UK – with just over a month to go to Europe’s largest wakeboard music festival plans are set for an awesome event this year particularly as there are some of the coolest current bands & DJs lined up to play over the 3 days at Blenheim Palace & Abersoch: labelled as Radio 1’s most outstanding live act at their One Big Weekend festival last weekend, PENDULUM are THE band to see this summer, and with their album In Silico going straight in at Number 2 at the weekend, there’s a lot more to come from them before they play Wakestock. So you’ve spent your daytime watching the best in the world of wakeboarding show off some seriously insane tricks behind the MasterCraft X-star out on the water, you’ll definitely be raring to go to experience the best in new music. Choose any of the 3 days or go for the full weekend; Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and see the the full hit of bands & DJ’s including headliners GROOVE ARMADA, MARK RONSON & THE VERSION PLAYERS, & THE STREETS.US – the Internal Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) world summit, to be held in Park City, Utah, is scheduled for June 18th-21st. The summit will be organised around three themes:
1. Building a Mountain Biking Community
2. Managing Mountain Biking
3. Mountain Biking’s Value Proposition.It will host a world-class schedule of events including 30 educational seminars from top-notch experts, and guided riding opportunities on sweet singletrack. Headliners include Trek president John Burke; legendary Australian trailmeister Glen Jacobs; Dafydd Davis, pioneer of the United Kingdom’s first purpose-built mountain bike trails at Coed y Brenin, Wales; and Vancouver’s Jay Hoots, urban bike park architect of great renown… get on yer MTB to go there, MALAYSIA – if you’re wandering around Malaysia with nothing to do this weekend then why not take in the Rakan Muda Extreme Carnival this Saturday, 24 May. The Carnival is being held at Dewan Hang Tuah from 8h to 20h with the following categories: Open Skateboard, BMX stunt & flatland.US – for the first time pro women’s wakeboarding will be featured at five stops on the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour, beginning in Acworth. Following Acworth, the Tour will visit Forth Worth, Tex. (May 30-June 1), Twin Cities, Minn. (June 7-8), Phoenix, Ariz. (June 28-29) and wraps-up in Reno, Nev. (July 11-13).SurfingSURFBOARD COMP – want to win a custom built surfboard? Get your entries in to win your brand new “Gold Coast Surfboards” surfboard, custom made for this competition – the surfboard will be delivered to the winner, anywhere in the world. Go to Gold Coast Surfboards for the comp..ASP TOUR – Just a week after ending the competition at Teahupoo in Tahiti, the ASP Top 45 are eyeing promising surf forecasts in Fiji – seems as if the fourth event on the 2008 ASP World Tour, the Globe Pro Fiji, could get underway on the first day of the waiting period on Sunday, May 25, 2008. While the surfers will arrive on the idyllic islands of Tavarua and Namotu on Saturday, May 24, a traditional Fijian Welcome Ceremony and freesurfing will take center stage -official competition cannot commence before Sunday.Top 10 ASP World Tour Rated Surfers going into the Globe Pro Fiji:
1. Kelly Slater (USA) 2810 points
2. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 2340 points
3. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 2318 points
4. Andy Irons (HAW) 2196 points
5. Mick Fanning (AUS) 1989 points
6. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 1932 points
7. Taj Burrow (AUS) 1886 points
8. Adrian Buchan (AUS) 1874 points
9. Kai Otton (AUS) 1800 points
10. Dane Reynolds (USA) 1742 points