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

Cookie charging in his Toastie

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

Cronulla Surfer - Matthew Cook from Ian McDonald on Vimeo.

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

Wing Surf Team Photos

We just received some photos from Brad Whittaker of a few Wing Surfers Jordan, Luke and Paris! All still looking warm in their wetsuits!

Wake Team in the USA

While things are getting cold at home the Wing Wake Team has been enjoying the heat across America. Ange Schriber is riding stronger than ever with roll to blinds on the cable and 720s off kickers! After representing Wing at a recent Wake Park World Series event in Texas Ange competed against cable and boat champions to come away with a third place finish. Now in the UK training and enjoying the cable scene we are excited to see Ange's results in up coming events.

On the boat side of wakeboarding the first stop of the Women's Wakeboard Pro Tour saw Hayley Smith take her first USA Pro Tour podium behind Nicola Butler and Raimi Merrit coming in 3rd place. While Amber Wing also took third at the US Masters after qualifying as top seed coming into the finals. Wing joined Nicola Butler and Dallas Friday to round out the Woman's Masters podium.

Wake Games, updates on Amber and Hayley

The King and Queen of Wake series has officially started with the Wake Games at Orlando Watersports Complex. The Wake Games is slightly different to other wake contests as there is a teams aspect to the event. After riders have qualified for the semis or finals the top 10 males riders from 2009 KOW draft all qualifiers to make their dream team. Each rider is awarded points depending on their overall placement, with the highest point scoring team awarded the honours of Wake Games Champions!

Day Two's update from Hayley Smith:
Well today was the qualifying day for us women at my first event of the US season. There was a fair turn out for the women with 6 girls making four heats of four, unfortunately still missing was Emily after having her baby girl Hope. Fellow Aussie, Bec Gange took on her first big US pro event riding confident and clean as did Amber as expected. All three of us Australian girls were thrown into one heat with Barret Perlman which sucked for us, though Amber and myself advanced from our heat.
The highlights for me from this morning would have been Bec's indy backside 180, Anna riding super smooth with her spins, Dallas' tantrum to blind, Barret boosting on her indy tantrum as she always does and Amber's melan off axis 360. Before heading home I got to watch one of my favorite riding buddies Ben Greenwood absolutely kill it out there! ts 720, switch ts 720, big ol' nose grab front flip and slid like a champ! WOOP WOOP!

Now back at home Amber and I are going to take her boat out for some last minute touch ups to get a little more dialed in for Saturdays semifinals! Contest face, contest face!

PEACE!

After Sundays final for the women results were as follows

1st Dallas Friday
2nd Nicola Butler
3rd Amber Wing
4th Raimi Merrit
5th Hayley Smith
6th Anna Hajek

Men's Final
1st Harley Clifford
2nd Bob Soven
3rd JD Webb

PHOTOS IN THE BANK

We receive many gorgeous photos of our girl Paris Whittaker who seams to have a following of paparazzi! We couldn't let these photos sit any longer.

Wake Girls Experience

Wakegirls.com has uploaded images from their WAKEGIRLS EXPERIENCE all girls day with Amber Wing and Nicola Butler held in Orlando, Fl. Take a look at some of the future women's wakeboard shredders and a few snaps of the pro girls in the lead up to the Wake Games April 28th -May 2nd!

While your there make sure to watch the videos of Amber's "This is my life" series

Girls Clean up at Bro Stock & Riders Choice Awards!

The end of the Australian Wakeboard season has been come with Bro Stock and the Rider Choice Awards night ending the year with a bang.



2010 is the first year that Bro Stock was held in Australia, with Penrith Cable Park playing home to the event. Consisting of rail jams, cable invitationals, system 2.0 contests along with Bro Stocks usual double up competition. Run over two days our girls Amber Wing, Cairns cable rider Angie Schribber and Hayley Smith had quite the schedule as the girls entered as many categories as possible. The Wing team not only placed in all the women's events they also took a clean sweep in the 2.0 Obstacle Challenge.

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Ladies Rail Jam:

1st: Amber Wing

2nd: Hayley Smith

3rd: Lauren Mead



Ladies Cable Invitational

1st: Angie Schribber

2nd: Hayley Smith

3rd: Lauren Mead



Ladies 2.0 Obstacle Challenge

1st: Hayley Smith

2nd: Angie Schribber

3rd: Amber Wing



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The Rider Choice Awards are a series of awards voted on by riders and key industry members, with 'Best Trick', 'Male' and 'Female Rider of the Year', 'Cable Rider', one person is honoured with joining the Australian Hall of Fame with the 'Legend Award' alongside many more awards given to those who have contributed to the community.

Since the awards have run Amber Wing has continued to dominate and be awarded Female Rider of the Year. This year was a little different, though the award was kept within the Wing Wetsuits family with Hayley Smith being chosen for 2009.

Surf Team Making Headlines

In recent months the Wing team has been splashed all over the media. With Brad Whittaker making appearances on Surfimages.com.au and 'The Sea Life' email subscription and daughter Paris making cover girl of 'Cronulla' magazine along with an inside feature article. While Luke Madden was also placed on the front page of the sports page of the Sutherland & St George Shires 'Leader'.

Wakeboarding News:

After a relaxed start to the Australian summer, Wing team riders Amber Wing and Hayley Smith have taken the chance to get a stack of time riding at the newly re-opened Cables Wake Park, Penrith and getting boat time in at Black Diamond Wakeboarding School.

