoppe on and enjoy the backdside nose
“We all worried about how he would cope with the WelshItalian language barrier”
The wakeboarding side of Jambo was organised by one of Italy’s finest water-boarders, Walter Gianini with Wake-Line.com together with that Pool gap organising virgin cowboy Tim Woodhead of Industry Wakeparks. The Industry Wake Team (Tim, Weeman, Damo, Marty, Jonty and Adz) together with Walter and Wake-Line flew out four days early to set about the task of assembling the giant Meccano pool gap. Grafting like proper butch Yorkshire lads they are, [with the occasional mutual lubing up of factor 50 sun cream on each others white bits], we smashed out the pool gap build in record time, including the annoying time lapse filming job I was allocated, changing the GoPro battery on the hour, every hour, for four days and taking quite a bit of soft city hands grafting flack in the process. The time lapse revealed a lot about who was grafting and who wasn’t and without mentioning any names Walter Gianini was slacking…however, he did lend me his car to go to the hotel three times and on all three attempts I got lost as the sat nav was in Italian. One little adventure saw me stuck on the wrong side of a motorway and I had to drag Walter to go and get it, before it all went really wonky. The 40 tonne wagon pulled up with a huge air-gush stop, which for a second we all thought was Damo again blowing off, and we began unpacking Santa’s pool gap from the giant canvas sided sleigh. We quickly discovered that a few elements of the valleys had also accidently decided to join us on this
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trip, including the aptly named “Dead Mau 5”, the little Welsh fieldmouse who ran straight out of the folded pool gap protective carpet and screaming “Hell yeah, I’m off to bag some local tail”, scurried off into a nearby hanger, to fraternize with the local Italian field mouse population. We all worried about how he would cope with the Welsh-Italian language barrier for the next few days and if he had enough grain in his cheeks to pay for drinks, but we forgot all about this little cheeky chappy and boshed out the rest of the pool gap build. (We pick this ramble up again later folks, I bet you cannot wait). Once the pool gap was all set up, first to arrive on scene was the only man with teeth whiter than the rails, Mr Nick “lands like a cat” Davies, who witnessed some rather sweet pre-event rail test “shreadage” from the likes of Weeman, Damo and Timmyboy, who were all killing it. Couldn’t help thinking, Nicky D was a bit of a keeno turning up so early, but the poor lad then explained why he was so early, as he only had one flight to choose from which left at 5am and had just got back from China before that, so I think he said he was feeling “fresh”, (kids these days, its a whole new language). Friday, Saturday and Sunday were competition days - all judged in a Jam style “cash for tricks” format, by Mr Keith Lidberg for a cash pot of 11,000 Euro’s and saw some pretty dogs-danglies rail “tink-age” and “smack-age”(tm). All the UK boys were representing hard. Nicky D was up to usual tricks, sleighing those super bright dental rails, with some super-steezed out presses and combo’s, then casually mobe-ing the bottom pool and wetting as many expensive cameras as he could (standard). Dan Nott pulled out his usual flawless consistency and had some super tech hits, pressing rails with all the style and poise of a courtship dance performed by a pair of mating diving ducks from Lapland - nice work Danny boy!. Jonty Green had some sweet rail hits, then got up to his usual tricks attempting things no other human would even consider and then dam near pulling them off, including rail to rail transfers and some nose flex front flips off the step up rail. Always exciting to watch and with a cut hand from the night before due to an over zealous ambition to find a swimming pool, he trooped on. Manu Rupp, Stephan Vollert, Piffa, Sawe and the Hoppe Brothers (Benjamin, Jeramia and Mattias) all systematically took the rails apart, especially the metal hand rail, which got backlip nose pressed to pieces and I nearly got my head removed several times taking some close quarter shots. Manu Rupp Took the win, with the most amount of chips from the most amount/variety of hits and the 3000Euro prize money, then Steffen Vollert (2500Euro) in second position and Mattias Hoppe (2000Euro), third. The evenings saw plenty of fun and games, with one of our lot deciding that blow up dinghy crowd surfing is the future / trend setting edge of mosh pit tomfoolery, swiftly resulting in being tossed over the front railings and was then definitely up shit creek without a mosh pit paddle.
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Steffan Volert charging at the Italian festival of fun
“...attempting things no other human would even consider and then damn near pulling them off...”
