Winter Park, FL – TransWorld WAKEBOARDING magazine will host its 9th annual Wake Awards ceremony, acknowledging and celebrating the accomplishments of the best wakeboarders and wakeskaters in the world on Sept 6th at Surf Expo in Orlando, FL.

Tad Mathews is a generous man. He's letting you watch More Than Machines, which won Best Video and Best Wakeskate Video Performance at the 2011 TransWorld Wake Awards, in its entirety. For free. Right now.

Danny Harf's DEFY is out now and to celebrate we decided to round up all the best DEFY content from the past three years or so for your viewing pleasure. Think of it as the ultimate sneak peek.

Humanoid Wakeboards has signed laid-back Aussie native Chris O'Shea to its pro team. O'Shea is one of the world's top free riders and he's fresh off winning the year's ultimate free-ride prize, the Best Wakeboard Video Performance at the 2011 TransWorld Wake Awards.

Watch this video of Shota Tezuka and it's pretty easy to see why he made such a huge first impression this season, winning the Jr. Pro Men season title and the Check Out award at the 2011 TransWorld Wake Awards.

Watch Erik Ruck's mute back mobe into the Defy step-up pool at Radar Lake, which won Oakley Wakeboard Move of the Year at the 2011 TransWorld Wake Awards.

Check out all the action from the 2011 TransWorld Wake Awards, presented by Rockstar Energy, at Surf Expo.

Don’t miss the biggest night in wakeboarding — the eighth-annual TransWorld Wake Awards, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink. More than a dozen of wakeboarding’s best will be honored at the 2011 TransWorld Wake Awards on Thursday, Sept. 8, during Surf Expo in Orlando.

After undergoing two knee surgeries and enduring seven months of rehab, Aaron Rathy is riding again. We talked to the former King of Wake about his return and his plan to get back to the ridiculous heights he achieved in 2009.

Watch TransWorld WAKEBOARDING's 2010 Wake Awards in its entirety.

Don't miss all the action from the biggest night in wakeboarding when TransWorld WAKEBOARDING's 2010 Wake Awards airs for the final time at 7:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 22, on FUEL TV. Tune in and watch wakeboarding’s best riders, photographers and videographers receive awards for their exploits over the previous 365 years.

Watch the biggest night in wakeboarding when TransWorld WAKEBOARDING's 2010 Wake Awards premiere on FUEL TV at 8 p.m. on Nov. 15.

Watch Erik Ruck killing it both on rails and off the wake on his new 2011 Ronix Phoenix Project wakeboard, which he designed along with The Wake Park Project's Pat Panakos. Watch for Ruck's mute double half cab roll, which was up for Oakley Move of the Year at TransWorld WAKEBOARDING's 2010 Wake Awards.

Watch all of the contenders for the Women's Oakley Move of the Year at TransWorld WAKEBOARDING's 2010 Wake Awards, including Dallas Friday's tantrum to blind off the kicker at McCormick's cable park, Anna Hajek's backside 540, Melissa Marquadt's stalefish down the Freedom Falls gap, and Amber Wing's toeside 900.

Check out the first set of Jetpilot's new Photographer Series, a limited-edition run of three T-shirts featuring the photography of Joey Meddock, who won Photographer of the Year at TransWorld WAKEBOARDING's 2010 Wake Awards.