Last Thursday, May 14th, SBR Wakeboarding held a demo day that featured anything and everything wakeboarding, wake surfing, wakeskating, virtually anything you could use behind a boat. Hyperlite seemed to bring out the entire inventory of new toys that will be featured all summer long.

Greg, the Southern California rep for Hyperlite, bought will him every type of boot, board, and surf product they had to offer. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to test anything due to a busted shoulder, but I’d say some of the sickest gear available to use was the Team Series Clash board and ROAM board which was pretty unique. Asides from the Team Series they had the Murray D.I.N.E Series board, and two boards from the Legion Series. Along with the wakeboards Greg had wakeskates to demo and the most interesting thing available was the Swell Surf board. Greg said everyone at Hyperlite was extremely amped about this board and they are selling more and more as the season goes along.

Big ups to the guys from Jetpilot for bring brand new Demo wake vests. They had several variations of the Flight and O.G. Series vests to chose from.

Thursday was a typical beautiful San Diego day and having the ability to spend some time on SBR’s bad ass Centurion Enzo was the icing on the cake. They started the day off with some wake surfing and it isn’t very hard to get going off the back of that boat working with 4,000lbs of ballast. That was seriously one of the biggest wake surfing wakes I’ve ever seen! Throughout the rest of the day people continued to take turns wakeboarding and wake surfing until everyone was satisfied and sunburned. SBR and Hyperlite’s Demo Day was a hell of a deal for only $25 and I can’t wait for the guys and Seaforth to setup another one like this.

Below are only a few pictures of the products that were available, videos to follow:

For $25.00, get a pull behind our fully weighted Centurion Enzo SV230 and demo the latest gear from Hyperlite.

We will meet at Seaforth Boat Rentals (1641 Quivira Road, San Diego, CA 92109) at 8:00am and then head over to Crown Point Shores to set up the demos and beachside base.

Call Jeton or Murphy at 619-223-1681 for more information.

They’ve been at this thing for three years now but Hyperlite is finally excited to announce the long waited premier of its new team film Rewritten. I’ve seen a sneak peak of the movie and those guys are simply insane! Keith Kipp (former Hyperlite team rider) shot the film and produced by Alliance MultiMedia and Josh McWilliams, Rewritten offers you the inside perspective of being part of one of the most elite teams in the industry. This is the first film of its kind, never before has there been a feature that describes the real story of the team, the individuals, and how they all ride together for one incredible team. From the company that started this whole movement along with the biggest names in the sport, get ready to enjoy a wakeboard film that has rewritten the standard. Rewritten will be available in early June.

Featured riders:
Rusty Malinoski , Shaun Murray, JD Webb, Jimmy LaRiche, Erik Ruck, Mike Schwenne, Brandon Thomas, Chris O’Shea, Brian Grubb, Josh Palma, Kyle Alberts, Jacob Valdez

Contact them toll free at 1-88-834-2628, online at SBRwakeboarding.com, or at their Mission Bay location at

West Mission Bay Drive
1641 Quivira Rd.
San Diego, CA 92109

WBSD Thanks them for their support, and we definitely look forward to their involvement in the WBSD Community!

So we got back in town yesterday from the 2008 Hipp Marine River Rendezvous, and it was an awesome time!  There were a good 10 WBSD members out for the trip, and the good times were in full effect.  Myself and Dani rolled out around 6pm on Thursday night, Gary, Chad, Jenny, Steve, Ryan, Mike, Metis and Steve were already out on wednesday, and Evan and Jamie headed out friday night.  

We showed up around 10:15 on thursday to find Gary, and Ryan pulling up to meet us in a golf cart, and had already been celebrating for quite a while.  We unloaded at the trailer and headed up to the house to start the party as well.  Some beverages were enjoyed by all, a game of human Jenga was played when Jenny passed out, and Gary played about 15 hours of Wii Fit.  After a late night offroad golf cart ride, we passed out for a couple hours of sleep before getting up to wakeboard Friday morning.

We hit the water friday morning and got some decent sessions in – the water was glass and there was no one out other than us and a few border patrol agents doing training.  We rode for an hour, then pulled out the wakesurfer, which was awesome until I took a pull and Gary plowed my boat onto a sandbar.  Some damage was sustained (I think ALL of our boats sustained quite a bit of damage this trip – the DBG Kayot, M&M’s Calabria, and ours as well).  Thats the risk you run when running the river I guess.

We had a meeting with the Hipp Marine staff around 3 on friday, and figured out the plan for the Rendezvous on Saturday.  We (DBG, WBSD, and Wakesports) were to man stop 5 on the rendezvous – which was basically to camp out at Ferguson Lake all day.

We headed out to Fergusons around 8:30 am on Saturday and got up there to some pretty decent water.  A few boats were out riding, but it was pretty decent conditions.  We anchored the Kayot with a flag up for people to see, and then took a few pulls behind the Wakesports Pro-V 2.  People started showing up after a couple hours, and then the party got started.  By 3pm everyone was up there, about 15 or 20 boats just anchored up, blasting music, and partying.  It was a great time!

Headed back to Hidden Shores and showerd up before dinner and awards around 7pm.  A few hours of laughs, drinks, and nicknames (Mercury Mike, Slingblade, Tubs, General Really Good Guy, Gumdrop) and then we dispersed to get some serious partying done.  It was  a late night, when we finally wrapped up around 3am…the morning came too soon.  Everyone packed up, hit the road, and we stopped by the Roadhouse Cafe in Yuma for some ribs before the long drive home and starting up the week again on monday.  

After work today…I miss the river!  Looking forward to helping Hipp Marine out next year at the 2009 Rendezvous!