A few nights out with the Nitro Circus Redbull and Rockstar FMX crew including Josh Sheenan and Clinton Moore during various DJ sets also added to the mix and to see those guys pull every variation of backflip including Josh’s double over a 60 foot gap the next day, was nothing short of insane. The Jambo festival really did put the best athletes from each sport right in the face of the spectators and provided a sea of media coverage, which really did make for a spectacle. I think we all felt pretty lucky to have seen the best there is ride in the FMX arena. Keith Lidberg was not riding the Jambo event, but was judging the Pool Gap. However, after the event he destroyed each rail for fun and then decided to spice things up a bit, by free standing a four foot tall crowd control barrier on the down ramp of the roof top rail and session-ing it, until he got the nose press he wanted. Each time the board touched it, the barrier rocked off and slammed off the roof top rail. All in all a very ballzey thing to do with some good hits and shots to-boot. After the event was over, it was time for operation “mop up” and that nothing to do with my head moshing on the last night. The Industry crew, together with Walter, started the two days “ hanging out your rear” sweat-athon / vivisection of the setup in the searing heat. We worked like a well oiled fighting machine until the last pool gap cross brace / scaffolding pole, was filed in its respective wooden coffin and waited for the 40 tonne wagon to arrive, after all it would be here at 6pm!!!
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Manu Rupp tail pressing his way to victory in front of a packed crowd
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After hours of waiting, it still hadn’t arrived, during this time a few of us had a “sweaty back on smooth tarmac fake trumping “ competition, where the aim is to make rude sounds with the air trapped at the base of your back against the tarmac. This was a close heat, but Marty took the win with more style and less pre-spin.
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Then Dead Mau 5 (our little Welsh field mouse friend) was miraculously found and tried to re-united himself with the lorry bound for Wales once again, after his naughty little Italian affair. On this last night, Walter had kindly hooked all the crew up with a little treat, including a System 2 session at a park which he was part of / co-ran and which we were set to ride all night under flood lights. The lorry to collect the pool gap was delayed and we finally loaded it up arriving at this sweet System 2 spot at 11pm. The park was part of a night club complex and we all smacked rails till the early hours, finishing off with a few cheeky sherbets and some lovely “dancing” from Weeman...hahahah!! The people and the event was superb. The food is off the map - every single thing we had was healthy and amazing. The weather was stonking hot and they really did pull in the biggest names in each sport to make a great show for the public. There are rumours of a bigger pool gap set up for next year, where the event should really explode after a successful first launch year in 2013. There is was plenty of media coverage to go at if you want to check it out, so get your self there in June 2014....... It will be a monster festival for sure. In the mean time, here are a few things to learn for next year...…. Words to know if going: En grosso cassino! = You fat mass Salve! = Hello Arrivederci! = Goodbye Vuole venire tramite bonifico bancario? = Would you like to go for a bank transfer? Avete qualcosa per I dolori mestruali? = Do you have something for period pains?
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“...re-united himself with the lorry bound for Wales once again, after his naughty little Italian affair.”
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Jordan Darwin Jordan’s English but you won’t have seen him compete much here. but, in Spain he’s on a mission. He tells us how all that came about.
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Jordan, you’re English but you haven’t spent much time on the UK circuit but you’re competing in Spain, tell us how all that came about? Riding in Spain, well we’d come here on holiday 4 or 5 times a year, every holiday we got from school, and loved it, moved out here, 7 years ago this July.. It was on my 10th birthday (you have to be over 10 to ride the cable over here) I didn’t know what to do on my birthday. So my mum asked a friend and she said there is a cable ski down San Pedro. The idea was cool and sounded like a laugh. I tried kneeboarding and shit, this was like mid summer. Then we got into skiing, disk boarding and decided to try wakeboarding about a week before actually 10 days before - we left to head home I loved it. I couldn’t get around the cable but it was so much fun it took me 10 days to do my first lap on the cable. Got my first lap on the cable and then we had to leave. So then I had to wait until the next summer, that was a bummer. Just raring to go back the next year.
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What made your family move out to Spain? I think it was wakeboarding, I got pretty good before we moved so my parents thought it was quite promising that I’d make something from that so it was half for the wakeboarding and half for the weather. But also just because my parents wanted to be here. They’ve always been here and they love it. Then you started making appearances at Xtreme Gene? Jamie was working at the cable, jumping between cable and Xtreme Gene he was kinda coaching me on the cable teaching me little bits. He was like “you should come up to Xtreme Gene and try the boat”. I was like “Well what you do with the boat” – “You ride the boat jump the wake and stuff – “Ah yeah sounds pretty cool”. So I went up to do it and had Jamie driving me in the boat all week. Actually I went there for my birthday with a couple of friends.
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You progressed from there, from learning on the boat? It went from Jamie teaching me little bits to riding with Jamie, DC and Andres because it gets to the point where you need a bigger wake to do bigger tricks. You land 180 and 360s and all that stuff and then you want to move onto other stuff you need a bigger wake, so when I started riding with them it was about learning tricks instead of doing it to mess about on holiday kinda thing. I was riding with Jamie and just seeing those guys ride all day.. So I was like f**k yeah I wanna do that. Just getting on it. I loved watching Jamie ride, he used to kill it up there. When did it move from there to your first competition? My first comp was in Madrid when the Spanish cable opened in Madrid. The cable Marbella said they were going to sponsor a team to go up there. They bought us loads of crappy yellow t-shirts with the cable name on. They paid for me, Ollie Ross, Marcus Jackson, Daniel. We all went out and took all podiums in all different categories. Ollie took open.. I took boys, Marcus took wakekskate. Came home with first place. It was good and then it changes from a hobby to I want to win as many comps as I can and get as many sponsors and set your mind on it, it’s not the same after that really. Still good fun though. Changes the game a bit! Yeah it does..
