Cable park pioneer Mike Olson has sold Kansas City Watersports to an investment group that includes Liquid Force co-founder Tony Finn. Kansas City Watersports was one of the first cable parks in the U.S.

Now you can test out the latest wakeboarding gear from CWB Board Co. at WakeSport Ranch, Texas' newest cable wakeboarding park. The new cable park, which is located just 14 miles southwest of Ft. Worth, features a six-tower cable system with long straights and plenty of obstacles...

Cowtown Wakepark, a new cable wakeboarding park near downtown Fort Worth, is set to open on the Trinity River by April 2011. Cowtown Wakepark is the brain child of Fort Worth area resident and longtime wakeboarding die-hard Tommy Fambrough...

This summer, a team of wakeboarders from Wake Nation, a cable wakeboarding park in Cincinnati, Ohio, will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for most distance traveled on a wakeboard within 24 hours.

Texas Ski Ranch's eighth annual Cablestock wakeboarding and music festival will be held May 7-9 at the New Braunfels, Texas, cable wakeboarding park. Tom Fooshee will battle it out with Nick Davies, Chad Sharpe, Kevin Henshaw and many more for the $12,000 prize purse.

Following a successful inaugural year, Wake Nation has announced plans to expand for the 2010 season. The Cincinnati, Ohio, cable wake park recently announced that it is adding a second body of water called The Practice Pond, which will feature Rixen's Little Bro two-tower cable system...

The World Wakeboard Association recently announced that the 2010 WWA Wake Park World Championships will be held at Hip-Notics Cable Wake Park in Antalya, Turkey, on Sept. 27-Oct. 2. Located on the southern coast of Turkey, just a few hours from some of Europe's major cities, Hip-Notics features three lakes, a new obstacle park as well as a pro shop, video room, trampoline and other on-site ameniities...

It looks like cable wakeboarding will finally make its way to Southern California. On October 28, the Santee City Council approved the plan to build a cable wakeboarding park at the Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve, which is located just outside San Diego, California...

In March, Kevin Henshaw was scrambling to find a marquee project to anchor his section in the new Billabong wakeboarding video, Out of the Pond. He had to hurry. Billabong team manager Chris Heffner had just issued a two-week deadline for any last-minute footage, so Henshaw had time for just one project — he would have to make it count...

With three new cable wakeboarding parks opening in the country in a little more than a year and dozens more on the horizon, the route to the top of professional wakeboarding is opening to thousands of riders.

There are few, if any, wakeboarders in the world who can match Tom Fooshee in a cable park. While the 2008 Wake Park World Series champ continues to gain more and more respect for his riding behind the boat, moves like this Pete Rose 720 off the kicker at the Texas Ski Ranch, which was nominated for the Oakley Wakeboarding Move of the Year at WAKEBOARDING magazine's 2009 Wake Awards, demonstrate that Fooshee's dominance resides in the wake park...

In this wakeskating video, Texas Ski Ranch regular Bret Little demonstrates his familiarity with the Texas cable wakeboarding park's starting dock with a backflip start on his wakeskate.

Yes, this is what it looks like: someone doing a Raley being pulled by a $200,000 excavator.