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Last year many of you turned out to the premier of Transgression at X-Dance, the movie was a hit, a great wake boarding flick! And X-Dance was a great venue for the movie too, the action sports film festival that runs the same time as the Sundance Film Festival. The X-Dance theme gave us an idea, why now ask wakeutah.com if they would host a contest for short films and have our community vote on the best films, the film with the highest votes gets an automatic entry at X-Dance. Little did we know, WakeUtah.com would be in our hands a few months later. So here we are, we have been in contact with the guys at X-Dance and they have given us their support for the idea. Now it’s up to the WakeUtah.com community, There are some great videos on our videos section, now is your chance to step into the film director role and submit your best short film for your chance to be in X-Dance!!!

Once your video has been uploaded, the community can vote on their favorites and the one with the highest votes will be submitted to our contact at X-dance and will be a part of the film festival.

That’s it, get all your wake boarding friends, family and neighbors on wakeutah.com to vote and upload their best video too. Good luck, I have seen some great films in our videos section and I know some of these films will be awesome!

All videos must meet the submission requirements set by X-Dance, see www.x-dance.com for more details.

Get your cameras rolling and fine tune your editing skills for this great opportunity!!! Submissions must be in before mid October.

X-Dance is January 17-21, 2009 in Salt Lake City.

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Grom Hayden Hargraves Harlee Wadsworth Alex Coop Eathen Bagley
Beginner Micheal Weeks Parker Tuttle Ryan McBride Braden Brockbank Wyatt Hargraves Sadie Wadsworth
Intermediate Ethan Farnes Quinn Clyde Justin Olsen Nick Cordon Taylor Benson Cole Barone
Girls Jennacce Jackson Nickie Willhoite Brittnee Clifford
Advanced Ward White Ethan Roberts Morgan Tackett Chance Bird Kolton Barney Matt Brady
Outlaw Dave Bagley Andrew Wallace Blake Hensen Ryan Webster Jason Coop Braxton Tomlinson

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The WakeUtah crew will be on hand Weds Afternoon July 23, starting around 2:30 pm to pull practice sessions at East Canyon before the IWA Tournament on Thurs July 24. We will be pulling with a Supra, so come get use to the wake before your tournament run on Thurs. We will do our best to give everyone who comes out a ride. We will be picking riders up from the main dock as you enter the park, just look for the WakeUtah banners. Please feel free to bring your friends, we will pull as many people as possible until it is dark and we retire to our campsites. We will have plenty of Zotes Sunflower Seeds on hand so make sure to give all the flavors a try. If you have any questions send an email here, as cell phone reception up at East Canyon can be hit or miss.

WakeUtah will be holding practice sessions for anyone who wants to come get a pull behind a Supra the day before the IWA East Canyon Tournament.  We are finalizing all the details, but we do know is that we will be taking a Supra up to East Canyon Wedsday afternoon.  If you are interested in getting a pull and some last minute tips, write a comment below.

PLEASE CHECK BACK AS WE WILL POST DETAILS AS WE GET THEM.

Found an interesting story about the Utah Wakeboarding scene in the Daily Utah Chronicle, check it out here. Thanks for the shout out.

When: August 1st, 2008
Time: Registration & Check-in - 8:30am. Riding starts at 9:30am
Cost: Early Registration - $40. On-site Registration $45
Where: The best lake ever! Mantua Lake. Where’s that you’re asking? In between Brigham City and Logan. Click here to check out the map

If you’ve come to Wake in the Woods in the past, then you know they do things a bit differently than some of the other comps. They’re all about laid back, good times at the lake. The reason we all wakeboard is because it’s fun, no need to make it stressful. So if you’re looking for something a little bit different and a lot more fun, come check it out.

Go to wakeinthewoods.com for more info and pics.

July’s featured rider is Ryan Webster, Ryan Webster has been on the scene wakeboarding for a few years and is always progressing, both himself and the sport. An eager rider who does it for the love of wakeboarding, Ryan makes residence in Delta, Utah where he lives on “The Res” with his family who are extremely supportive of not only his wakeboarding but the sport in general. I have been told that once “The Res” is thawed Ryan is out riding, as early as February, take a run off a dock start and finish with a clean run right back where he started.
Ryan competes at the Outlaw division in the IWA, and has placed in the top 3 at all Utah stops so far. The level of intensity that Ryan rides with is hard to match, and if his success is any indicator, Ryan will be going places in wakeboarding.
Dewey and I had the opportunity to go down to Delta recently and install the coolest rail we had in Ryan’s back yard. Ryan admitted that he hasn’t hit rails much, and this beast would lend lots of practice time, but only after a few hits on the 60 footer, Ryan was sliding the whole thing, spinning 180’s and gapping the top like he had been doing it all season.

Name - Ryan Webster
Age -20
Sponsors - Hyperlite, Marine Products, MOM and DAD
Board Set Up - Hyperlite Pulse with Byerly bindings
Hobbies other than wake sports - Duck hunting with my dog Whiskey
Biggest Accomplishments - Associates Degree, 2006 IWA Overall
Goals this Season - Consistently land toe and heel 7’s, crow mobe
Favorite Pro and Local Riders - Pro: AJ Racinelli, Rusty Malinoski. Local: Where to start? Colby Shelton, Mark Glover, Andrew Wallace, Kayden Tomlinson, Braxton Tomlinson, Colton Brockbank, Scott Bagley, Tyler Peterson, Bret Peterson.
Favorite Trick to watch and perform - Huge KGB
What is it about wakeboarding? - I owe it all to my parents to getting me into the sport, they support me in all I do. Wakeboarding is an escape from reality. When I am on the lake it is like time stops, haha and ask Colby Shelton or Andrew Wallace, I am in my own dream world when I am out on the boat. For me, wakeboarding is not about the contests or the moves you can throw, it is a way of life and sharing the sport with other people I think about wakeboarding more than anything else, it’s what gets me through the day.
What do you like about the local scene? - All the riders get along and help push each other to learn new things, the number one most important thing that I like is the fact that we are all friends out there and love doing the same thing. I like how Dewey has been helping Utah get into the wakeboard scene. He has already made a huge impact on Utah riders with rail/winch riding.
Who do you ride with? - I ride with just about anybody who is down, but on a normal day I ride by myself sad, huh? Where is the love?

Photo Gallery

Grom

1. Dexton Wallace
2. Nate Stover
3. Darian Bateman

Beginner

1. Zac Kane
2. Morgan Winchester
3. Travis Terry

Intermediate

1. Daniel Barger
2. Dylon S
3. Taylor Benson

Women

1. Jenacee Jackson
2. Brooke Bagley
3. Nikki Willhoite

Advanced

1. Travis Sprenger
2. Chance Bird
3. Jenacee Jackson

Outlaw

1. Dave Bagley
2. Braxton Tomlinson
3. Andrew Wallace

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If you got a chance to check out today’s Deseret News you probably read the section on ‘Boat Basics‘ and I am sure you saw the great picture on how to not do a Railey, by yours truly! So I figured I would take this chance to talk a little about the Air Railey. Someone just this week was talking to me about how the only time a picture like this should show up in a publication, would be when showing how to not do an Air Railey. It is time that we bring back the fun of an Air Railey. When doing a Railey your arms and legs should be strait with your shoulders square to the boat. Sure there are a number of variations to the Raily but one variation that you want the stay away from is what you see to the right, better know as a Star-Gazed Railey. To keep yourself from getting Star-Gazed make sure you start with a progressive edge/cut and hold it all the way up the wake. Coming off your edge too soon is what leads to a Star-Gazed Railey.