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Who was your first sponsor? Slingshot. Yeah it was sick.. I loved the boards, I find I’m more into the smaller brands.. I don’t like the whole Liquidforce thing it kinda throws me off a little, having massive riders in a team. The Slingshot team and the videos they make is like how I see wakeboarding, its sick. They went from a kinda geeky brand to the raddest brand. I think. CTRL has kinda done the same thing, they went from small had a nice team going and I also dig their boards as well. I tried out Supreme last year at the 2.0 in Saville, I decided to switch to Slingshot because I knew I wanted to move from a local sponsor because Slingshot was just a distributor in Marbella for the boards and kiteboard. He said he wanted to sponsor me for a local advertisement but I knew I wanted to move onto a European sponsor or even a National sponsor. I knew CTRL are moving towards that which is cool. It’s something Slingshot couldn’t do because he didn’t have the contact for international Slingshot. I would have loved to have stayed on but it just wasn’t going to happen. Fair play, how much time do you spend wakeboarding and how much time do you spend indulging in Marbella life? I found as I get to winter time I spend most time going out in Marbella because in summer I’m at Xtreme every weekend and I don’t really go out during the week so that’s cool, all my friends go mad as soon as the summer comes and I’m off to Xtreme they’re all like “Jordan where are you” so I disappear for a couple of months and come back at the end of summer, they’re always like you missed it! Where would you like to see yourself in 5 years? Travelling around going to as many competitions as I can setting up cables, doing comps, doing a lot more with Monster.. Try and up my position in monster and start getting a wage.. Being a bit supported so I can carry on doing it and try and kick out the whole hobby. Get on it properly doing a lot more competitions and doing something different every time. Looks like a good life to me.
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What about Bedford being plan b, degree in what? To become a PE teacher Right on, what’s your thoughts with that? That’s something I that would do if I needed to, its probably something I’d enjoy out of most the things I could do out there. A plan B more than anything. Nice, what’s your biggest motivation at the moment? What motivates me to get out in the water, to go ride? Just having fun man, its always about having fun. If you let that go, it’ll die for you. I’ve let that happen before but you just manage to save it. It’s always about having fun, just go out with the mentality. Of course you need to go out there with mentality of wanting to learn tricks of doing your comp pass. You got to practice your run and stuff. But most of the time when I go practice I just mess about. Yeah, much better way of doing it. Yeah, I like to improve riding a lot more. My rail riding isn’t that great, I’ve not really had good rails to hit. That’s one of the things to do actually, when I travel around I need to go to
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some good cables and stay there for a while and work on my rails. Because I got some decent tricks off the kicker and boat but my rails suck in comparison. I can hit them and do well but they’re not stylish at all. Time spent isn’t it, I hear you. Is America a place on the cards for you? Erm, I’ve never planned to really.. maybe OWC to ride but I’m not that fussed about it, I’m more of CWC, the Philippines and Thailand appeal more to me then America. Just being out in the middle of nowhere that’s a nice place, cheap and you can stay there. Is there a riding crew there or do you draw people from outside your area now? On boat I’m still riding with the same as last year but with Dillon more on boat its more about the people who go to Xtreme, DC, Andres, Caro, Jack Hammersley, Dillon, Ed McDonald he’s there at the moment he’s a cool rider enjoy riding with him. On cable it’s just riding with the locals in Marbella. So it’s all working out nicely? Yeah stoked.
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Simon Powell long term wincher, committed wakeskater and advisor to toyota on their production techniques
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Riding the pop out with this backside big spin
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Backside shuv at the first spot of the trip
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Switch bigsolid at the secluded spot..which hasspot car unconquered parking..tidy A few attempts later, we left this hybridwakemag.com 105
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Checking out our final stop in Leeds, another unbeaten gap due to speed
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Road to... ...Red Bull Harbour Reach. We joined a crew of riders on their journey from the qualifiers a week earlier, to the main event in Liverpool Albert Docks
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Scotty Broome warming up at Stop 1 - Just Wake
“first ever qualifier to the event being held at Just Wake in Tattershall�
This year saw a development in the Harbour Reach event, for the past two years the event has been held at the well known Lyme Regis harbour with the riders gapping over the cob into the unknown seas beyond. This year, the venue was the Albert Docks in Liverpool, stacked with history and a bolt hole of activity of times past in the northern city. The docks provided a perfect natural amphitheatre to the event with 360 degree viewing platforms of the most unique course in the UK. With the Brocklebank, a local tub boat being set in as the main feature for riders to boost over with the help of the Industry Wake Parks booter in place to fire the riders over the vessel. Combined with an A-frame, gap transfer box, quarter pipe, a handful of other kickers including a barrel setup for jibbing on a floating platform - the course was brimming with obstacles. The Albert Docks was the destination but the road was long and started a week before with the first ever qualifier to the event being held at Just Wake in Tattershall, with the quarter pipe from that event and a number of other obstacles similar to those used in the main event it was the perfect start point for the road to Harbour Reach. The qualifiers were held in a knock out format with the top two riders going through to the next round of heats. With the likes of the Peacock brothers, Cain Hamilton, Scotty Rosewell, Harry Eames, Louis Floyd, Freddie Carter and more attending the event it was going to be a place well earned in the main event.
