Action-sports fans can catch all the high-flying, rail-sliding water-sports action of wakeboarding from the comfort of their home, as FUEL TV is set to air the fifth contest of the 2008 King of Wake series, the Tige Pro-Am Wakeboard Championship, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink. The championship showdown will premier on Tuesday, August 26 at 8:00 pm Eastern Time (5:00 pm Pacific Time), and will re-air seven more times throughout August and September. Click here to read the rest of the article →

Experience may be the most fitting descriptor to explain the path Kathy Pruitt of Santa Cruz, Calif., took in snaring her title at the first leg of the Jeep 48STRAIGHT Mountain Bike Series today at Diablo Freeride Park in Vernon, N.J. Click here to read the rest of the article →

With a healthy cash payout and exposure in front of thousands of race fans in person and on national broadcast television at stake, it was little surprise that Diablo Freeride Park in Vernon, N.J. was a hotbed of activity for professional and semi-professional mountain bike racers on Friday. Click here to read the rest of the article →

The Burton Global Open Series (BGOS) today announced that the prestigious Nippon Open Snowboarding Championships will now become the first Asian Open Snowboarding Championships, set for February 24-March 1, 2009 at Alts Bandai Snow Resort in Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Click here to read the rest of the article →

The resumption of the ASP Women’s World Tour brings the elite female surfers to Hossegor, France, for the Rip Curl Pro Mademoiselle. It has been several months since the girls have seen action and they are chomping at the bit to get amongst those Hossegor barrels.
Source: Surfing Magazine. For the full story, click here.

The Rip Curl Pro Mademoiselle, event No. 3 of 8 on the 2008 ASP Women’s World Tour, begins its waiting period tomorrow and projected swell reports are calling for clean conditions with surf in the four-to-six foot (1 metre) range for the ASP Top 17 to sink their rails into.
Source: Hot-Zone. For the full story, click here.

Bringing the first BMX Olympic medal home to New Zealand had been Sarah Walker’s goal. Instead, she had to settle for fourth in the women’s final at the Laoshan track in Beijing yesterday.
Source: Stuff.co.nz. For the full story, click here.

Eleven wakeboard riders won national titles at the ninth annual USA Wakeboard Nationals, Aug. 16-17, at Freeman Lake. Sanctioned by USA Wakeboard, the USA Wakeboard Nationals was part of USA Water Ski’s National Championships Series of Events.
Source: Wakeboarder.com. For the full story, click here.

The Women’s Motocross Association will be holding a live auction fundraiser at the final round of the Toyota AMA Motocross Championship on Saturday August 30th to raise money for Shasta Johnson’s Breast Cancer 3-Day walk team. Come on out and join Bevo Forti, Rocket Rob Buydos and the WMA racers .
Source: Cycle News. For the full story, click here.

The ASP Grade-2 Rip Curl Pro Junior Mademoiselle got underway today at the world famous beachbreak of Les Bourdaines with Round 1 and 2 being completed in good quality four foot (1.2 meter) waves and under beating sun. With all favorites not surfing in Round 1, unknown surfers and locals were able to enjoy their time out before big names started firing.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.