Wakeboard Pics

Photos Courtesy of R. Ries Originals Photographic Art rriesoriginals@aol.com
Great shots of the entire day!

The Big Boys are GETTING Ready to Ride

Here come the open riders and they are awesome. Fifteen minutes of Fame is underway...the final showdown for riders before the BIG Boys get on the scene. Check out the video here.

Getting Ready for Amateur, Pro and Over 40...WHERE ARE YOU?

If you come...come by water.....................

If you aren't here, or coming, you are missing a cool event. These riders are cool and nice to work with. I mean it. They are just nice, friendly People packed lunch and Vierias is serving hamburgers for $5.00 and 2 hotdogs for $5. It's crazy. My dumb camera is still not charged and it's really bad. This place is packed. I'm going to get some images as soon as possible.

Shoutouts go out to the photographers and videographers. Everything is a photo opp!!!

Great stuff to watch and people to see.

2nd Annual 15 MINUTES of Fame Wakeboard Contest

Here we go again!!! Once more, I'm seeing the crowds merge and riders appear. This time we have a bigger event and a larger crowd. Young riders taking the stand from 10-15 years old just out there shredding it! Magnum Boating and Blackwater Boating Company are present to support the riders. It's fun and crazy all at the same time. People everywhere--newspaper reporters and people starting to gather. I hear there are supposed to be a lot more coming, but I also understand that Saturday morning riders understand that they don't ride until late day so they are catching up on the sleep they lost last evening. Cameras with wide angle lens dominate as young kids shred the wakes and not fearful of anything.

Bruce's voice beams across the water as he calls for slow rolls of every boat to protect the rides of the young kids. He just called out to a fishing boat to slow and told them that "all the wakeboard people here love you." Tunes are rocking and poeple are jumping off the back of boats to keep cool. Mother Nature is doing her part, keeping it warma nd humid.

Thirty riders signed up and a pro from New Zealand are here and ready to rock! I think the lady riders are next.
CRUD...my camera battery just died, so I'll post some pics of the kid riders as soon as the battery is charged...