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Freddie and Louis grinning all the way to the main event
Taking no prisoners was the aim of the game in the qualifiers, with Harry Eames dropping solid heel 9s off the kicker, both Peacock brothers doing the darndest to land a double flip in the semis, Cain showing how things are done on the transfer box and on the pipe rail - there was going to be some hot competition for the top two spots. It was however, Louis Floyd in second place with a solid run of rail hits polished off with a chunky roll to revert off the kicker before sealing the deal on the quarter pipe to get his invite to the main event. With Freddie Carter taking top spot with a huge melon glide in the finals along with some of the smoothest hits on the rail including a sweet back lip nose on the transfer box, leading him to his victory and a week on the road with the pros ahead of the Saturday main event. With the qualifiers done, it was time for some of the invited riders to have a shred and enjoy the fruits of the Tattershall park. Scotty Broome, Marc Rossiter and LDB were all on hand to enjoy an evening ride at Just Wake before heading into the moonlight on the golf course where a few balls were smacked about for the enjoyment of the riders and judges including CK Koester who had been judging the qualifiers and was on hand as always to take part in some of the fun that the park had to offer. The next stop on the agenda was Festival Wake Park in Basildon for the first stop on the tour and the road to Harbour Reach.
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Marc Rossiter finds method in the madness
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BP bringing some international flavour to the trip
“the young, freshly turned 21 year old was snoozing happily on the bar floor ”
Joining the crew from a late night arrival was Dom Hernler and Brenton Priestley, fresh from the waters of Germany and Langenfeld where they had been filming for The Debut after Wake the Line. Both riders, explosive and super stylish on the water added to the ever growing tribe of riders on the road with the Watersports World crew and the convoy that was. Festival was blessed with the weather that day and after a slow start from some of the riders and a few aches and pains being cited as the reasons after an intense few days for some of the boys it was perpetual motion. As soon as you see one or two of the riders hit the water, very soon the others followed suit and there was at times most carriers occupied by a who’s who of international wakeboarding. With a hard days riding under their belts and full cameras it was time to retire to the hotel bar for some much needed R&R with the crew, especially as it was a certain photographer’s birthday who happens to be a part of the Hybrid family… with some expected messiness ensuing and the young, freshly turned 21 year old was snoozing happily on the bar floor after being towed around by his foot, mumbling and grinning occasionally - he had had a good time. On to bed and ready for the next stage of the journey - Salford.
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The new park in Manchester is still in its early days and yet has a couple of obstacles for the boys to enjoy and give a show to the locals whilst taking in some of the northern sun. An unorthodox travel plan due to some of the parks being closed on certain days had meant that the road may not have been as direct as some may have desired but I guess that the journey is the most important thing in any trip so the miles that were still to come had to be taken in good stead - especially as the next stop would take the team back down to Club Wake Park in Grendon.. With the team ever expanding by now as more and more heads arrived for the weekend’s event Daniel Grant and James Windsor joined us at CWP with explosive results. Windsor was first out on the water, keen to get wet and try out the hidden gem of the Northampton area, destroying the park in true style - boosting higher out of the newly constructed quarter pipe than anyone had seen yet‌until Dan
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Grant stepped in that is..the little shredder takes the same obstacles that we all hit on a daily basis and does things that you simply don’t expect. Not always the hardest things, just innovative and fun and fun to watch. After the show from the younger lads, Dom and Rossi decided it was time to take on the long flat bar and sessioned hard into the evening as the Hybrid snappers were watching them annihilate the long and skinny rail. With another summer BBQ courtesy of the Ride crew at Grendon we had one more journey to make .
