This weeks blog isn't so much a blog or editorial-style article as it is a big thank you to everyone who has ever read my words on here or on my own website. The wakeboarding industry is a very close community...

There are a countless number of tricks in wakeboarding. If you think about it, it really is endless. A year ago everyone thought a backside 1080 and a frontside 1260 were impossible, and then they both happened, thanks to Danny Harf and Sir Aaron Rathy...

A lot of pro wakeboarders do clinics in the summer. These sorts of things are kind of like coaching sessions. A pro comes out to your local dealership and us as riders can sign up and pay a reasonable rate to not only get a chance to ride with a pro all day but also get shown what we are doing wrong on the wakeboarding tricks we're working on...

I recently posted a picture of my backyard taken at sunset on my blog, www.derekgrasman.com. The post was called “My Paradise.” That got me thinking. Why is it that when anyone thinks of paradise almost always the first thing that pops into your head is one of those screensaver-type islands located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean that most of us will never actually get anywhere near? How can this be our paradise? I think paradise is all in the eye of the beholder...

In wakeboarding, there are a lot of debates going on — debates that will never end and will always be repeated. Debates about where you should grab your board or how you should spin. And while it seems like a bad thing, in all actuality, I feel like this may be one of the greatest things about wakeboarding...

We have hit a new era in wakeboarding. Or action sports in general. This is the era of the instant media overload. I remember back in 1999 Parks Bonifay landed the first 1080 ever done on a wakeboard...

My name is Derek Grasman, and this is my weekly blog for WAKEBOARDING magazine. I am not the reigning King of Wake — that’s Aaron Rathy’s job. I am not the Best Wakeboarder of 2009 or World Champion either...