So far we have seen both of our girls take one the Liquid Force Rail Jam at their home cable park and Wake Wars in Adelaide. In both events our girls rode strong with their individual styles, focusing on their strong points and analyzing their competition to put them both on the podium at each event.

Rail Jam:
1.Hayley Smith
2.Amber Wing
3.Sophie Hogben


Wake Wars:
1. Hayley Smith
2. Amber Wing
3. Bec Gange
Next up the girls will be attending the WWAA Pro Am held at Stoney Park, Telegraph Point. This is the first year the Pro Am has been run and has attracted riders from South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia and Melbourne! No doubt Amber and Hayley will be strong contestants within the woman's division, with Mildura's Bec Gange hot on their heels.

From the Pro Am the girls are heading in separate directions, Amber will be traveling to Dubai for a trip with Alliance Magazine! This is such an amazing opportunity that Amber has been offered, we can't wait to see what presents she brings back for us all here at Wing! While Hayley will be heading up to Hervey Bay where she will be taking charge of an all girls event at Cody's Rail Park! A write up on the All Girls Camp Out will be run in Wake Magazine. Keep an eye out on for both magazines and on their websites to see the story's behind the ladies travels!

Wing Surf Team: The Latest addition & Great Results!

We are excited to announce a new addition to our growing surf team Cronulla local, Rhett Clark. Team manager, Luke Madden described Rhett as “a surfer that loves to compete and travel who is turning heads left right and centre”. Being the youngest male member to join our surfers, Rhett is the perfect addition to the well rounded team.
Keelan Veitch has had an awesome 2009 in the surfing world. Just recently Keelan took a strong 3rd place in the Jesus Pro Am held in Wollongong; not to mention taking out the last Sharks Board Riders event to finish within the top ten of the opens division. Veitch also finished overall 10th in NSW Series.
Receiving an invitation to the International Ocean & Earth Teenage Rampage throughout December, female shredder April Charles could not have been happier. In the girls 16 and under division, April took on champions from around Australia with earning herself a 4th position in the final with Ellie-Jean Coffey of Crescent Head, NSW taking top honours.
Bringing to an end of the Christian Surfer series for 2009, Jordan Windenstorm took out the open division in the overall point score series with Luke Madden in 3rd! While in the girls division Paris Whittaker also placed 4th overall. This was an awesome effort in an event that lasted six stops hosting over 120 competitors.
Luke Madden has also been fairly busy while getting the chance to surf with some of the world’s best in between his schedule running the World Junior Champions. Though things haven’t been too hectic for our team manager, who was able to take some time away and travel to Thailand to surf for a few weeks late 2009.

Liuzhou China: IWSF World Cup, Wing places 3rd

Wakeboard
After a great start to her campaign in China, with a 1st in the Asian Cup, Amber was a tough competitor during the World Cup Stop the following weekend. After spending the week between contest sight seeing and taking in the Chinese way of life Amber was relaxed and ready to go! With the best woman's competitors in the world such as Dallas Friday (USA), Nicola Butler (SA) and Raimi Merritt (USA) the Chinese spectators were sure to be in for a show.

Like many contests around the world, conditions are not quite what the riders would prefer, though defiantly ads and extra element to the competition highlighting who the strongest riders are. As always Amber handled the rough water fairly well unfortunately falling on her highest scoring technical trick, the whirly, though still managed to ride away from a toe side off axis 540 and off axis 360. This placed Wing in 3rd place behind past world champion Dallas Friday who had some big raley tricks and technical inverts in her pass, and event Champion Raimi Merritt who impressed the judges with an S-bend.

The men's division showed some very familiar faces with tour veteran Philip Soven taking first. Second place wen to Australian Harley Clifford, whom has just taken claim to the US Pro tour title on his rookie year and Canada's Rusty Malinoski rounding out the podium places

JUMP
Jump water skiing was also apart of this World Cup stop, this discipline is known for exciting the crowd and the competitors did not disappoint. The two favourites coming into Liuzhou were Jaret Llwellyn (CAN) and World Champion Freddy Krueger (USA). Llewellyn did not qualify for the semifinals, taking a lot of pressure off the shoulders of Krueger. Russia's Igor Morozov set the pace from the start with a distance of 50.7m. Only Jason Seels (GBR) could beat this with 51.3m. Krueger was last out, knew what he had to do and got a standing ovation with a distance of 57.5m to take the Liuzhou City World Jump Cup title.

The Women's Jump event attracted athletes from five countries. Right from the start, Iryna Turets from Belarus set the pace in the semifinals with a jump distance of 37.0 m. Nobody could beat this. On entering the finals, she actually looked set to take the Liuzhou City World Cup Jump title. In the end it was a very close battle between Turets, Denmark's June Fladborg and Natalia Berdnikova - also from Belarus. This time Berdnikova set the pace with a distance of 36.2 m. Fladborg had to settle for 35.6m - and the best Turets could do was 36.0m. Natalia Berdnikova took this World Cup title by a margin of just 0.2m

Pro Men Wakeboarding
1. Phillip Soven (USA)
2. Harley Clifford (AUS)
3. Rusty Malinoski (CAN)

Pro Women Wakeboarding
1. Raimi Merritt (USA)
2. Dallas Friday (USA)
3. Amber Wing (AUS)

Pro Men Jump
1. Freddy Krueger (USA)
2. Jason Seels (GBR)
3. Igor Morozov (RUS)

Pro Women Jump
1. Natalia Berdnikova (BLR)
2. Iryna Turets (BLR)
3. June Fladborg (DEN)