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Leading into the event after a days riding on the course, all the riders had got a feel of the course and it’s intensity, it was chocker block full of hits, left right and centre, no escape. With 16 riders at the main event we saw a full international line up as well as some of the hottest talent the UK has to offer go head to head on the most intense setup you will see - the course had been designed to push every one of the riders and at the same time give them the chance to shine on. Early rounds were intense with some of the riders taking some big stacks over the Brocklebank - a sizeable gap at the best of times, let alone when you are in the middle of a comp run, desperately charging to make the next hit count. Yet it was still delivering some incredible hits, with the likes of Brenton Priestley, CK and Matt Crowhurst busting heel 5’s over the tug, Jonty with a heel 7, James Windsor with a nuclear crow, Johnny Carne with a huge melon 180 and many more. Perhaps the most explosive hit from the early rounds was last month’s cover man Jonty Green doing a tail bonk to front flip on the barrel setup - a true crowd pleaser, sadly as the judges didn’t have a complete run after his crazy hit, missing another obstacle left the man from Banbury watching from the side lines for the next rounds.
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Other notable hits came from the likes of Priestley and Grant, with supreme rail hits and some clinical style it was going to be a tough final.
“the best weather you could ever ask for at an event in the UK and crowds lining the docks throughout the event ”
Dan Grant looked like a solid contender moving into the finals against other front runners such as Windsor and Hernler, who was throwing massive melon roll to reverts over the Liverpudlian tug, grabbed more solidly than a Tony Hawks computer game. The three internationals looked set to light the stage on fire, with each one improving on the last’s run. Less room for error, more room for upping the level. Windsor’s last run was all to play for after a near fall in the previous round almost costing him a spot in the final. The young Aussie was charging, backside 270 onto the first a frame, followed by a nuclear crow mobe over the Brocklebank, a nose grab tail bonk on the barrels and last but not least a huge heel 9 off the final kicker in the run to take victory from Dan Grant and Dom Hernler in second and third respectively. With some of the best weather you could ever ask for at an event in the UK and crowds lining the docks throughout the event, it was a true spectacle for all to watch and be involved in, there are few better showcases for wakeboarding - Industry Wake Parks and Red Bull have set a precedence.
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This is how wakeboarding should be shown to the public and to the wider world, a fun, interesting, fast paced event with unique and interesting obstacles bringing riders and crowds together to enjoy an amazing display of our sport to the world. Wakebaording needs more of these events, and with the support of the community and those within the industry we will surely see more progressive events such as this develop as the sport grows. See you at Harbour Reach 2014, don’t miss it.
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A New Era these times are a changing. with more riders, a bigger wake and the best weather you could ask for, the uk nationals are back on the map
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this country, well you better start thinking again‌ the 2013 Boat Nationals took place at Quayside Wake & Skl on 6-7th July and with over 60 riders entered in 12 divisions it turned out to be one of the biggest in recent years proving that the UK boat scene is very much alive and kicking. Having seen a resurgence from the organisers in pushing the event to become something a little more than a gathering of riders. Consolidating the Junior Nationals with the main event has meant that the overall numbers and feel of the event has changed. Bringing all the riders together has created a more united front in many ways, atmosphere,
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More riders, the best weather and a fat wake - this is Christmas for wakeboard comps
“Competition was some of the best in recent memory�
spectators, sponsors and more. This is the beginning and there is plenty more scope for this event in terms of moving forwards and creating a better platform for riders in this country. Blessed with great weather throughout the weekend, and with some close heats leading to to the Masters, leaving those congregated at the lake drawn in by the amplitude and execution of riding. The 2013 Wakeboard Boat Nationals produced a world-class display of riding that we in the UK can be truly proud of. Competition was some of the best in recent memory. In the top divisions Sam Carne triumphed in Open Men just ahead of Jorge an Barker just pipped Charlotte
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Louis Floyd makes a return to the skate, backside shuv
Bryant to win Open Women and consolidated her ongoing success, there is plenty more to come from the young northern ripper. This year’s Nationals was supported by Red Bull and Nautique who really helped to add value to the event both an event in the UK making the early evening Double Up event bigger than ever. With riders like Sam Carne and things were on the cards. With some big tricks going down, it came to the double up master Dan Nott to lay down the law with a massive swith toe 9 to land him on the top spot of the night. The organisers would like to thank all 62 riders who entered the competition along with all those that attended, without them this immaculate summer event would not be a success and they have helped ensure that the UK wakeboard scene continues to grow in strength.
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“It was also the first time a G23 had been used to tow an event in the UK�
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Ben ‘N’ Terry’s better than an overpriced frozen dessert. the first permanent pool gap is here, the future is bright for uk skating
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“This is how sports progress and develop...”
For every new addition to the parks and lakes around the country, the potential for learning and improving your own personal level of riding increases. The more people that are being chalsports progress and develop, by hitting new and as possible. This is why having a permanent pool gap in the UK which is open to the public means something special. It means that there is more chance for growth and progression in the sport. How are you ever going to land a down gap if you’ve never tried one, or had a place to try one? After all, we are not all blessed with the money or inclination to buy a winch and go out to foreign waters endlessly looking for something to doesn’t work for some reason or another. So for the less intrepid skaters who would still like to get this type of skill under their belt but can’t, for whatever reason, now there is no excuse. The boys at The Hub have been running comps on this setup already and there is series for both boarders and skaters alike, it’s a great opportunity to get to grips with another aspect of our sports without the hassle and without a trip to Florida or The Philippines. Get a crew together, get down there for a shred and try something new today, you never know, it may be the start of something. It is a lot of fun and something else unique to the Cambridgeshire spot.
