Men’s Pro Wakeboard World Champion and BuyWake Team Rider Cory Teunissen with the W clinching three World Titles. 2nd Place Nic Rapa. 3rd Place Guenther Oka.
We closed out these last days of summer on Robin Lake at Callaway Gardens for the 2021 WWA Wakeboard Worlds and Nautique Wakesurf Masters competition for an action packed weekend that included history being made.
Off the dock with near perfect conditions on Day 1 the Amateur, Jr. Pro and Pro athletes went head to head in a heated semi-finals behind the award winning Super Air Nautique G23 and G23 paragon for the chance to advance to the next round. Among the highlighted included the Adaptive divisions who inspired those along the shoreline and those watching live across the globe.
Wake For Warriors and Adaptive Standing Athlete Carlos Figueroa carving his way into FinalsWakeskate Division – 1st Place Coco Mendez, 2nd Place Brian Grubb, and 3rd Place Noah Flegel.
Pro Men’s Wakesurf – 1st place Noah Flegel, 2nd Place Sean Silveria and 3rd Place John Akerman.
As we entered the Final rounds on Day 2, BuyWake Team Rider Noah Flegel’s winning pass consisted of both surf style and skim style riding putting all together to take the greatest victory of the year. Read More >
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This past weekend we traveled to Pine Mountain, GA, to Callaway Gardens to attend the Masters Water Ski and Wakeboard Tournament presented by Nautique. Ambush Board Co. has been at this event for 20 years with a merch tent with one of the best views of the action on Robin Lake. Going into the weekend everyone was buzzing about what would the Pro Men’s Wakeboard podium end up looking like. We got to see a four man final of Tony Iacconi, Cory Teunissen, Harley Clifford, and Mike Dowdy, and it was absolutely mental! We predicted a Harley vs. Dowdy showdown and after seeing Cory crush it we knew it would be a toss-up because his run was mind-blowing.
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One of the best stories in the Pro Women’s Wakeboard Finals was certainly Meagan Ethell. Nautique team rider Meagan has been rehabbing after a knee injury and took back her top spot on the podium for her third win in a row! She no doubt had a flawless run and had the whole beach cheering her on. Can’t wait for the video of the event to drop so you can all see her insane run. Nicely done, Meagan!
In the Wakeskate Finals it was a showdown between Coco, Austin , Reed Hansen, and Brian Grubb. In classic form Grubb laid down his stand-up run to take his third straight win and fourth total Masters Wakeskate win. A solid performance, but we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that we missed Danny Hampson big time.
What a weekend! The 57th Nautique Masters Water Ski and Wakeboard Tournament was held at the prestigious Callaway Gardens on the legendary Robin Lake. This year was a special one for a few reasons, but…most notably, it was Lee Elliott’s 19th Masters and Eddie Beverly’s 31st! That’s a combined 50 years between the two of them! As a thank you, we whipped up this gem of a photo and presented it to them.
On Friday every year Nautique puts on the “Nautique Open” golf tournament that features a bunch of athletes and industry friends. The golf tournament is equally as important to some of the riders as the on-water events. Seriously, it’s always fun getting paired up with friends and leveling the playing field off the water. Look, I’m not throwing any backside 7s anytime soon, but I’ll put up a solid fight on the course and send a few over 300 yards down the pipe. This year Ambush Board Co./BuyWake.com Team Rider, Cole Vanthof, came with us and put together a fun little Instagram video.
Such a good time! Good ole JD Webb with the classic ender on that one! Before most of the action, Cole and I walked the historic grounds and filmed some of the best-looking boats we’ve ever seen. Nautique had their prized possession on site; a 1961 all original Ski Nautique, as well as every brand new 2016 model G Series. Hands down, having good partners like JL Audio, Seadek, PCM Marine, Roswell Marine, and a few others truly made the on-site experience of the Masters a joy to be apart of.
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Before the 2015 Nautique Boats Masters, a perfect score of 100.00 had only been achieved once in professional board sports competition history, and it was in snowboarding. Shaun White scored a perfect 100.00 in the 2012 Winter X Games half pipe and set the internet on fire with praisers and haters a like. The question we’re all asking, is a perfect 100.00 something that competing athletes strive for?
Watch below and ask yourself did he score a 100.00 or 99.73?
Fast forward to 2015 and check out Harley Clifford’s final run that scored him a perfect 100.00 at the 2015 Nautique Boats Masters.
Now understand this…we know the comparison of wakeboarding to snowboarding is a long shot, but without a doubt, Harley Clifford truly deserved a perfect score of 100.00. If you’re able to link those same tricks together, then you too deserve a perfect score. Harley Clifford’s perfect score run will forever go into the history books as “the perfect run” and you can’t take that away from him. So to all you wakeboarders out there that want to get into this sport – start learning double flips. Seriously the game has changed. Shout out to Chad Hesse, hitting the first ever triple flip in wakeboarding history. 2015 is already a great year for the wakeboarding record books!
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