Yes, this is what it looks like: someone doing a Raley being pulled by a $200,000 excavator. How'd they come up with the idea? How does it work? Where'd they find that perfect lake? We had all these questions at first glance of this makeshift wake park, so we caught up with Kiteboarder Patrick Rebstock to figure out how and why they made this happen...

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North Fort Myers, Florida | 239-656-3000 | revolutioncable.com Revolution cable park owner Nick Dimasi spent five years bringing his dream park into reality. That time and care is evident in the cable's performance, says 2008 Wake Park World Series champ Tom Fooshee...

Orlando, Florida | orlandowatersports.com | 407-251-3100 The Orlando Watersports Complex is an institution — an iconic spot in wakeboarding's mecca. Some of wakeboarding's best riders cut their teeth at the Orlando cable park...

Fort Worth, Texas | txmcwakepark.com | 817-589-7547 In September 2008, Texas MasterCraft owner Jimmy Harvell stood on the shore of Lake Eola in downtown Orlando watching a pair of Sesitec's System 2...

Deerfield Beach, Florida | 954-429-0215 | skirixenusa.com For the past 17 years, the same lady has worked behind the front counter at Ski Rixen USA. Her name is Renee Packard, but everybody calls her Renee Rixen...

Cincinnati | 513-887-9253 | wakenation.com Two years ago, Pete Kennedy was on a medical mission in the Philippines when he made a discovery that changed his life. While conducting clinical trials in Naga City, Kennedy stumbled upon the CamSur Watersports Complex, the cable park that for the past two years has hosted the Wake Park World Championships...

Seffner, Florida | 813-681-4441 | skimccormick.com In May, Shaun Murray, Erik Ruck and Jimmy LaRiche made McCormicks cable park their first stop on a weeklong riding road trip. All left-foot-forward riders, they couldn't wait to session McCormicks' clockwise-rotating system — the only one of its kind in the United States — because it makes learning new moves so much easier for left-footers...

Check out this quick highlight video from day one of the 2009 Ten-80 WWA US Wake Park Nationals at OWC. The video starts out with Junior Men's, then goes to Women's, then Pro Wakeskate, then into Pro Men's...

The 2009 WWA Wake Park National Championships presented by Ten-80 will take place in Orlando at OWC on June 13-14, 2009. Admission is free, and you can count on a bevvy of live music from local DJs all weekend, so get yourself to Orlando for this event...

The extreme wind may have forced the competition to end early, but spectators were blown away by the wakeboarding spectacle long before the wind picked up.
Red Bull Wake Lab may indeed be the largest and most innovative wakeboarding event ever, but today at Tempe Town Lake, it also felt like the windiest...

On Monday, we got a glimpse of the beginnings of the massive structure Pat Panakos is assembling on Lake Eola in downtown Orlando for an event Red Bull is calling Wake Lab. It doesn't look like much now, but when it's finished Thursday, it will be arguably the most elaborate setup wakeboarding has ever seen...

Check out this gallery of the Worlds at the Camsur Watersports Complex in the Phillipines.
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The Ukrainian Wake Park Open and third stop of the 2008 WWA WPWS is open to all international competitors with 6 different categories and over $27,000 in total cash and prizes for Pro Men Wakeboard, Pro Women Wakeboard, Pro Wakeskate, Junior Men, Best Kicker Trick and Best Rail Trick...

Sunday concluded the 2008 WWA Wakeboard World Championships and the CamSur Rider's Cup. The five-day event at the CamSur Watersports Complex in the beautiful province of Camarines Sur in the Philippines included 15 divisions with over 230 riders from 21 countries...