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Wake Open one of the most elite competitions in the world sets more standards for the community. the three discipline event searches for the most diverse rider in the world
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Shawn Watson, indy tantrum to blind
For years Tampa, Florida has seen many wake events and some of the best wakeboarders in the world. The Wake Open is the product of years of progress in the sport and the way in which contests are pulled and created. With a three round, multi-discipline event taking in all aspects of the sport, the event aspires to find the best all round rider in the world. It has now become what many describe as the biggest event in wakeboarding. With the event being broadcast live on national television for millions of people to see, it’s certainly the event riders are gunning to do well in. The event has all three disciplines: boat, park and big air. This year with the big air being held on the new Red Bull Unit XXL kicker and landing ramp allowing riders to go bigger and land smoother than ever before. Titties!
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Tom Fooshee boosting off the XXL kicker in the Big Air
“...dwindling the competitors down from
The first day was boat which was held at a lake around 45mins away from the rest of the contest. It was an early start for the riders and, with breaks due to weather, the contest was eventually held, dwindling the competitors down from 36 to a 6 man final. Again, more bad weather meant a delay and the final was held early the next morning. The format was 2 passes, best run counts. No falls. 6 tricks and one has to be a 360 or less. As it was American Independence Day, the 4th of July, it would have been a sore podium to see with three Canadians in the top spots with Raph Derome, Aaron Rathy and Rusty Malinoski taking first, second and third respectively.
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Cody Johnson flies high with this indy glide
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“Riding at faster speeds and landing in a transition was unchartered territory
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The next day was big air and to many of the competitors it was a completely new deal. With a XXL kicker setup with a landing ramp similar to that seen at Rising High recently, it was sure to set this section of the competition apart. Riding at faster speeds and landing in a transition was unchartered territory for many of the riders. So, with limited practice again due to weather, it was challenging. One of the most unique landings out there, when that thing is experimented with and ridden more things are going to get crazy! hybridwakemag.com 155
Overall victory for Aaron Rathy at the 2013 Wake Open
Raph Derome was a surprise know out and didn’t make it to the finals which was an upset as he won the week before in Germany at the first ever event using one of these ramps. This left the door open for Rathy to get ahead overall and with a 2nd place finish behind Bob Soven who got the win, he did exactly that. Format was run with two hits each: best hit counts and advances to the next round. Now with Rathy ahead with two podiums it was going to be a difficult train to stop from taking the title of the 2013 Wake Open. The final event was the park and they really stepped the course up this year. With Pat Panakos heading the project as usual and with a team of people along with the UNIT Parktech crew, they hands down put together the best setup there’s been at a 2.0 event! As you can see, the rails were big, hammers were thrown and a good show was put on. Raph ended up taking the park win but it wasn’t enough to out-stretch Rathy in the overall points chase. Its back again next year as Red Bull signature series took on a three year deal so look for it to be big end better for the riders and spectators alike! 156 hybridwakemag.com
“ Raph ended up taking the park
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Glastonbury arguably the best festival on the planet unleashes itself on the small somerset town of pilton. this year our reporters set sail on a turbulent voayage of adventure and discovery
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‘Death To Animal Onesies’ by Jamie Burke
To say that we were well stocked was a gross understatement. Staring at our arsenal of life destroyers, it became clear that our goal should be; to avoid any anxiety or paranoia whilst spending the maximum time awake. How else would we survive and get the most out of five days and five nights at the death star of festivals. Welcome to Glastonbury. Against all odds the weather was on our side. The forecast, bright and sunny over the entirety of the festival. It was at this point that those in wellington boots felt almost as stupid as they looked. Having put up our tent and stocked it thoroughly with rum, cider, rolling tobacco and bananas, it was time to find the action. There was still 24 hours to go until the first band of the weekend. Glastonbury is a world beyond just the main stages. Roaming through the vast crowds of animal onesies and overweight sunburnt Brits, we escaped to the older part of the festival. On the south side of the farm it was clear to see how long this gathering has been going on for. Since 1970, the festival has grown considerably in size. We wandered through huge areas dedicated to healing and health food inhabited by hundreds of hippies and free spirits. Next door, a beautiful hill side field called ‘The Park’, which had its own main stage appealing to the more alternative Indy rock crowd. Here also, The famous rabbit hole, a large army tent which housed bands and DJ’s of all genres around the clock for the full five days. Not to mention a whole host of dance, comedy, theatre, circus and cabaret acts. There were less animal onesies up here. Before plunging head first into the festivals grimy underbelly there were a few bands that I had promised myself I would catch. Tame Impala was one of them. Playing on the second largest stage was a big feat for the Melbourne four piece who were nobody’s business two years ago. They launched into a powerful psychedelic set punctuated with some slightly awkward crowd interactions, but none the less they nailed it. Songs like ‘Elephant’ and ‘Feels Like We Only Go Backwards’, had the crowd singing, stomping and fist-pumping, whilst unheard numbers, from a record in the works, had everyones ears pricked. We then moved to the West Holts stage, got stoned, and watched Seasick Steve rock out with John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin. Such a treat for the Zeppelin fan in all of us. They were followed by Chic, the extravagant set of disco hits performed by the world famous producer, writer and performer Nile Rodgers. This was a completely unexpected delight for me. Before the show started I asked someone near me, “who exactly is Nile Rodgers?”. He replied in a thick Glaswegian accent, “Ya noo leek every disco number one hit?” “Yes”, I replied. ‘Well ee wrote em.’
