Procter and Hellrazor Reset Bridge to Bridge Record

The Sydney Bridge to Bridge is the most prestigious and longest running ski race in the Southern Hemisphere, running 112 Km from the mouth of the Hawkesbury River up to Windsor, Western Sydney. This year not only marked the 50th anniversary of the great race, though also marked Mary Macmillan's 50th consecutive race run also a huge accomplishment which may never be matched.

Wing Wetsuits ski racer, Peter Procter added yet another huge title to his name taking out the 201this years race, backing up his 2010 victory. Pete was skiing alongside Daniel Campbell behind Mark Cranny and Damien Mathews in Hellrazor, a combination who smashed the longstanding record of 38.57.53 set in 2005 by Stinga.

All competitors this year came together to not only celebrate the victories on the water, though to also pay respect and commemorate Stephen Robertson who tragically passed away in the week leading to the event. 100 red balloons were released as Chris Stout skiing one up behind Noel Griffin's boat, Burnin, crossed the line. The bank was filled with the unlimited teams cheering in memory of a greatly respected man.

Australia and Wing Wetsuits Skier Dominate Worlds

Wing Wetsuits tournament water skier Tim Bradstreet over the last two months has picked up a Silver at the World Titles and two Gold medals at the Under 21 World Titles.

The Australian Under 21 team came third overall out of a field of 29 nations.

Some strong performances from Tim Bradstreet and Jacinta Carroll helped Australia finish so strongly.

Bradstreet took out the mens jump event with a jump of 67.3 metres, 3.9 metres ahead of the next best competitor. This huge jump along with a solid trick and slalom score gave him first place overall.

Carroll's leap of 54.4 metres in womens jump was more than enough to give her first place, beating the rest of the field by over 4 metres. Her strong performances in trick and slalom gave her second place overall.

Bradstreet's rise to the top has not just been in the under 21 ranks, his performance at the World Titles in Russia last July put a strong message out the seasoned veterans that the next generation is coming. Bradstreet and Carroll came second in mens and womens jump respectively. Bradstreet jumped 67.5 metres and was only beaten by world record holder Freddy Krueger while Carroll's jump of 50.8 metres was beaten by less than half a metre.

Congratulations to all the Aussie team skiers

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Check out Matt Cook charging in his new Wing Toastie Block steamer!

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Cronulla Girls Boardriders - Round 4

Cronulla Girls Boardriders - Round 4 - 25 June 2011

The weekend saw an absolutely wonderful day of surfing for the Cronulla Girls Boardriders Club.

It was warm for a winters day with light offshore wind and a 1 and a half foot surf on an A frame peak in front of Elouera control tower where the club could run a full surfing program from Whitewash to Mermaids Malibu's to Opens.

A mile of prizes from Sponsors were still up for grabs - with Maddi winning the Wing Wetsuits goodies bag, Jess winning the Surf Dive & Ski Voucher and Karen winning the Case of VB. Well done ladies.

These are some of the photos of the girls, kindly supplied to us by April Charles. Cronulla Girls Boardriders Club is proudly supported by Wing Wetsuits, SDS, Roxy, Wahine, Sun Zapper, VB and Cronulla Surfing Academy.

Amber Wing and Tim Bradstreet - US Master's Champions!

The 52nd Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament® at Callaway Gardens (Georgia, USA) concluded with Amber Wing as the Women's wakeboard champion and Tim Bradstreet as the Junior Men's champion in Tricks, Jump and Overall.

Amber cemented her first Masters win landing a Whirly Bird and Moby Dick in her first pass plus a Switch Heel 5 on her wild card trick. Behind Amber was Nicola Butler in second, Raimi Merritt in third, and Aussie and Team Wing member Hayley Smith in fourth.

In the Junior Men’s Trick final, Wing team member Tim Bradstreet finished strong with 9,300 points securing his first Masters title.

Tim then had the crowd roaring in the Junior Men’s Jump semifinal as he earned top seed going into the finals where his first jump at 191 feet (58.2m) broke the Masters Course record that had been held by Zack Worden since 2008. Then on Bradstreet’s last jump, he reset the course record to 199 feet (60.65m) claiming the Junior Masters Jump title. Tim's performance earned him Junior Men's Overall Masters Champion.

Congratulations to other Aussies also making the podium including Harley Clifford taking out Men's Wakeboard and Karina Knowlan winning Women's Slalom.

