WAKEBOARDING magazine’s 2009 Wake Awards premiere on FUEL TV on Monday, November 2, at 8 p.m. The Wake Awards will re-air on FUEL TV later that night at 11 p.m. Watch as the wakeboarding industry assembles to celebrate the best in wake for 2009...

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...

Byerly Wakeboards Conspiracy wakeboard ($480; byerlyboards.com) Aaron Rathy’s new wakeboard from Byerly Boards is exactly what you’d expect from a guy diverse enough to have just won the King of Wake crown and the Oakley Wakeboarding Move of the Year for wakeboarding's first backside 1080...

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...

Next up in WAKEBOARDING magazine's Best of Summer 2009 series: wakeboarding moves. A full feature chronicling all of the year's best wakeboard tricks will follow, but we thought we'd start with a look back at Shane Bonifay's wrapped heelside melon backside 720...

Dallas Friday, Amber Wing and Nicola Butler led the voting in the Pro Women category of WAKEBOARDING magazine's 2009 Readers Poll. Find out what other women wakeboarders made the top eight, and see how Dallas, Amber and Nicola made their way to the top of the list...

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Last year’s rank: 2 Danny Harf's 2009 Highlights: — Landed a wrapped heelside nosegrab 900, which was nominated for Wakeboarding Move of the year at WAKEBOARDING magazine’s 2009 Wake Awards — Won Best Wakeboarding Video Performance at WAKEBOARDING magazine’s 2009 Wake Awards for his part in Billabong’s Out of the Pond — Won Best Wake Rider at WAKEBOARDING magazine’s 2009 Wake Awards for the second straight year...

Aaron Rathy's 2009 Highlights — Won Best Wakeboarder at WAKEBOARDING magazine’s 2009 Wake Awards. — Won the Oakley Wakeboarding Move of the Year at WAKEBOARDING magazine’s 2009 Wake Awards for his wrapped melon backside 1080...

Shane Bonifay's 2009 Highlights Landed a heelside backside wrapped melon off-axis 720, which was nominated for the Oakley Wakeboarding Move of the Year at WAKEBOARDING magazine’s 2009 Wake Awards...

From a wake-to-wake 1080 to huge kicker boots to ground-breaking rail stunts, 2009’s Oakley Wakeboarding Move of the Year submissions again blew minds and proved that wakeboarding gets bigger and better every year...

The Oakley Womens Move of the Year debuted this year at WAKEBOARDING's sixth-annual Wake Awards. The Oakley Womens Move of the Year recognizes the most progressive trick in female wakeboarding...

As banging as the 2008 Move of the Year reel was, 2009 still trumped it. With everything from a backside 360 kickflip to a boardslide backside kickflip to a backside 540, 2009 proved yet again that wakeskating is as legit a sport as there is...

This is a compilation of the heaviest moves that went down this season with categories for wakeboarding, wakeskate and women, presented at the 2009 Wake Awards August 20. Winners got a grip of cash and a $3,500 Oakley Diamond Watch...