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October 2009

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Wake and Fins
Rail Jam with the Miami Dolphins
Monday night football in Miami, Jimmy Buffet, a [...]

Andy Kessler dies

Skateboarding pioneer Andy Kessler dies in Montauk
August 13, 2009 By CARL MACGOWAN carl.macgowan@newsday.com

Photo credit: Getty Images | Andy Kessler, right, and pro skateboarder Tony Alva attend the opening of the “Lords Of Dogtown” Art Collection at The Lounge Soho. (June 2, 2005)
When Andy Kessler started skateboarding with friends in the 1970s, there was no [...]

wakeboarding iphone app

Imagine if you could pull up a wakeboarding app to find out where the hottest wakeboard spots are in the world?  Well imagine no longer, 5boards.com is working on an application that you download on your iphnone or crackberry that will enable you to check your local cable parks and boat launch areas.   So now [...]

wakeboarding park in Joyce Park in Fairfield, Ohio

Staff photo by Nick Daggy/Wake Nation, the area’s newest cable wakeboarding water park, held its grand opening Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at Joyce Park in Fairfield, Ohio.

By Michael D. Pitman
Staff Writer Updated 11:57 AM Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Wake Nation owner Peter Kennedy was most worried about what the [...]

twitter for boarders now on 5boards.com

AWWE SNAP, 5boards.com has done it again! You can now have your profile on 5boards.com and update your Twitter status within the 5boards website…. its kind of hard to explain but is totally cool.
Check it out now at 5boards.com
5boards.com is now the largest and fastest growing social site for boarders: Skateboarding, Wakeboarding, Snowboarding, Kiteboarding [...]

Skullcandy is on track to be #1 headphone company

Skullcandy is rapidly growing.
There’s a rumor that there’s a recession,” said Jeremy Andrus, (pictured right) president of the Utah-based Skullcandy headphones company. “But we’re not feeling it.”. . . In 2005, the company had $1.3 million in sales, while this year it’s on track to surpass the $100 million mark. Last fall, the company had [...]

the history of the ollie

Invented in the late 1970s by Alan “Ollie” Gelfand, the ollie has become a skateboarding fundamental, the basis for many other more complicated tricks.
In its simplest form, the [...]

kiteboarding phone app.

Imagine if you could pull up a kiteboarding phone application to check out what the wind was doing in your area?  Well imagine no longer, 5boards.com is working on an application that you download on your iphnone or crackberry that will enable you to check your local windspeeds.  So now you wont have to waste [...]

Nick Davies new pro model

It’s no surprise that Cable Parks are making a big splash here in the US. The OWC is going off, a couple new Wake Parks are opening this season and Hyperlite is catching up to over 30 countries that have multiple Wake Parks. These Wake Parks, located in places as far away as [...]

Greg Lutzka wins in Tampa

Wow! Can you say three peat? This dude has seriously got to be one of the highest paid skateboarders in the industry right now. Honestly, win after win!

Check out his sponsors list with “Toyota” as an official listing. Dude, a car sponsorship is above and beyond the incentive he probably receives from any of his [...]