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He wasn’t joking! The band dazzled us with numbers like, ‘Le Freak’, ‘We Are Family’, and ‘I Want Your Love’. Naturally we got our dance on, as did the 50,000 people surrounding us. Saturday nights headliner was perhaps the most anticipated performance in Glastonbury history, The Rolling Stones. Having received some very last minute royal treatment, we were ushered into the Pyramid Stage backstage area. Here we rubbed shoulders with artists such as Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) and Seasick Steve, who in turn rubbed shoulders with Kate Moss and Alexa Chung. We watched in awe as one of the greatest bands in Rock and Roll history took the stage. Having attracted a record breaking 100,000 strong crowd they opened up with ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’. Mick Jagger bounced around the stage like a man possessed, his voice on fire. Keith Richards cruised up to the mic to thank the crowd and gave us wonderful renditions of, ‘ You Got The Silver’ and ‘Happy.’ Finally after watching Mick dance up a storm with talented back up singer Lisa Fischer, The Stones launched into ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ and finished with a bow. They were immediately ushered off the stage right passed us and into a convoy of eight blacked out armored cars, no doubt straight back to the comfort of the London suburbs. We were buzzing by the end of the show and the night was still young. It was time to go to Shangris La and seek out some sordid entertainment. There we found Mandy, Charlie, and some of their close friends, with whom we partied well into the next morning. At around 6am we found ourselves in the Stone Circle. The Stone Circle is the late night hangout for all ye mash ups. A circle of large stones, not dissimilar to Stone Henge, but with hundreds of wasted revelers huffing nitrous oxide in an effort to keep the dream alive and avoid the dreaded comedown. We stayed here for several hours re-united with the various groups of friends we had on site. We ate bananas, bought and sold contraband, and laughed, a lot. By lunchtime the spritely recycling crews outnumbered the battered day walkers and we knew it was time to retreat to the tent. I woke up the next evening in a cold sweat. Where was I? What time was it? Where the fuck was my phone?! The familiar sound of Scousers taunting their confused neighbours reminded me that I was in my own tent. In my own ‘friendly’ campsite. They were a group of light hearted psychopaths that had taken over a large section of the hospitality campsite using beach wind barriers as walls surrounding their castle. It would not have surprised me if they’d dug a moat and filled it with brown ale. Of course by the time we had arrived the only place to camp that wasn’t next to a road or a toilet was next to them. Insults such as ‘inside out head’ , ‘upside down face’ and ‘half a man’ were their weapon of choice. Luckily due to a black market ticket transaction, carried out by us, for them on the second morning, we had made friends and
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“There is nothing that a festival bacon and egg roll cannot cure”
therefore, by association, had joined their amateur troop of bullies, sniggering at others mis-fortune. ‘If you can’t beat em join em’, came to mind. It was late and they assured me that Mumford and Sons’ set had finished so it was therefore safe to re-join the festival. I set off fully re-stocked in search of Dafe. Dafe had been on site for a week already, building, preparing, testing the gear. His caravan was parked in the Strummerville campsite, which became our home from homes. Good tunes and a huge fire pit surrounded with comfy old couches provided the ultimate getaway from animal onesies. On my way there I hit a blockade. Security were not letting any one through to Shangris La (next door to Strummerville). Somewhere on site in a control center alarm bells were ringing as 150,000 festival cattle headed to one end of the farm. Luckily Dafe had showed me a shortcut through a series of fences, over a stream and through someones tent! I found him hidden in the depths of his house on wheels in a cloud of smoke. He, like me, had avoided the evenings commercial extravaganza for a more personal cleansing experience. Once again we found ourselves in the stone circle. “I will head butt a bongo player for 27p”, cried Dafe, as he ran his dirty fingers through his green hair. When no one responded, off he went in search of customers. I suddenly felt wet everywhere. Where was it coming from? Had i pissed myself? I got up and walked bow legged and in slow motion toward the bushes, all the time gargling incoherent responses to perhaps imaginary questions flying at me from all angles. It was definitely time to go back to the tent.