It was a great weekend of results for Aussie wakeboarders and waterskiers, and we are stoked for our Wing Team members Amber, Tim and Hayley!

For more results visit http://www.masterswaterski.com/

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Eagle dominates 2011 Worlds Selection Races

Lauryn Eagle has dominated the women's F1 division at the first two Australian World Team Selection Races last weekend (Feb 26 & 27), putting her in excellent contention to not only make the Australian team, but take home the World Title in September this year.

Eagle won both days of racing at Geelong VIC behind 'Superman'. She is aiming for a World Title win in both her sports of Ski Racing and Boxing in 2011.

Peter Proctor also put in a great performance to come in at third position in the Men's F1 division in both races.


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2011 Australian Open

Joel Wing returns from injury with a win at the Australian Open

Team skier Joel Wing returned to competition on the weekend with a win after 13 months away due to a knee injury. Joel won slalom at the first professional even of the Aussie calendar - the Australian Open at Port Macquarie.

After coming into the final in third position behind Victorian Nick Adams and Austin Abel from the USA, Joel put forward his best round in the final with a score of 2 @ 10.75m, out performing his rivals. This puts Joel in a great position coming into the Moomba Masters in Melbourne, less than 3 weeks away.

Our other team skier Tim Bradstreet managed a second place in jump.

Check out Joel and Tim in action over the weekend, and stayed tuned for more results and info on the lead up to Moomba and the IWSF waterski worlds July 2011 in Russia.

Matty Cook to surf the 2011 ASP LQS!!

After winning this year's Cronulla Long Boarding A-Grade Division and beating this year's State and Australian champion, Cookie will be representing Cronulla's Sandshoes Boardriders Club in the 2011 ASP Longboarding Qualifying Series (LQS). Cookie will be competing against the top professional longboard surfers from around the world, and have the chance to qualify for the World Championships in Hawaii later in the year.

The coming LQS events will take place at:

Feb 4-6: Hyundai Pro Longboard, Sandy Bay, Whangarei, New Zealand

Mar 16-20: Golden Breed Men, Noosa Heads, QLD, Aus

Mar 23-27: Malfuncton. Kingscliff, NSW, Aus

July 16-17: Whalebone Classic, Perth, WA, Aus

Wing wishes Cookie the best of luck at these events!!

Keep up to date with Cookie's progress on his website cookielovesit.com

The photos of Cookie ripping it shreds are from his last visit to Byron Bay over Christmas and New Years.

New wakeboard coaching app: Wake Trick Guru

Adam Dodd Motion Pictures launches unique iphone application.

Adam Dodd Motion Pictures, a company with a long standing presence in the sport of wakeboarding and in the action sports world is pleased to announce the fruition of their latest project, a wakeboarding instructional video application titled, Wake Trick Guru. The app is based around video clips of pro wakeboarders doing tricks accompanied by voiceovers explaining how to do the tricks and the first of its kind for the sport of wakeboarding available for the iphone. The app is a free download and at present has four free video files that can be downloaded which will be added to as the apps content is added to.

“Without spending any money though users can access a lot of information from the world of wakeboarding“ says Adam Dodd the applications creator. “Users can find the wake store (like Wing Wetsuits), school or park that is closest to them, get direct access to pro riders blogs and websites, download free wallpapers, see pro event schedules and even win nice things in our regular give aways“.
Video clips are sold in bundles of four for US $1.99 at present and they currently feature riding and instruction by Daniel Watkins, Amber Wing, Dean Smith, Cobe & Tarah Mikacich, Jeff Langley, Erik Ruck, Adam Errington, Sean O’Brien, Chris O’ Shae, Josh Sanders, Scott Broome & Sam Thompson just to name a few.

Tricks are broken up into three categories; beginner, intermediate & advanced and there are two other folders that will contain clips for the total novice giving boating for wakeboarding and wakeboarding 101 instruction.

“The app will evolve with time and users can request tricks to be covered if they don't find what they are looking for, the most requested tricks will be covered and made available for purchase“ Dodd remarked. “Now that we have the app out we are working hard on enriching the content and getting more clips ready for sale”. An ipad version is on its way and will be available in early 2011 and an android version is on the drawing board also.

The app has a dedicated website http://www.waketrickguru.com/ which contains one of the apps free video clips so people interested can see what the video clips are like, it can also be found on facebook at; http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wake-Trick-Guru/137316799641034 and the itunes preview page is at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wake-trick-guru/id398954620?mt=8