Words Justine Griffin Photo Spencer Smith Rusty Malinoski rode through the toughest semifinals heat of his professional career and a separated rib to win his second straight Air Nautique Wake Games title...

Fans lined the shores of the Orlando Watersports Complex Sunday to catch the final rounds of wakeboarding action at the 2009 Air Nautique Wake Games, presented by ROCKSTAR. With eight divisions already in the books, the 14 remaining groups of riders hit the water today to vie for individual division trophies and team points toward the team challenge...

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO HERE. With passable riding conditions in Clermont, Florida, and Kevco training for the Veteran's division of Wake Games in a week, it was the perfect time to get out and film a session with the Bone Crusher doing his thing...

Check out the photo gallery here.Home country favorites Rusty Malinoski and Aaron Rathy charged through to upset wins over defending champions Phillip Soven and Keith Lidberg in the Wakestock 2008 Malibu Expression Session and Billabong Rail Championship events, respectively...

Aaron Rathy's Switch Heelside 1080.

Rusty Malinoski's Backside 900.

Rusty Malinoksi won his third Tig

Wakesports Unlimited will host the Southern California premiere of Sean Kilgus' new wakeboard film Drive June 28 at its Orange County board shop. The shop will hold its Midsummer Media Mixer and Mega Sale, which will feature up to 50 percent discounts on the latest gear from Liquid Force, Ronix, Hyperlite, Spy and O'Neill, from 10 a...

Tige Boats is putting up $10,080 in hopes of seeing a 1080 landed at the 2008 Tige Pro-Am Wakeboard Championships June 20-22 in Portland. The sum is the largest purse ever offered for the trick, which has never been landed in competition...

At the beginning of April Body Glove was out on the Colorado River in Parker, AZ for its annual Tiki Shack wakeboarding trip. Body Glove VP, Billy Meistrell, owns a house on the river so the team all jumped in the RV and headed out to the desert...

Competition at the prestigious 49th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament concluded Sunday at Callaway Gardens on Robin Lake with amazing weather and thrilling competition throughout all disciplines...

Sean Kilgus' new wake film Drive will premiere May 2 at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle, Washington. Several of film's riders, including Rusty Malinoski, Danny Harf, Randall Harris, Ben Greenwood, Trevor Hansen, and Erik Ruck, will be on hand signing autographs...

When Rusty Malinoski joined Hyperlite a little more than a year ago, he and shaper Aaron Stumpf went straight to work designing Malinoski's first built-from-the-ground-up pro model wakeboard. With the new Marek hitting dealer shelves May 15, WBM has the full story in the June issue...

By all accounts, two things are clear about the previous weekend's festivities in Windermere: It was damp, and Rusty "The Bone Crusher" Malinoski is hitting 2008 hard. Malinoski started off his run — let's just repeat that — he started off his finals run with a switch toeside 900...

Need some riding inspiration? Now you can not only watch your favorite pros ride, but listen to 15 rider-inspired tracks produced by Rockwilder in an album called Blue Octane, dropping late April. Check out the video and get a sneak preview of the Vandall rapping in his song, "West Side Riders...