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There is nothing that a festival bacon and egg roll cannot cure. You eat so little while your there that your whole body cries out for joy when a bit of greasy bacon and stale bread, (that you paid eight quid for) hits your stomach. We lived off these and they kept us alive, and sober, when we needed to be. I left the Festival on no sleep, but on a serious natural high. Not only had it been the best event any of us had been to, but we had made new friends, had new experiences, and tried things we should never try again! On top of that, we sourced 280 cans of lager left behind in the campsite by wealthy and extremely hungover hospitality campers, too lazy to carry them, and at that point probably in denial over their genetic alcoholism. When 180,000 people all try leaving a country village at once you can imagine the traffic. After glancing at the gate in our car park where around 1,000 cars were trying to fit through the same door at the same time, we decided to go rogue. Buckle up said my right hand man. He turned the car around and headed back into the festival up the pedestrian path we had exited on. Several security guards tried to stop us and one made an extremely feeble attempt to get in front of us. Not clever. We smiled, waved and carried on. Once we reached the main delivery gate we were calmly ushered out and onto a nice open road. It was another beautiful day in the English Countryside.
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Trick Tips Indy Glide
Johnny Carne
As you approach the kicker, bend your knees a little more than normal and keep the handle in towards your lead hip to make sure that you will be in full control when you boost into the air.
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Take a strong edge into the booter, making sure that you get some solid tension in the cable as you approach. This will make it a lot easier to release when you fly off the top. As you release into the air, keep the handle tight, don’t let it fly out in front of you.
As you release off the top, let your hips drift up behind you at the same time as you are pushing the handle down, kind of see sawing over the top of the handle to put you over the handle and your hips up and behind you.
Let the board travel up as much as you can before spotting your landing and preparing to pull the board back down underneath you. You want to pull your hips towards the handle (and visa versa) to bring your body back down on axis. This is where the tension in the line pays off - as well as the handle control.
Prepare for the landing as always, with bent knees and a little bit of edge to take you away from the landing and keep you from getting dragged out of position as you land your first indy glide!
Try and get the grab early or you won’t be able to get it at all. When you grab the board you will also be able to control the swing of the board a little easier as it travels up. This is where it is important to keep control on the handle so that you are not flying out of control with no way of getting the board back underneath you.
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Trick Tips Backside shuv - Kicker Taylor Dell
Ensure you have your feet setup correctly for a regular backside shuvit, with your front foot a little more towards the heel edge of the board. This will ensure that when you spin the board around your front foot that it will return to where it started.
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Take a progressive edge towards the kicker, ensuring that you keep your body over the board at all times and the handle in control, in front of your lead hip. Flatten off just before you get to the kicker to enable you to be ready for the hit.
As you ride up the kicker, keep your body strong and hold the position you had while edging towards it. Body position is key to keeping in control and in a position that you can ride away from when you land.
As you take off, allow the board to come up underneath you just like a straight air, then when you are airborne scoop the deck with your back foot behind you slightly. The aim is to let the skate rotate slowly so make sure you don’t throw it too early or too hard.
Let the deck spin around your front foot, when the board has rotated 180 catch it with both feet and get ready to land. Make sure you don’t see it and stab your feet towards it, the skate should be coming up to your feet as it rotates. If you find it is falling away from you, try doing it a little later and make sure you are letting the skate rise off the top of the kicker first.
The key to landing the trick is having the skate underneath and slightly in front of you so you can take the landing and ride away. It is important that when you have caught the skate that you do not let the handle out too far and that you have soft knees on landing.
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Trick Tips Nose press to 360 out Marc Rossiter
Edge in as you would for your chosen rail normally, flattening off just before you get to the ollie point to enable you to take off cleanly and in control. Taking your back hand off the handle will help you line yourself up with the rail a little easier when you come to ollie on.
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Ollie over the top of the rail so you are able to land on the nose of the board without having to land flat and pull the board up. This is important to help control your landing and make sure that you are stable on the rail.
Keep the handle in control, in front of your front foot, keeping it lower will also help when you come to pull it as you approach the end of the rail. Look at the end of the rail to keep in control and in a good position on the obstacle.
As you near the end of the rail, pull the handle in towards the small of your back and pass it to your other hand. Don’t let the handle out or you will find that you are pulled off the rail early or out of the press before you are ready. After making the pass, keep pulling with the new hand around your hips to initiate the spin as you pop off the nose of the board and the end of the rail.
Once the final handle pass has been made and the handle is now back in your original front hand, prepare to land, rolling your knees out over your toes to keep you on edge and ensuring that you don’t get pulled back by the cable until you are ready.
As with a regular backside 360, you will need to pass the handle once more to complete the spin, it is important again to keep tension on the handle as you pass and spin to prevent you from being pulled out or under rotating.
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