May Wakeboarder.Commie Newsletter

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Welcome to Issue #22 of the Wakeboarder.Commie Newsletter.

In this issue:

- It's Wakeboarding Season!
- Top 10 Signs You Know It's Wakeboarding Season
- Featured Uploads and Topics
- Content Updates

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-- IT'S WAKEBOARDING SEASON --
(get a rope)

Hopefully most of you have been riding for a while now, but
for me up here in the Northwest, it's been slim pickings until now.

It's May, and for me May means I can finally wakeboard without
riding in freezing water with a drysuit or long wetsuit. That and the
days are long enough to actually go after a long day at the office.

Now that riding season has hit, I once again notice things
begin to change. My thoughts change, my daily activities change,
my priorities change, and my pocket changes tends to disappear
for gas money!

This made me realize that there are some obvious signs that
it's wakeboarding season, and naturally, I found ten of them.


-- TOP 10 REASONS YOU KNOW IT'S WAKEBOARDING SEASON --
(I made these up in five minutes, shhh!)

10. When dating and meeting new friends, if they're overweight
it's now an added bonus.

9. You actually get excited to buy gas because it means you'll
wakeboard, AND it adds extra weight to the boat.

8. When someone asks you what you're doing today, you
say, "nothing much". To them, that means you're probably
just going to hang out at home and watch TV. What you really
meant was you're going to be doing "nothing much besides
wakeboarding."

7. On any given day you can name the exact minute the sun will
set. Sample: "It's May 13th, the sun goes down at 8:37, which means
we can stretch it until 8:53 before Johnny Law will write us up."

6. When someone suggest renting a movie, you reply "Why?
We already have FREE4ALL here." When they tell you they'd
like to watch something besides wakeboarding for once, you say
"Good thing I have Linear Perspective, it's all wakeskating."

5. Your math skills drastically improve. You change from
someone who needs a calculator to figure out how many
quarters are in a dollar to someone who can eyeball four fat
sacks and know there's 1241 lbs. of extra weight in the boat,
and that equates to 13.7 inches of added wake height at 75
feet of rope.

4. The amount of wakeboarding e-mails to answer, forums
to moderate, and articles to put on your gigantic and fabulous
wakeboarding web site overwhelms you and makes you weep
silently under your desk like a little child.
(Did I just write that out loud? And maybe this one doesn't
apply to everyone....)

3. A "productive day at work" consists of managing to read every
post for the day in the Wakeboarder.com forums and your boss
didn't catch you doing it.

2. You find yourself hopping off of curbs and landing blind or
doing 360s. (Come on, you know you've done this before,
don't lie.)

1. You spend your time cutting unimportant things out of your
schedule to make more time for wakeboarding. Examples of
such things that get cut are work, school, being with family,
eating, and sleeping.

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-- RECENT MEDIA CENTER UPLOADS --
(if you want your riding featured, upload!)

- Scrubs of the South Trailer #2
http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showphoto.php?photo=505

- Visualise: Kris Bower Video
http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showphoto.php?photo=516

- Jimmy Wolf Video
http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showphoto.php?photo=334

- Orlando Tour Stop Photos: From Barry Vaught
http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=351

- Orlando Wakeskate Tour Stop Photos
http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showgallery.php?cat=3005

- Member Photo Gallery: J Robinson
http://photos.wakeboarder.com/showga...500&ppuser=591


-- FORUM TOPICS --

- Do You Set Wakeboarding Goals?
http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=5714

- What's The Best All-Around Boat?
http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=4810

- Wakeskate Shuvits On Fun Boxes
http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=4809

- What Are The Best Double Up Tricks?
http://forums.wakeboarder.com/viewtopic.php?t=5535


-- SITE UPDATES --

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WAKESIDE BATTLE RACK REVIEW
One of the most interesting and well-built products to hit the
2003 wakeboarding market has been the special board
rack from Wakeside called the Battle Rack. Wakeboarder.com
gives it a full review.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=360
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NEW DAILY WAKE TIPS
If you look in the left column of the site you'll see a
new icon that says "Daily Wake Tip". Every day there will
be a new wakeboarding or site related tip that you'll see
when clicking that icon.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=321
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KAMPUS SWING SERIES REVIEW
Kampus Wakeskates continues to break into the wakeskating
market with some new flavor. Kampus recently introduced the
Swing Series wakeskates.

http://www.wakeskating.com/showarticle.php?id=62
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ADDING A CUSTOM BALLAST SYSTEM
Jon Allen shows us how he added a custom ballast to his
2001 Moomba Mobius.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=355
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WAKEPHYSICS INSTRUCTIONAL BOOK REVIEW
Former wakeboarding world champion Jeremy Kovak has
recently released a wakeboarding instructional book called
WakePhysics. It features numerous pro riders performing
a wide variety of tricks with pictures and instructions.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=354
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BONIFAY AND FRIDAY WIN VANS TRIPLE CROWN STOP
Parks Bonifay reaffirmed that he is one of the best in the business
in the Finals of the Vans Wakeboarding Pro, and Dallas Friday
won for her 2nd time in a year in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=350
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SHAUN MURRAY BREAKS HIS LEG
Shaun Murray recently broke his leg while sliding a rail in
Florida. Jocko of WAKEtv was there, and shares with us
what happened.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=342
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THE MOVEMENT VIDEO REVIEW
Wakeboarder.com checks out "The Movement" from
Collin Wright. This video features the riding of Billy McKee,
Leslie Kent, Greg Nelson, and others.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=339
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A RECIPE FOR BAKED APPLE PRODUCTIONS
Kevin Banker with Baked Apple Productions sent us some
video trailers of their latest wakeboarding short entitled RGB.
He also talks about their next project, Ignition.

http://www.wakeboarder.com/display.phtml?id=329
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Thanks for reading this mammoth production, now
get out there and get riding.

Pat McCarthy
Wakeboarder.com
pat@wakeboarder.com


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